2 title: Quotes from the Developers
5 # Quotes from the Developers
7 As well as being a cool piece of software, GStreamer is a lively
8 project, with developers from around the globe very actively
9 contributing. We often hang out on the \#gstreamer IRC channel on
10 irc.freenode.net: the following are a selection of amusing\[1\] quotes
11 from our conversations.
14 When I opened my eyes I was in a court room. There were masters
15 McIlroy and Thompson sitting in the jury and master Kernighan too.
16 There were the GStreamer developers standing in the defendant's
17 place, accused of violating several laws of Unix philosophy and
18 customer lock-down via running on a proprietary pipeline, different
19 from that of the Unix systems. I heard Eric Raymond whispering "got
20 to add this case to my book.
25 *\<\_\_tim\>* Uraeus: amusing, isn't it?
27 *\<Uraeus\>* \_\_tim: I wrote that :)
29 *\<\_\_tim\>* Uraeus: of course you did; your refusal to surrender
30 to the oppressive regime of the third-person-singular-rule is so
31 unique in its persistence that it's hard to miss :)
34 *\<wingo\>* we just need to get rid of that mmap stuff
36 *\<wingo\>* i think gnomevfssrc is faster for files even
42 *\<wingo\>* good points ronald
49 \--- You are now known as everybody
51 *\* everybody* back back
53 *\<everybody\>* now break it down
55 \--- You are now known as thomasvs
59 \--- bilboed is now known as john-sebastian
61 *\* john-sebastian* bach
63 \--- john-sebastian is now known as bilboed
65 \--- You are now known as scratch\_my
69 \--- bilboed is now known as Illbe
71 \--- You are now known as thomasvs
75 \--- Illbe is now known as bilboed
78 *thomas*: jrb, somehow his screenshotsrc grabs whatever X is showing
79 and makes it available as a stream of frames
81 *jrb*: thomas: so, is the point that the screenshooter takes a
82 video? but won't the dialog be in the video? oh, nevermind. I'll
85 *thomas*: jrb, well, it would shoot first and ask questions later
88 *zaheerm*: wtay: unfair u fixed the bug i was using as a feature\!
91 *\* zaheerm* wonders how he can break gstreamer today :)
93 *ensonic*: zaheerm, spider is always a good starting point
96 *teuf*: ok, things work much better when I don't write incredibly
99 *thaytan*: I find that too
102 *Uraeus*: ah yes, the sleeping part, my mind is not multitasking so
103 I was still thinking about exercise
105 *dolphy*: Uraeus: your mind is multitasking
107 *dolphy*: Uraeus: you just miss low latency patches
110 \--- *wingo-party* is now known as *wingo*
112 \* *wingo* holds head
115 *taaz:* you witchdoctors and your voodoo mpeg2 black magic...
117 *omega\_:* um. I count three, no four different cults there \<g\>
121 *omega\_:* witchdoctors, voodoo, black magic,
126 *wtay:* I shipped a few commerical products to \>40000 people now
127 but GStreamer is way more exciting...
130 \* *tool-man* is a gstreamer groupie
133 *Omega:* did you run ldconfig? maybe it talks to init?
135 *wtay:* not sure, don't think so... I did run gstreamer-register
138 *Omega:* ah, that did it then ;-)
142 *Omega:* probably not, but in case GStreamer starts turning into an
143 OS, someone please let me know?
146 *wtay:* me tar, you rpm?
148 *wtay:* hehe, forgot "zan"
152 *wtay:* me tar"zan", you ...
155 *Omega:* that means probably building an agreggating,
156 cache-massaging queue to shove N buffers across all at once, forcing
159 *wtay:* never done that before...
161 *Omega:* nope, but it's easy to do in gstreamer \<g\>
163 *wtay:* sure, I need to rewrite cp with gstreamer too, someday :-)
166 *wtay:* GStreamer; always at least one developer is awake...
169 *wtay:* we need to cut down the time to create an mp3 player down to
174 *Omega:* I'm wanting to something more interesting soon, I did the
175 "draw an mp3 player in 15sec" back in October '99.
177 *wtay:* by the time Omega gets his hands on the editor, you'll see a
178 complete audio mixer in the editor :-)
180 *richardb:* Well, it clearly has the potential...
182 *Omega:* Working on it... ;-)
185 *MPAA:* We will sue you now, you have violated our IP rights\!
189 *MPAA:* How dare you laugh at us? We have lawyers\! We have
190 Congressmen\! We have *LARS*\!
192 *wtay:* I'm so sorry your honor
196 \* *wtay* bows before thy
200 1. No guarantee of sense of humour compatibility is given.