Monthly Archives: July 2006
147 episodes a day
Much to my surprise, I had a few people ask me how my encoding adventures were coming along. I wrote a blog post earlier about it, but I didn’t like it that much, so I set it to private. I … Continue reading
Filed under Computers, MPlayer, Multimedia
i'm only happy when it rains
I woke up this morning, and it was raining. I love the rain. It’s one of Mother Nature’s nicer way of cleaning things up. It makes the air nice and cool, and there are breezes that just make you feel … Continue reading
Filed under General
absolute insanity
Uncle Scrooge always had a great saying that he said someone taught him — “Work smarter, not harder.” Gosh, I still remember that Duck Tales episode from fifteen years ago or so. Now that’s crazy. That’s what I’m doing though … Continue reading
Filed under bend / dvd2mkv, Computers, MPlayer, Multimedia, Transcode
aspect ratios
A comment on yesterday’s blog entry got me thinking and doing some research about how the aspect ratios work, and something finally clicked. I finally understand how it works. The video aspect ratio isn’t just a simple calculation of height/width, … Continue reading
Filed under Computers, MPlayer, Multimedia
rambling about encoding
Well, I’ve finally settled into an encoding configuration that is presentable enough to use on most everything. It’s not the best, but it’s acceptable, and looks good on my TV, and I’m tired of not doing any encoding lately … … Continue reading
Filed under Computers, MPlayer, Multimedia, Transcode
so, did I just waste another three weeks of research?
I’m still doing testing on what works best for what series so I can rip and encode them all (which, there is an awful lot), and tonight I started playing around with mencoder. The thought occurred to me … why … Continue reading
Filed under Computers, MPlayer, Multimedia, Transcode
more fun with framerates
Well, I found a way to convert a video from variable framerate to a standard one, and it’s actually pretty simple. Not only that, I found the example about it on transcode’s wiki entry for Matroska. Obviously the last place … Continue reading
Filed under Computers, Multimedia, Transcode
transcoding cartoons
I’ve been very cautious about posting any progress reports about my transcoding adventures, because the arguments I use keep changing while I test things. In fact, I deleted the last two posts about transcode because I later proved myself to … Continue reading
Filed under Computers, Multimedia, Transcode
online board games
I figured I should post this in case anyone is interested. I went looking for an online version of Monopoly the other day. I knew it was around somewhere since I had played it before, but it was hard to … Continue reading
Notes: variable framerate
I’m having the hardest time getting things to work right with encoding variable framerate DVDs, so I’m going to do a braindump on this page and update it as I find stuff out. Please feel free to e-mail me and … Continue reading
Filed under Computers
