Philippe Normand

Working at Igalia since September 2009.
Brittany (France)
I am passionate about computers, free software and multimedia, I hold a master degree in computer science. Apart from that I am learning to play guitar, enjoy watching movies of various kinds and the sunny life in the Canary Islands.
POSTS
Catching up on WebKit GStreamer WebAudio backends maintenance
Over the past few months the WebKit development team has been working on
modernizing support for the WebAudio specification. This post highlights some
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Web-augmented graphics overlay broadcasting with WPE and GStreamer
Graphics overlays are everywhere nowadays in the live video broadcasting
industry. In this post I introduce a new demo relying on GStreamer and
WPEWeb
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Setting up Debian containers on Fedora Silverblue
After almost 20 years using Debian, I am trying something different, Fedora
Silverblue. However for work I still need to use Debian/Ubuntu from time t
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WebKitGTK and WPE now supporting videos in the img tag
Using videos in the HTML tag can lead to more responsive web-page loads
in most cases. Colin Bendell blogged about this topic, make sure to read
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Introducing the WebKit Flatpak SDK
Working on a web-engine often requires a complex build infrastructure. This post
documents our transition from JHBuild to Flatpak for the WebKitGTK an
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HTML overlays with GstWPE, the demo
Once again this year I attended the GStreamer conference and just before
that, Embedded Linux conference Europe which took place in Lyon (France).
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Review of the Igalia Multimedia team Activities (2019/H1)
This blog post takes a look back at the various Multimedia-related tasks the
Igalia Multimedia team was involved in during the first half of 2019.
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Introducing WPEQt, a WPE API for Qt5
WPEQt provides a QML plugin implementing an API very similar to the QWebView
API. This blog post explains the rationale behind this new project aimed
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Web overlay in GStreamer with WPEWebKit
After a year or two of hiatus I attended the GStreamer conference which
happened in beautiful Edinburgh. It was great to meet the friends from the
com
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