1 <chapter id="chapter-quotes">
2 <title>Quotes from the Developers</title>
4 As well as being a cool piece of software,
5 <application>GStreamer</application> is a lively project, with
6 developers from around the globe very actively contributing.
7 We often hang out on the #gstreamer IRC channel on
8 irc.freenode.net: the following are a selection of amusing<footnote>
9 <para>No guarantee of sense of humour compatibility is given.</para>
10 </footnote> quotes from our conversations.
16 <term>14 Oct 2004</term>
19 <emphasis>* zaheerm</emphasis>
20 wonders how he can break gstreamer today :)
23 <emphasis>ensonic</emphasis>:
24 zaheerm, spider is always a good starting point
30 <term>14 Jun 2004</term>
33 <emphasis>teuf</emphasis>: ok, things work much better when I don't write incredibly stupid and buggy code
36 <emphasis>thaytan</emphasis>: I find that too
41 <term>23 Nov 2003</term>
44 <emphasis>Uraeus</emphasis>: ah yes, the sleeping part, my mind
45 is not multitasking so I was still thinking about exercise
48 <emphasis>dolphy</emphasis>: Uraeus: your mind is multitasking
51 <emphasis>dolphy</emphasis>: Uraeus: you just miss low latency patches
57 <term>14 Sep 2002</term>
60 --- <emphasis>wingo-party</emphasis> is now known as
61 <emphasis>wingo</emphasis>
64 * <emphasis>wingo</emphasis> holds head
70 <term>16 Feb 2001</term>
73 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
74 I shipped a few commerical products to >40000 people now but
75 GStreamer is way more exciting...
80 <term>16 Feb 2001</term>
84 <emphasis>tool-man</emphasis>
85 is a gstreamer groupie
90 <term>14 Jan 2001</term>
93 <emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
94 did you run ldconfig? maybe it talks to init?
97 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
98 not sure, don't think so...
99 I did run gstreamer-register though :-)
102 <emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
103 ah, that did it then ;-)
106 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
110 <emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
111 probably not, but in case GStreamer starts turning into an OS, someone please let me know?
116 <term>9 Jan 2001</term>
119 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
123 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
124 hehe, forgot "zan"
127 <emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
131 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
132 me tar"zan", you ...
137 <term>7 Jan 2001</term>
140 <emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
141 that means probably building an agreggating, cache-massaging
142 queue to shove N buffers across all at once, forcing cache
146 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
147 never done that before...
150 <emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
151 nope, but it's easy to do in gstreamer <g>
154 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
155 sure, I need to rewrite cp with gstreamer too, someday :-)
160 <term>7 Jan 2001</term>
163 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
164 GStreamer; always at least one developer is awake...
169 <term>5/6 Jan 2001</term>
172 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
173 we need to cut down the time to create an mp3 player down to
177 <emphasis>richardb:</emphasis>
181 <emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
182 I'm wanting to something more interesting soon, I did the "draw an mp3
183 player in 15sec" back in October '99.
186 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
187 by the time Omega gets his hands on the editor, you'll see a
188 complete audio mixer in the editor :-)
191 <emphasis>richardb:</emphasis>
192 Well, it clearly has the potential...
195 <emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
201 <term>28 Dec 2000</term>
204 <emphasis>MPAA:</emphasis>
205 We will sue you now, you have violated our IP rights!
208 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
212 <emphasis>MPAA:</emphasis>
213 How dare you laugh at us? We have lawyers! We have Congressmen! We have <emphasis>LARS</emphasis>!
216 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
217 I'm so sorry your honor
220 <emphasis>MPAA:</emphasis>
225 <emphasis>wtay</emphasis>
231 <term>4 Jun 2001</term>
233 <para><emphasis>taaz:</emphasis> you witchdoctors and your voodoo mpeg2 black magic... </para>
234 <para><emphasis>omega_:</emphasis> um. I count three, no four different cults there <g> </para>
235 <para><emphasis>ajmitch:</emphasis> hehe </para>
236 <para><emphasis>omega_:</emphasis> witchdoctors, voodoo, black magic, </para>
237 <para><emphasis>omega_:</emphasis> and mpeg </para>