Re: [mediacapture-record] Input width, height MUST be recorded and playable (#172)

@Pehrsons 

> I think you're overanalyzing things.

That is a very interesting statement. How does an individual determine when a subject matter or topic has been overanalyzed? Consider the subject matter of "global warming" or "climate change", where there is no universal consensus among the parties (scientists, policy makers, think tanks, Joe and Jane Does reading the daily fish wrapper).

On the record _Angry Enuff_ by Suga Free there is an instructive line

> Look for lies! Misconduct is at an all-time high too

which can be applied to any field of endeveavor.

A trained eye and the satisfaction of the individual research scientist is required for subject matter to be concluded as overanalyzed. For some research topics it is not possible to overanalyze the data, as no conclusion has yet been reached.

- It would probably be best to overanalyze the programs and math involved in manned space flight rather than to underanalyze the mission. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(software_engineer); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Johnson).

- When setting tile if the surface is cleaned and joints smoothed over what is necessary execessive grout can be removed from the joints, resulting in a weak installation. However, if epoxy grout is used and the surface and joints are not cleaned adequately when dry the epoxy can remain where it should not be visible resulting in unsightly finished job where cleaning epoxy grout off of surfaces of tile or stone, for example, slate, can be a very time consuming if possible at all. In this context there is a case for overanalyzing cleaning surfaces and smoothing joints after setting tile, with the caveat of knowing the material being used to avoid not under cleaning after setting tile or stone.

- If an individual accepted the story of "Betsy Ross sewed the first American flag" the individual would not examine the primary source of that story and vet the account to reach the fact that the Grand Union Flag predates the flag purported to be sewn by Betsy Ross, and further that the Grand Union Flag is identical to the East India Company Flag. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Union_Flag, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company). Further cursory analyzation of the story of Betsy Ross and the first American flag would reveal that what would become the renown Yale University received a gift from Elihu Yale (a former president of the East India Company who was sacked for aggrandizing) for the purposes of procuring a structure for the school. The specific topic of why the fledgling U.S. adopted a flag identical to the pre-existing East India Company flag cannot presently be overanalyzed.  It is simpler to find the official documentation of the meaning of each part of the Confederate States of America national flag than to find any official documentation as to the reason why the U.S. Grand Union Flag (the stripes on the current U.S. flag remain from the Grand Union Flag) is identical to the East India Company flag.

- The reputible institution Smithsonian recently published an article about the theory of human skin adaption (http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/genetics/human-skin-color-variation/modern-human-diversity-skin-color) where in pertinent parts states 
  >  The darker skin of peoples who lived closer to the equator was important in preventing folate deficiency. Measures of skin reflectance, a way to quantify skin color by measuring the amount of light it reflects, in people around the world support this idea. While UV rays can cause skin cancer, because skin cancer usually affects people after they have had children, it likely had little effect on the evolution of skin color because evolution favors changes that improve reproductive success.
  > 
  > There is also a third factor which affects skin color: coastal peoples who eat diets rich in seafood enjoy this alternate source of vitamin D. That means that some Arctic peoples, such as native peoples of Alaska and Canada, can afford to remain dark-skinned even in low UV areas. In the summer they get high levels of UV rays reflected from the surface of snow and ice, and their dark skin protects them from this reflected light.

which taken at face value could be considered to be a plausible theory. However, is the research scientist is not satisfied with the theory presented, they could ask the question if the theory is true and correct is the purported adaption occurring right now? That is, are the control groups of "dark-skinned" people who have resided in Scandanavian or Artic geographical regions for centuries, millenia, over generations, observably "lighter-skinned" and conversely, are "light-skinned" people who have resided in South Africa or Belize for centuries displaying the observable trait of "daker-skin", without the two purported two control groups mating, that is conclusively measurable and reproducible by means of the scientific method?

- Within the field of law, the discipline and codified principles of statutory construction, or determining what each word in a statute or adminsitrative regulation meant when enacted and the contemporaneous meaning, if any, is a very useful means of analyzing any subject matter or topic. If an individual were to accept the construct of "race" has been overanalyzed and that the topic has been settled they would by necessity need to ignore what modern science has to say ([There’s No Scientific Basis for Race—It's a Made-Up Label](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/04/race-genetics-science-africa/)). Further analyzation of the topic of "race" would lead to the fact that if an individual were to _not_ to overanalyze the official documentation they might adopt the definition by the U.S. Census Bureau of "Black or African American", specifically the language "A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa." (https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-1997-10-30/html/97-28653.htm) they could easily by negligence not ask the next logical question: how many "black racial groups of Africa" supposedly exist? Where, only after overanalyzation the answer is conclusively zero; as the only location where that language can be found, in any theory or discipline, is in that single document. Similarly for the definition of "White" in that document, without overanalyzation one might conclude that a geographical region named "North Africa" and "Middle East" actually exists, without asking precisely where "North Africa" and "Middle East" are, as neither is a de jure nation-state capable of being unambiguosly mapped using latitude and longitude; they exist merely as fictions in peoples minds who do not overanalyze topics. For example, no "Black" or "White" people officially exist in Germany or France. That particular thread is particularly in need of overanalyzation, where "White" and "Black" are classes invented relatively recently for a specific purpose: Project MUSE -  Working Definitions: Race, Ethnic Studies, and Early American Literature  "The idea of race came into being as a means of organizing social relations in order to establish and maintain political and economic domination." https://t.co/Elxc5Q64NL; the details of which (the invention of "race") have thoroughly vetted and is far too elaborate to detail here, though suffice to say, without overanalyzing the subbject matter would not have reached where there is no place to go other than concluding the fact that those inventions are one of the most, if not the most, horrendous contraption ever to be devised (which exists in individuals' minds when they do not overanalyze what they have been trained to not analyze at all, or to stop when others say stop because your analysis is contrary to what they believe, is unsettling to them, or they simply despise what you say "Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech. -Noam Chomsky").

- Relevant to coding and overanalyzation: How do you know when you have reached `EOF`?  Without overanalyzation of what actually is occurring, as oppossed to what is specified (or not) to occur would not have found these two bugs https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1311823,  Without overanalyzation of what actually is occurring, as oppossed to what is specified (or not) to occur would not have found these two bugs https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1311823, https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=816095.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=816095.
Re the `MediaRecorder` specification (and actual implementation at browsers) and containers, codecs available with the code shipped with the browser, the fact is that Firefox supports only WebM and VP8 and Opus and Ogg. The official response from Firefox following request for including additional codecs is linked above. If that has changed, or is in the process of changing, kindly link to the document which states that.



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