Réalisations

I’m back from this year’s GStreamer hackfest, which was fantastic as usual — an intersection of great minds, big challenges, flaky Wi-Fi and good food. Christian already did a generic summary, so I’ll be narrating from the GNonLin/GES/PiTiVi perspective. See the end of this blog post for a nice video retrospective.

Time for a little report on recent improvements in Pitivi. Nothing earth-shattering to make you drool with envy; just a lot of fixes, cleanup and improvements to small details. Next week, we will be in Milan for the GStreamer hackfest, so I’ll make sure to give you a nice report on what we managed to accomplish there.

I went to see one of the screenings of the Montréal 60 seconds film festival Friday night, it was really entertaining (there’s a final screening tonight if you missed the first two). As expected, there were some dubious movies, lots of good/okay ones and a couple of wonderful gems. It was nice to see my very own flick, La vie en rouge, projected on a gigantic cinema screen in a real theater.

Following up on Seif’s blog post, I would like to provide you with an update on our efforts to recover the missing duck.

We’ve been in a very delicate situation lately. It turns out that a group of hacktivists kidnapped Duckie! They sent us this picture:

No no no, I said video, Not videos. Seems like even though I spent hours editing and rendering a single recording, I’ve still beat the GUADEC organizers when it comes to “time to publish” ;)

My “neko edit” also has good sound quality (from a dedicated USB microphone) and high resolution versions of the slides and videos used during the presentation… all in HTML5 video glory.

Dans le cadre d’un formulaire de routine, j’ai dû fournir une photo d’identité «style passeport». Or, j’en ai marre de me faire arnaquer, de payer cher pour une photo qui sera inévitablement moche. Les photos prises «par un professionnel» n’ont rien de professionnelles lorsque Passeport Canada accepte les photos prises par les préposés de pharmacies!

Git can feel extremely unnatural to those who came from Bazaar. Only after a lot of advice from friends, the right tools and a few months of intensive usage did I feel confident enough to use it without fear. Many are probably in the same boat as me though, so I took a couple of hours to clean up my personal notes and make a proper “crash course” tutorial for Git in the Pitivi context.

Ceci est une traduction d’un billet que j’ai publié avant-hier sur Planet GNOME. Je ne sais pas trop comment traduire « trimming », alors je me base sur le terme « redimensionnement » de la version française du manuel de PiTiVi (même si l’usage du mot sonne étrange).

Mon multimètre ne fonctionnait plus. Après investigation, il se trouve que le coupable était le même que dans toutes les situations où on a à faire avec des batteries 9 volts: cette saloperie de connecteur cheap hyper fragile.

Last week was a blast. Spending a couple of days working on Pitivi fulltime and meeting with the awesome GStreamer folks again was a thrilling experience. Not only that, but it happened in the beautiful city of Málaga.