GStreamer Conference 2017
This year, the GStreamer Conference happened in Prague, along with the traditional autumn Hackfest.Prague is a beautiful city, though this year I couldn’t visit it as much as I wanted, since the Embedded Linux Conference Europe and the Open Source Summit also took place there, and Igalia, being a Linux Foundation sponsor, had a booth in the venue, where I talked about our work with WebKit, Snabb, and obviously, GStreamer.
But, let’s back to the GStreamer Hackfest and Conference.
One of the features that I like the most of the GStreamer project is its community, the people involved in it, by writing code, sharing their work with many others. They might appear a bit tough at beginning (or at least that looked to me) but in real they are all kind and talented persons. And I’m proud of consider myself part of this community. Nonetheless it has a diversity problem, as many other Open Source communities.
During the Hackfest, Hyunjun and I, met with Sree and talked about the plans for
GStreamer-VAAPI, the new features in VA-API and libva and how we could map them
to the GStreamer’s design. Also we talked about the future developments in the
msdk elements, merged one year ago in gst-plugins-bad. Also, I talked a bit
with Nicolas Dufresne regarding kmssink and DMABuf.
In the Conference, which happened in the same venue as the hackfest, I talked wit the authors of gstreamer-media-SDK. They are really energetic.
I delivered my usual talk about GStreamer-VAAPI. You can find the slides, as a
web presentation,
here. Also, as every
year, our friends of Ubicast, recorded the talks, and
made them available for
streaming
almost instantaneously:
My colleague Enrique talked in the Conference about the Media Source Extensions (MSE) on WebKit, and Hyunjun shared his experience with VA-API on Rust.
Also, in the conference venue, we showed a couple demos. One of them was a
MinnowBoard running WPE, rendering videos from
YouTube using gstreamer-vaapi to decode video.