Passing on the Left

I’m at this annoying stage with Orc and Liboil where I need to add a feature to Liboil to support a new feature in Schrödinger, except that the new feature would be really easy to write if Orc was further along. Sigh. So I continue to muddle along not working on either.

In other news, jirac, the Java Dirac decoder written by Bart Wiegmans as a Google Summer of Code project, is pretty much feature complete and integrated into Cortado. There are a few showstopper bugs remaining, but I’m hoping for a release soon.

And in yet other news, I will be attending IBC in Amsterdam in a few weeks to meet up with various people to talk about Dirac and GStreamer. If you would like to meet up, let me know. There will be at least 3 booths related to Dirac: the BBC will be demonstrating Dirac as used for high-definition video distribution, NHK will be demonstrating Super Hi-vision with Dirac compression (that’s 4320p, kids), and Numedia will be demoing their hardware that handles Dirac Pro (SMPTE VC-2), which is Dirac for studio compression.

I’ve been seeing comments on teh Internets about “when Dirac is ready…” Just wanted to let you all know that Dirac is ready now.