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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Nov 29, 2020

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

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

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Nov 29, 2020

Yay! A Pitivi release! @igalia invested in the underlying GES and @GStreamer development. Very cool to see this new milestone...

Oct 2, 2020

in chrome here: DOMException: Failed to execute ‘connect’ on ‘AudioNode’: cannot connect a ScriptProcessorNode with 0 output channels to any...

Sep 21, 2020

Giving a try to flathub.org/apps/details/r… the @WebKitGTK powered alternative to Rambox and other Electron based web-app aggregators. So far so...

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Jan 19, 2021

Brittany (France)

POSTS

Catching up on WebKit GStreamer WebAudio backends maintenance

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

Tweets

A few notes about the recent activity in WebKit WebAudio maintenance tasks: base-art.net/Articles/catch…

Cool post from @ceyusa about setting up ccls in Emacs for @webkit development. blogs.igalia.com/vjaquez/2020/1…

And hopefully soon a GStreamer backend for @WebKitGTK and @WPEWebKit :) twitter.com/webkit/status/…

Yay! A Pitivi release! @igalia invested in the underlying GES and @GStreamer development. Very cool to see this new milestone...

WebKit planning to move to GitHub… lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webk…

yeah I saw this page too. For now I just installed qemu using Homebrew, lazy me.

just wanted to try this.. for … fun. I guess. I might do something with the WebKit SDK/Runtime at some...

AFAICT this is software emulation indeed. Dunno how/if QEmu supports the macOS hardware acceleration.

OK this is super slow without KVM-macOS equivalent support in qemu but … the thing works! pic.twitter.com/BUxxZ1W3P2

Current status, installing @gnome OS 3.38 in qemu on a macOS host. The mouse cursor is not rendered in the...

in chrome here: DOMException: Failed to execute ‘connect’ on ‘AudioNode’: cannot connect a ScriptProcessorNode with 0 output channels to any...

Giving a try to flathub.org/apps/details/r… the @WebKitGTK powered alternative to Rambox and other Electron based web-app aggregators. So far so...

Commits

[Cog] cmake: Make dmabuf extension mandatory for Weston direct-display support

[Webkit] Changeset in webkit [271519]: [Flatpak SDK] Update GStreamer and Mesa ...

[Webkit] Changeset in webkit [271518]: [Flatpak SDK] Updates for gst-build and gst-plugins-rs support ...

[Webkit] Changeset in webkit [271517]: [GStreamer] Clean-up the TextSink ...

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