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Dynamic relocs, runtime overflows and -fPIC

October 01, 2014 by Philip Withnall  |   Blog

A discussion of dynamic relocation, position independent code, the -fPIC flag and how it affects generated assembly. The focus would be on the practical implications of it all, including when to (and when not to) use -fPIC.

Dynamic relocs, runtime overflows and -fPIC

Event: GStreamer Conference 2014

September 29, 2014 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Düsseldorf, Germany October 16-17, 2014: the GStreamer Conference is a conference for developers, decision-makers, community members, industry partners, and anyone else interested in the GStreamer multimedia framework or Open Source and cross-platform…

Event: GStreamer Conference 2014

A web browser for the Raspberry Pi

September 01, 2014 by Marco Barisione  |   Blog

Collabora has been working with the Raspberry Pi Foundation on various projects including a web browser optimised for the Raspberry Pi. Since the first beta release we have made huge improvements; now the browser is more responsive, it’s faster, and…

A web browser for the Raspberry Pi

GStreamer gains V4L2 Mem-2-Mem support

August 27, 2014 by Nicolas Dufresne  |   Blog

A team at Samsung (and many core Linux contributors) started adding new type of drivers to the Linux Media Infrastructure API (also known as Video4Linux 2).

GStreamer gains V4L2 Mem-2-Mem support

Event: IBC 2014

August 13, 2014 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Amsterdam, The Netherlands September 12-16, 2014: the essential global meeting place for everyone engaged in creating, managing and delivering the future of electronic media and entertainment technology and content. Collabora booth #8.B38c

Event: IBC 2014

Wayland on MALI

August 13, 2014 by Daniel Stone  |   Blog

Predictable media latency, low power usage and vastly improved A/V sync. Wayland versus X11 explained on ARM MALI

Wayland on MALI

Event: SIGGRAPH 2014

August 11, 2014 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Vancouver, Canada August 12-14, 2014: SIGGRAPH, visit ARM at Booth #933 in the Mobile Pavilion to meet with Collabora. SIGGRAPH attracts 20,000 international attendees from across the globe and many creative and technical disciplines. It is the only…

Event: SIGGRAPH 2014

News: In Cambridge, England 2014

August 05, 2014 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Cambridge, England August 5-8, 2014: With so many silicon vendors and OEMs visiting Cambridge England, August 5-8 transforms the univeristy town into the world's center of innovation for one week. Cambridge in August attracts international leaders in…

News: In Cambridge, England 2014

News: Raspberry Pi Today Interview

July 17, 2014 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Raspberry Pi Today interviews Collabora's Daniel Stone about Collabora and the Raspberry Pi Foundation's work on Wayland and WebKit.

News: Raspberry Pi Today Interview

Raspberry Pi custom box design.

July 16, 2014 by Vince Sanders  |   Blog

It is no great secret that my colleagues at Collabora have been doing work with the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

Raspberry Pi custom box design.

Event: Automotive Linux Summit

June 19, 2014 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Tokyo, Japan July 1-2, 2014: The Automotive Linux Summit will bring together the most innovative minds from automotive expertise and open-source excellence.

Event: Automotive Linux Summit

News: New Collabora website launches

June 19, 2014 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Collabora introduces our new brand and logo

News: New Collabora website launches

Happy 20th, Open Source

June 05, 2018 by Mark Filion  |   Blog

In late January 1998, Netscape surprised everyone by releasing the source for Communicator, its web browser, making it readily available to all. The marked a turning point, and the birth of a new term, in software development: Open Source.

Happy 20th, Open Source

Four open months at Collabora

May 29, 2018 by Omar Akkila  |   Blog

At the start of 2018 in January, I joined Collabora, an open source software consultancy, as a Software Engineer Intern with the Multimedia team. Reaching the end of that internship, I would like to take the time to share my experience.

Four open months at Collabora

GStreamer spring in Sweden

May 18, 2018 by Zeeshan Ali  |   Blog

Earlier this month, Olivier Crête, Nicolas Dufresne, George Kiagiadakis & I attended the GStreamer Spring Hackfest in Lund, Sweden. Hosted by Axis, it was a great opportunity for the GStreamer community to touch base and work on open bugs and pet projects.

GStreamer spring in Sweden

GPU virtualization update

May 09, 2018 by Elie Tournier  |   Blog

A few months ago, Robert Foss wrote a blog post about virtualizing GPU Access. Here's a look at some of the major improvements that have landed upstream since then, including QEMU using OpenGL ES acceleration, as well as our plans for the future.

GPU virtualization update

GStreamer Spring Hackfest

May 01, 2018 by Olivier Crête  |   Blog

Generously hosted by Axis in the beautiful Lund, Sweden, the annual spring hackfest is an occasion for the community to get together to bond, but also to co-ordinate the next half year of development of the GStreamer multimedia framework.

GStreamer Spring Hackfest

Upstream Linux support for new NXP i.MX 8

April 17, 2018 by Robert Foss  |   Blog

The i.MX 6 platform has for the past few years enjoyed a large effort to add upstream support to Linux and surrounding projects. The newly introduced i.MX 8 is seeing lots of work being done, despite hardware being still difficult to get access to.

Upstream Linux support for new NXP i.MX 8

A new era for Linux's low-level graphics - Part 2

March 23, 2018 by Daniel Stone  |   Blog

Following on from part 1 in the series, part 2 covers more developments in low-level graphics, including support for buffer modifiers in the kernel, Mesa, Wayland, Weston, Mutter and GNOME Shell, and X.Org.

A new era for Linux's low-level graphics - Part 2

A new era for Linux's low-level graphics - Part 1

March 20, 2018 by Daniel Stone  |   Blog

The latest enhancements to the DRM subsystem have made mainline Linux much more attractive, making drivers easier to write, applications portable, and a much more friendly and collaborative community than we've ever had.

A new era for Linux's low-level graphics - Part 1

Linux isn't immune

March 14, 2018 by Gustavo Padovan  |   Blog

The recent disclosure of Meltdown and Spectre hardware vulnerabilities were unprecedented in the history of computing. They affect a substantial portion of chips powering most of the infrastructure used by our society today.

Linux isn't immune

Google Open Source Peer Bonus

March 01, 2018 by Mark Filion  |   Blog

Today, Google Open Source announced their first 2018 Open Source Peer Bonus winners, and our graphics lead, Daniel Stone, made the list!

Google Open Source Peer Bonus

FOSDEM - Links to recorded presentations (videos)

February 21, 2018 by Mark Filion  |   Blog

From an introduction to Flatpak, to managing build infrastructure of a Debian derivative, to modern tools to debug GStreamer, Collaborans presented in six different developer rooms, as well as in the main track, at FOSDEM 2018.

FOSDEM - Links to recorded presentations (videos)

SRT, typical examples

February 20, 2018 by Justin Kim  |   Blog

Released earlier this month, the latest version of VLC, the free & open source multimedia player (which also uses the GStreamer framework) now contains SRT modules which had been in development in VLC's master branch.

SRT, typical examples

Future-proofing at Embedded World 2024

March 22, 2024 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

One of the largest trade fair of its kind, and a global platform for the embedded community, Embedded World will be taking place next month at the NürnbergMesse in the quaint city of Nuremberg, Germany

Future-proofing at Embedded World 2024

GStreamer 1.24: New heights in embedded, network streaming & analytics

March 19, 2024 by Daniel Morin  |   News & Events

Thanks to sponsors like STMicroelectronics, Netflix, Living Optics, and ChromeOS, Collabora once again came in first place with the most contributors for this release, with 16 developers taking part.

GStreamer 1.24: New heights in embedded, network streaming & analytics

Kernel 6.8: MediaTek community flourishes

March 11, 2024 by Muhammad Usama Anjum  |   News & Events

The latest Linux Kernel 6.8 release brings thousands of new lines of code, improving the core kernel, architecture support, networking, file systems, and more.

Kernel 6.8: MediaTek community flourishes

Release the panthor!

March 04, 2024 by Boris Brezillon  |   News & Events

Late last week, the long-awaited kernel driver supporting 10th-generation Arm Mali GPUs was merged into drm-misc. The existing Gallium driver support has also been extended, effectively enabling GPUs on Rockchip's RK3588 platforms.

Release the panthor!

Patch submitted to introduce GitLab-CI pipeline for Linux kernel testing

March 01, 2024 by Helen Koike  |   News & Events

This initial version includes static checks (checkpatch and smatch for now) and build tests across various architectures and configurations, and introduces a flexible 'scenarios' mechanism for subsystem-specific extensions.

Patch submitted to introduce GitLab-CI pipeline for Linux kernel testing

NVK is now ready for prime time

February 28, 2024 by Faith Ekstrand  |   News & Events

The merge request has landed, the non-conformant implementation warnings are gone, and NVK's Meson configuration now reads "nouveau" instead of "nouveau-experimental". It's now time to start shipping NVK to users!

NVK is now ready for prime time

Smells like team spirit: Meet our newest Collaborans!

February 26, 2024 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

We've recently had some new faces join the team and we are delighted that our talented new joiners have readily jumped in to advance the open source mission.

Smells like team spirit: Meet our newest Collaborans!

FOSDEM 2024 - Recorded presentations (videos) now available

February 15, 2024 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

Collabora's engineers presented six talks over the course of the weekend, with topics including a review of recent improvements to GStreamer, a look at the state of video offloading on the Linux desktop, and more.

FOSDEM 2024 - Recorded presentations (videos) now available

A framework to share analytics data in GStreamer

February 13, 2024 by Daniel Morin  |   News & Events

Engineers have widely adopted GStreamer to build video analytics pipelines, and while many companies have indeed built their machine learning analysis framework around GStreamer, no one had made the effort to contribute upstream, until now.

A framework to share analytics data in GStreamer

Wine on Wayland: A year in review (and a look ahead)

January 30, 2024 by Alexandros Frantzis  |   News & Events

2023 was a great year for the Wayland driver for Wine. After several merge requests, many people are now already able to use the latest Wine release to enjoy some of their favorite Windows applications in a completely X11-free environment!

Wine on Wayland: A year in review (and a look ahead)

WhisperFusion: Ultra-low latency conversations with an AI chatbot

January 25, 2024 by Marcus Edel  |   News & Events

By creating a real-time AI chatbot communication system using WhisperLive and WhisperSpeech, we have addressed the unnatural delay in current bot interactions for seamless conversation.

WhisperFusion: Ultra-low latency conversations with an AI chatbot

First in line for FOSDEM 2024: GStreamer, LAVA workloads & more!

January 18, 2024 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

With many dedicated souls willing to endure a FOSDEM queue, Collabora's engineers will be giving 6 talks spread out amongst multiple devrooms including Open Media and Testing & Continuous delivery.

First in line for FOSDEM 2024: GStreamer, LAVA workloads & more!

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October 9-11, Montreal, Quebec

 

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