Sunday, 23 July 2017

How to install Ubuntu 17.04 on Dell XPS 15 9550

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I had some trouble installing Ubuntu 17.04 to dual-boot with Windows 10 on my Dell XPS 15 9550, so documenting here in case it helps others...
Saturday, 20 December 2014

Firefox video playback's skip-to-next-keyframe behavior

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One of the quirks of Firefox's video playback stack is our skip-to-next-keyframe behavior. The purpose of this blog post is to document...
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Wednesday, 19 February 2014

How to prefetch video/audio files for uninterrupted playback in HTML5 video/audio

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Sometimes when you're playing a media file using an HTML5 <video> or <audio> element, or with WebAudio, you really want to ...
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Tuesday, 3 December 2013

Why does the HTML fullscreen API ask for approval after entering fullscreen, rather than before?

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The HTML fullscreen API is a little different from other JS APIs that require permission, in that it doesn't ask permission before ente...
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Sunday, 24 November 2013

The rise and fall of Movie Rotator

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Several years ago my Dad came to me and asked me how to rotate a video he'd recorded on his camera. He'd turned the camera sideways...

Changing a failed mSATA hard disk in an HP Spectre XT Ultrabook

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The hard drive on wife's HP Spectre XT Envy Ultrabook died last weekend. Once we ran scandisk on it we realised it had about 20% bad se...
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Wednesday, 13 November 2013

What does the H.264/avc1 codecs parameters for video/mp4 mime types mean?

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The HTMLMediaElement.canPlayType() API enables you to query what video formats a user agent can play. For "video/mp4", the contai...
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