Author: Jeff
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Surprises dans les conduits d’aération, prise deux
Il y a deux mois, alors que l’hiver tirait à sa fin, j’ai décidé de réinvestiguer le problème d’odeur émanant sporadiquement d’un des conduits d’aération de la maison. Mes fans invétérés se souviendront peut-être de ma croisade avec l’aspirateur dans les conduits il y a deux ans et demi, où j’avais découvert plein de trucs…
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DIY sound suppressor for the Unicomp / model M keyboard
When you spend the vast majority of your spare time working on open-source software like Pitivi, sometimes you feel like hacking on hardware made of dead trees for a change. Dead trees have very few bugs unless you let them sit on the ground for extended amounts of time. As I was quite unsatisfied with…
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The best of GNOME 3.8
I’m very happy with how GNOME 3.8 is running on my newly installed Fedora 19 machine: Finally, thanks to the new privacy settings, I don’t have to care about the trash anymore. Though that’s arguably a bit less noticeable now that hard drives are 2 terabytes – it’s very hard for me to fill that…
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2013 open source video editor user survey
What was initially planned as a one-question referendum for Pitivi users (how critical is it for us to have perfect xptv import on the upcoming release) became a full-fledged survey to give us a clearer picture of what users care the most about these days. If you’re a fan of Free Software and video editing,…
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Status update — new Pitivi timeline, GSoC projects, etc
Dear shareholders fans, here is the quarterly report from the frontlines of Pitivi, your favorite futuretrocyberpunk video editor. I will cover the following from a very high-level view (I’ll have to make separate blog posts to cover them in detail, there’s too much to say): The state of our multimedia stack Our new timeline canvas…
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No more stuck rendering dialogs!
If you’ve tried rendering projects with Pitivi 0.15 or older, chances are you’ve encountered one of these dreadful situations where the rendering process would get stuck: …at the beginning, with the progressbar saying it’s currently “estimating” — which was a lie that I corrected a little while ago. …at the very end. Extra trolling points…
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PiTiVi and the 2013 Summer of Code
This year will be a little bit different. In a rather unexpected turn of events, PiTiVi has been accepted as a mentoring organization but GStreamer has not. Fear not however, as GStreamer has no better ally than the PiTiVi team when it comes to pushing our favorite multimedia framework to its limits and beyond. As…
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Le nipponophone de l'autobus
Hier dans l’autobus, j’ai eu la chance de tomber sur un homme blanc parlant au téléphone… dans le langage du soleil levant. Après un très long moment de tergiversation mentale après la fin de son appel, j’osai: «Bonjour monsieur, parlez-vous français? C’est pas tous les jours que j’entends parler japonais dans cet autobus, et vous…
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GStreamer Hackfest 2013: Moving Images
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. Edward provided an initial…
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La carte Opus et les points de service qui n'en sont pas vraiment
Il se trouve que les cartes Opus expirent (simplement parce qu’ils ont décidé que ça serait cool que ça expire, même si c’est une carte anonyme à tarif régulier). Chez moi, la pharmacie du coin a toujours offert le service de recharge de titres de transports, et c’est donc avec un grosse absence d’excitation que…