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in search of lost treasure: tmnt 2007 film score

steve    February 22, 2022 February 22, 2022    No Comments on in search of lost treasure: tmnt 2007 film score

It’s no surprise that I’m a collector. I’ve got a ton of cool stuff that I’ve picked up ever since I was a teenager. Some stuff though is pretty hard… Read more »

Movies, Soundtracks   

disney’s the black cauldron on blu-ray

steve    September 20, 2021 October 17, 2021    No Comments on disney’s the black cauldron on blu-ray

It’s not often that I get a Blu-ray version of such a old film, especially one that could be considered a black sheep somewhat. Disney has been releasing a lot… Read more »

Movies   

voltron: defender of the archives

steve    February 2, 2021 September 20, 2021    1 Comment on voltron: defender of the archives

I was at the store tonight and decided to buy the complete series of Voltron, one of the few cartoons of my childhood… that I didn’t like. There weren’t a… Read more »

DVDs   

backing up “broken” dvds

steve    June 15, 2020 June 15, 2020    No Comments on backing up “broken” dvds

In my long chain of processes that are in place to rip DVDs and get the episodes I want, when I insert one into my disc tray, I have a… Read more »

DVDs, Multimedia   

upgraded bluray drives and first 4k content

steve    June 4, 2020 June 4, 2020    No Comments on upgraded bluray drives and first 4k content

I have two Blu-ray drives that have been around for years. I was dorking around last week and doing some research into LibreDrive which MakeMKV (the software I use to… Read more »

Blu-rays, Movies, Multimedia   

researching and re-encoding VC-1 blu-rays

steve    May 16, 2020 November 3, 2021    No Comments on researching and re-encoding VC-1 blu-rays

I started looking this week at my Blu-rays that have VC-1 for video. I mentioned it on Twitter earlier this week, because my devices (Sony TV, and Nvidia Shield) don’t… Read more »

Blu-rays, Multimedia   

beandog’s media bin: ffcompare and mpvcompare

steve    April 30, 2020 April 30, 2020    No Comments on beandog’s media bin: ffcompare and mpvcompare

When I’m doing QA on my media encodes, it helps a lot to compare the outcome against the original DVD source. ffmpeg can handle it pretty easy: ffplay -an -sn… Read more »

Multimedia   

bullwinkle’s how to title titles, or, sqlite in plex for fun and panic

steve    April 24, 2020 November 3, 2021    No Comments on bullwinkle’s how to title titles, or, sqlite in plex for fun and panic

I’ve been going through my entire cartoon library and re-encoding stuff because I’ve done a lot of QA on what looks best for encodes (more on that in another blog… Read more »

Cartoons, Databases, Multimedia, Plex   

yet another blog reboot

steve    April 23, 2020 November 3, 2021    No Comments on yet another blog reboot

I’ve thought about starting my blog up again a couple of times over the past few months, and I think I’m going to give it at try. There’s a lot… Read more »

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selecting the best bluray audio codec in postgres through sql order by statements

steve    March 25, 2019 March 25, 2019    No Comments on selecting the best bluray audio codec in postgres through sql order by statements

Today’s adventure in coding was to continue to moving Blu-ray support into my DVD ripper software. The next step was getting the priority audio codecs that I wanted when remuxing… Read more »

Blu-rays, Databases, Multimedia   

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