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8 Mar 2003 (updated 8 Mar 2003 at 13:31 UTC) »
Gst-Player :

Visualisation works better and better. ape monkeymedia format is now supported by the playlist. I just need to dig in Xv stuff to handle the non Xv enabled screens (actually they might see horrible things). Once this is done i ll start working on a BaconWidget for Totem using GStreamer like i promised to hadess.

Getcontrol :

I've been cleaning the automake stuff so that building is easier and safer. Also integrated gstvideowidget in the cvs module as a dependency with gst-player would hurt. I just need to make some test to fix critical bugs and 0.1.7 will be released.

GStreamer :

This week i employed a new techie in my team, his name is Jorge Robles and he will work full time building a video streaming server based on GStreamer media framework. This server will not be opensource but all contribs and fixes to GStreamer will be LGPL.

FSF :

Discussing with my boss we agreed that we could offer a part of our offices in Barcelona's World Trade Center for a Free Software Foundation Spain agency... I need to talk with Matthias Saou to see if the project is still on the way... We would provide : phone line, fax line, desktop, internet connectivity, meeting room.

Personal stuff :

Winter holidays started today. Taking the plane this afternoon to go to France for a week skiing in French Alps. My wife and me are really happy to go there :)

This week end has been focused on integrating visualisation plugins in Gst-Player.

I m a bit sad that i will miss Oslo's summit but winter holidays are around the corner anyway :)

Integration is not finnished yet but a big part of it is done already :)

Here is a screenshot of what it looks like

    http://getcontrol.sourceforge.net/files/goom.png

Time to go back home :)

I m just back from abroad and i just seen that Uraeus made the release of Gst-Player 0.5.0 :)

Rock n Roll !!!

Some people are pushing me for the release 0.1.7 of Getcontrol... Patience it will come soon...

I've been quite busy these days and the next week ends should be more productive than past ones :)

21 Jan 2003 (updated 22 Jan 2003 at 09:32 UTC) »

I am now in Slovakia and it's quite cold there :)

I enjoyed the plane travels to remove a lot of bugs from Getcontrol and to improve GstVideoWidget from gst-player (GStreamer).

The widget now has a logo and it scales nicely :)

Plane travels are good for open source programming, you have time, silence, a nice girl bringing you some food and coke when you want...

Good conditions isn't it..

thomasvs pointed me to my buggy homepage on advogato. It was going to a sex site of my company :) Fun i forgot to remove this VirtualHost on the servers :)

Ok Diary let's work a bit now :)

20 Jan 2003 (updated 22 Jan 2003 at 09:32 UTC) »

After 2 long weeks working on GStreamer and more especially on gst-player, i finally have the needed stuff in that project to continue coding on Getcontrol.

The video widget of gst-player now handles fullscreen in a xinerama compliant way. Tricky Xwindow embedding is now easy and no need to leak some X ressources.

I started to integrate GtkPlaylist from Totem after discussing it with hadess.

Last friday i was in a conference from Richard Stallman. It was very interesting and we had fun ! Discussing with Georg from the FSF Europe we agreed that something needs to be done in spain for the FSF.

Matthias Saou and me will try to get more involved in the FSF and my wife want to be a volunteer for administrative tasks if we manage to build a FSF Spain.

Good plans :)

Leaving this afternoon for Slovakia to check up my technical teams there. Hope everything will be fine :)

8 Jan 2003 (updated 22 Jan 2003 at 09:31 UTC) »

I ve been granted a cvs account by Uraeus on GStreamer project. I'll now be able to integrate faster some fixes and enhancements so that Getcontrol get better and better...

There's so much things to do on this gst-player thing, and i don't really know where to start with the small free time i have...

I'll first try to see why XEvents are not sent back to GTK apps embedding gst xvideo in a gtk_socket. That could allow some nice features...

I've been working hard today to release Getcontrol version 0.1.6

It now supports loads of the final stuff i wanted in the User Interface..

Submitted the project to gnome.org so that people can try it out and gimme some feedback (who knows ;) )

I'll soon start to integrate xine-lib & / or gstreamer for media playing as the UI is now closer to the final stage..

The project still miss a good designer for the default theme. I've been writing a theme documentation for Getcontrol so that it's as easy as possible to create nice themes for this app...

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