Thoughts and Ramblings

General things I find of interest.

Fire's Death

Gee, a bunch happened at once. Maybe it is just that I have a little bit of time. Anyway, I have finally made the announcement on Fire’s death. This was a long time coming, but I had to wait for Adium 1.0 to come out since it contained the upgrade path from Fire. As is the case with many open source projects, there was developer turnover, but lately I had become the primary developer and most of the other devs moved on to other things.

Posted by Thoughts and Ramblings on Saturday, February 24, 2007

Perian released

Well, a project I have been working on for a few months saw some action. Perian was released today, but not before the site was linked by digg. Essentially the server (which is the same as this one) was pounded by at least 10-20 people every second. I had to reconfigure some of the server’s options, but once I did so, it withstood the load rather well. Now to fix all the bugs reports which will start to flow in :)

Posted by Thoughts and Ramblings on Saturday, September 30, 2006

Slow Summer

Been a while since I have posted here. I expect most of the reason is due to the fact that the summer is progressing slowly. I did take off last weekend and spent time with the parents. We spent a fair amount of time watching the nine Doctor Who episodes I brought with me. In the mean time, I started hosting the repository for perian, a project to bring ffmpeg codecs to QuickTime.

Posted by Thoughts and Ramblings on Tuesday, June 20, 2006

AC3 Codec released

Well, I am sure I am getting a lot more traffic on this site recently because I released the AC3 codec yesterday. Essentially I got tired of the fact that the two that I found didn’t work well on Intel Macs, so I took one and fixed it. I already have one minor bug to fix (not worth releasing a new version though since it is just a version number). The next step is to figure out how to do AC3 passthrough.

Posted by Thoughts and Ramblings on Thursday, June 8, 2006

AC-3

Well, my old Powerbook failed a few days ago, so I got a new Intel Powerbook (no, I will not use the stupid name). It is nice and fast. I may give a better review later, but for now, the biggest gripe I had so far was the fact that I couldn’t play videos with AC-3 audio anymore. So, I took the A52 Codec and modified its source so that it would work on Intel.

Posted by Thoughts and Ramblings on Monday, May 22, 2006