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 »
Author Archives: steve
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »