Exactly. Couldn't this problem be avoided by just using something like GStreamer for the playback and let it and the OS take care of the codecs? Then you don't have to include anything.
I've tried in in Chrome/WinXP, and the HTML5 version is absolute crap. No significant difference in CPU usage (but as both never get above about 5% it's hard to tell), but the HTML5 version looks awful. The video is completely blocky - small blocks, mind, but so sharply defined that it looks like the video has been painted on canvas.
I get the darn blocks in the Linux version of Chrome too. There's maybe a slight improvement in CPU usage but it's still too high for a good video player. It should be quite on par with something like mplayer.
A proper video overlay should also be used to avoid colorspace conversion in software, which creates this major slowdown when using Flash. Maybe even follow vsync to avoid tearing.
Well, this is all beta stuff anyway. The new player's UI is quite snappy.
The graphics card draws the material in video memory from top to down, then it takes a short pause (vsync) and starts over. Ideally you should write new contents to video memory during this short period to keep things synchronized. If you don't care about vsync you might end up writing a new frame while the graphics card is still drawing the previous one, ending up with an image which has the upper and lower part of two frames.
There indeed are many residual keys on a PC keyboard. The three-button row of SysRq, ScrLk, Break could be eliminated. All locks too. I neither use the numpad or Windows keys, though some people seem to need them.
The Mac keyboard is really nice, pretty much no unnecessary buttons can be found.
But here's a cool idea: make it so that the layout ("language") of a keyboard can be auto-detected. I can't believe this hasn't been implemented yet (or has it?). It's probably possible to add some extra data in the USB signal, for example.
If my mother-in-law's browser suddenly stops working on YouTube, she's not going to go download an HTML5 compliant browser, or click through four layers of "ARE YOU SURE?" warnings on her existing browser to install some mystery plugin. She'll just get angry at YouTube for breaking her cute kitten videos and find some better site with videos that actually work.
Maybe there could be a middle ground? Detect if a browser supporting HTML5 video is found, and if not, fall back to Flash. Simple.
The stuff I quoted - today we have these what I call "meta-diagnoses". Some people might actually medically suffer from these, but they are also slapped around negligently with the basic message "something's wrong in you". It's increasingly hard to distinguish whether they really mean anything or not.
Same thing with the anti-depressants which are distributed like candy. Of course now that we've begun to call mental illness a "disease" it works great for the pharmaceutical companies to sell their crap. Medication for a disease, right. But mostly it's just a wrecked mental state, how can you call that disease?
And that is to blame website developers who use flash for stuff that it ain't needed for. Such as playing video. The video tag works now (not on IE, but lets face it, if you got IE, you got flash) so support it.
Well, it does work but honestly the support is still quite preliminary. But you're right, many sites use Flash only for the video part for which it is quite a hack. HTML5 video is stuff that matters.:)
In late 90s the biggest telephone operator in southern Finland was called HPY. The company had such rates that would allow you to have the first 30 minutes of a call for a fixed price. After that a per-minute rate kicked in. So it was actually a common practice for finns to stay online a bit over 29 minutes at a time, then shout something like "hpy" on BBS/IRC and reconnect. Funny.
I actually recently found a quite interesting technique to avoid a hangover. It basically involves taking cysteine with vitamin C to neutralize acetaldehyde, while drinking. I already did some experimenting and I think there might be something to this.
The guy was a couple of days ago on a Google Tech Talk in which he discussed about other nutrients for the mind too.
Regarding to the using-a-TV solution, one thing worth noting is that unlike monitors, they don't usually have a tilt mechanism. That may be bad for ergonomics. You might end up needing to buy a separate stand which has it.
By the way here is a nice DPI calculator I found one day.
Google makes a lot of use of the out-of-memory (OOM) killer to pare back overloaded systems. That can create trouble, though, when processes holding mutexes encounter the OOM killer. Mike wonders why the kernel tries so hard, rather than just failing allocation requests when memory gets too tight.
This is something I have been wondering too. Doesn't it just lead to applications crashing more often than them normally reporting they cannot allocate more memory?
No, but we certainly have the right to download torrents, which are legal in themselves! They aren't copyrighted material; they are pointers to copyrighted material!
I see it so that the torrent is essentially a virtualization of the copyrighted material and hence the same thing.
Will Slashdot ever learn? Why not coralize these links before posting the article?
Yeah, it should be done. Maybe people get some secret excitement of seeing the server screech down from the requests. And the "slashdot effect" has become a meta-brand of its own...
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Exactly. Couldn't this problem be avoided by just using something like GStreamer for the playback and let it and the OS take care of the codecs? Then you don't have to include anything.
Cool cube and a nice experiment.
How is it powered?
I get the darn blocks in the Linux version of Chrome too. There's maybe a slight improvement in CPU usage but it's still too high for a good video player. It should be quite on par with something like mplayer.
A proper video overlay should also be used to avoid colorspace conversion in software, which creates this major slowdown when using Flash. Maybe even follow vsync to avoid tearing.
Well, this is all beta stuff anyway. The new player's UI is quite snappy.
The graphics card draws the material in video memory from top to down, then it takes a short pause (vsync) and starts over. Ideally you should write new contents to video memory during this short period to keep things synchronized. If you don't care about vsync you might end up writing a new frame while the graphics card is still drawing the previous one, ending up with an image which has the upper and lower part of two frames.
Small judder is also quite common video problem these days.
You would fare well as a KDE developer.
There indeed are many residual keys on a PC keyboard. The three-button row of SysRq, ScrLk, Break could be eliminated. All locks too. I neither use the numpad or Windows keys, though some people seem to need them.
The Mac keyboard is really nice, pretty much no unnecessary buttons can be found.
But here's a cool idea: make it so that the layout ("language") of a keyboard can be auto-detected. I can't believe this hasn't been implemented yet (or has it?). It's probably possible to add some extra data in the USB signal, for example.
Maybe there could be a middle ground? Detect if a browser supporting HTML5 video is found, and if not, fall back to Flash. Simple.
The stuff I quoted - today we have these what I call "meta-diagnoses". Some people might actually medically suffer from these, but they are also slapped around negligently with the basic message "something's wrong in you". It's increasingly hard to distinguish whether they really mean anything or not.
Same thing with the anti-depressants which are distributed like candy. Of course now that we've begun to call mental illness a "disease" it works great for the pharmaceutical companies to sell their crap. Medication for a disease, right. But mostly it's just a wrecked mental state, how can you call that disease?
I don't care that much about e-readers, but hey, getting a laptop that could be viewed under full sunlight is just revolutionary for me.
And that is to blame website developers who use flash for stuff that it ain't needed for. Such as playing video. The video tag works now (not on IE, but lets face it, if you got IE, you got flash) so support it.
Well, it does work but honestly the support is still quite preliminary. But you're right, many sites use Flash only for the video part for which it is quite a hack. HTML5 video is stuff that matters. :)
This is in YouTube too.
And, of course the classic "itsatrap" (which I already promoted).
In late 90s the biggest telephone operator in southern Finland was called HPY. The company had such rates that would allow you to have the first 30 minutes of a call for a fixed price. After that a per-minute rate kicked in. So it was actually a common practice for finns to stay online a bit over 29 minutes at a time, then shout something like "hpy" on BBS/IRC and reconnect. Funny.
I actually recently found a quite interesting technique to avoid a hangover. It basically involves taking cysteine with vitamin C to neutralize acetaldehyde, while drinking. I already did some experimenting and I think there might be something to this.
The guy was a couple of days ago on a Google Tech Talk in which he discussed about other nutrients for the mind too.
I first read it without the last word as that was where the line wrapped...
Actually I think you mean filetype:torrent.
No, there isn't, but it still was the practical outcome.
Regarding to the using-a-TV solution, one thing worth noting is that unlike monitors, they don't usually have a tilt mechanism. That may be bad for ergonomics. You might end up needing to buy a separate stand which has it.
By the way here is a nice DPI calculator I found one day.
In Soviet Russia, 4004 releases details of you!
This is something I have been wondering too. Doesn't it just lead to applications crashing more often than them normally reporting they cannot allocate more memory?
BTW, as an opposite cure, I've used petroleum jelly in ear canals when I've felt they're are dry or low on wax.
No he can't, otherwise he wouldn't be asking here.
Well, can has two meanings...
I see it so that the torrent is essentially a virtualization of the copyrighted material and hence the same thing.
Yeah, it should be done. Maybe people get some secret excitement of seeing the server screech down from the requests. And the "slashdot effect" has become a meta-brand of its own...