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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
kind of.
He mostly left because of bullying. Just posting video updates and rare posts.
Who the fuck is bullying this guy? I will round up a goddamn posse, Alec is a treasure.
Fediverse being fediverse.
For large accounts it's a genuine toxic cesspit.
Scroll back to a year ago and you can regularly see posts from him where he calls people out.
small sample from just scrolling through:
https://mas.to/@TechConnectify/112995372890737651
https://mas.to/@TechConnectify/112995177480955078
But that's just the stuff he openly shows
Thats just social media.
Which is why social media shouldnt exist. cause its not good for anyones health.
How is this bullying not moderated? That just seems weird. I've always felt Mastodon kinda fails at moderation in this aspect. He should go to Lemmy instead.
Lemmy is bully central if you don’t just go with the echo chamber lol
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His Bluesky is also a delight
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Piracy has none of these problems.
Once again, playing by the rules is a worse experience.
It really depends on the ripper. I'd say 9/10 times captions are included on most of my downloads.
It's that 10th one that is super annoying and I have to wait for jellyfin to download them one by one from open subtitles.
As a ripper myself for one of the internal groups, both DVDs and Blu rays have this annoying thing where they include the subtitles in image format (PGS for BRs, forgot what the DVD one was). It’s a headache for the rippers and encoders because we then need to OCR the subtitles for the encodes we put out there. Sometimes if we get lucky the movie is on a streaming platform making this process obsolete as we grab the .vtt files from the streaming service and sync it with the BR we’re making (as well as transforming it to .srt) . My only assumption as to why MPAA decided on image format subs for both DVDs and BRs is because it makes it easy to deal with different languages and the likes, you just display a static image and fk everything else. But for the people putting out quality releases if we ship PGS that means we’re just doing a bad job.
Support your fav trackers (and their internals!)
I spent my college days ripping and manually correcting OCR'd subtitles for more movies than I care to count in the early 2000s. Do you mean to say I could have monetized it?
Also, fuck lower case Ls and upper case is
Highly doubt you can monetize it. Most groups do it as a hobby because they care about preservation. Internal groups don’t lack the time or storage space. What we do lack is dedicated BluRay rippers from distant regions.
Oh damn, I had no idea that's why a lot of movies had OCR issues with my subtitles. I knew the information, and I had this problem, but I never put it together to realize that it had to be OCRd.
Thank you for your service.
Unsung hero right here.
I rip for my personal collection/data hoarding and was surprised to learn how much of a pain PSG subs are. I figured I just had HandBrake configured wrong until I started looking into it.
Yeah, really makes you wonder if it’s by design as some sort of evil anti piracy measure.
dvd should be VOBSUB
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ownership of media is getting left behind.
Legal ownership, that is
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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.
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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.
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I like putting the thing in the thing
Me too.
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
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I kind of love that about his videos. I scoff at the time, but then start the video and next thing I know it’s a half hour later and I’ve learned something in a surprising amount of depth.
I like a world where not everything needs to be 5 minute videos. Some things can be longer form.
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Yeh that half hour video could have been 5 minutes. Never seen him before but enjoyed his style and how he explains things, but it felt like he said the same thing over and over again 6 times.
I enjoy his work but it can get excessively long winded at times. Not necessarily five minutes but tighter for sure.
How else could you somehow talk about heat pumps in a completely unrelated video if it wasn't a little too long winded?
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 ~~million~~ billion 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.
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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).
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