Simon WennerSimon.Wenner.ch2013-09-11T00:43:01+02:00http://simon.wenner.ch/Totem Arte Plugin 3.2.0 released2013-09-11T00:00:00+02:00http://simon.wenner.ch/blog/2013/09/11/totem-arte-plugin-320<p>After a long period of no activity a new version of the Totem Arte plug-in has been released. Version 3.2.0 fixes the parsing of the new Arte website among other things. Get the <a href='https://gitorious.org/totem-plugin-arte'>source</a> or <a href='https://gitorious.org/totem-plugin-arte/pages/Home'>various packages</a> as long as it’s fresh.</p>Die Sendung ohne Namen ist zurück2012-11-04T00:00:00+01:00http://simon.wenner.ch/blog/2012/11/04/SoN<p>Da ich kaum mehr Fernsehen schaue, habe ich gar nicht bemerkt, dass die <a href='http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendung_ohne_Namen'>Sendung ohne Namen</a> wieder ausgestrahlt wird. Die beste Sendung des ORF. Ich würde den Inhalt der Sendung als zusammenhangslose audio-visuelle Informationsüberflutung bezeichnen. Genial.</p>
<p>Hier sind Links zu den ersten paar Folgen der neuen Staffel. Ich hoffe sie bleiben ein paar Tage online.</p>
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<li><a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq2a2ueYRQU'>Die Welt im Taumel</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmvzX7NruiQ'>Zitate</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xmYI9JeDAA'>Inseln</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHitZTp2eXU'>Political Correctness</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbkQATLaH4o'>Europa</a></li>
</ul>Blog Update2012-10-20T00:00:00+02:00http://simon.wenner.ch/blog/2012/10/20/BlogUpdate<p>Finally I found the time to update my blog. I merged my blog at wordpress.com with my photo blog. I also abandoned the doubtful PHP platform and switched to a static blog engine called <a href='http://jekyllrb.com'>Jekyll</a>. It does the job, but despite its plug-in functionality it lacks flexibility.</p>Fresh Totem Plugins2011-08-07T00:00:00+02:00http://simon.wenner.ch/blog/2011/08/07/fresh-totem-plugins<p>
Sadly I can't attend this years GUADEC as it overlaps with my examination session. Nevertheless I had some spare time to do some useful, i.e. GNOME related, stuff.
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<h3>Totem Arte Plugin 3.0.0</h3>
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I released a major update of the <a href="https://gitorious.org/totem-plugin-arte">Arte+7 streaming plugin</a>. Version 3.0.0 was ported to Gtk+ 3.0, Libpeas and GSettings and can now be used with Totem 3.x. I rewrote the parsing and loading of the video feeds to improve the robustness and the quality of the list of available videos. You can get the source tarball from <a href="http://wenner.ch/files/public/mirror/totem-plugin-arte/">here</a>.
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<h3>Totem Rotation Plugin</h3>
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Some videos that are created with hand held cameras or mobile phones are oriented in strange ways. I <a href="http://git.gnome.org/browse/totem/commit/?id=0a684af858b42a886a931ea484b32246a6916239">developed</a> a plugin for Totem to adjust the orientation. The new orientation is stored as a GIO file attribute and it is restored the next time you watch the video. This completely new plugin is part of Totem 3.1.4.
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Snow Simulation2011-02-02T00:00:00+01:00http://simon.wenner.ch/blog/2011/02/02/snow-simulation<p>
As a part of the Physically-based Simulation lecture Martina, Fabian and I had to implement a small project. We decided to simulate snow fall and accumulation in real time. The wind field is calculated by solving the Navier–Stokes equations on a 3D grid. You can watch a video of our simulation on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3DQKipjY4o">Youtube</a> or download it from <a href="http://wenner.ch/files/public/simon/tmp/pbs/snowfall.mp4">here</a>.
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<iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/J3DQKipjY4o?rel=0"></iframe>
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Totem Arte Plugin 0.9.12010-09-20T00:00:00+02:00http://simon.wenner.ch/blog/2010/09/20/totem-arte-plugin-0-9-1<p>
The Totem <a href="http://videos.arte.tv/">Arte.tv</a> plugin project is still alive. After Arte changed their video streaming platform we had to switch from WMV to RTMP streams. RTMP support is finally available in the latest (version 0.10.20) gstreamer-plugins-bad release. <a href="https://launchpad.net/~malaria">Nicolas Delvaux</a> added many additional features like GNOME proxy support and asynchronous thumbnail downloading.
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You can clone the <a href="http://gitorious.org/totem-plugin-arte">repository</a> or <a href="http://wenner.ch/files/public/mirror/totem-plugin-arte/">download the latest tarball</a>. <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/totem-plugin-arte.html">Debian</a> and <a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem-plugin-arte">Ubuntu</a> packages are available too.
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<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="/img/totem-plugin-arte-0-9-1.png"><img style="border:0 none;" title="totem-plugin-arte-0.9.1" src="/img/totem-plugin-arte-0-9-1.png" alt="totem" width="300" height="176" /></a>
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Enjoy watching Arte!
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I am attending GUADEC2010-07-12T00:00:00+02:00http://simon.wenner.ch/blog/2010/07/12/i-am-attending-guadec<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://2010.guadec.org/"><img class="size-full wp-image-273 aligncenter" style="border:0 none;" title="guadec-oranje" src="/img/guadec-oranje2010.png" alt="" width="134" height="46" /></a><br/>
See you all in The Hague!
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Totem Arte Plugin Update2010-05-26T00:00:00+02:00http://simon.wenner.ch/blog/2010/05/26/totem-arte-plugin-update<p>
About a week ago <a href="http://videos.arte.tv/">Arte.tv</a> changed their video service, which broke the <a href="http://foregroundnoise.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/totem-arte7-plugin/" target="_blank">Arte Totem plugin</a>. Arte.tv no longer provides WMV streams, only a Flash player and the video feeds are crippled. Exciting improvements. *grr*
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But we found a workaround to access the old WMV streaming server. We're back in business! Just update to the plugin version 0.8.4, <a href="http://wenner.ch/files/public/mirror/totem-plugin-arte/" target="_blank">from source</a>, from <a href="https://launchpad.net/~malaria/+archive/ppa" target="_blank">Nicolas' ppa</a> or from <a href="http://packages.debian.org/source/unstable/totem-plugin-arte" target="_blank">Debian</a>.
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I don't know how long this streaming server will be running. In the long run we will probably need a <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=566604" target="_blank">RTMP gstreamer plugin</a> to play the Flash video content in Totem. HTML5 to the rescue!
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Totem Arte+7 Plugin2010-02-16T00:00:00+01:00http://simon.wenner.ch/blog/2010/02/16/totem-arte7-plugin<p>
I'm proud to announce the first stable release of the <a href="http://gitorious.org/totem-plugin-arte">Arte+7 Plugin</a> for Totem. It allows you to watch the streams listed on <a href="http://plus7.arte.tv/">plus7.arte.tv</a> with Totem in a convenient way. Sadly, this service is only available for users from France, Germany, Belgium, Austria and Switzerland.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="/img/totem-plugin-arte.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-243" style="border:0 none;" title="totem-plugin-arte" src="/img/totem-plugin-arte.png" alt="totem-plugin-arte" width="300" height="197" /></a></p>
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Thanks to everyone who tested it, sent me feedback and patches. Notable changes since <a href="/2009/12/30/arte-totem-plugin.html">my last post</a>:
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<li>Preferences are hidden in the preference dialogue and stored in gconf</li>
<li>Streams can be searched</li>
<li>Stream thumbnail images are cached to improve the start-up time</li>
<li>I18n support (Nicolas Delvaux)</li>
<li>German and French localization (Nicolas Delvaux)</li>
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You can download the stable <a href="http://wenner.ch/files/public/mirror/totem-plugin-arte/totem-plugin-arte-0.8.tar.gz">totem-plugin-arte-0.8.tar.gz</a> or pull it from <a href="http://gitorious.org/totem-plugin-arte">gitorious.org/totem-plugin-arte</a>. Nicolas created an <a href="https://launchpad.net/~malaria/+archive/ppa">Ubuntu package in his PPA</a> for those of you who are too lazy to compile it. It would be nice if someone from a country not supported by the Arte streaming service, could test the plugin too, to check if it behaves reasonable in such a situation.
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Spot2010-01-02T00:00:00+01:00http://simon.wenner.ch/gallery/2010/01/02/lamp<p>One of my spot lights.</p>