Olivier Crête leads Collabora’s multimedia team and has been working on GStreamer since 2007. As far as we know, this is the only Linux software to reference the classic western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in its package naming scheme (look it up). Olivier has also worked for the Gentoo project for the best part of a decade, which we found odd because other than that he seemed pretty normal.
He was good enough to share some of his erudition with Jonni the one time we let him out last year to attend the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit in Edinburgh. Check out Olivier’s ‘GStreamer for Tiny Devices’ talk from the same conference a year earlier at http://bit.ly/lxf255gstreamer 1.
Olivier is also a veteran of instant messaging, having worked on GnomeICU – which some of our more seasoned readers will no doubt remember. Now that we’ve got you all nostalgic about IM clients gone by, cheer up and hear about the future: PipeWire, GStreamer and royalty-free codecs.
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