Arun Raghavan

Like many, I’ve been thinking a lot about the impact of LLMs on the free software community.

(these notes are being posted in two parts to make the length more manageable, part 1 is here) Continuing from where we left off, about topics discussed at the PipeWire hackfest in Nice… DSP features We discussed a number of features related to digital si…

(these notes are being posted in two parts to make the length more manageable, part 2 is here) The PipeWire community organised a hackfest in Nice, France, colocated with Embedded Recipes, the GStreamer hackfest, and a number of other events.

If you maintain a Linux audio settings component, we now have a way to globally enable/disable mono audio for users who do not want stereo separation of their audio (for example, due to hearing loss in one ear).

In case you missed it, the GStreamer Conference 2025 videos are up!

Asymptotic was started 6 years ago, when I wanted to build something that would be larger than just myself.

It should be surprising to absolutely nobody that the Linux audio stack is often the subject of varying levels of negative feedback, ranging from drive-by meme snark to apoplectic rage[1].

In my previous post, I alluded to an exciting development for PipeWire.

It’s 2025(!)

I wrote about our time at the GStreamer Conference in October, and one important thing I was able to do is spend some time with all-around great guy George reflecting on where the GStreamer plugins for PipeWire are, and what we need to do to get them to a…

All of us at Asymptotic are back home from the exciting week at GStreamer Conference 2024 in Montréal, Canada last month.

The WebRTC nerds among us will remember the first thing we learn about WebRTC, which is that it is a specification for peer-to-peer communication of media and data, but it does not specify how signalling is done.

It’s been a busy few several months, but now that we have some breathing room, I wanted to take stock of what we have done over the last year or so.

(well, not exactly everywhere …) This is not an easy post for me to write, being a bit of a criticism / “you can do better” note for organisers of conferences that cater to a global community.

For the last year and a half, we at Asymptotic have been working with the excellent team at Daily.

As the third and final day of the PipeWire hackfest draws to a close, I thought I’d summarise some of my thoughts on the goings-on and the future.

PSA: This post has a bunch of Haskell code, but I’m going to try to make it more broadly accessible.

It’s been a little over a month since I got back from Manchester, and this post should’ve come out earlier but I’ve been swamped.

I’ve been having fun recently, writing a RESTful service using Haskell and Servant.

I’ve written a bit in my last two blog posts about the work I’ve been doing in inter-device synchronised playback using GStreamer.

Hello again, and I hope you’re having a pleasant end of the year (if you are, maybe don’t check the news until next year).