Archive for May, 2006

Adder Bug: Act Two

Posted in Uncategorized on May 31st, 2006 by admin – Comments Off

In the first act Jono did an excellent job at tracking down, reporting and getting his bug in the adder fixed. This allowed Jokosher to stop and play more than once. Now prepare yourself for the continuation!

It was quite the puzzler. We could record audio, but not while something else was playing. So I decided to get my hands dirty and track it down. After looking through the neighbourhood, my prime suspect was the one with the history of problems: the adder. He is the best in the business at making non-linear pipelines, but sometimes things go wrong.

This time it was his pad. It wouldn’t remove itself when it was unlinked. Even worse was that there was no way to make him remove it. Time was running out. I had to put in a call to the Feds. Luckily they answered with a nice patch applied to CVS early this morning. Now we can remove all the pads we want to, no problem. The adder is under control. Laszlo saves the day once again.

Thanks to wtay in #gstreamer for fixing our problem so quickly, even though compilation problems prevented me from realizing it had been fixed until much later.

I have finally caved and actually got a dynamic bl…

Posted in Uncategorized on May 27th, 2006 by admin – 1 Comment

I have finally caved and actually got a dynamic blog. This means I no longer get to hand-write all the HTML, but now everyone can post comments, and get RSS feeds. I can actually see if I have an audience, and get some feedback.