Quotes from the Developers

As well as being a cool piece of software, GStreamer is a lively project, with developers from around the globe very actively contributing. We often hang out on the #gstreamer IRC channel on irc.openprojects.net: the following are a selection of amusing[1] quotes from our conversations.

14 Sep 2002

--- wingo-party is now known as wingo

* wingo holds head

16 Feb 2001

wtay: I shipped a few commerical products to >40000 people now but GStreamer is way more exciting...

16 Feb 2001

* tool-man is a gstreamer groupie

14 Jan 2001

Omega: did you run ldconfig? maybe it talks to init?

wtay: not sure, don't think so... I did run gstreamer-register though :-)

Omega: ah, that did it then ;-)

wtay: right

Omega: probably not, but in case GStreamer starts turning into an OS, someone please let me know?

9 Jan 2001

wtay: me tar, you rpm?

wtay: hehe, forgot "zan"

Omega: ?

wtay: me tar"zan", you ...

7 Jan 2001

Omega: that means probably building an agreggating, cache-massaging queue to shove N buffers across all at once, forcing cache transfer.

wtay: never done that before...

Omega: nope, but it's easy to do in gstreamer <g>

wtay: sure, I need to rewrite cp with gstreamer too, someday :-)

7 Jan 2001

wtay: GStreamer; always at least one developer is awake...

5/6 Jan 2001

wtay: we need to cut down the time to create an mp3 player down to seconds...

richardb: :)

Omega: I'm wanting to something more interesting soon, I did the "draw an mp3 player in 15sec" back in October '99.

wtay: by the time Omega gets his hands on the editor, you'll see a complete audio mixer in the editor :-)

richardb: Well, it clearly has the potential...

Omega: Working on it... ;-)

28 Dec 2000

MPAA: We will sue you now, you have violated our IP rights!

wtay: hehehe

MPAA: How dare you laugh at us? We have lawyers! We have Congressmen! We have LARS!

wtay: I'm so sorry your honor

MPAA: Hrumph.

* wtay bows before thy

4 Jun 2001

taaz: you witchdoctors and your voodoo mpeg2 black magic...

omega_: um. I count three, no four different cults there <g>

ajmitch: hehe

omega_: witchdoctors, voodoo, black magic,

omega_: and mpeg

Notes

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No guarantee of sense of humour compatibility is given.