kinetik

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by kinetik 16y ago
Scrolling is much faster in Firefox 4, especially on pages with a background image.
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Cg_diff: a differential profiling tool(blog.mozilla.com)
12 points by kinetik 16y ago|0 comments
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by kinetik 16y ago
The Wired article claims that the average render time is seven hours per frame: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/05/process_pixar/all/1 Assuming a single machine (which is obviously not true, but I can't find any details about the size
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by kinetik 16y ago
Only Mozilla supports Ogg Chrome/Chromium and Opera also support Ogg Theora/Vorbis out of the box.
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Ogg and WebM technical alert: default FFmpeg Vorbis encoder is broken(xiphmont.livejournal.com)
2 points by kinetik 16y ago|0 comments
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MobileMedia's Unusual Patent Infringement Campaign vs Apple and others(thepriorart.typepad.com)
2 points by kinetik 16y ago|1 comments
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Red-black trees revisited(t-t-travails.blogspot.com)
17 points by kinetik 16y ago|4 comments
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by kinetik 16y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. I made the suggested changes (check github for the latest) but it doesn't seem to be significantly faster than the other fragment shaders (within 0.1 FPS over a 150 second video). I'm at a bit of a loss as to ho
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by kinetik 16y ago
http://github.com/kinetiknz/plogg/blob/master/plogg.cpp#L495
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by kinetik 17y ago
From that thread: Both "RSA Security 1024 V3" and "RSA Security 2048 V3" are shown as valid in Apple's System Roots. Microsoft's list includes "RSA Security 2048 V3", but not "RSA Security 1024 V3". I'm glad there's more transparency abou
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by kinetik 17y ago
Maybe. I thought about changing the title, but the techniques apply to any large program on Linux.
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Linux: How to Make Startup Suck Less (Also Reduce Memory Usage)(blog.mozilla.com)
22 points by kinetik 17y ago|3 comments
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by kinetik 17y ago
That's incorrect. Web content needs additional privileges to paint web content into a canvas for exactly this reason.
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The Sad Story of PNG Gamma “Correction”(hsivonen.iki.fi)
19 points by kinetik 17y ago|2 comments
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by kinetik 17y ago
Already posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1164161
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by kinetik 17y ago
There's no "special Flash installer". I think you're talking about the Plugin Finder Service, which is generic and works with any plugin. PFS serves metadata that points the user to the vendor's plugin download page (possibly to a streaml
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by kinetik 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_video_services#St... I see a lot of VP6 and Sorenson listed there. What we really have today is Flash/Flash/Flash. I'm curious about how much VC-1 use there is in the wild in the large Microsof
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by kinetik 17y ago
If some patent troll decides H.264 violates a patent, they must go to court with MPEG LA, not individual licensees. This is incorrect in multiple ways: - The MPEG-LA is a licensing body, so it's extremely unlikely to be practicing the pat
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by kinetik 17y ago
I believe Mozilla distributes Flash as a plugin in the Firefox download. This is most definitely false. Why make a claim like this when you could easily verify it?
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by kinetik 17y ago
The DSP port is an API compatible port of libtheora. Anything that is linked against libtheora can make use of the DSP port simply by linking against it. Nokia haven't shipped a major OS release since the DSP port came out, so even if the
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by kinetik 17y ago
Google will help you find more recent financial details. The 2008 financials are right here: http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2009/11/19/state-of-mozilla-a...
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by kinetik 17y ago
The DSP decoder was implemented by David Schleef and funded by Mozilla. Nokia weren't involved with it at all. It was released last year, and you can use it right now: http://www.schleef.org/blog/2009/11/11/theora-on-ti-c64x-dsp... FFmp
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by kinetik 17y ago
Chrome (and Chromium) ship with support for Ogg Theora and Vorbis. I'm not sure where this misconception comes from.
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by kinetik 17y ago
There was only one patent, for LZW, but it was held in multiple countries. It first expired in 2003, and had expired in the last country by 2004. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Interchange_Format#Uni...
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by kinetik 17y ago
GIF is a different situation. It was already a well established format before Unisys started enforcing the patent it held on it. The patent was a "submarine" patent, so it was not publically known before the format became widely used. It
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JägerMonkey & Nitro Components(blog.mozilla.com)
1 points by kinetik 17y ago|0 comments
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by kinetik 17y ago
They really are quite different. Here's one example: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3851#comment-57751
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by kinetik 17y ago
That sounds like it's using the QuickTime plugin in both browsers. Firefox won't play anything in a QuickTime container natively. If you're using the native browser video playback support (aka HTML 5 <video>), you should be able t
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by kinetik 17y ago
Progressive video download over dumb HTTP works very well, so it's unlikely you need a special streaming server for most use cases, and particularly not in this case. Modern browsers have native video support for Ogg Theora (Chrome, Firefo
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by kinetik 17y ago
How can it possibly make sense to zip the video files? It ruins any chance one has of progressively downloading as you watch, and it can't save any bandwidth.

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