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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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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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
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Web Engines Hackfest 2014
Last week I attended the Web Engines Hackfest. The
event was sponsored by Igalia (also hosting the event), Adobe and Collabora.
As usual I spent most
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The GNOME-Shell Gajim extension maintenance
Back in January 2011 I wrote a GNOME-Shell extension allowing Gajim users to
carry on with their chats using the Empathy infrastructure and UI present
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Moving to Pelican
Time for a change! Almost 10 years ago I was starting to hack on a Blog engine with two friends, it was called Alinea and it powered this website for...
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WebKitGTK+ Hackfest 2013 edition
So for the 5th time I attended the WebKitGTK+ hackfest and as
usual I spent most of the time working on Multimedia-related
tasks, well just one this y
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GStreamer hackfest in Milan
I spent Easter in Milan, attending the second official GStreamer
hackfest. It has been a productive event and, as always, a pleasure to
hang out with
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WebKitGTK+ Hackfest, 2012 edition
There has been some media coverage of the hackfest already so
I’ll just focus on one area, Multimedia!
I think this fourth edition of the event was th
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