Víctor Jáquez

Mexico City (Mexico), 1977

Igalian, imported from Mexico, since April 2008.

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Víctor Jáquez 10/04/2012

Aura

In the last weeks Miguel, Calvaris and myself, developed an application for the N9/N950 mobile phone and we called it Aura. Basically it uses the device’s camera (either the main one or the frontal one) for video recording, as a normal camera...

Víctor Jáquez 26/02/2012

Debian’s mutt with notmuch support

One of my weekend tasks was to reorganize my email environment. For reading email I use mutt, configured to grab the email from an IMAP server. For sending email, I have a minimal exim setup securely relaying to a smart host. Mutt is a great email...

Víctor Jáquez 16/01/2012

GStreamer video decoder for SysLink

This blog post is another one of our series about SysLink (1, 2): finally I came with a usable GStreamer element for video decoding, which talks directly with the SysLink framework in the OMAP4’s kernel. As we stated before, SysLink is a set of...

Víctor Jáquez 16/12/2011

devhelp and jhbuild v2

A couple years ago I wrote a small tip about how to integrate the devhelp installed by your distribution with the documentation generated through jhbuild. Well, that way is plain wrong. I noticed it when I upgraded to GNOME 3: modifying the environment...

Víctor Jáquez 29/11/2011

OpenMAX: a rant

I used to work with OpenMAX a while ago. I was exploring an approach to wrap OpenMAX components with GStreamer elements. The result was gst-goo. Its purpose was to test the OpenMAX components in complex scenarios and was only focused for the Texas...