GstSpringHackfest2017: a quick report
Two weeks ago was the GStreamer Spring Hackfest 2017 and I am very happy about
how it went. I have the feeling that most of the attendees had a good time, and
made some progress in their projects. I want to thank all the people that
participated, in some way or another.Along that weekend when the hackfest happened, besides my duties as organizer
(with a lot of help from my colleagues at Igalia), I managed to hack a bit on
GstPlayer, proposing the missing API for setting the subtitles font description
(782858). Also I helped
Nicolas a bit with the upstreaming of the v4l2 video encoder
(728438). Julien Isorce
and I talked about the missing parts of DMABuf support in gstreamer-vaapi, in
particular the action path when the new libva API, for importing and exporting
DMABuf, got merged
(779146). With Thibault we
played with the idea of a Jenkins server doing CI for gstreamer-vaapi. Also I
did some kernel debugging, and found out why kmssink failed in
db410c
when the caps changed from RGB to YUV, thus Rob Clark cooked a
patch.
Finally, I worked on a time-lapse video of the hackfest’s main room, only using
GStreamer with gstreamer-vaapi in an Atom-based NUC. You can glance the
code of
the video grabber. Thanks to Luis de Bethencourt for the original idea and code.