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Re: What you need to know before touching a video file

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Post by jdprgm »

Just writing off AI upscaling completely is bs. It's not some magic bullet to use on every video and there is a learning curve on how to apply but there are absolutely scenarios where you can get shockingly good results. I think a lot of people make judgements on it based on super small sample sizes.

On a separate note also not mentioned llm's are really good at generating ffmpeg commands. Just discuss with chatGPT your source file and goals for a video and you can typically oneshot a targeted command even if you aren't familiar with ffmpeg cli.

Re: What you need to know before touching a video file

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Post by perching_aix »

nticompass wrote: post #130
Drybones wrote: post #116

Nearly this entire HN comment section is upset about VLC being mentioned once and not recommended. If you can not understand why this very minor (but loud?) note was made, then you probably do not do any serious video encoding or you would know why it sucks today and is well past its prime. VLC is glorified because it was a video player that used to be amazing back in the day, but hasn't been for several years now. I…

MPC-HC is still a thing? I remember installing that (and K-Lite Codec Pack) on Windows, back in the day. Haven't used, or even thought about MPC-HC in years.

Yes: https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc

Re: What you need to know before touching a video file

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Post by hhh »

BitsAndObjects wrote: post #31
jamesnorden wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't believe it's the case anymore, but it was very common for VLC to cause video corruption (see [1] for example of what it looked like) in the past, the hate just stuck around and I don't think it's ever going away. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/glitch_art/comments/144vjl/vlc_star...

13 years since that post and this is the first time I’m hearing of this long-past issue. Haters gonna hate I guess.

I still have this problem every day.

Re: What you need to know before touching a video file

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Post by ambicapter »

usefulposter wrote: post #124
Drybones wrote: post #116

Nearly this entire HN comment section is upset about VLC being mentioned once and not recommended. If you can not understand why this very minor (but loud?) note was made, then you probably do not do any serious video encoding or you would know why it sucks today and is well past its prime. VLC is glorified because it was a video player that used to be amazing back in the day, but hasn't been for several years now. I…

Many HN readers won't be familiar with the fansub culture that this writeup originates from, so sharing a helpful resource in case anyone is interested in learning more: ENTRY LEVEL FANSUBBERS' BEGINNERS GUIDE: https://github.com/zeriyu/fansub-guide Hope this helps anyone interested in the ancient art of subbing Japanese animes! Be sure to read every link thoroughly, and don't worry, there are more link lists linked…

Wait, so this categorical dismissal of VLC is just coming from a specific fandom community?

Re: What you need to know before touching a video file

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Post by savolai »

Drybones wrote: post #144
savolai wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

-1 tab containers Please elaborate on ”features”. Does chromium have non-google sync?

Chromium based browsers have non-google sync. Vivaldi implements their own encrypted sync service and I believe Brave does as well. But I am talking about browser feature support, not stuff that can supplemented with an extension like a password manager. Firefox has poor support for modern web features including video processing and encoding which makes it very bad at web conferencing/video calls or in-page streaming…

Oh I thought you meant actual chromium browser.

Those seem rather marginal features from my pov but of course once you need them, you need them, I guess.

Re: What you need to know before touching a video file

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Post by M95D »

ambicapter wrote: post #154
usefulposter wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many HN readers won't be familiar with the fansub culture that this writeup originates from, so sharing a helpful resource in case anyone is interested in learning more: ENTRY LEVEL FANSUBBERS' BEGINNERS GUIDE: https://github.com/zeriyu/fansub-guide Hope this helps anyone interested in the ancient art of subbing Japanese animes! Be sure to read every link thoroughly, and don't worry, there are more link lists linked…

Wait, so this categorical dismissal of VLC is just coming from a specific fandom community?

The only one who cares, apparently...

Re: What you need to know before touching a video file

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Post by craftkiller »

leni536 wrote: post #137
craftkiller wrote: post #46

Something I've never been able to find satisfactory information on (and unfortunately this article also declares it out of scope), is what is the actual hard on-the-wire and on-disk differences between SDR and HDR? Like yes, I know HDR = high dynamic range = bigger difference between light and dark, but what technical changes were needed to accomplish this? The way I understand it, we've got the YCbCr that is being c…

I found this explanation useful: https://youtu.be/uMSV4OteqBE?si=QCOL_2_VpE7tBdAu&t=83

Hah, that's exactly how it feels!

Re: What you need to know before touching a video file

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Post by sho_hn »

ambicapter wrote: post #154
usefulposter wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many HN readers won't be familiar with the fansub culture that this writeup originates from, so sharing a helpful resource in case anyone is interested in learning more: ENTRY LEVEL FANSUBBERS' BEGINNERS GUIDE: https://github.com/zeriyu/fansub-guide Hope this helps anyone interested in the ancient art of subbing Japanese animes! Be sure to read every link thoroughly, and don't worry, there are more link lists linked…

Wait, so this categorical dismissal of VLC is just coming from a specific fandom community?

To be fair, it's a fandom community with high requirements and standards toward video players and that really knows its stuff.

Re: What you need to know before touching a video file

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Post by SSLy »

ambicapter wrote: post #154
usefulposter wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many HN readers won't be familiar with the fansub culture that this writeup originates from, so sharing a helpful resource in case anyone is interested in learning more: ENTRY LEVEL FANSUBBERS' BEGINNERS GUIDE: https://github.com/zeriyu/fansub-guide Hope this helps anyone interested in the ancient art of subbing Japanese animes! Be sure to read every link thoroughly, and don't worry, there are more link lists linked…

Wait, so this categorical dismissal of VLC is just coming from a specific fandom community?

VLC also fails playing live action media too, if that clears up anything.

Re: What you need to know before touching a video file

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Post by monster_truck »

Drybones wrote: post #116

Nearly this entire HN comment section is upset about VLC being mentioned once and not recommended. If you can not understand why this very minor (but loud?) note was made, then you probably do not do any serious video encoding or you would know why it sucks today and is well past its prime. VLC is glorified because it was a video player that used to be amazing back in the day, but hasn't been for several years now. I…

Honestly the pastebin link needs to be re-submitted and frontpaged.

I even encounter this in professional a/v contexts! If VLC can read and decode your stream, that's a good sign that most things should able to view it, but it absolutely should not be trusted as any measure of doing things correctly/to spec.

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