December 02, 2022 by Deborah Brouwer | Blog
Earlier this year, I joined Collabora for a six-month internship to learn how V4L2 (Video4Linux2) supports stateless video hardware decoding, and build a utility that traced and replayed stateless decoding from a userspace perspective.
December 01, 2022 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Coming up next week at the Automotive Linux Summit in Yokohama and virtually, Marius Vlad and Daniel Stone will present the latest on the AGL Wayland compositor, and the current state of graphics virtualization upstream.
November 16, 2022 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Clear your schedules, this weekend's Capitole du Libre is calling your name for all things open source! Gathering in the "Pink City" of Toulouse, participants are welcome to attend with free admission from November 19 to 20 at the INP-ENSEEIHT.
November 10, 2022 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Making our grand debut, Collabora will be attending electronica in Munich for the first time! Diving into the world of electronics alongside the leading examples of the industry, we're excited to partake on all fronts.
October 27, 2022 by Ashok Sidipotu | Blog
With the upcoming 0.5 release, WirePlumber's configuration system will be moving to a JSON syntax to define settings, bringing a more unified configuration approach across the PipeWire ecosystem.
October 19, 2022 by Igor Torrente | Blog
Venus is a virtual Vulkan driver based on the Virtio-GPU protocol, which defines the serialization of Vulkan commands between guest and host. Here's a closer look at Venus, its components, and their relations in the context of extensions.
October 14, 2022 by Shreeya Patel | News & Events
Collabora's contributions include mainlining the HEVC uAPI, adding VirtIO documentation, upstreaming MediaTek smartphones, and adding support for two new Chromebooks and for the Mali-G57 GPU in the Panfrost kernel driver.
October 11, 2022 by Vineet Suryan | Blog
Taking one step towards democratizing the daunting task of dataset generation by making image synthesis and automatic ground truth data generation maintainable, cheaper, and more repeatable.
October 06, 2022 by Benjamin Gaignard | News & Events
The release of Linux 6.0 earlier this week brought a significant milestone: the H.265/HEVC user-space API was mainlined, the result of more than two years of efforts by our engineering team.
October 04, 2022 by Faith Ekstrand | News & Events
Say hello to a brand new, open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa, written almost entirely from scratch using the new official headers from NVIDIA.
September 29, 2022 by Marius Vlad | News & Events
Announced earlier this week, Weston 11.0 brings a number of highlights including optimizations in the DRM-backend, color management infrastructure code and multiple RDP improvements.
September 29, 2022 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
This year's X. Org Developer's Conference (XDC) is teaming up with WineConf and FOSS XR in Minneapolis at the University of St. Thomas' Opus Hall for a jam-packed three day event.
November 08, 2016 by Tomeu Vizoso | Blog
Almost all of Collabora's customers use the Linux kernel on their products. Often they will use the exact code as delivered by the SBC vendors and we'll work with them in other parts of their software stack. But it's becoming increasingly common for our…
November 03, 2016 by Olivier Crête | Blog
In the first part of my review of Collabora's participation in GStreamer 1.10, I discussed the work done by Guillaume & Nicolas around leak tracing, acoustic echo cancellation, Wayland, V4L, etc. Today, I'll go over the contributions from the rest of…
November 02, 2016 by Olivier Crête | Blog
Yesterday, we celebrated the release of GStreamer 1.10, the culmination of 7 months of very hard work from the GStreamer community. Collabora's multimedia team is extremely proud of our contributions to this new major feature release.
October 25, 2016 by Héctor Orón Martínez | Blog
In the previous post, I gave an overview of the Open Build Service software architecture. In this second part, a tutorial on setting up a package build with OBS from Debian packages is presented.
October 24, 2016 by Héctor Orón Martínez | Blog
openSUSE distributions’ build system is based on a generic framework named Open Build Service (OBS), I have been using these tools in my work environment, and I have to say, as Debian developer, that it is a great tool. In this blog post I plan for you…
October 18, 2016 by Gustavo Padovan | Blog
In the first part we covered the main concepts behind Explicit Synchronization for the Linux Kernel. Now in the second part of the series we are going to look to the Android Sync Framework, the first (out-of-tree) Explicit Fencing implementation for the…
October 13, 2016 by Lubosz Sarnecki | Blog
Being someone who has already experimented with two transformation box approaches for Pitivi in the past, maintainers thought I might be the right person to do a modern one. Creating a user interface for a video transformation requires three things: the…
October 06, 2016 by Gustavo Noronha | Blog
I had a great time last week and the Web Engines Hackfest! It was the 7th web hackfest hosted by Igalia and the 7th hackfest I attended. I’m almost a local Galician already. Brazilian Portuguese being so close to Galician certainly helps! Collabora co-sponsored…
October 03, 2016 by Gustavo Padovan | Blog
Linux Kernel 4.8 is out and once more Collabora engineers did a significant contribution to the Kernel. For this latest release, Collabora provided 101 patches from 8 engineers, our biggest contribution to date in single kernel release!
September 22, 2016 by Gustavo Noronha | Blog
Next week our friends at Igalia will be hosting this year’s Web Engines Hackfest. Collabora will be there! We are gold sponsors, and have three developers attending. It will also be an opportunity to celebrate Igalia’s 15th birthday. Looking forward to…
September 13, 2016 by Gustavo Padovan | Blog
When it comes to buffer sharing synchronization in the kernel there are two ways of doing it: Implicit Fencing and Explicit Fencing. The difference between them relies on the fact that the kernel may or may not share synchronization information with userspace,…
September 02, 2016 by Robert Foss | Blog
Developing Linux for Android on Qemu allows you to do some things that are not necessarily possible using the stock emulator. For my purposes I need access to a GPU and be able to modify the driver, which is where Virgilrenderer and Qemu comes in handy.
May 27, 2025 by Detlev Casanova | News & Events
The latest Linux kernel brings expanded hardware support for MediaTek and Rockchip, enhanced graphics drivers, and more. Collabora played a key role in this release, with no less than 20 authored contributors!
May 26, 2025 by Erik Faye-Lund | News & Events
Just about 6 weeks after we announced Vulkan 1.1 conformance for PanVK on G610 GPUs, Vulkan 1.2 is now also checked off the list!
May 22, 2025 by Mark Filion | News & Events
Monado's first stable release of 2025 is here. From enhanced Android support and driver updates to improved runtime stability and tooling, Collabora's XR team delivered a wide array of improvements for the cross-platform, open source OpenXR runtime.
May 01, 2025 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Join us in Stuttgart, Germany for XR EXPO 2025! This two-day event will be the meeting place for the XR community to exchange ideas and explore the latest trends.
April 22, 2025 by Faith Ekstrand | News & Events
As of today, NVK is a conformant Vulkan 1.3 implementation for NVIDIA Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs, and will be enabled by default starting with Mesa 25.1.
April 17, 2025 by Eleni Katsoula | News & Events
Our commitment to open source extends beyond contributing code. We are dedicated to upholding the highest standards of license compliance throughout our development processes.
April 15, 2025 by Mark Filion | News & Events
This May, Embedded Recipes 2025, co-sponsored by Collabora, heads to Nice, France with talks, workshops, and a PipeWire hackfest, all bookended by the Linux Media Summit and the GStreamer Spring Hackfest!
April 14, 2025 by Erik Faye-Lund | News & Events
PanVK has reached a new milestone, and is now officially conformant with the Vulkan 1.1 specification on the Arm Mali-G610 GPU! The submission was done from the Mesa 25.0.2 release, and covers both armhf as well as aarch64 architectures.
April 10, 2025 by Daniel Stone | News & Events
Three demos. One stand. From end-to-end HDR and a brand-new SoC running PanVK, to NVK and WebGPU out of the box — discover how Collabora pushed open source graphics forward at Embedded World 2025.
April 09, 2025 by Olivier Crête | News & Events
Collabora once again played a key role in the latest release of GStreamer, contributing enhancements such as improved hardware efficiency, support for the MPEG-5 LCEVC codec, and better integration for analytics and machine learning.
March 26, 2025 by Cristian Ciocaltea | News & Events
The kernel release emphasizes the continuing growth and maturity of the Linux ecosystem and delivers new features, improvements, and optimizations that everyone will be eager to explore. See where Collabora's kernel team contributed to this release.
March 26, 2025 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Collabora is thrilled to see its partner, Hololight, join the Khronos Group and become an active member of the OpenXR Working Group. We are excited to support their innovative approach and rapid expansion in the XR streaming space.
Here are the events we'll be attending in the coming weeks – come say hello!
August 25-27, Amsterdam, Netherlands
September 12-15, Amsterdam, Netherlands
September 16, Amsterdam, Netherlands
September 17-18, Lyon, France
Whether writing a line of code or shaping a longer-term strategic software development plan, we'll help you navigate the ever-evolving world of Open Source.
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