Legitimately one of my favourite YouTube channels. Tech deep dives (generally on extremely esoteric topics), sarcasm, and interesting insights.
Alec is also (unsurprisingly) on the Fedi: https://mas.to/@TechConnectify
His Bluesky is also a delight
ownership of media is getting left behind.
Legal ownership, that is
DVDs are getting left behind.
30 years old next year 😭
DVD’s are getting old. Rate of degradation due to manufacturing inperfections is about 1:10 in public library.
I’m surprised VLC fares that badly with CCs encoded this way. Usually it’s pretty good. I’m also now wondering if ffmpeg also shares the same problem
Because of the way those captions are stored VLC has to use OCR to convert the .SRT file (which basically stores low resolution b/w images I assume to easier allow for different alphabets) to normal text. I don’t know why the open source solutions are so bad at this (especially considering how good the proprietary solutions seem to be) but I had similar problems ripping a DVD. I would assume that had he turned off the special font VLC uses for the subtitles and instead just seen the raw data there wouldn’t have been a problem. Why VLC doesn’t enable this by default (/ have this) I don’t know.
This is not about DVD subtitles, which are images as you say. This is about “Line 21” closed captioning. I.E. the text data that is embedded in an analog tv signal. There should be no OCR needed.
There is no .srt in this case. This is also not about bitmap dvd vobsubs.
Man I remember when dvds were a new thing. The sixth sense was the first dvd I ever bought. dvds used to have interactive menus, Easter eggs, multiple behind the scenes documentaries and videos, photos and info on the production. Now you buy a blu ray and it goes straight to the movie, no menu, no features, no bts footage, just the movie and nothing else.
Got to get the special edition for that extra $tuff.
These videos are really interesting but sometimes I really wish they were more concise. I know its his whole thing but damn I want the knowledge.
It’s not just the information for me, he’s also passionate about the stuff that he explores and that comes across in his videos.
Abaolutely, but I have other things to do I end not getting to watch them
In those situations I usually enable 1.5x.
reads meta data 1st We gotta get Alec to show up on William’s chaos ranch for an episode of Farmer’s with Brain Damage. If anyone can get 1
millionbillion Sunflowers to grow in sand and not get eaten by Kevin’s dog it’ll be Alec.Now I’ll watch the video. I’m sure it’s good. It’s always good.
edit: Yep. Interesting.
I think, it’s not very expensive or difficult to find work around solutions to the few people holding onto standard definition media.
There’s two parts to this; the dvd player and the video player in the TV (or if it’s a HDMI player, in the players firmware).
All my DVD’s stopped working when I moved to another country anyway.
There are non-region locked DVD players.
Blu Ray players too. I have a Sony BPX 370, and it will play any (non 3D or 4k) Blu Ray or DVD from anywhere in the world.
I did have one for a while but it broke and DVD isn’t really high enough quality to watch any more anyway. Though I do feel like my PlayStation should play them which it doesn’t.
After watching his video it feels like it was already left behind.
