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.

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Jul 2, 2020

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

Jun 13, 2020

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

Jun 9, 2020

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

Jun 8, 2020

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

Dec 8, 2019

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). Bot

Aug 5, 2019

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. GS

Apr 8, 2019

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

Dec 8, 2018

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

Mar 19, 2018

GStreamer’s playbin3 overview for application developers

Multimedia applications based on GStreamer usually handle playback with the playbin element. I recently added support for playbin3 in WebKit. This pos

Tweets

Jul 8, 2020

Things you learn when reading code comments in WebKit: Shift+Wheel scrolls in the perpendicular direction.

Jun 11, 2020

Finally achieved bionic/buster toolbox on silverblue… Might deserve a blog post :D Otherwise looking on some half-abandoned toolbox PRs on...

Jun 9, 2020

WebKitGTK and WPE now supporting videos in the img tag, https://base-art.net/Articles/webkitgtk-and-wpe-now-supporting-videos-in-the-img-tag/ … @igalia

Jun 8, 2020

For those not using a feed reader anymore, here is a new post from yours truly, https://base-art.net/Articles/introducing-the-webkit-flatpak-sdk/ …

Jun 7, 2020

The irony. ca-certificates on Debian now untrusts Geoglobal Trust, which is http://webkit.org certs issuer…pic.twitter.com/UgUcnWjZva

Mar 27, 2020

First fully remote @igalia assembly today, almost 70 attendees in the SIP room

Feb 3, 2020

The video recording and slides are published on the same page, for those who missed the talk… CC @igalia https://twitter.com/philn/status/1223206188894052352 …...

Jan 29, 2020

In all the time wasted trying to get icecc working I could have compiled WebKit 10 times from scratch on...

Jan 27, 2020

“Back in the days, Microsoft was single-handedly pushing the web forward, with around 1.000(!) people working on Internet Explorer and...

Jan 16, 2020

Maybe in order to fund innovation the execs should reduce their paycheck? https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/15/mozilla-lays-off-70-as-it-waits-for-subscription-products-to-generate-revenue/ …

Dec 24, 2019

The dav1d @rustlang @gstreamer plugin finally landed upstream! Many thanks to @sdroege_ for his patient and thorough reviews on the...

Dec 19, 2019

After CEF and @WPEWebKit Servo is the third webengine able to render webpages in Gstreamer pipelines. Nice work! https://twitter.com/mozillareality/status/1207691305503076353 …

Commits

Aug 14, 2020

Brittany (France)

POSTS

Web-augmented graphics overlay broadcasting with WPE and GStreamer

Setting up Debian containers on Fedora Silverblue

WebKitGTK and WPE now supporting videos in the img tag

Introducing the WebKit Flatpak SDK

HTML overlays with GstWPE, the demo

Review of the Igalia Multimedia team Activities (2019/H1)

Introducing WPEQt, a WPE API for Qt5

Web overlay in GStreamer with WPEWebKit

GStreamer’s playbin3 overview for application developers

Tweets

Things you learn when reading code comments in WebKit: Shift+Wheel scrolls in the perpendicular direction.

Finally achieved bionic/buster toolbox on silverblue… Might deserve a blog post :D Otherwise looking on some half-abandoned toolbox PRs on...

WebKitGTK and WPE now supporting videos in the img tag, https://base-art.net/Articles/webkitgtk-and-wpe-now-supporting-videos-in-the-img-tag/ … @igalia

For those not using a feed reader anymore, here is a new post from yours truly, https://base-art.net/Articles/introducing-the-webkit-flatpak-sdk/ …

The irony. ca-certificates on Debian now untrusts Geoglobal Trust, which is http://webkit.org certs issuer…pic.twitter.com/UgUcnWjZva

First fully remote @igalia assembly today, almost 70 attendees in the SIP room

The video recording and slides are published on the same page, for those who missed the talk… CC @igalia https://twitter.com/philn/status/1223206188894052352 …...

In all the time wasted trying to get icecc working I could have compiled WebKit 10 times from scratch on...

“Back in the days, Microsoft was single-handedly pushing the web forward, with around 1.000(!) people working on Internet Explorer and...

Maybe in order to fund innovation the execs should reduce their paycheck? https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/15/mozilla-lays-off-70-as-it-waits-for-subscription-products-to-generate-revenue/ …

The dav1d @rustlang @gstreamer plugin finally landed upstream! Many thanks to @sdroege_ for his patient and thorough reviews on the...

After CEF and @WPEWebKit Servo is the third webengine able to render webpages in Gstreamer pipelines. Nice work! https://twitter.com/mozillareality/status/1207691305503076353 …

Commits

[GStreamer Plugins Bad] wpe: WebView and WebContext handling fixes

[GStreamer Plugin RS] audiornnoise: New element for audio denoising

[Webkit] WebKitFlatpakSDK edited

[Webkit] WebKitFlatpakSDK/DebugWithRR created

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