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Insomnia

For some reason I can't sleep tonight. It's Sunday and work starts early tomorrow. I had some bad sleep over the whole weekend. But this isn't fun. I blame it on personal problems. Most of the times I'm very optimistic and I feel in control over my life, but lately life has taken over and I don't feel as well anymore.

Maybe it's time to Do Something (TM).

GStreamer

We did some great bug squashing over the last week. 0.4.1 is going to be very solid. We resolved all crasher bugs in RhythmBox, and the player is getting amazingly good. I still think hadess is wrong for choosing xine over GStreamer for totem. I can understand he wanted results fast, but results with GStreamer are just around the block. The player is getting to be great.

Joe from Ximian told me about a great hack that Alex made for nautilus using GStreamer. Nautilus can now thumbnail a movie by grabbing a still from it using GStreamer, and when you mouseover, the video plays in place of the thumbnail.

I got the first part working - Check the Nautilus screenshot which shows two of them.

Alex is going to send us the working final patch. It'll be interesting to see how we can come up with a good way to integrate this.

On a side note, as of this week I have what every self-respecting netizen should have (though I'm about eight years late with it, but seeing my friends' websites from back in the days, I somehow don't regret having waited ;)

Insomnia For some reason I can't sleep tonight. It's Sunday and work starts early tomorrow. I had some bad sleep over the whole weekend. But this isn't fun. I blame...