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~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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pagancow posted:

lol look at the epic card list you get to choose from for suported cuda cards in 10.8.2

GeForce 200 series:
GTX 285 for MAC

GeForce 100 series:
GT 120

GeForce 8 series:
8800 GT

Quadro series:
4000 for Mac

Quadro FX series:
FX 5600, FX 4800 for MAC

only 3 of those cards will give you a framerate boost with MPE with frame sizes over 1920x1080

OS X NV support includes 5x0 and 6x0 series now. of course I wouldn't be surpised if adobe conveniently ignores that

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~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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star wars is the far away galaxy
star trek in in this galaxy

get it right, geez

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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pagancow posted:

except broadcast is like 15-20mbps and game discs are lucky if they are 6 or 7mbps.

Also it's like mpeg-2 where it does good in some things and worse in others.

Full motion video with grain is one of the things it does worse in. Anything high motion is worse.

what kind of utopia broadcasts at that high a quality?

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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pagancow posted:

This is because the GPUs inside older PCs can actually handle avc 4.1 video totally in hardware while the ones in the MBPs can't

the gpu itself probably can but apple was lazy as poo poo for a longass time and only supported hardware acceleration of h.264 video on very certain gpus and only in quicktimeX

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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~Coxy posted:

the gpu itself probably can but apple was lazy as poo poo for a longass time and only supported hardware acceleration of h.264 video on very certain gpus and only in quicktimeX

Just had a go at playing a 5.2 mbit 1080p h.264 .mp4 file in quicktimeX and something called "VTDecoderXPSService" was using 23-28% of a core, so hardware acceleration is definitely not working on System 10.8.2 with a NVidia GTX580.

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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spankmeister posted:

I don't have a subwoofer because my mains can do all LFE stuff easy.

~my bass management~

i have a subwoofer and when i play rock band loudly my dog will whine at it continuously

dunno if it's due to Dolby Pro Logic I limitations or just a bad setup

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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pagancow posted:

On Mac OS:

Quicktime X i guess because it plays h264 with hardware acceleration


only in very certain circumstances

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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an Apple Cinema Display fried my first pc mobo

probably gigabyte's fault rather than apple's but I've never plugged that firewire plug into anything since...

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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Install Gentoo posted:

1080p over component isn't very reliable. you need tight quality control and poo poo so tv makers just go "if they want loving 1080p they'd be usign hdmi anyway" and call it good enough

nah, it's probably more about the drm than anything
and like someone else said, they can save $0.03 by using the lovely slow version of whatever ADC

they sold like 50 million xboxes that could do 1080p over component just fine

~Coxy fucked around with this message at 08:08 on May 13, 2013

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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open up your old monitor and check for bulging/leaky caps

had to fix my gf's one a few months ago, google the model number of the PSU board and you can get a kit of caps on ebay for a few bucks

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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assuming it's not an apple cinema display then opening it up oughtn't to be that hard
monitors are still relatively serviceable.

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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makeMKV

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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quick everyone link your star trek folder info dialogs again

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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Moist von Lipwig posted:

honestly don't know why you wouldn't just use a ps3 for your blurrys at this point, it just works


because it's still 300 freaking bucks

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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is there a way I can make both my Apple Cinema Displays vaguely the same brightness and colour cast

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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I use VGA on my xbox 360 because it's the only way to get authentic 4:3 resolutions

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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Detroit Q. Spider posted:

what kind of tv/monitor are u using

my projector is 1024x768 native resolution (lol) so there's no point piping 720 or 1080 to it as you'd be scaling the framebuffer twice and using less of the actual pixels on the DLP to display the picture

Detroit Q. Spider posted:

euros are just used to high squeaky voices i guess

I doubt you could tell the difference in voice pitch but if they play a song that you know well then you'd definitely notice that something is wrong

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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chumpchous posted:

use a go pro you idiots

is there a go pro without a wide angle lens baked on yet?

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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so is MOV anyway

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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pseudorandom name posted:

it's literally the equivalent of firewire


not even that.

pcs actually had firewire, and you could go down to a random PC computer store and buy firewire cards and peripherals

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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Install Windows posted:

enabling write caching by default on removable drives is dumb as hell, sorry.

microsoft made the smart, consumer focused move; aple continues using a dumb thing that both nextstep and mac os classic did.


I actually agree with you on this but the point is that if you plug in your SD card or whatever and copy files off it then you haven't written anything to the disk and you won't lose any data even if you yank it straight outta there

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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pagancow posted:

except mac os tries to re-arrange data on drives all the time without telling you for performance

just so they can claim they dont have a defrag utility

only on HFS+ volumes, so again what you claimed doesn't actually happen

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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Wheany posted:

what, really?

not anymore but for a long time there they were trying to nickel-and-dime you to get full screen and export features

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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Instant Grat posted:

my home theater setup is a 360 connected with component to my tv because the hdmi port on the tv is hosed and sound doesn't work thru it

whenever i want to watch anything on it i've downloaded i gotta transcode the audio from whatever 1576 kbps DTS hell to 2ch LC-AAC and remux the thing to mp4

jerryrigged supremacy

I have my HTPC and 360 connected via HDMI but then the TV passes Pro-Logic I to my receiver over red and white RCA cables :negative:

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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Detroit Q. Spider posted:

you dont have an optical or coax digital out from any of these devices?

I think my receiver might be too old for that, I should double-check

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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Detroit Q. Spider posted:

jfc, time for a new receiver


even ones from the mid-late 90s have digital audio inputs. surround models should for sure

yeah must have been a cheap model.
couldn't find a year of manufacture on it but it has an input for DVD players so late 90s at the earliest, probably early 2000s

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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pagancow posted:

Also lol I forgot to add to my VLC story, the guy had the volume at 175% and I was like freaking out thinking I hosed up the audio mix somehow.

Nope turns out VLC can do over 100% volume and it just raises the level and everything that goes past 0dB fs, gently caress it.

He didn't think anything of it. Wtffffff

VLC is quiet as poo poo (on OS X anyway, not sure about windows) so I have to leave it on 400% all the time

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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doesn't bluetooth audio use it?

also some silly 3gpp standard I think

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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pagancow posted:

H.264 is totally patent encumbered so any binary of x264 is totes illegal in the us because you haven't paid a license for it.


just because you might technically be able to be sued for something doesn't make it illegal

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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ahmeni posted:

learn python so you don't spend all your time with language learning and spend more time just doin actual things

please don't do a p-lang

(you barely need to learn any language features on C# anyway. you will pickup the advanced stuff organically over time)

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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pagancow posted:

" i can't do gpu accelerated h264 decodin" - a shameful codec warrior

-- any mac pro user

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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ahmeni posted:

I'm having a hard time getting into c# but i can see why it's such a nice language
come to Sydney for a drat drink already

I just burnt literally all the annual leave I have and more, so it might be a whole but I might go over east to visit the rellies and check out sydney again next year

especially if they have IPSC nationals 2014 in NSW then we'll definitely come over

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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pagancow posted:


Arri Alexa could probablly make it work at 14+ stops dr

porn star or camera?

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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weede catte posted:

what is the FLAC of video

Pixlet

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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Share Bear posted:

if i want to put all my dvds in a box in the closet and encode them for streaming via ps3 media center or whatever, what's the best thing to do? scene h264 encode everything?

just rip one every time you want to watch it

i'll bet after a few years you'll only have rewatched a couple of dvds but think of all the time you'll have saved

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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pagancow posted:

imma let you finsish but the xbox with XBMC was the best media device ever made

that ancient version of XBMC was way better than the poo poo we have now
if the xbox1 could play HD video I'd still be using them instead of the HTPCs

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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4K footage at 6 mbps h.264

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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one simple math trick discovered by a single mom to compress homer simpson's face
korean animators hate her!

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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ACanofPepsi posted:

wonder if the radius group ever has conferences to discuss releasing a new standard

why is mp3 an audio container but mp4 is video? who made that wacky call??

didn't radius (actually supermac) sell cinepak to adobe or someone in the early 90s

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~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

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hmm it's not explicitly stated but maybe

quote:

SuperMac, was working on a NuBus-based video digitizer called VideoSpigot and their own codec, which they called Cinepak. The board came with a program called ScreenPlay that was used to capture video and play it back. SuperMac wanted to give their customers a program to do some simple editing, in addition to capturing and playing back video. Randy Ubellios, who worked for SuperMac at that time, wrote a program called ReelTime for use with files created by ScreenPlay and VideoSpigot. ReelTime did not control the digitizer but it could take files created by ScreenPlay and could do cuts and transitions and put them together, display the result, and write it to disk. ReelTime was meant to be bundled with the VideoSpigot, but SuperMac was a hardware company. They needed their customers to have a program like this, but they didn't need to be the ones to sell and maintain it. There were lots of potential buyers for ReelTime, but it ended up selling to Adobe and becoming their first video software product. It was renamed Adobe Premiere, and was bundled with the VideoSpigot and available alone starting at the end of 1991.

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