dv capture
Having settled a number of issues with Flumotion and GStreamer 0.9, I sat down on Monday to check on the condition of DV capture over firewire. I already knew a bit of what to expect: kernel deadlocks....
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synchronicityImagine Alice and Bob are in two buildings overlooking the same street. Each of them has a camera and occasionally takes polaroid pictures of the street. When Alice takes a picture, she...
View Articleturkey preparations
A few quick notes before my battery dies.turkey dayFor me Thanksgiving will fall on this Saturday. I'm used to it at this point -- it will be my fourth consecutive turkey day out of the states. The...
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It seems I haven't written for a while. I only have the desire to write when I'm walking the streets though. Sitting down in front of a machine turns me into a consumer. Consume p.g.o. Consume random...
View Articleplane from spain
Links I have enjoyedRichard Stallman interviewed by Z magazine (it's about time). The soul-probing Torture's Long Shadow by Bill Moyers (via titus, whose journal I am enjoying these days). The...
View Articlecypherpunks writecode
Because I egocentrically syndicate myself on advogato, which only shows your most recent post, I've shied away from multiple postings at a time. The result is mashing a bunch of topics into one writing...
View Articleradical adults
Greetings gentle reader, I offer these poorly connected vignettes for your eyes' consumption.hkuMy friend Colin just came out with a new album, Soukha. He gave me that link a couple weeks ago, but I...
View Articlewhy god made buttermilk
morningI would like to note an underexplored territory that is ripe for the munching, the "southern buttermilk biscuit -- mallorcan sobrassada" interface. Spreadable sausage on a biscuit. God did truly...
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catching memory leaks with valgrind's massif
One of my first tasks at Oblong was to migrate their code for playing video from some very tricky, threaded ffmpeg + portaudio code to using GStreamer. The playback interface is fairly standard, but...
View Articlenotes from the bosphorus
My camera broke; I have only words.the golden hornIstanbul is a town full of wonder. And wander: around the cobbled streets of the old town, in the morning, in the evening, alive at all hours.Last...
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