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>Chapter 36. Quotes from the Developers</H1
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> As well as being a cool piece of software,
<SPAN
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>GStreamer</SPAN
> is a lively project, with
developers from around the globe very actively contributing.
We often hang out on the #gstreamer IRC channel on
irc.freenode.org: the following are a selection of amusing<A
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> quotes from our conversations.
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>23 Nov 2003</DT
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><P
> <SPAN
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><I
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>Uraeus</I
></SPAN
>: ah yes, the sleeping part, my mind
is not multitasking so I was still thinking about exercise
</P
><P
> <SPAN
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><I
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>dolphy</I
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>: Uraeus: your mind is multitasking
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><P
> <SPAN
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><I
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>dolphy</I
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>: Uraeus: you just miss low latency patches
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>14 Sep 2002</DT
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><P
> --- <SPAN
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><I
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>wingo-party</I
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> is now known as
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>wingo</I
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>
</P
><P
> * <SPAN
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>wingo</I
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> holds head
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>16 Feb 2001</DT
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> <SPAN
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I shipped a few commerical products to >40000 people now but
GStreamer is way more exciting...
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>16 Feb 2001</DT
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><P
> *
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is a gstreamer groupie
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>14 Jan 2001</DT
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><P
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did you run ldconfig? maybe it talks to init?
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not sure, don't think so...
I did run gstreamer-register though :-)
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><P
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>Omega:</I
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ah, that did it then ;-)
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>wtay:</I
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right
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><P
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>Omega:</I
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probably not, but in case GStreamer starts turning into an OS, someone please let me know?
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>9 Jan 2001</DT
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><P
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>wtay:</I
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me tar, you rpm?
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><P
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>wtay:</I
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hehe, forgot "zan"
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><P
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>Omega:</I
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>
?
</P
><P
> <SPAN
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>wtay:</I
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>
me tar"zan", you ...
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>7 Jan 2001</DT
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><P
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that means probably building an agreggating, cache-massaging
queue to shove N buffers across all at once, forcing cache
transfer.
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>wtay:</I
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never done that before...
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>Omega:</I
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nope, but it's easy to do in gstreamer <g>
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sure, I need to rewrite cp with gstreamer too, someday :-)
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>7 Jan 2001</DT
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>wtay:</I
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GStreamer; always at least one developer is awake...
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>5/6 Jan 2001</DT
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we need to cut down the time to create an mp3 player down to
seconds...
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><P
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>richardb:</I
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:)
</P
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>Omega:</I
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I'm wanting to something more interesting soon, I did the "draw an mp3
player in 15sec" back in October '99.
</P
><P
> <SPAN
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><I
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>wtay:</I
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>
by the time Omega gets his hands on the editor, you'll see a
complete audio mixer in the editor :-)
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>richardb:</I
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Well, it clearly has the potential...
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>Omega:</I
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Working on it... ;-)
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>28 Dec 2000</DT
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We will sue you now, you have violated our IP rights!
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> <SPAN
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>wtay:</I
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hehehe
</P
><P
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><I
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>MPAA:</I
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>
How dare you laugh at us? We have lawyers! We have Congressmen! We have <SPAN
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>LARS</I
></SPAN
>!
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><P
> <SPAN
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><I
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>wtay:</I
></SPAN
>
I'm so sorry your honor
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><P
> <SPAN
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><I
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>MPAA:</I
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Hrumph.
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><P
> *
<SPAN
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>wtay</I
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>
bows before thy
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>4 Jun 2001</DT
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><P
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>taaz:</I
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> you witchdoctors and your voodoo mpeg2 black magic... </P
><P
><SPAN
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>omega_:</I
></SPAN
> um. I count three, no four different cults there <g> </P
><P
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><I
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>ajmitch:</I
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> hehe </P
><P
><SPAN
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>omega_:</I
></SPAN
> witchdoctors, voodoo, black magic, </P
><P
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><I
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>omega_:</I
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> and mpeg </P
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