Víctor Jáquez
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.
POSTS
Notes on using Emacs (LSP/ccls) for WebKit
I used to regard myself as an austere programmer in terms of tooling: Emacs —with a plain configuration— and grep. This approach forces you to underst
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Review of Igalia Multimedia activities (2020/H1)
This blog post is a review of the various activities the Igalia Multimedia team was involved in during the first half of 2020.
Our previous reports ar
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New VA-API H.264 decoder in gst-plugins-bad
Recently, a new H.264 decoder, using VA-API, was merged in gst-plugins-bad.
Why another VA-based H.264 decoder if there is already gstreamer-vaapi?
As
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WebKit Flatpak SDK and gst-build
This post is an annex of Phil’s Introducing the WebKit Flatpak SDK. Please make sure to read it, if you haven’t already.
Recapitulating, nowadays WebK
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Review of the Igalia Multimedia team Activities (2019/H2)
This blog post is a review of the various activities the Igalia Multimedia team was involved along the second half of 2019.
Here are the previous 2018
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GStreamer-VAAPI 1.16 and libva 2.6 in Debian
Debian has migrated libva 2.6 into testing. This release includes a pull request that changes how the drivers are selected to be loaded and used. As t
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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
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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
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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
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