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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 July 31, 2022    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 July 31, 2022    1 Comment 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 »

General   

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

steve    March 25, 2019 July 31, 2022    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 »

Databases, Multimedia   

My first AMV hardware player!

steve    September 1, 2018 September 1, 2018    No Comments on 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 »

Multimedia   

my first attempts at libsdl

steve    May 21, 2018 May 21, 2018    No Comments on 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 »

DVDs, Linux, Multimedia   

life of a linux multimedia nerd … it’s fun

steve    February 21, 2018 February 21, 2018    No Comments on 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 »

Gentoo, Multimedia   

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