So far I neglected writing about this year's Google Summer of Code. This ends with this post. As last year, I'm working on GNOME DVB Daemon.
In the last couple of weeks I concentrated on the user experience, thus making setting up devices as easy as possible. I made a short screencast that shows the new assistant started by the Totem plugin.
Update: Apparently, I used a too recent version of libgee when generating the release tarball. Therefore, gnome-dvb-daemon 0.1.6 doesn't compile with libgee 0.1.5. I just released version 0.1.7 which fixes this problem.
After two months since the last release I'm proud to announce GNOME DVB Daemon 0.1.6.
If you don't know what it is:
GNOME DVB Daemon is a daemon written in Vala based on GStreamer to setup your DVB devices, record and watch TV shows and browse EPG. It can be controlled by any application via its D-Bus interface.
I'm particularly happy about this release, because it fixes two of the most annoying bugs. First of all, the channel scanner now produces the same results on each scan. Secondly, it's now possible to record multiple shows on the same transport stream at the same time. In order for the latter to work properly you currently need gst-plugins-bad from git (a tarball is supposed to be released soon). Both bugs would still be present if the awesome Zaheer had not fixed fixed a couple of bugs in GStreamer and helped me getting the recording done correctly. Thanks a lot man!
For the third straight year I've been accepted for Google Summer of Code. Thanks a lot GNOME folks!
This year's project is based on last year's project. That means I'm continuing working in DVB Daemon and improving the DVB experience on the GNOME desktop. A detailed description of the project is available from the project's page.
I really like the recent efforts to streamline the work towards GNOME 3.0. I'm in favor of all points on the roadmap. Especially the point about re-designing gnome.org. That's a task that is overdue for a long time. Hopefully, the re-design points out why GNOME rocks and makes it easy for interested people to find a way to contribute. What I'd love to see is a way to search API docs like gotapi does.
As you might have guessed from the GNOME 2.26 release notes there where no big improvements for Deskbar-Applet during the last release cycle. In addition, most items on the roadmap for 2.26 remained unresolved.
I've been nearly the only active developer for the last two release cycles and the time I spend working on Deskbar-Applet is decreasing steadily. Therefore, I'm searching for someone who is willing to take over maintainership and who brings new energy to the project.
Yesterday I released version 0.1.4 of GNOME DVB Daemon. This release features mostly bug fixes and a timer icon is displayed in gnome-dvb-control if a recording overlaps with the event. Furthermore, a help message is displayed if no groups are configured.
Please, download it, test it and report bugs.
I'm glade I could keep my promises.
Therefore, in this release gnome-dvb-timers, gnome-dvb-schedule and gnome-dvb-preferences UI clients have been merged into gnome-dvb-control. More importantly there's finally a tarball release of gst-rtsp-server.
As usual you can download version 0.1.3 at http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-dvb-daemon/0.1/
A little bit more than a month after the last release I bring you GNOME DVB Daemon 0.1.2. You can download it at http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-dvb-daemon/0.1/
It mainly fixes numerous bugs and memory leaks. Therefore, scanning for channels works much better now. However, I didn't manage to reproduce exactly the same results as dvb-apps' scan does, yet. For some still unknown reason some SI tables get lost on the way from the hardware device to the scanner.
All information is now stored in Sqlite databases. Therefore, dvb-daemon doesn't depend on gconf anymore. Unfortunately, you have to setup your cards and schedule your timers again.
In addition, I reworked the program guide. It looks much nicer now.
GSoC is over for a long time, but that was only the start for dvb-daemon.
Today I released version 0.1.1. The biggest feature is that you can now watch live TV. Channels are streamed over RTSP using the excellent gst-rtsp-server. This made it possible to provide live TV streaming in short time.
Together with the new Totem plugin you easily watch your recordings or live TV.
Now, go download it, test it, and report bugs you came across.
That's in German:
Daher gilt für den Erwartungswert:
and in English:
Therefore, the expectation value is:
