Ili Estas Simioj

As you can see, I am now on planet Gstreamer. I am another one of those Jokosher guys who also write about a lot of stuff which has nothing to do with Gstreamer. I’ll try my best to keep it interesting :).

So following GUADEC which I did not attend, and could not watch because of the semi-functional streams, Jokosher is entering its first feature freeze. This saturday (also Canada Day!) we are frozen. Which is bad since we have picked up momentum from the GUADEC demo and Jono putting in some real-world testing. But alas the freeze is good cause we have lots of bugs and we need to release soon to get more users onboard.

Jokosher has come to the point where I need to actually do some real C hacking and not just the Python stuff to fix the bugs. Maybe I’ll have time for this if I can finish cleaning up some code, hastily committed on wednesday trying desperately to make the freeze. Uug! I hate it when people mix tabs and spaces!

That’s this is the official reminder for all those who don’t know and those who don’t remember. In one week (that June 15th) it is my 19th birthday. After this event, I will be finally able to purchase alcohol and cigarettes, however I’m not sure I will exercise this right any time soon :).

I finally listened to that last LugRadio and was quite surprised to hear my name mentioned and Jono explain that I was a “Jokosher Hacker”. This of course was quickly followed by Matt making a few quips about how I was from “canadia” (sic), and whether I will be let “oot” of the country. I can’t really take this seriously coming from Matthew “the gnome” Revell. There’s an inside LugRadio joke for you :).

On the Jokosher front, I have now implemented exporting to ogg. This has not yet been committed to svn as I am still working on it, but you will be able to try it out before the end of the week. Next up will be a nice progress dialog, and exporting for mp3, wav and possibly flac.

I feel compelled to post an update although there isn’t much to say. Last Thursday, I lost power in my house for 24 hours, after the storm in Toronto. It was totally the fault of hydro one, cause we are always last to get our power back after an outage.

Needless to say having no power hampered my efforts at getting something done on Jokosher. And of course I couldn’t download the Ubuntu Dapper Drake CD until friday.

Over the weekend we made some good progress on Jokosher documentation. Jono put together a hacking guide, and I wrote a page about our file format. My goal (which I think I have achieved) is to have it detailed enough for someone else to implement some code that can read/convert our files for some other program. Although I’m not sure who else would want to use our files :). Many open source projects get bad press about having no documentation; hopefully if this keeps up Jokosher won’t.

Finally I have to post a link to this song (Kate by Sambassadeur) I got from one of my Jokosher friend’s blog. It is from a Swedish band, free to download, and definitely worth checking out.