Author Archives: Justin
FF you, FFMPEG
So we’ve decided to move from using FFMPEG ourselves over to using Xuggler, which in turn uses FFMPEG as part of it’s internal processes. We’re so close to getting it to work that we can just about taste it; we know where to find the RTMP URL coming out of BigBlueButton and confirmed with FlowPlayer [...]
FFMPEG: A “very active project” that nobody ever talks about
Show of hands: Who here has ever heard of FFMPEG? Apparently, it’s our best bet for converting live Flash video into non-Flash, HTML5-compatible video on the fly. And yet, all the information Chad and I find about it is either years out of date, about converting video that is being streamed from a file, or [...]
Moving forward
We finally have a meeting to decide what we’ll be working on this term! Well, Fardad has the meeting. Chad and I are just here reading up on WebRTC in case the project turns out to be “convert BigBlueButton to HTML5″. And let me tell you: I am lost. I’m the kind of person who [...]
App Trapp redux
Talk about feature creep! My app idea started off as a simple coffee locator; you can find the nearest place to get coffee. Then it included finding the cheapest cup of coffee in the area, and being able to rate them, and it just kept snowballing until my plan basically looks like a search engine [...]
The app trap
I may have mentioned, i just upgraded to a Galaxy Nexus last week, and I’m having a ball with it. I’m feeling the itch to write an application for it, but for some reason I am having a devil of a time thinking of what it should do that a million other Android apps don’t [...]
Going off the script
So, yesterday’s scripting experiment didn’t exactly work out. I was trying to get the Dev Install script to automatically handle it when, during the build process for the locales or the client, Java encountered a runtime error. This is an intermittent problem when running those builds, really the only way to handle it is to [...]
I wonder if there’s room for Klingon…
So! Not only is the BigBlueButton polling module ready for public consumption, with an easily accessible repo and installation scripts, but within hours of posting it to the BigBlueButton dev forum with a call for people to try it out and help translate the locale files we had eight translations ready to go! The power [...]
Must not curse at the repo. Must not curse at the repo.
I think we may have conquered GIT. Since Anatoly left for Red Hat, we decided to use his old repo as the master and have Chad and I create our own forks off of it, mostly as practise so we don’t run into a million conflicts like we did with the LDAP work. I guess [...]
Another case of “He sed, she sed.”
I’m writing a series of installation scripts for BigBlueButton to automate the various files where we need to insert text during the installation of the Polling Module, and I’m having a hell of a time with sed. Here’s what’s happening: I’ve got this node in build.xml <target name=”build-main-chat-viewers-listeners-present” depends=”build-bbb-main, build-bbb-main-test, build-chat, build-viewers, build-listeners, build-present, build-breakout” [...]
Short version: An installation of BigBlueButton + Polling Module on a remote server will intermittently, and to all appearances randomly, throw exceptions and experience Shared Object failures before the user even has a chance to do anything. Arg.
