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.freenode.net: the following are a selection of amusing No guarantee of sense of humour compatibility is given. quotes from our conversations. 12 Sep 2005 <wingo> we just need to get rid of that mmap stuff <wingo> i think gnomevfssrc is faster for files even <BBB> wingo, no <BBB> and no <wingo> good points ronald 23 Jun 2005 * wingo back * thomasvs back --- You are now known as everybody * everybody back back <everybody> now break it down --- You are now known as thomasvs * bilboed back --- bilboed is now known as john-sebastian * john-sebastian bach --- john-sebastian is now known as bilboed --- You are now known as scratch_my * scratch_my back --- bilboed is now known as Illbe --- You are now known as thomasvs * Illbe back --- Illbe is now known as bilboed 20 Apr 2005 thomas: jrb, somehow his screenshotsrc grabs whatever X is showing and makes it available as a stream of frames jrb: 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... thomas: jrb, well, it would shoot first and ask questions later 2 Nov 2004 zaheerm: wtay: unfair u fixed the bug i was using as a feature! 14 Oct 2004 * zaheerm wonders how he can break gstreamer today :) ensonic: zaheerm, spider is always a good starting point 14 Jun 2004 teuf: ok, things work much better when I don't write incredibly stupid and buggy code thaytan: I find that too 23 Nov 2003 Uraeus: ah yes, the sleeping part, my mind is not multitasking so I was still thinking about exercise dolphy: Uraeus: your mind is multitasking dolphy: Uraeus: you just miss low latency patches 14 Sep 2002 --- wingo-party is now known as wingo * wingo holds head 4 Jun 2001 taaz: you witchdoctors and your voodoo mpeg2 black magic... omega_: um. I count three, no four different cults there <g> ajmitch: hehe omega_: witchdoctors, voodoo, black magic, omega_: and mpeg 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 our 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