jbk

47 ms·

241.
by jbk 7y ago
> Do you have any "need" for a fullstack/infra kind of person? Yes, we do. Both web (JS for VLC and for our website), backend (Go) and infra are needed. And currently, people who are able to write Ruby to improve gitlab up
242.
by jbk 7y ago
(disclaimer: president of VideoLAN here and old VLC dev) What's interesting in this article (quite accurate, for once) is the focus on the size of the team, which is quite small; and on the development process. And how the team are no
243.
by jbk 7y ago
Obviously not the webaudio part, seeing this exploit.
244.
by jbk 7y ago
> Note that wasm is also slower and thus more resource (battery) consuming than a native C++ implementation. My tests for codecs is now around 20% slower than native code, for the naive implementation. And SIMD.wasm helps a lot.
245.
by jbk 7y ago
> I disagree. By having the browser implement these features we gain security. This is the opposite: this FFT and convolution code is in C++, and therefore OUTSIDE of the JS sandbox. My point is that there should be a minimum in C++ and
246.
by jbk 7y ago
If you follow the link, you'll see it is in the webaudio convolver.
247.
by jbk 7y ago
You are completely missing the point: they should do less in C/C++ and more in JS/TS/Wasm.
248.
by jbk 7y ago
> So having a simple audio API + ability to do pro-audio like things in JS is not really possible in a browser. Absolutely not: wasm does not have GC pauses.
249.
by jbk 7y ago
I know this is a bit a pet peeve of mine, (and not a very popular opinion) but I think the browsers are doing too much, and WebAudio is a very good example of that. Instead of standardizing something low-level to input/output audio and
250.
by jbk 7y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER | Paris | Remote welcome. Local possible. Looking for a developer that can write ASM (assembly) code for ARM (we have needs for x86 too); the work is mostly NEON code. Previous experience doing those things is a requirem
251.
by jbk 7y ago
We received an apology email at the same time, well written, explaining what they did wrong, apologizing, promising to do a post-mortem, promising to not send to 3rd party trackers, and saying they did a mistake and waiting for feedbacks on
252.
by jbk 7y ago
What’s wrong with the AGPL, that they cannot use it, as a software license?
253.
by jbk 7y ago
This is trivial to add. Can you open a ticket?
254.
by jbk 7y ago
> But that just shifts the burn out to his official employer. I'm my own employer...
255.
by jbk 7y ago
> So to those in the know- when can we expect to see VLMC finished? No clue. Noone seems to care enough.
256.
by jbk 7y ago
> Can you elaborate on the best way to ask for help in the VLC support forums? I've tried a couple of times over the years and literally got told to "stop asking for someone to do my work for me" and essentially go away..
257.
by jbk 7y ago
> Are any parts of that inaccurate, or do you (still) stand behind them? Everything is mostly accurate, it is just the technical details that are not. > Are there any interviews / documents where you elaborate on those topics? No
258.
by jbk 7y ago
> Well mpv can play full-range videos with correct colors... ;) VLC can too, if compiled correctly with the libplacebo dependency. It shares most of the shaders with mpv.
259.
by jbk 7y ago
Yes, a lot. It looks ok, but there is a LOT of technical debt. It is static, with PHP and a bit of JS. Also, if you know Vue.js, we need help on the new web interface of VLC. :D
260.
by jbk 7y ago
> When you say you are going to fix UX issues, do you mean you're going to address concerns, or do you mean you're really doing an overhaul. Both :)
261.
by jbk 7y ago
I am happy with my life.
262.
by jbk 7y ago
Way more.
263.
by jbk 7y ago
> I’ve mentioned this in other threads on music streaming, but VLC is the center of my music world. I got good news for you: next release has better audio quality (less resampling) and gapless playback. Plus more metadata support.
264.
by jbk 7y ago
> How do the developers that work on VLC get paid? Most of the time, they don't. But lately, I created a company doing consulting and integration of libVLC inside mobile apps, and it is now employing most core developers of VLC.
265.
by jbk 7y ago
Not your code, but your time to work on VLC.
266.
by jbk 7y ago
> Virtually nobody knows, for example, how the official SMB plugin works, and there's no documentation. Totally BS. We have 4 SMB modules, which ones are you talking about? (Windows, samba, libdsm (v1) and libsmb2). We spent a lot o
267.
by jbk 7y ago
Yes, I truly believe so. With a tiny bit of exaggeration, of course, but the idea is here.
268.
by jbk 7y ago
OK, there are a few things that were done in VLC for reasons that could be puzzling or had unintended excellent consequences. Those are not really mistakes, per se. I can speak about 3 of them: 1) the one mentioned in the interview, where,
269.
by jbk 7y ago
> As much as I love VLC, them blowing off the lack of UI polish is why I have a love/hate relationship with it. Good, you will be happy to know that we're redoing the UI for 4.0, to fix UX issues. And the issue you mentioned is
270.
by jbk 7y ago
OK, so, this is me talking. This is an old interview that resurfaces lately (no idea why), and it was done by a HR company, and they did a lot of cuts. So, it is far from being technically accurate, and some parts are quite weird. Clearly n

More ›