JasonGerardDerose
I am a software engineer, a free software developer, an avid cyclist, sometimes a mechanical engineer, and always a goof ball.
I wrote [https://launchpad.net/products/kungfu KungFu], a GStreamer-based DVD ripper. It is not yet officially in Ubuntu, but I have been building Ubuntu packages for each release, which you can [http://jasonderose.org/kungfu/releases/ download here]. It must be run under Edgy or newer. I am not a MOTU yet, so I need [http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?upid=3640 advocates on REVU]. 
While working on Kung Fu, I discovered [https://bugs.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gst-plugins-ugly0.10/+bug/71017 a nasty seek bug] in the GStreamer dvdreadsrc element, for which I have submitted a patch. After working on dvdreadsrc quite a bit, I decided that it was really a big crufty mess, so I've started a rewrite from scratch, which I'm calling dvdsrc. I have my dvdsrc code in a [https://launchpad.net/people/jderose/+branch/kungfu/dvdsrc Bazaar repository].
My new dvdsrc element in now mostly usable as a drop-in replacement for dvdreadsrc. As far as I can tell, it makes a lot of sense to combine the dvdreadsrc and dvdnavsrc functionality into a single element, so my plan is to add Nav support to dvdsrc. I'm really hoping to have this finished in time to be included in Feisty, so that full DVD support will finally be available under gstreamer0.10. I could certainly use help on this if anyone is interested!
I also wrote [http://fuplayer.org/ FUPlayer], a GStreamer-based music manager/player/ripper/burner, but it's on the back burner at the moment.
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