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.
His Bluesky is also a delight
shouldnt it be @TechConnectify@mas.to ?
Weird. Doesnt work somehow…
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.
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
If you run your own server you can have a look at bazarr.
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.
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.
You’re taking about bringing a man of control and order into that den of chaos and goblinry? I don’t think Alec would enjoy it.
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.
What is the “it” that you think got left behind?
I meant that in the video it’s consistently not worked for a very long time. Seems the switch to HDMI left it behind. While it would be nice if devices supported it like he asked, the fact it was skipped in the HDMI standard and not mandated by law means it’s unlikely devices racing too the bottom line will ever care. And that’s basically what we see. Only the most expensive devices even acknowledge it’s an issue.
That said, I hope VLC devs see his video and improve things. I’m sure it’s more complicated then it seems but it would be cool for them to add that to the ways they’re better than every other player put there.
Honestly, physical media formats in general have been left behind decades ago at this point.
