It Pays to Try

On Sunday afternoon and into the evening, I learned a very important lesson. I recently uploaded a patch that was supposed to fix the media type user preferences. These prefs allow users to toggle on and off different media types such as OGG, Wave Webm and Raw. I narrowed the…

Diving into the Unknown

In class last week, Humph [http://vocamus.net/dave/] challenged us to not just go about fixing bugs, but to also implement something new. I originally made plans with Dave [http://dseifried.wordpress.com/] and Matt [http://mschranz.wordpress.com/] to get media playback statistics [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_…

OSD700 Release post 3 AKA 0.6

The work I've been doing for the past couple weeks can be found: BugĀ 517363 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=517363] - Preserve video poster aspect ratio when scaling BugĀ 726904 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=726904] - nsVideoFrame::GetVideoIntrinsicSize setting wrong size Bug…

Buggin' Out

As I detailed in my last post [https://chrisdecairos.ca/osd700-release-2.html], I've been hacking on Firefox bug 517363 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=517363]. This bug aims to fix

OSD700 Release 2

Before I get into my work over the past two weeks, Here's links to the code and bugs: GitHub Branch for bug 715323 [https://github.com/cadecairos/mozilla-central/tree/bugs/715323] Bugzilla bug for 715323 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=715323] Github Branch for bug 517363 [https:…

Poster Frame Problems

I've been working all day on firefoxbug 517363 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=517363]. This bug is to fix video poster frame scaling. For example, if you have a video with a 4:3 aspect ratio, but you set the video element to be 500px high and…