Zaheer Abbas Merali

Over the last week, I have been working on DVB support for GStreamer. Johannes had already made a good start with a port of 0.8 plugins that were in our sandbox. I cleaned it up a tad, fixed memory leaks etc. and also worked on a few changes and fixed a few bugs in the Fluendo transport stream demuxer (licensed under the MPL) to allow transport streams produced from DVB cards can be demuxed correctly. So the current status is that I have tested DVB with a DVB-T card in the office connected to an indoor aerial. I have also had it streaming with Flumotion into an Ogg stream (Theora video and Vorbis audio). You can follow the progress on bug #344987.

We have also been working hard on Flumotion and we had a release of Flumotion 0.2.2 yesterday (soon to hit Portage). Most of our work has however been on our 0.3.x code which has many feature improvements and architectural improvements. We are hoping to release an unstable version based on this very soon. I have already migrated our mosque streams to use this branch with no issues. On Fridays (and weekends), I have been working on a web admin UI for Flumotion. It uses Nevow which has an awesome feature that uses a persistent HTTP connection to allow the web server to send events to the browser without the browser needing to poll. I hear this kind of technique is known as Comet and is used in Google’s Chat feature inside GMail. Tomorrow I will blog with a screencast showing the web admin in action. For people eager to check it out, it is at https://core.fluendo.com/flumotion/trac/browser/flumotion/branches/webadmin-1.

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