As well as being a cool piece of software, GStreamer is a lively project, with developers from around the globe very actively contributing. We often hang out on the #gstreamer IRC channel on irc.openprojects.net: the following are a selection of amusing No guarantee of sense of humour compatibility is given. quotes from our conversations. 16 Feb 2001 wtay: I shipped a few commerical products to >40000 people now but GStreamer is way more exciting... 16 Feb 2001 * tool-man is a gstreamer groupie 14 Jan 2001 Omega: did you run ldconfig? maybe it talks to init? wtay: not sure, don't think so... I did run gstreamer-register though :-) Omega: ah, that did it then ;-) wtay: right Omega: probably not, but in case GStreamer starts turning into an OS, someone please let me know? 9 Jan 2001 wtay: me tar, you rpm? wtay: hehe, forgot "zan" Omega: ? wtay: me tar"zan", you ... 7 Jan 2001 Omega: that means probably building an agreggating, cache-massaging queue to shove N buffers across all at once, forcing cache transfer. wtay: never done that before... Omega: nope, but it's easy to do in gstreamer <g> wtay: sure, I need to rewrite cp with gstreamer too, someday :-) 7 Jan 2001 wtay: GStreamer; always at least one developer is awake... 5/6 Jan 2001 wtay: we need to cut down the time to create an mp3 player down to seconds... richardb: :) Omega: I'm wanting to something more interesting soon, I did the "draw an mp3 player in 15sec" back in October '99. wtay: by the time Omega gets his hands on the editor, you'll see a complete audio mixer in the editor :-) richardb: Well, it clearly has the potential... Omega: Working on it... ;-) 28 Dec 2000 MPAA: We will sue you now, you have violated oru IP rights! wtay: hehehe MPAA: How dare you laugh at us? We have lawyers! We have Congressmen! We have LARS! wtay: I'm so sorry your honor MPAA: Hrumph. * wtay bows before thy