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Up close and personal with STMicroelectronics' STM32MP2 at Embedded World

April 10, 2024 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

Using TensorFlow Lite models optimized for the STM3MP2 NPU along with an upstream-ready H.264 encoder (Video4Linux2), this demo showcases GStreamer's all-new analytic metadata framework.

Up close and personal with STMicroelectronics' STM32MP2 at Embedded World

New unixfd plugin in GStreamer 1.24

April 08, 2024 by Xavier Claessens  |   News & Events

GStreamer 1.24 was recently released, and with it came with a new plugin to help separate pipelines into different processes.

New unixfd plugin in GStreamer 1.24

Embedded Open Source Summit 2024

April 05, 2024 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Seattle is hosting this year's Embedded Open Source Summit, the umbrella conference for a collection of open source events. This is the premier space for the open source community and we'll be there with 6 talks!

Embedded Open Source Summit 2024

Collabora's WhisperFusion nominated for Embedded Award 2024

April 03, 2024 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

Honoring outstanding innovations in the field of embedded system technologies, the annual Embedded Award ceremony will be taking place next week at Embedded World 2024 in Nuremberg.

Collabora's WhisperFusion nominated for Embedded Award 2024

OpenXR & Monado: Recent progress and what's to come

April 02, 2024 by Frederic Plourde  |   News & Events

As we reflect on the strides made in recent months, it's remarkable to see how OpenXR and Monado have evolved and are shaping the future of XR development. Let's take a closer look at the progress made and noteworthy achievements.

OpenXR & Monado: Recent progress and what's to come

Future-proofing at Embedded World 2024

March 22, 2024 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

One of the largest trade fair of its kind, and a global platform for the embedded community, Embedded World will be taking place next month at the NürnbergMesse in the quaint city of Nuremberg, Germany

Future-proofing at Embedded World 2024

GStreamer 1.24: New heights in embedded, network streaming & analytics

March 19, 2024 by Daniel Morin  |   News & Events

Thanks to sponsors like STMicroelectronics, Netflix, Living Optics, and ChromeOS, Collabora once again came in first place with the most contributors for this release, with 16 developers taking part.

GStreamer 1.24: New heights in embedded, network streaming & analytics

Automatic regression handling and reporting for the Linux Kernel

March 14, 2024 by Ricardo Cañuelo Navarro  |   Blog

In continuation with our series about Kernel Integration we'll go into more detail about how regression detection, processing, and tracking can be improved to provide a better service to developers and maintainers.

Automatic regression handling and reporting for the Linux Kernel

Kernel 6.8: MediaTek community flourishes

March 11, 2024 by Muhammad Usama Anjum  |   News & Events

The latest Linux Kernel 6.8 release brings thousands of new lines of code, improving the core kernel, architecture support, networking, file systems, and more.

Kernel 6.8: MediaTek community flourishes

Release the panthor!

March 04, 2024 by Boris Brezillon  |   News & Events

Late last week, the long-awaited kernel driver supporting 10th-generation Arm Mali GPUs was merged into drm-misc. The existing Gallium driver support has also been extended, effectively enabling GPUs on Rockchip's RK3588 platforms.

Release the panthor!

Patch submitted to introduce GitLab-CI pipeline for Linux kernel testing

March 01, 2024 by Helen Koike  |   News & Events

This initial version includes static checks (checkpatch and smatch for now) and build tests across various architectures and configurations, and introduces a flexible 'scenarios' mechanism for subsystem-specific extensions.

Patch submitted to introduce GitLab-CI pipeline for Linux kernel testing

NVK is now ready for prime time

February 28, 2024 by Faith Ekstrand  |   News & Events

The merge request has landed, the non-conformant implementation warnings are gone, and NVK's Meson configuration now reads "nouveau" instead of "nouveau-experimental". It's now time to start shipping NVK to users!

NVK is now ready for prime time

Getting started with GStreamer's gst-build

March 19, 2020 by Stéphane Cerveau  |   Blog

GStreamer relies on multiple repositories such as base and good to build its ecosystem, and now owns more than 30 projects in Gitlab. So, a unified tool/build system has always been necessary to build a specified version.

Getting started with GStreamer's gst-build

Why remote working can be good for people, business and environment

March 10, 2020 by Olivier Potin  |   Blog

Here at Collabora, we trust our people to work remotely, we give them full responsibility for their output, and we believe it helps creating an even stronger internal culture and comes with some other positives.

Why remote working can be good for people, business and environment

PipeWire, the media service transforming the Linux multimedia landscape

March 05, 2020 by Julian Bouzas  |   Blog

PipeWire 0.3 was released a few days ago, marking a big step forward in the effort of making this emerging media service the core layer of all multimedia on Linux.

PipeWire, the media service transforming the Linux multimedia landscape

Experimental Panfrost GLES 3.0 support has landed in Mesa

February 27, 2020 by Alyssa Rosenzweig  |   Blog

Panfrost's ES 3.0 support has landed in upstream Mesa and works with a mainline Linux kernel. The support is still early, but if you're feeling adventurous, feel free to give it a try on your favourite ES 3.0 applications and games.

Experimental Panfrost GLES 3.0 support has landed in Mesa

Using gcc sanitisers to get a nasty bug fixed

February 18, 2020 by Andrej Shadura  |   Blog

When a bug surprises you when doing Apertis packaging of a typical vendor code signing tool, it's time to debug it using the compiler's built-in tools.

Using gcc sanitisers to get a nasty bug fixed

FOSDEM 2020 - Recorded presentations (videos)

February 05, 2020 by Mark Filion  |   Blog

From KernelCI's new home, the latest on Zink (OpenGL on Vulkan), OpenXR & Monado, PipeWire in the automotive industry, JPEG2000, and GStreamer on the Magic Leap One, Collaborans gave talks in 6 different devrooms, as well on the main track.

FOSDEM 2020 - Recorded presentations (videos)

Opening up Mali T720

December 20, 2019 by Alyssa Rosenzweig  |   Blog

If you have a device with a Mali T720 or T820 GPU, you’re in luck – your device is now supported in upstream Mesa at feature parity with other GPUs. Get out your Allwinner H6 or Amlogic S912 board, grab the latest Mesa, and enjoy a match of SuperTuxKart!

Opening up Mali T720

New graphing tool for PipeWire debugging

December 09, 2019 by Julian Bouzas  |   Blog

PipeWire, the new and emerging open source framework that aims to greatly improve the exchange and management of audio and video streams inside a Linux system, has seen a number of improvements and bug fixes over the past year.

New graphing tool for PipeWire debugging

Building GStreamer on Windows

November 26, 2019 by Aaron Boxer  |   Blog

With the advent of meson and gst-build, it is now possible to set up a GStreamer Windows development environment that rivals the finest Linux has to offer, with full support for Visual Studio debugging into the library.

Building GStreamer on Windows

Zink: Fall Update

October 24, 2019 by Erik Faye-Lund  |   Blog

I recently went to XDC 2019, where I gave yet another talk about Zink. I kinda forgot to write a blog-post about it, so here’s me trying to make up for it… or something like that. I’ll also go into some more recent developments as well.

Zink: Fall Update

Adding stateless support to vicodec

October 09, 2019 by Dafna Hirschfeld  |   Blog

Prior to joining Collabora, I took part in Round 17 of the Outreachy internships, to work on the virtual drivers in the media subsystem of the Linux kernel, or more specifically, on the vicodec driver.

Adding stateless support to vicodec

Why HDCP support in Weston is a good thing

October 03, 2019 by Pekka Paalanen  |   Blog

What HDCP is, and why supporting HDCP in Weston is justified in both an economical and technical context.

Why HDCP support in Weston is a good thing

PanVK now uses AFBC by default

September 17, 2025 by Erik Faye-Lund  |   News & Events

AFBC support has been merged to PanVK and will be available in the Mesa 25.3 release! This new enablement reduces memory bandwidth and boosts performance.

PanVK now uses AFBC by default

Adding an AI edge at SIDO 2025

September 15, 2025 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Visit us at the STMicroelectronics booth, where Collabora will highlight how the STM32MP2 chip empowers edge AI solutions for industrial applications.

Adding an AI edge at SIDO 2025

Debian 13 "Trixie": Collabora's contributions that made the 2025 release

September 09, 2025 by Dylan Aïssi  |   News & Events

The Debian Trixie release is jam-packed with new features thanks to the efforts of many. See where Collabora contributed to upgraded GNOME components, newer PipeWire versions, and more!

Debian 13

Tested on real silicon: Automating RISC-V Hardware-in-the-Loop

September 08, 2025 by Ariel D'Alessandro  |   News & Events

Addressing the need for reliable hardware testing for RISC-V adoption, the RISE Project and Collabora added two RISC-V boards to Collabora's LAVA testing lab.

Tested on real silicon: Automating RISC-V Hardware-in-the-Loop

GStreamer Analytics, ElectricMaple & more for IBC 2025

September 03, 2025 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Collabora is headed to Amsterdam. Meet us at Booth A63 in Hall 14 as we showcase GStreamer Analytics combined with ML, hardware-accelerated video decoding in Dante Studio using GStreamer, remote rendering for standalone XR, and more!

GStreamer Analytics, ElectricMaple & more for IBC 2025

Collabora at OSS Europe 2025: Five talks, hands-on demos, and workshops!

August 19, 2025 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Collabora is heading to Amsterdam with talks, demos, and workshops covering Embedded Linux, KernelCI, Bluetooth & Auracast, mainline video capture for Rockchip, and more. Join us to see our latest open source work in action!

Collabora at OSS Europe 2025: Five talks, hands-on demos, and workshops!

Improvements to Mesa video decoding for Panfrost

August 13, 2025 by Eric Smith  |   News & Events

The Mesa 25.2 release introduces support for AFBC compressed YUV textures in the Panfrost driver for ARM Mali GPUs, enabling more efficient memory bandwidth and power usage in video playback and real-time texture processing.

Improvements to Mesa video decoding for Panfrost

Mesa 25.2 brings new hardware support for Nouveau users

August 04, 2025 by Faith Ekstrand  |   News & Events

Starting with Mesa 25.2, NVK will now advertise support for Blackwell (RTX 50xx series) and Kepler (most GT and GTX 600 series, most GTX 700 series, and some GTX 800 series) GPUs.

Mesa 25.2 brings new hardware support for Nouveau users

Kernel 6.16: Fine-tuning the details

July 31, 2025 by Julien Massot  |   News & Events

The latest Linux kernel brings enhanced MediaTek Platform enablement, Rockchip performance, and more. Collabora contributed to this release with no less than 22 authored contributors!

Kernel 6.16: Fine-tuning the details

PanVK now supports Vulkan 1.4

July 29, 2025 by Erik Faye-Lund  |   News & Events

PanVK has reached another milestone and will be officially supporting Vulkan 1.4 on V10! We're up-to-date with the latest version and are well caught up for this release.

PanVK now supports Vulkan 1.4

All roads lead to Brest: Collabora at DebConf25

July 09, 2025 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Collabora is proud to sponsor this year's annual Debian conference, taking place in Brest, France. Join us as we showcase the latest with Apertis, discuss Debian running on mobile devices, and more.

All roads lead to Brest: Collabora at DebConf25

Introducing Tyr, a new Rust DRM driver

July 07, 2025 by Daniel Almeida  |   News & Events

The last year has seen substantial progress on the DRM infrastructure required to write GPU drivers in Rust. Developed in collaboration with Arm and Google, Tyr is a new Rust-based DRM driver targeting CSF-based Arm Mali GPUs.

Introducing Tyr, a new Rust DRM driver

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