Wim Odilia Georges Taymans is a Belgian software developer based in
Malaga,
Spain
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. Taymans started his career in multimedia development on the
Commodore 64
The Commodore 64, also known as the C64, is an 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International (first shown at the Consumer Electronics Show, January 7–10, 1982, in Las Vegas). It has been listed in the Guinness ...
writing various games and demos. He was known in the Commodore 64 coding community under the nickname The Wim. In 1990 he was the coder behind the C64 game ''
Puffy's Saga
''Puffy's Saga'' is a maze video game released in 1989.
References
External links''Puffy's Saga''at Atari Mania''Puffy's Saga''at Gamebase 64''Puffy's Saga''
at Spectrum Computing
1989 video games
Amiga games
Amstrad CPC games
Atari ST gam ...
'' which was distributed by
Ubisoft
Ubisoft Entertainment SA (; ; formerly Ubi Soft Entertainment SA) is a French video game publisher headquartered in Saint-Mandé with development studios across the world. Its video game franchises include '' Assassin's Creed'', ''Far Cry'', '' ...
. He later moved on to the
Amiga
Amiga is a family of personal computers introduced by Commodore in 1985. The original model is one of a number of mid-1980s computers with 16- or 32-bit processors, 256 KB or more of RAM, mouse-based GUIs, and significantly improved graphi ...
where he among other things wrote a version of the classic game ''
Boulder Dash
''Boulder Dash'' is a 2D maze-puzzle video game released in 1984 by First Star Software for Atari 8-bit computers. It was created by Canadian developers Peter Liepa and Chris Gray. The player controls Rockford, who collects treasures while ...
''.
In 1994 he installed the
Linux
Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, which ...
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
GStreamer is a pipeline-based multimedia framework that links together a wide variety of media processing systems to complete complex workflows. For instance, GStreamer can be used to build a system that reads files in one format, processes them, ...
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
Collabora is a global private company headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom, with offices in Cambridge and Montreal. It provides open-source consultancy, training and products to companies.
Collabora's initial focus was instant messaging ...
. As part of his job at Collabora 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
Red Hat, Inc. is an American software company that provides open source software products to enterprises. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, with other offices worldwide.
Red Hat has become ass ...
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
PipeWire is a server for handling audio, video streams, and hardware on Linux. It was created by Wim Taymans at Red Hat. It handles multimedia routing and pipeline processing.
History
In 2015, Taymans started work on PipeWire. It was based on ...
, from his position as Principal Engineer at Red Hat. PipeWire is a server for handling audio and video streams on Linux.
References
External links
C64.org profile pageGStreamerFluendoCollaboraInterview with Wim Taymans by Audio Libre
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1972 births
Living people
Video game programmers
Free software programmers
Belgian computer programmers