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Collabora contributions to Linux kernel 4.1

August 24, 2015 by Javier Martinez Canillas | Blog

Kernel.org Collabora contributions

Event: LPC 2015

August 14, 2015 by Guy Lunardi | News and Events

Seattle, USA - from 19/08/2015 to 21/08/2015: The Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) is a developer conference for those working on the “plumbing” of Linux.

Event: DebConf 2015

August 14, 2015 by Guy Lunardi | News and Events

Heidelberg, Germany - from 15/08/2015 to 22/08/2015: The 16th annual Debian developers meeting.

Event: GStreamer Hackfest 2015

August 14, 2015 by Guy Lunardi | News and Events

Montpellier, France - from 14/08/2015 to 16/08/2015: GStreamer developers are meeting up to work on the project.

Alex's work experience at Collabora

August 06, 2015 by Alex Shtyrov | Blog

A student intership experience at Collabora

Why polkit (or, how to mount a disk on modern Linux)

June 08, 2015 by Simon McVittie | Blog

Why udisks2 and polkit are the way they are

Checking D-Bus API stability

June 02, 2015 by Philip Withnall | Blog

D-Bus API features

Collabora contributions to Linux kernel 4.0

May 11, 2015 by Javier Martinez Canillas | Blog

Collabora upstream work on Linux kernel

Lucid sleep in the free desktop

May 01, 2015 by Tomeu Vizoso | Blog

Describes ability of performing work while the machine is in a low power state such as suspend.

Tracking the reference count of a GstMiniObject using gdb

April 13, 2015 by Guillaume Desmottes | Blog

Debugging GStreamer

Blink started supporting font-size-adjust css property

March 26, 2015 by ChangSeok Oh | Blog

Blink font-size-adjust via CSS properties

JPEG-XR support on blink

March 21, 2015 by ChangSeok Oh | Blog

JPEG-XR support on browsing technologies

Getting started with GStreamer's gst-build

March 19, 2020 by Stéphane Cerveau | Blog

GStreamer relies on multiple repositories such as base and good to build its ecosystem, and now owns more than 30 projects in Gitlab. So, a unified tool/build system has always been necessary to build a specified version.

Why remote working can be good for people, business and environment

March 10, 2020 by Olivier Potin | Blog

Here at Collabora, we trust our people to work remotely, we give them full responsibility for their output, and we believe it helps creating an even stronger internal culture and comes with some other positives.

PipeWire, the media service transforming the Linux multimedia landscape

March 05, 2020 by Julian Bouzas | Blog

PipeWire 0.3 was released a few days ago, marking a big step forward in the effort of making this emerging media service the core layer of all multimedia on Linux.

Experimental Panfrost GLES 3.0 support has landed in Mesa

February 27, 2020 by Alyssa Rosenzweig | Blog

Panfrost's ES 3.0 support has landed in upstream Mesa and works with a mainline Linux kernel. The support is still early, but if you're feeling adventurous, feel free to give it a try on your favourite ES 3.0 applications and games.

Using gcc sanitisers to get a nasty bug fixed

February 18, 2020 by Andrej Shadura | Blog

When a bug surprises you when doing Apertis packaging of a typical vendor code signing tool, it's time to debug it using the compiler's built-in tools.

FOSDEM 2020 - Recorded presentations (videos)

February 05, 2020 by Mark Filion | Blog

From KernelCI's new home, the latest on Zink (OpenGL on Vulkan), OpenXR & Monado, PipeWire in the automotive industry, JPEG2000, and GStreamer on the Magic Leap One, Collaborans gave talks in 6 different devrooms, as well on the main track.

Opening up Mali T720

December 20, 2019 by Alyssa Rosenzweig | Blog

If you have a device with a Mali T720 or T820 GPU, you’re in luck – your device is now supported in upstream Mesa at feature parity with other GPUs. Get out your Allwinner H6 or Amlogic S912 board, grab the latest Mesa, and enjoy a match of SuperTuxKart!

New graphing tool for PipeWire debugging

December 09, 2019 by Julian Bouzas | Blog

PipeWire, the new and emerging open source framework that aims to greatly improve the exchange and management of audio and video streams inside a Linux system, has seen a number of improvements and bug fixes over the past year.

Building GStreamer on Windows

November 26, 2019 by Aaron Boxer | Blog

With the advent of meson and gst-build, it is now possible to set up a GStreamer Windows development environment that rivals the finest Linux has to offer, with full support for Visual Studio debugging into the library.

Zink: Fall Update

October 24, 2019 by Erik Faye-Lund | Blog

I recently went to XDC 2019, where I gave yet another talk about Zink. I kinda forgot to write a blog-post about it, so here’s me trying to make up for it… or something like that. I’ll also go into some more recent developments as well.

Adding stateless support to vicodec

October 09, 2019 by Dafna Hirschfeld | Blog

Prior to joining Collabora, I took part in Round 17 of the Outreachy internships, to work on the virtual drivers in the media subsystem of the Linux kernel, or more specifically, on the vicodec driver.

Why HDCP support in Weston is a good thing

October 03, 2019 by Pekka Paalanen | Blog

What HDCP is, and why supporting HDCP in Weston is justified in both an economical and technical context.

Collabora & Linux Kernel 4.10

February 20, 2017 by Gustavo Padovan | News and Events

Linux Kernel 4.10 is out, and this time Collabora contributed a total of 39 patches by 10 different developers.

Hello Amsterdam!

February 08, 2017 by Mark Filion | News and Events

On February 8 & 9, Collabora will be attending Integrated Systems Europe 2017, the world's largest tradeshow dedicated to professional AV and electronic systems integration, taking place at the Amsterdam RAI.

Collabora at FOSDEM 2017

January 31, 2017 by Mark Filion | News and Events

We're headed to Brussels, Belgium for FOSDEM 2017, the two-day event organized by volunteers to promote the widespread use of free and open source software.

GStreamer meets HotDoc

November 29, 2016 by Mark Filion | News and Events

Some exciting news today as GStreamer launches its redesigned documentation site, complete with dynamic navigation, search function and new tutorials. This new iteration is powered by HotDoc, a tool created by Collabora's Mathieu Duponchelle!

Linux Plumbers Conference 2016

October 26, 2016 by Mark Filion | News and Events

Collabora is proud to be once again sponsoring the annual Linux Plumbers Conference, the developer conference that brings together the top developers working on the “plumbing” of Linux: kernel subsystems, core libraries, windowing systems, etc.

GStreamer Conference 2016

October 07, 2016 by Mark Filion | News and Events

Collabora is proud to be a Platinum Sponsor of this year's GStreamer Conference, taking place at the Betahaus in Berlin, Germany on 10-11 October 2016. Come say hello, or catch one of the four presentations given by Collaborans during the conference!

Upcoming events - Fall 2016

September 19, 2016 by Mark Filion | News and Events

This fall, we're thrilled to be sponsoring not one, but five great conferences!

Event: IBC 2016

September 05, 2016 by Mark Filion | News and Events

Collabora will be exhibiting at IBC 2016, the premier annual event for professionals engaged in the creation, management and delivery of entertainment and news content worldwide.

Event: DebConf16

June 30, 2016 by Mark Filion | News and Events

Collabora is proud to be sponsoring DebConf16, the annual Debian developers meeting, taking place in Cape Town, South Africa, from 2 July to 9 July 2016.

News: GStreamer leaks tracer

June 22, 2016 by Mark Filion | News and Events

At Collabora, our multimedia team is always looking to improve QA tools in GStreamer. This week, we're introducing a new QA tool: a GStreamer tracer to track leaked objects.

Event: InfoComm 2016

June 07, 2016 by Mark Filion | News and Events

Collabora will be exhibiting at InfoComm 2016, the largest, most exciting event in the United States focused on the pro-AV industry, in Last Vegas on June 8-10, 2016.

News: Linux Kernel 4.6

May 18, 2016 by Mark Filion | News and Events

Linux Kernel 4.6 was released this week, with a total of 9 Collabora engineers taking part in its development, Collabora’s highest number of engineers contributing to a single Linux Kernel release yet!