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padenot

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About padenot

Media developer at Mozilla, working on WebRTC, and , Web audio.

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    Comment #46291169

    We're implementing it though: about:keyboard in a Nightly build does what you expect, this is tracked in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2000731 and dependencies.

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    Comment #45817473

    Browsers have been doing (sometimes tiered) AOT compilation since wasm inception.

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    Comment #45172350

    Debian has stopped supporting x86 32bits recently, Chrome did so 9 years or so ago. We've carefully ran some numbers before doing this, and this affects a few hundreds to a few tho…

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    Comment #44826572

    Those methods are sub-sample accurate, granted you call them a bit in advance to account for the cross-thread communication, as you say. But yes, in general this was designed (prio…

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    Comment #44816848

    Sorry, I'll implement it, I had forgotten we didn't do it for erm... 9 years. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1308431

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    Comment #44644878

    `jj commit -i` (or a lot of commands `-i`) and maybe `snapshot.auto-track="none()"` in the config, to a certain extent is what I use. I used to do the same with mercurial. In pract…

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    Comment #44475460

    He did last year, alongside mayor Hidalgo and others, such as Tony Estanguet, who is a former athlete and was overseeing the olympics and the minister for sports. Article in French…

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    Comment #43458238

    Hi, https://blog.paul.cx/post/audio-video-synchronization-with-t... (I'm the author) will have some info about what is happenning and what to do. You're out of luck on Safari becau…

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    Comment #43063106

    This is planned, and important, and we'll fix it hopefully soon, it's long overdue. I'm sorry this hasn't happened yet, it's always a game of priorities that can never satisfy ever…

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    Comment #42961511

    It does not, it serves no purpose for only listening to music. Producing, broadcasting, or any sort of scenario that require reliable low latency can benefit from a real time kerne…

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    Comment #42863160

    Indeed. I work on the Firefox media stack and we have been grabbing wake locks when video playback is happening for a long time. Occasionally e.g. on some linux desktop variant thi…

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    Comment #42603584

    This is also a technique that was used more than 100 years ago for the line 4 of the Paris métro: https://www.ratp.fr/en/discover/out-and-about/culture/histor...

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    Comment #41026751

    Yes, I use rr all day every day (to record Firefox executions) on a rather recent Threaripper Pro 7950, and also with Pernosco. The rr wiki on GitHub explains how to make it work. …

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    Comment #40918539

    The way this works (and I'm obviously taking a high level view here) is by comparing what is being played to what is being captured. There is an inherent latency in between what is…

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    Comment #40854629

    We've been working on the Web Codecs API for a few years now. It only handles encoding and decoding media codecs, ffmpeg does much more (container handling, filters and everything …

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    Comment #40846929

    I (Firefox developer working on anything media related) got in contact with the dev on Twitter, and he told me that Web Codecs was missing (and we're shipping this in a month or so…

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    Comment #40501804

    ShazamKit, from that fetch the BPM, BPM detection from the mic, compare ?

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    Comment #40332827

    We're aiming to release this half, so in a month or so, on all desktop platforms, mobile will follow shortly after. Then we'll gradually optimize (e.g. enable the use of more hardw…

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    Comment #39876583

    Please open a bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Core&comp... if that's the case, and CC padenot@mozilla.com, I'll have a look next week.

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    Comment #39876573

    about:preferences#privacy, scroll down a bit, it's under "Permissions". You can also adjust it when on the site, using the icon at the left of the URL bar.

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    Comment #38706482

    We've put a dedicated section called Media in about:support, it has decoding capabilities and other things such as audio IO informations. If you find that it is not accurate, e.g. …

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    Comment #38611784

    If you want to know the media decoding capabilities of a Web Browser, you can use the MediaCapabilities API. In Firefox, when flipping the "resist fingerprinting" flag, it's spoofe…

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    Comment #38133638

    Raspberry Pi have had hardware decoder for h264 for as long as they've existed (I think?), but dropped in the most recent version. I don't understand why. They've recently contribu…

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    Comment #38103077

    taskkill /F firefox.exe or something like that.

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    Comment #38088577

    Firefox developer here. There are a few ways to diagnose this, depending on your setup. If everything is frozen on Linux, it's probably the parent process that is having an issue. …