User:Ensonic

I am a software developer working on free software for Linux mainly.

My main projects are GStreamer, the Gnome desktop and my personal project is Buzztard. If you are interested - my Ohloh developer profile.

= WIP Articles =

Multimedia framework

 * MMFs are component based to abstract deteails like formats and codecs
 * new chapter: "History of MMFs"
 * some pre-historic timeline of multimedia
 * new chapter: "Applications of MMFs"
 * QuickTime: 1991
 * Video for Window: 1992,
 * DirectShow: 1996
 * GStreamer: 1999
 * playback (rendering) of local and remote media (streaming)
 * recording of media (capture + encoding)
 * conversion, transcoding of media
 * audio/video conferencing (simultaneous capture, streaming and rendering)
 * metadata processing (tagging)
 * editing (cutting, mixing,...)
 * we need citation sources:
 * http://books.google.com/books?id=Ipk5x-c_xNIC&printsec=frontcover&hl=de#v=onepage&q&f=false
 * http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/oosc/PDF/Gibb95aMMCF.pdf