GStreamer – multimedia fun on a plugin architecture

I’ve poked around GStreamer and the bindings for Java. GStreamer is a framework for “constructing graphs of media-handling components”. For example a video player from “scratch”.

Java applets churn random stalking app

TED has an interesting video presentation of the random-stalking application WeFeelFine.org, which scours the bloggosphere for unstable emo’s.

The important part is Java Applets as the choice of technology! At a first glance, they have chosen to discard standard swing components for getting the custom look and feel.  But the use of Applets for a thick client and an opensaucy API makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. I will definitely poke inside the app and the technology stack “When I find time”

“I feel Java Applets”