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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
My first AMV hardware player!
So, I decided to try and find a cheap little MP3 player that could also play videos that I could get for my kid brother, and instead of deciding to… Read more »
down the rabbit hole: my encoding setup
At some point, I really want to detail my entire setup for organizing, cataloging, ripping, encoding, and storing my entire DVD collection, because frankly, it’s kind of cool and it’s… Read more »
my first attempts at libsdl
It’s late, which means two things — first, I should be in bed, and second, I’m writing the coolest code evar. With my little DVD toolkit programs I’ve been writing… Read more »
ways to make upgrading an old gentoo box fun — or at least entertaining
When you think of Gentoo, you think of bleeding edge, right? The latest, greatest and shiniest? Dag straight! Well, you can also be bleeding, as in losing blood and about… Read more »
life of a linux multimedia nerd … it’s fun
I’ve been thinking for a couple of weeks now that maybe it’d be good to post some stuff about multimedia on Linux again. Good for *you* that is, o snap!… Read more »