Brandon Philips - http://ifup.org

Linux Plumbers Conf was a huge success due to the huge amount of effort put forth by the organizers and the great turnout of attendees. Thanks to everyone!

A highlight of the conference, for me, was meeting some of the folks in the DVB/V4L community. This was the first time that this many core video developers were together in the same place and a lot was accomplished. There was discussion about the new DVB API for supporting new protocols, libv4l’s progress, routing APIs for future devices, and my discussion about a V4L server. Also, I found out that Mauro now works for Red Hat- which is great news for the subsystem.

For those who weren’t able to make it LWN has a collection of good wrap-up articles on the front page. Also, Sri is working on getting videos of the keynote and some other events up on the web. Keep an eye on LinuxPlumbersConf.org for those.

Looking to LPC 2009

Next year we would like to get other people involved in the conference organization and planning. If you are interested in helping please register for the 2008 WRAP PARTY / 2009 Kickoff this Friday September 26th from 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm at Andina’s Restaurant - 2nd floor (above the restaurant)

The Linux Plumbers Conf early bird registration is drawing to a close- grab a cheap seat while you still have time.

Need a bit more convincing? Check out our speakers list.

We released our speaker list this week and we have a great group. I am most excited that we are finally bringing together a few of the video4linux developers for a face to face microconf.

In particular it will be good to talk about libv4l, a low level library that does frame conversion, since nearly all video applications need conversion soon to support gspca devices. Hans De Goede started the library a few months ago and we are both working to patch applications to get support into OpenSuSE 11.1 and Fedora 10.

Having applications use a library also opens up the possibility of doing some smart things like launching a proxy server (ala. dmix, pulseaudio) and having Cheese and Skype able to use the camera at the same time. Although, it would be nice if Skype got involved so we wouldn’t have to LDPRELOAD our way in

Recently I presented at Ignite Portland and a video has been published on YouTube. The event was rockin’ and being a part of the whole thing was amazing. If you weren’t able to make it you really missed out.

Luckily, we have the technology to bring the event to you! LinuxAid lovingly recorded all of the talks and posted them on YouTube. The complete collection can be found here.

If you want to dig in even further Silicon Florist has made a links arrangement of the event which includes Flickr links, blog posts and Twitter archives.

Be sure to keep your eye on IgnitePortland.com in the future so you can be a part of these great events.

Today’s discoveries:

• TCC is a tiny C compiler that allows you to do #!/usr/bin/tcc -run at the top of C files! It is really handy for those 20 line test programs.

Things I am working on:

• Today I wrote what seems like a proper solution to a QEMU bug that was causing CDROM devices to be unhappy under recent Kernel versions. The bug turns out to be really simple but it took a bit of time to learn about ATAPI and AT devices to understand what was failing.
• I am also working on a patch to give quilt the ability to pull down a series and all patches via http/ftp. It is a bit frustrating being pointed at a patches/ directory but having no quick way of pulling them into your series.