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<chapter id="chapter-quotes">
<title>Quotes from the Developers</title>
<para>
As well as being a cool piece of software,
<application>GStreamer</application> is a lively project, with
developers from around the globe very actively contributing.
We often hang out on the #gstreamer IRC channel on
irc.freenode.net: the following are a selection of amusing<footnote>
<para>No guarantee of sense of humour compatibility is given.</para>
</footnote> quotes from our conversations.
</para>
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<term>12 Sep 2005</term>
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<para><emphasis>&lt;wingo&gt;</emphasis>
we just need to get rid of that mmap stuff
</para>
<para><emphasis>&lt;wingo&gt;</emphasis>
i think gnomevfssrc is faster for files even
</para>
<para><emphasis>&lt;BBB&gt;</emphasis>
wingo, no
</para>
<para><emphasis>&lt;BBB&gt;</emphasis>
and no
</para>
<para><emphasis>&lt;wingo&gt;</emphasis>
good points ronald
</para>
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<varlistentry>
<term>23 Jun 2005</term>
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<para><emphasis>* wingo</emphasis> back</para>
<para><emphasis>* thomasvs</emphasis> back</para>
<para>--- You are now known as everybody</para>
<para><emphasis>* everybody</emphasis> back back</para>
<para><emphasis>&lt;everybody&gt;</emphasis> now break it down</para>
<para>--- You are now known as thomasvs</para>
<para><emphasis>* bilboed</emphasis> back</para>
<para>--- bilboed is now known as john-sebastian</para>
<para><emphasis>* john-sebastian</emphasis> bach</para>
<para>--- john-sebastian is now known as bilboed</para>
<para>--- You are now known as scratch_my</para>
<para><emphasis>* scratch_my</emphasis> back</para>
<para>--- bilboed is now known as Illbe</para>
<para>--- You are now known as thomasvs</para>
<para><emphasis>* Illbe</emphasis> back</para>
<para>--- Illbe is now known as bilboed</para>
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<varlistentry>
<term>20 Apr 2005</term>
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<para>
<emphasis>thomas</emphasis>:
jrb, somehow his screenshotsrc grabs whatever X is showing and makes it
available as a stream of frames
</para>
<para>
<emphasis>jrb</emphasis>:
thomas: so, is the point that the screenshooter takes a video?
but won't the dialog be in the video? oh, nevermind. I'll just send mail...
</para>
<para>
<emphasis>thomas</emphasis>:
jrb, well, it would shoot first and ask questions later
</para>
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<varlistentry>
<term>14 Oct 2004</term>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>* zaheerm</emphasis>
wonders how he can break gstreamer today :)
</para>
<para>
<emphasis>ensonic</emphasis>:
zaheerm, spider is always a good starting point
</para>
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<varlistentry>
<term>14 Jun 2004</term>
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<para>
<emphasis>teuf</emphasis>: ok, things work much better when I don't write incredibly stupid and buggy code
</para>
<para>
<emphasis>thaytan</emphasis>: I find that too
</para>
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<varlistentry>
<term>23 Nov 2003</term>
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<para>
<emphasis>Uraeus</emphasis>: ah yes, the sleeping part, my mind
is not multitasking so I was still thinking about exercise
</para>
<para>
<emphasis>dolphy</emphasis>: Uraeus: your mind is multitasking
</para>
<para>
<emphasis>dolphy</emphasis>: Uraeus: you just miss low latency patches
</para>
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<varlistentry>
<term>14 Sep 2002</term>
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<para>
--- <emphasis>wingo-party</emphasis> is now known as
<emphasis>wingo</emphasis>
</para>
<para>
* <emphasis>wingo</emphasis> holds head
</para>
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<varlistentry>
<term>4 Jun 2001</term>
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<para><emphasis>taaz:</emphasis> you witchdoctors and your voodoo mpeg2 black magic... </para>
<para><emphasis>omega_:</emphasis> um. I count three, no four different cults there &lt;g&gt; </para>
<para><emphasis>ajmitch:</emphasis> hehe </para>
<para><emphasis>omega_:</emphasis> witchdoctors, voodoo, black magic, </para>
<para><emphasis>omega_:</emphasis> and mpeg </para>
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<term>16 Feb 2001</term>
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<para>
<emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
I shipped a few commerical products to &gt;40000 people now but
GStreamer is way more exciting...
</para>
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<varlistentry>
<term>16 Feb 2001</term>
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<para>
*
<emphasis>tool-man</emphasis>
is a gstreamer groupie
</para>
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<term>14 Jan 2001</term>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
did you run ldconfig? maybe it talks to init?
</para>
<para>
<emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
not sure, don't think so...
I did run gstreamer-register though :-)
</para>
<para>
<emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
ah, that did it then ;-)
</para>
<para>
<emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
right
</para>
<para>
<emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
probably not, but in case GStreamer starts turning into an OS, someone please let me know?
</para>
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<term>9 Jan 2001</term>
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<para>
<emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
me tar, you rpm?
</para>
<para>
<emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
hehe, forgot &quot;zan&quot;
</para>
<para>
<emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
?
</para>
<para>
<emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
me tar&quot;zan&quot;, you ...
</para>
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<varlistentry>
<term>7 Jan 2001</term>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
that means probably building an agreggating, cache-massaging
queue to shove N buffers across all at once, forcing cache
transfer.
</para>
<para>
<emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
never done that before...
</para>
<para>
<emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
nope, but it's easy to do in gstreamer &lt;g&gt;
</para>
<para>
<emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
sure, I need to rewrite cp with gstreamer too, someday :-)
</para>
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<varlistentry>
<term>7 Jan 2001</term>
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<para>
<emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
GStreamer; always at least one developer is awake...
</para>
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</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>5/6 Jan 2001</term>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
we need to cut down the time to create an mp3 player down to
seconds...
</para>
<para>
<emphasis>richardb:</emphasis>
:)
</para>
<para>
<emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
I'm wanting to something more interesting soon, I did the "draw an mp3
player in 15sec" back in October '99.
</para>
<para>
<emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
by the time Omega gets his hands on the editor, you'll see a
complete audio mixer in the editor :-)
</para>
<para>
<emphasis>richardb:</emphasis>
Well, it clearly has the potential...
</para>
<para>
<emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
Working on it... ;-)
</para>
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<varlistentry>
<term>28 Dec 2000</term>
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<para>
<emphasis>MPAA:</emphasis>
We will sue you now, you have violated our IP rights!
</para>
<para>
<emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
hehehe
</para>
<para>
<emphasis>MPAA:</emphasis>
How dare you laugh at us? We have lawyers! We have Congressmen! We have <emphasis>LARS</emphasis>!
</para>
<para>
<emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
I'm so sorry your honor
</para>
<para>
<emphasis>MPAA:</emphasis>
Hrumph.
</para>
<para>
*
<emphasis>wtay</emphasis>
bows before thy
</para>
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