Igalia - Open Source Consultancy and Development

Igalian, imported from Mexico, since April 2008.

Mexico City (Mexico)

When free software discovered me, there was not turn back: I helped to found a Linux User Group in my home town. Tinkering with mobile robots I got a master degree in computer science. Later, I got hook with GStreamer and most of my professional experience has been around multimedia processing.

I enjoy of traveling, reading (from philosophy to poetry and literature), watching films, discovering music and, from time to time, writing ramblings.

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Feb 13, 2019

Generating a GStreamer-1.14 bundle for TravisCI with Ubuntu/Trusty

For having continous integration in your multimedia project hosted in GitHub with TravisCI, you may want to compile and run tests with a recent versio

Feb 11, 2019

Review of Igalia’s Multimedia Activities (2018/H2)

This is the first semiyearly report about Igalia’s activities around multimedia, covering the second half of 2018. Great length of this report was exp

Jan 16, 2019

Rust bindings for GStreamerGL: Memoirs

Rust is a great programming language but the community around it’s just amazing. Those are the ingredients for the craft of useful software tools, jus

Nov 23, 2018

Building gst-msdk with MediaSDK opensource

I tried, several months ago, the open source version of Intel MediaSDK and it was a complete mess. In order to review some patches for gst-msdk I trie

Apr 17, 2018

How to setup a gst-build environment with Intel’s VA-API stack

gst-build is far superior than gst-uninstalled scripts for developing GStreamer, mainly because its meson and ninja usage. Nonetheless, to integrate e

Mar 28, 2018

GStreamer VA-API Troubleshooting

GStreamer VA-API is not a trivial piece of software. Even though, in my opinion it is a bit over-engineered, the complexity relies on its layered arch

Mar 27, 2018

GStreamer VA-API 1.14: what’s new?

As you may already know, there is a new release of GStreamer, 1.14. In this blog post we will talk about the new features and improvements of GStreame

Dec 7, 2017

Enabling HuC for SKL/KBL in Debian/testing

Recently, our friend Florent complained that it was impossible to set a constant bitrate when encoding H.264 using low-power profile with gstreamer-va

Nov 24, 2017

Intel MediaSDK on Debian (testing)

Everybody knows it: install Intel MediaSDK in GNU/Linux is a PITA. With CentOS or Yocto is less cumbersome, if you trust blindly on scripts ran as roo