10-13 October 2026
Impact Hub Prague
Europe/Prague timezone

Latency is bad, isn't it?

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35m
Impact Hub Prague

Impact Hub Prague

Drtinova 557/10, 150 00 Prague 5 - Smíchov, Czech Republic

Speaker

Jan Schmidt (Centricular Ltd)

Description

The goal of real-time media processing is to minimise latency. It's the enemy, and hides in many places.

Where? Well, let's investigate, and see what tools we have to fight it with. We'll kill it with fire, or just maybe... learn to be friends?

Speaker Bio

Jan Schmidt is a multimedia engineer at Centricular: a Free Software consultancy built by GStreamer maintainers. Centricular provides expert cross-platform multimedia and graphics solutions, and is deeply involved in the ongoing development of GStreamer.

Jan has been contributing to GStreamer and related projects for nearly 25 years, focusing on video decoding, pipeline architecture, and designing solutions to challenging multimedia problems. He actively contributes to the GStreamer ecosystem, and enjoys solving complex issues within the framework.

Outside of work, Jan enjoys tinkering with robotics and drones, experimenting with new technologies, and making music. He lives and works near Wodonga, Australia.

Duration of the talk 30 minutes

Primary author

Jan Schmidt (Centricular Ltd)

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