GStreamer and Google Summer of Code 2010
19 Mar 2010 1:53pm GMT So a big thank you to Leslie and her team at Google for also this year accepting GStreamer as a mentoring organisation. Last few years we had some great projects coming out of the Google Summer of Code, including MPEG PS muxing, Quicktime Muxing, ASF muxing, LADSPA version 2, Avisynth, MHEG support and more. If you [...]
Latest Dirac (schrodinger) release is really fast
15 Mar 2010 3:56pm GMT I thought I should let people know that they really should grab latest version of the Schrodinger encoder/decoder from diracvideo.org. If you saw David Schleefs blogpost about Dirac you would have seen him mentioning it is much faster. Having tested with GStreamer I can confirm that it is the case, it is really fast now, [...]
GStreamer on Windows
4 Mar 2010 2:43pm GMT While GStreamer has been working on Windows for a long time and one can compile GStreamer using Visual Studio, the lack of pre-made binaries for Windows developers has been a bit of an issue. Various groups and people have tried providing windows binaries for a while, but most efforts have stalled after a short while. [...]
Stepping into the future with GNOME Shell
3 Mar 2010 5:19pm GMT Decided to join the early adopters crowd today and use the desktop of the future by switching to using GNOME Shell on my desktop. Luckily with Fedora its dead simple, you just yum install gnome-shell and then switch using the desktop effects widget under Preferences. Scarily simple. So far GNOME shell has been very stable [...]
The not so wonderful world of Windows
25 Feb 2010 9:17pm GMT So due to sometimes needing to run a few Windows applications I have a Windows Vista partition on my hard drive. Today I decided to upgrade it to Windows 7 using the upgrade media Lenovo had sent me. So one would assume that upgrading a Vista partition which was the original Vista installation my laptop [...]
