Wim Taymans
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Wim Taymans | |
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Born | June 21, 1972 |
Occupation | Lead Software Designer |
Notable work | PipeWire |
Wim Odilia Georges Taymans is a Belgian software developer based in
In 1994 he installed the Linux operating system on his Amiga and has since been involved with the development of various multimedia technologies for the Linux platform. His first efforts on Linux were some assembly optimizations for the rtjpeg library; later, he worked on the Trinity video editor before teaming up with Erik Walthinsen to create the GStreamer multimedia framework.
In 2004 he started working for Fluendo in Spain as employee number 3. While working for Fluendo he designed and wrote most of what today is the 0.10 release series of GStreamer. In July 2007 he left Fluendo together with many of the other GStreamer developers and joined up with United Kingdom company Collabora. As part of his job at Collabora[2] he maintained and developed GStreamer further, with the aim of providing Linux and other Unix and Unix-like operating systems with a competitive and powerful multimedia framework. In November 2013, Taymans started a new endeavour as a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat spending most of his time working on upstream GStreamer.
Taymans was the main architect and developer behind the GStreamer 1.0 release which came out on September 24, 2012.
In July 2015 it was announced that Taymans was designing and writing Pinos, which became PipeWire, from his position as Principal Engineer at Red Hat. PipeWire is a server for handling audio and video streams on Linux.[3][4]
References
- ^ GameFAQs: Puffy's Saga, [1]. Retrieved on 2010-01-05.
- ^ Collabora, About us: Wim Taymans [2]. Retrieved on 2010-01-05.
- ^ Schaller, Christian (2015-06-30). "Fedora Workstation next steps : Introducing Pinos". Christian F.K. Schaller. Retrieved 2019-06-29.
- ^ Schaller, Christian (2017-09-19). "Launching Pipewire!". Christian F.K. Schaller. Retrieved 2019-06-29.