Rémi Denis-Courmont website feed 2010-01-21T11:23:00Z Rémi Denis-Courmont http://www.remlab.net/ tag:remlab.net,2009:main Copyright © 2009-2010 Rémi Denis-Courmont tag:remlab.net,2010:vlc-chipmunks 2010-01-31T20:24:00Z

How and why to disable the scaletempo audio filter.

tag:remlab.net,2010:vlc-finding-maemo-ui 2010-01-21T11:23:00Z

The base VLC port works fine on N900. That is to say, we have audio and video, and at reasonable speed (though performance could surely be improved). But to this date, there is still no proper user interface. The Maemo 4 interface is incomplete buggy, as it is unmaintained. The Qt4 interface is inadequate for the screen depth (icons are too small), does not have the native feeling (hopefully fixed with the upcoming Qt4.6), and, worst of all, is horribly slow. The HTTP interface is awkward, and does not support battery power saving. In other words, the Maemo 5 port of VLC needs serious help. In the mean time, we are stuck with the command line interface through the N900 built-in terminal emulator.

tag:remlab.net,2009:vlc-threads-diet 2009-12-30T22:37:00Z

VLC is on a diet...

tag:remlab.net,2009:vlc-udev-meet 2009-10-22T18:03:00Z

VLC 1.0.3 will be the first VLC media player version to support the WMA Professional codec and the Windows 7 operating system properly. But we also have a new goodie for Linux users: VLC will now provide two new services discovery plugin based on libudev. The libudev discs discovery will eventually replace the existing HAL-based discovery, as HAL is being obsoleted. The libudev capture devices discovery is completely new, and makes webcam or video capture card streaming a little bit easier.

tag:remlab.net,2009:vlc-phone 2009-10-05T17:27:00Z

Increasingly often, the owner of a smartphone asks where/when/if the VLC port for his/her gadget is available...

tag:remlab.net,2009:maemo-summit-go 2009-09-25T12:03:00Z

I will be attending Maemo summit 2009 and presenting the Ofono project. It will be held in Amsterdan, Netherlands on the 9th, 10th and 11th of October.

tag:remlab.net,2009:vlc-fremantle-git-url 2009-09-05T15:53:00Z

It has been in the work for a while. Now, all of the important underlying libraries are built (kudos to Måns Rullgård for his help with FFMPEG). The video output works out of box with XCB & XVideo, although screen unblanking needs to be re-implemented. The audio output pipeline needed a little bit of optimizations, and A/52 and DTS still don't work; this is a side effect bug of the VLC SPDIF pass-through. I have not been able to check how the Qt4 UI performs in Hildon 5, but at least command line works now :)

tag:remlab.net,2009:vlc-automake-silent-build 2009-08-18T17:47:00Z

Hurray! The VLC build system can now generate legible output with Linux kernel-like silently build mode. Pierre d'Herbemont has added the support for Automake silent builds (a new feature of GNU/Automake version 1.11) today!

tag:remlab.net,2009:vlc-hotkeys-embedded-bug 2009-08-16T19:04:00Z

The end story of a 4 years old VLC bug...

tag:remlab.net,2009:ndisc6-0.9.9 2009-08-04T18:47:00Z

This adds a new daemon for ISATAP hosts autoconfiguration. Also Czech language support was added.

tag:remlab.net,2009:vlc-midi 2009-07-30T15:29:00Z

How to play MIDI files with VLC!

tag:remlab.net,2009:miredo-1.1.7 2009-07-18T16:25:00Z

This fixes a major crash regression in version 1.1.6, a few (theoretical) race conditions, and improves FreeBSD support.

tag:remlab.net,2009-07-08:mit-shm 2009-07-08T18:55:00Z

What is the link between X11, VLC and OpenSSH?

tag:remlab.net,2009-07-07:vlc-1.0.0-windows-scks 2009-07-07T19:30:00Z

The official VLC 1.0.0 binaries were unleashed only a few hours ago, and we already have feedback that it behaves rather badly on Windows Vista. This is not entirely unexpected, but nevertheless a bit disappointing given how long the 1.0.0 final release was held blocked by the sole Windows port. But is VLC really that bad on Windows? And why?

tag:remlab.net,2009-07-06:vlc-1.0.0-out 2009-07-06T18:40:00Z

After the longest feature freeze stabilization period in the project's history, VLC 1.0.0-final is coming at last....

tag:remlab.net,2009:miredo-1.1.6-bug 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out there was a fatal mistake in Miredo 1.1.6. I will wait for Munechika Sumikawa to look at BSD support a bit more. Then I can push Miredo 1.1.7 or 1.2.0 out!

tag:remlab.net,2009:miredo-1.1.6 2009-04-13T00:00:00Z

This fixes the Teredo server to interoperate with Windows Vista. It also fixes compilation on some FreeBSD systems. teredo.remlab.net is already updated, so Vista clients should now be able to use it as their Teredo server.

tag:remlab.net,2009:nonblock 2009-02-01T00:00:00Z

I have had enough of hearing that blocking I/O should never be used (except for debug messages perhaps). This article explains why you should really use normal and simple blocking I/O when dealing with files.