Elisa 0.1.0

It’s been 4 months since the first alpha release of Elisa, the Python/GStreamer/OpenGL MediaCenter developped by Fluendo. It was time for a fresh release :)

Since GUADEC we’ve been working on separating the rendering, widget and animation frameworks in a separate project named Pigment. It’s hard …

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Painful Ubuntu upgrade

After Edgy Eft official release, I figured out it might be a good idea to upgrade my laptop running Dapper… Because I didn’t want to spend hours in front of the screen waiting the 800Mb to get downloaded, I did the upgrade remotely via SSH

Ok i was a …

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New home, new country, same job

After nearly 6 months spent living in Lyon, I headed south once more, to Barcelona :) I entered a new flat with 2 other frenchie fellows, we’ll be damn fine there!!

We still have some administrative paper work to do, but it can wait, we did the essential ones.. The …

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Switching server

This evening base-art.net, pythonfr.org and few other hosted domains should be un-available while we migrate websites to a brand new dedicated server. So, fellow readers, don’t be surprised ;-)

Things will come back up this night hopefully. I’m still reachable by mail, phil at base-art dot net …

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Doc publishing for the lazy Trac user

At work i daily use Trac, it’s a great flexible wiki and issue tracking system. These days we’re editing some documentation files hosted on the subversion repository. Using the Wiki to display them for human eyes is the next step, but how to keep rendered and source versions …

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Elisa, first alpha release!

After nearly 4 months of active development, the first alpha release of Elisa pops up in the intraweb. This is a MediaCenter application developed in Python using technologies like Twisted for networking and loop, OpenGL for rendering and GStreamer for multimedia playback. The project is funded by Fluendo.

If you …

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Back from Guadec

So Guadec 2006 was a great event! I met lot of nice people, we really had fun. And by the way, life in Spain seems pretty cool :) The last event i participated was the Python/Gstreamer/… Hackfest organized by Edward Hervey (i think). It was really nice, we had some …

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Guadec 2006

Blogging from Guadec :) We’re spending a great time here at Vilanova! I finally met the co-workers from Fluendo Barcelona, very cool people. My lightning talk about Elisa went quite well, people seemed impressed, we are demoing our Python/Gstreamer/Twisted/OpenGL MediaCenter at the Fluendo booth.

Fluendo party monday …

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Pimp this rage

Looks like Raster has been hacking on a media center thingy. So far it looks great, i’ve watched the demo video, installed rage in no time and got it running in, well, even less time :) I must say i’m really impressed by the look and feel of the …

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