1 <chapter id="cha-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.openprojects.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.
15 <term>14 Sep 2002</term>
18 --- <emphasis>wingo-party</emphasis> is now known as
19 <emphasis>wingo</emphasis>
22 * <emphasis>wingo</emphasis> holds head
28 <term>16 Feb 2001</term>
31 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
32 I shipped a few commerical products to >40000 people now but
33 GStreamer is way more exciting...
38 <term>16 Feb 2001</term>
42 <emphasis>tool-man</emphasis>
43 is a gstreamer groupie
48 <term>14 Jan 2001</term>
51 <emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
52 did you run ldconfig? maybe it talks to init?
55 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
56 not sure, don't think so...
57 I did run gstreamer-register though :-)
60 <emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
61 ah, that did it then ;-)
64 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
68 <emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
69 probably not, but in case GStreamer starts turning into an OS, someone please let me know?
74 <term>9 Jan 2001</term>
77 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
81 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
82 hehe, forgot "zan"
85 <emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
89 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
90 me tar"zan", you ...
95 <term>7 Jan 2001</term>
98 <emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
99 that means probably building an agreggating, cache-massaging
100 queue to shove N buffers across all at once, forcing cache
104 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
105 never done that before...
108 <emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
109 nope, but it's easy to do in gstreamer <g>
112 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
113 sure, I need to rewrite cp with gstreamer too, someday :-)
118 <term>7 Jan 2001</term>
121 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
122 GStreamer; always at least one developer is awake...
127 <term>5/6 Jan 2001</term>
130 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
131 we need to cut down the time to create an mp3 player down to
135 <emphasis>richardb:</emphasis>
139 <emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
140 I'm wanting to something more interesting soon, I did the "draw an mp3
141 player in 15sec" back in October '99.
144 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
145 by the time Omega gets his hands on the editor, you'll see a
146 complete audio mixer in the editor :-)
149 <emphasis>richardb:</emphasis>
150 Well, it clearly has the potential...
153 <emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
159 <term>28 Dec 2000</term>
162 <emphasis>MPAA:</emphasis>
163 We will sue you now, you have violated our IP rights!
166 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
170 <emphasis>MPAA:</emphasis>
171 How dare you laugh at us? We have lawyers! We have Congressmen! We have <emphasis>LARS</emphasis>!
174 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
175 I'm so sorry your honor
178 <emphasis>MPAA:</emphasis>
183 <emphasis>wtay</emphasis>
189 <term>4 Jun 2001</term>
191 <para><emphasis>taaz:</emphasis> you witchdoctors and your voodoo mpeg2 black magic... </para>
192 <para><emphasis>omega_:</emphasis> um. I count three, no four different cults there <g> </para>
193 <para><emphasis>ajmitch:</emphasis> hehe </para>
194 <para><emphasis>omega_:</emphasis> witchdoctors, voodoo, black magic, </para>
195 <para><emphasis>omega_:</emphasis> and mpeg </para>