Fred's blog

Nice article at Phoronix about Gwenole's work to add VA-API (short for Video Acceleration API) support in mplayer and ffmpeg.

On Monday, I joined a new adventure at Splitted-Desktop Systems. SDS is a new company started in 2006 by Jean-Marie Verdun to create Internet devices for telecom operators and specialized markets. The company is creating innovative systems from hardware (motherboards, cooling systems, cases), software (based on Open Source of course) up to services. I'm working there with fellow MandrakeSoft/Mandriva mates: Boubou, Warly and Gwenole. I'm sure we'll do some very good work !

The first product of the company has been announced by Orange a few days ago and is called "Pack Internet Facile" which means "Easy Internet Pack". This product is targetting Internet newbies and is realized in collaboration with the e-sidor company. Here is a photo of the device: