# Quotes from the Developers

As well as being a cool piece of software, GStreamer is a lively project, with developers from around the globe very actively contributing. We often hang out on the #gstreamer IRC channel on irc.openprojects.net: the following are a selection of amusing No guarantee of sense of humour compatibility is given. quotes from our conversations.

14 Sep 2002

  --- wingo-party is now known as wingo

  * wingo holds head

16 Feb 2001

  wtay: I shipped a few commerical products to >40000 people now but GStreamer is way more exciting...

16 Feb 2001

  * tool-man is a gstreamer groupie

14 Jan 2001

  Omega: did you run ldconfig? maybe it talks to init?

  wtay: not sure, don't think so... I did run gstreamer-register though :-)

  Omega: ah, that did it then ;-)

  wtay: right

  Omega: probably not, but in case GStreamer starts turning into an OS, someone please let me know?

9 Jan 2001

  wtay: me tar, you rpm?

  wtay: hehe, forgot "zan"

  Omega: ?

  wtay: me tar"zan", you ...

7 Jan 2001

  Omega: that means probably building an agreggating, cache-massaging queue to shove N buffers across all at once, forcing cache transfer.

  wtay: never done that before...

  Omega: nope, but it's easy to do in gstreamer <g>

  wtay: sure, I need to rewrite cp with gstreamer too, someday :-)

7 Jan 2001

  wtay: GStreamer; always at least one developer is awake...

5/6 Jan 2001

  wtay: we need to cut down the time to create an mp3 player down to seconds...

  richardb: :)

  Omega: I'm wanting to something more interesting soon, I did the "draw an mp3 player in 15sec" back in October '99.

  wtay: by the time Omega gets his hands on the editor, you'll see a complete audio mixer in the editor :-)

  richardb: Well, it clearly has the potential...

  Omega: Working on it... ;-)

28 Dec 2000

  MPAA: We will sue you now, you have violated our IP rights!

  wtay: hehehe

  MPAA: How dare you laugh at us? We have lawyers! We have Congressmen! We have LARS!

  wtay: I'm so sorry your honor

  MPAA: Hrumph.

  * wtay bows before thy

4 Jun 2001

  taaz: you witchdoctors and your voodoo mpeg2 black magic...

  omega_: um. I count three, no four different cults there <g>

  ajmitch: hehe

  omega_: witchdoctors, voodoo, black magic,

  omega_: and mpeg