SmoothLiquidation

@SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Good Night's Rest⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When the mafia finally catches my bass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Late 1900s⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love to say “before the turn of the century” when referring to stuff like 1997.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“They curdle like milk”: WB DVDs from 2006–2008 are rotting away in their cases - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure what you were trying, but this works for me:

  Never use hardware encoding. That is intended for real time transcoding. There are not many settings that work since it is just sending the file to the video card and letting it do its thing.

  Slower is better. If you set the software encoder to very slow it will produce an output that is very high quality per megabyte. I generally don’t care if it takes twice as long to encode it as to watch it. I queue it up and let it run over night.

  Choose the right codec. I like 10 bit HEVC, because I know it will work on the clients I play it from. When you rip a DVD using MakeMKV, the video will be MPEG-2, it was designed in the 1990’s and converting the file to a modern codec will save a lot of space. I don’t reencode 4K UHD rips much since I don’t want to mess with losing the hdr or other color features that I like in watching those files.

  Audio tracks: I will rip out audio for languages I don’t speak, or desctiptive audio track, but go out of my way to label things like director commentaries. I don’t reencode the audio tracks at all, you won’t save much disk space by messing with them compared to the video tracks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My point is you have to pick SOME server to host your account. You are right that most communities are accessible from most servers, but that is where it becomes confusing for someone who just wants to look at memes for a specific fan base.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what that Star Trek server did.

  The problem with that is that you need to make a user on one of those servers. Do you make it on the politics one, or the games one? What happens 3 months later when you realize the server you picked on a whim is full of assholes and gets defederated?

  Do you think an average user at that point would move their subscriptions to a new account or will they get annoyed at the concept?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HDMI 2.2 will require new “Ultra96” cables, whenever we have 8K TVs and content⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  1080p is fine, but I really like the colors of HDR. I am NOT a fan of the higher refresh rate for movies though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NBC created the perfect template for Star Trek to follow with future comedies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a lot of people assume they know what classic trek is about without even watching it. Hence the surprise when they realize that it’s “woke”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm as white as snow but I'm still not white enough to eat this.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hotness aside, I actually prefer the taste of pretty much any pepper over jalapeños.