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Getting ready for the GStreamer Spring Hackfest 2026 in Nice

Next week, several Igalians will be heading to Nice for a bunch of open source gatherings and hackfests.

I’ll attend the Media Summit remotely (I’m interested in the discussion about the usage of Vulkan Video API in embedded devices), then I’ll travel, as other multimedia folks, to the GStreamer Hackfest. While other Igalians will be at the Display Next Hackfest and Embedded Recipes.

My goal for the hackfest is to chat with other GStreamer developers about hardware-accelerated encoders and how to test them, especially those using VA-API and Vulkan.

Here’s what my multimedia colleagues are planning for the hackfest:

Stéphane Cerveau will talk about new features in GstPipelineStudio and its future integration with GstPrinceOfParser, along with several core GStreamer improvements.

Alicia Boya will tackle subtle timing issues, out-of-order and race conditions in frame processing, and other GStreamer bugs.

Xabier Rodríguez Calvar plans to close the issues around static compilation of gstreamer-rs, including selected plugins with system-deps.

Thibault Saunier will aim to finish upstreaming some new features and focus on WebAssembly support.