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Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Post by germinalphrase »

symlinkk wrote: post #85
brownbat wrote: post #54

I often wonder if archivists are out there somewhere, armed with HandBrake, ripping every DVD they can find into a digital format for preservation beyond the life of the disc. I've been fascinated with some projects that have tried to recreate the original theater experience of the original Star Wars,[0] or groups trying to capture classics that influenced Chinese cinema but haven't been widely reproduced, like Red H…

yeah they're all here: https://passthepopcorn.me/

How well do these trackers prevent - rather than invite - legal prosecution for their users?

Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Post by aianus »

JshWright wrote: post #78
Hyperized wrote: post #14

Don't use SHA-1 please.

Verifying a downloaded file doesn't require a cryptographically secure hash function...

Of course it does, otherwise a malicious mirror can (theoretically) work to find a collision between their malware and the legitimate file and serve you the former.

There's no good reason not to use a secure hash function.

Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Post by dahart »

snvzz wrote: post #89
dahart wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can imagine bunches of possibilities. Paging can make things hard to predict, especially when multiple programs are allocating memory, but it doesn't make the system non-deterministic, nor does it make hitting the same physical address impossible. One possibility is that he didn't restart the program between retries, and the memory in question was already allocated. Another possibility is that he only ran handbrake…

> but it doesn't make the system non-deterministic Actually, it does. It's possible to calculate WCET involving ram accesses, as the behaviour is deterministic; there's a set latency. It's not possible whenever SWAP is involved, which is why most of the realtime world simply avoids swap. This is mentioned in the Genode handbook, if you're willing to dig into it more.

I guess I need to clarify I was talking about read/write location determinism, and not timing. Timing could affect things, but it also might not. The question is only whether the same bit was touched, not whether the entire system state is identical in every aspect.

I assumed that swap wasn't involved, and I was even going to mention it but decided against. While it is remotely possible, there's not much reason to suspect swap, Handbrake was actively running, doesn't normally use enough memory to start swapping, and people ripping DVDs usually know not to be doing other things and/or using all their memory while ripping.

That said, are you saying swap in the OS really is non-deterministic by design, or just hard to predict? And what does Genode have to do with this, assuming he wasn't using Genode?

Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Post by rodgerd »

ldjb wrote: post #80
walterbell wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the best software for lossless archival ripping?

I have used DVD Decrypter [0] (unfortunately Windows-only) to make ISOs from DVDs. All the menus are retained, so I can still access special features (image galleries, character profiles, etc.). I also hear good things about MakeMKV [1], which apparently allows some sort of lossless ripping of video files (I haven't used it, so I cannot confirm this), although the MKV format does not support menus. [0] https://en.wik…

I'll second DVD Decrypter. I archive DVDs with that, then use handbrake to pull all the useful bits (the film and special features, or programs in the case of TV series) for Kodi.

Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Post by citruspi »

eximius wrote: post #66
brownbat wrote: post #54

I often wonder if archivists are out there somewhere, armed with HandBrake, ripping every DVD they can find into a digital format for preservation beyond the life of the disc. I've been fascinated with some projects that have tried to recreate the original theater experience of the original Star Wars,[0] or groups trying to capture classics that influenced Chinese cinema but haven't been widely reproduced, like Red H…

Streaming doesn't stop it, you just record your screen. It's not perfect, but it works. DRM is dumb.

> Streaming doesn't stop it, you just record you let screen

Not necessarily, see HDCP.

Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Post by symlinkk »

germinalphrase wrote: post #111
symlinkk wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yeah they're all here: https://passthepopcorn.me/

How well do these trackers prevent - rather than invite - legal prosecution for their users?

they don't really do much of anything to prevent legal prosecution. they're only still around because they're relatively small, invite-only communities. if it ever went public it would get shut down in a day.

Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Post by Veratyr »

junto wrote: post #5

I love Handbrake. It's my goto for video transcoding. I often download stuff for my children from YouTube using a YouTube downloader, and then transcode them to the ideal iPad format, so the children can watch stuff in the car on the iPad without an internet connection. Great for long trips.

If you get YouTube Red (which also saves the kids from ads), you also get offline support built into the mobile app. Just in case you weren't aware.

Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Post by shiftpgdn »

javajosh wrote: post #108
germinalphrase wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I once knew of a group like this. eventually, thy disappeared - but it was the most wonderful way to access otherwise unavailable arthouse and experimental cinema. I miss it.

I'm curious: how did they meet? Secure irc?

Look up the history of what.cd

Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Post by Fnoord »

javajosh wrote: post #108
germinalphrase wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I once knew of a group like this. eventually, thy disappeared - but it was the most wonderful way to access otherwise unavailable arthouse and experimental cinema. I miss it.

I'm curious: how did they meet? Secure irc?

(I'm not OP)

Experienced the same. I never got into this via IRC. My main thing was music genres, but also on the side quite some non-fiction(documentaries), and a few fiction. I met some awesome people on Soulseek and went from there into DCPP and FTP. This was around 2007-9. DCPP being the frontend for the users. It was a gentlemen's club and from there you just meet different people who see your collection and who invite you into different circles. Back then, there was an auto trader app written in Java, using self signed SSL certificates (w/o pinning). I never understood why they didn't just use rsync over SSH, but it takes more than 1 person to change such habits.

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