i am trying to be as thorough as possible but im really excited for people to notice things i overlooked cuz i already thought of two and im not going back to fix it i have to PUSH FORWARD i can SEE boosters tower on the map
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So my PS2 started having trouble with component out. My TV suddenly said the resolution could not be displayed. I figured it was a problem within the ps2 so I got a new one. This one is saying it again. Yet after a bunch of trouble shooting last night, it started working again. Boot up this morning and the issue is back and what I presume to be my solution from last night isnt workingā¦ Now the output doesnt read anything, not even a bad resolution. Pretty safe to assume its the cables at this point. My question I guess is if anyone has thoughts?
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Or possibly a problem with the TV? Iād think that could develop a problem more easily than cables, but I donāt really know.
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two different microsd cards have failed in my rg351v over the past two weeks. is this just a coincidence or could the machine be messing up the cards somehow?
they were two different brands but both acquired around the same time, probably like 3 years old. the most recent one was a samsung that was supposed to be reliable.
any thoughts?
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how do you turn the device off when youāre done? holding power button, or selecting shutdown from the menu? looks like hard power cuts carry a risk of corruption on this device
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i usually shut down the device using the option in the retroarch menu although recently l accidentally hit the hard reset button (why does this exist??) and lost a save file. so maybe thatās it.
also i took the card out and put it back in for like the third time and it miraculously started working again. previously it was just read only, essentially. starting to think this is a hardware issue.
good excuse to look into a new one anyway
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I have an mkv that I want to take a ~30s snippet from, burning the subs, in an output format that an iphone will play. Whatās the least fuss way to do this?
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itās Handbrake
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After a brief moment of confusion because my source video happened to have external subtitles I didnāt move with my working copy hardbrake was perfect, thanks bov
I even installed ffmpeg anticipating a felix answer
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will always be thankful to bov introducing me to handbrake because goddamn thereās no easier way to deal with videos
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hey just remember, Handrabke leaves its dirty fingerprints in your metadata
also I havenāt looked at newer versions but honestly couldnāt tell you if thereās a way to encode at anything other than 4:2:0
if youāre going āwhatās 4:2:0ā, congrats, you donāt have to worry about it
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Might just be me but I find getting Handbrake to format my output in the actual way I want it to a real struggle, ie I just canāt get it to do it, usually. Also, itās REAL slow.
I use the free version of Any Video Converter when I have to reformat videos. Itās pretty easy, although the clip creator UI is slightly less precise than would be ideal. I donāt think it can do everything Handbrake does. Also it crashes sometimes. Iām using an older version, 7.1.8,
https://www.any-video-converter.com/avc-free-7.1.8.exe
because their recent full revamp nerfed the features I actually use or something, canāt remember exactly; oh maybe itās just that it introduced a mandatory super-dumbed-down, super-handholdy workflow that didnāt let me do anything I needed to do, like creating clips and fusing them together.
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Iām at the point where I trust my pool of ffmpeg scripts not to do anything unforeseen more than I do with handbrake
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donāt get me wrong
if Iām taking a ProRes master someone sent because they donāt understand the concept of a deliverable and transcoding it or making a backup from an unencrypted DCP, ffmpeg is the tool (actually I would probably use Da Vinci Resolve with a DCP because I donāt trust myself to properly route the audio stream(s) and now I canāt remember if ffmpeg does proper XYZ->YUV conversion)
if Iām shitposting a webm and I need to trim or burn subs, Iām reaching for Handbrake or Shotcut
thankfully DCPomatic is the only free tool for DCP creation fuckery so the choice is simple there (I would gladly drop 300 bucks on a Resolve license for their DCP support if I knew their output would work on our server ahead of time)
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Exactly my plan for this afternoon once this 100gb download is done.
Is shotcut ok now? I hated it back before I had to start working from home and suddenly had to have Premiere on my home computer anyway.
Shotcut is, for all intents an purposes, an ffmpeg GUI. if you already have a workflow around scripts and you donāt need simple NLE stuff, you can continue getting on by without it. itās pretty much just usable enough, though as someone whose job isnāt editing videos, getting my bearings around Resolve was easy enough that I would default to that (seriously, if I can grok the node-based not-AfterEffects stuff in Resolve, anyone can)
my main use for it is transcoding h265 files in mkv containers I capture in OBS, which big money programs tend to not like because theyāre beholden to the mp4/mxf lobby
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Iām still holding out hope for the name brand NLEās to support ffv1/mkvs. I donāt think I had that in mind last I tried shotcut though. If itās straightforward enough that I can teach totally green students to work with just for that, maybe itās time to update our manual.
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Oh cool, Iāll try not to spend the most time off Iāve had all month this weekend playing around with this too much!
I think I asked a while back for a creative PC CD-Rom game that was not The Incredible Machine. Thanks to older meās forsight I actually did make ISOs of all my pack-in PC games and finally got around to checking that folder. The internet refused to cough up this game, nor the other pack in games Iād gotten with either a Gateway 386 or a Dell Pentium 2 with Windows ME that were the family computers. Anyways presenting The Third Dimension
and just for posterity Pod, Jump Raven, and Lunicus:
Wow all of these games look like I made them up.
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