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neckro23

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8 dagen geledendiscuss

The layering of compression really does get you. I've noticed (both in "Plexamp in my car" and "playing music on Twitch" contexts) that using a FLAC source makes an audible difference, even compared to a high-bitrate MP3 source.

This might seem pretty obvious, but I wasn't expecting it to matter as much since the end result was compressed again (and yet again on my car's Bluetooth) using a different codec.

This isn't on anything close to audiophile gear either. My car stereo is thoroughly mediocre and my home stereo is speakers I literally found in the trash.

Now I'm (belatedly) rebuilding my music collection in FLAC...

14 dagen geledendiscuss

The 4k remasters of the classic Cameron films look awful. It's like someone cranked the denoise filter up to 200 and left it there.

4 maanden geledendiscuss

Pretty much all dramatic American TV shows were shot on film (at 24 fps) before the digital camera era. It's why so many old shows (ex. Star Trek TNG) are now available as HD remasters, they simply go back and rescan the film.

It's more complicated in other countries (the BBC liked to shoot on video a lot) but it was standard practice in the States.

7 maanden geledendiscuss

Sure it is. Smart watches even do it using the simplest possible “camera” (an LED).

7 maanden geledendiscuss

At least for the PC versions of Vice City and San Andreas, the originals are missing the music too. A bunch of licenses expired 10 years after release and the Steam releases got updated accordingly.

8 maanden geledendiscuss

Milkdrop and Project M are both available as vis plugins for Foobar2k, on Windows at least: https://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_vis_milk2

9 maanden geledendiscuss

Also one of the first DOS games that had Amiga-module-style music (mixed samples) instead of Adlib or MIDI. This later evolved into the UMX system used in Unreal and Deus Ex.

9 maanden geledendiscuss

Psst, you can get uBlock Origin (lite) for Safari now. Works pretty well.

10 maanden geledendiscuss

Soulseek is still around (somehow) and thriving. Of course on there, discovery is more or less "check out the library of this person who had something you were looking for".

10 maanden geledendiscuss

The GEP gun is ironically the pro choice to make if you know what you’re doing. All of the other weapons on offer can be found in the first level, and the GEP works as a fantastic “lockpick” even if you never fire it in anger.

11 maanden geledendiscuss

Original iPods (and early iPhones) weren’t locked down as much. There were a number of utils that could manage your library. ml_ipod plugin for WinAmp comes to mind.

11 maanden geledendiscuss

Outside of a private tracker (which takes measures to keep random untracked peers from getting on the torrent), not really. Individual seeder clients can detect bad behavior like leeching and ban by IP, but each torrent is likely to have a different seeding pool.

So the penalty is mostly just on individual torrents. Of course, trying to pull something like this on a private tracker would get you banned real fast...

11 maanden geledendiscuss

Not necessarily. A lot of video software either leverages the Windows/MacOS system codecs (ex. Media Player Classic, Quicktime) or proprietary vendor codecs (Adobe/Blackmagic).

Linux doesn't really have a system codec API though so any Linux video software you see (ex. VLC, Handbrake) is almost certainly using ffmpeg under the hood (or its foundation, libavcodec).

12 maanden geledendiscuss

In my experience it works ok. The "English" model actually knows a lot of languages and will translate directly to English.

You can also transcribe it to Japanese and use a translator to convert to English. This can sometimes help for more semantically complex dialogue.

For example, using faster-whisper-xxl [1]:

Direct translation:

    faster-whisper-xxl.exe --language English --model large-v2 --ff_vocal_extract mdx_kim2 --vad_method pyannote_v3 --standard <input>

Use Japanese, then translate:

    faster-whisper-xxl.exe --language Japanese --task translate --model large-v2 --ff_vocal_extract mdx_kim2 --vad_method pyannote_v3 --standard <input>

1. https://github.com/Purfview/whisper-standalone-win

12 maanden geledendiscuss

Pre-processing with a vocal extraction model (bs-rofomer or similar) helps a lot with the hallucinations, especially with poor quality sources.

vorig jaardiscuss

The Vista-style minimize/maximize icons on the inner windows look way out of place, and the style changes entirely when I maximize. Can't seem to minimize a window either.

Windows 10 is applying smooth scrolling to the windows, which I can disable in Performance Options but you might want to override the setting. Waiting for the scrolling to catch up is pretty at odds with the "fast, lightweight" aesthetic you're going for.

vorig jaardiscuss

Silent films used several different speeds. The rest are for telecines.

vorig jaardiscuss

No tracker necessary, you can just use DHT: https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/

vorig jaardiscuss

You could do this with any terminal program. Your modem won't emit any noise until it hears a carrier tone, so you could just dial, pick up the extension, hang up the modem.

vorig jaardiscuss

Android is overwhelmingly preferred by working-class people, in my experience. The phones are simply cheaper.