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Perplx
Jun 26, 2004


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just want to say mkv is trash and the "scene" is stupid for switching from mp4 to mkv for standard def tv shows

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Jun 26, 2004


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Dred_furst posted:

What is wrong with mkv, seems to have a lot more support nowadays, the last amp I bought will quite happily decodes 5.1 flac out of mkv files????

I thought the only advantage it has is that can put a larger variety of stuff into it than mp4?

mkvs are alright for high def movies with dts/atmos tracks and weirdo subs, but standard def tv show are just h.264 video and aac audio that were sourced from mp4 to begin with half the time

mkv dont play in ios, tvos, quicktime, safari, firefox, ie or edge and cannot be imported in finalcut or premiere
also they seek like poo poo and don't show thumbnails on plex on the appletv4

Perplx
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Shaggar posted:

yeah maybe if you're a poor person or something.

a 32" 16:9 has the same screen height as 30"16:10

once you have enough screen height (13"+) and pixel density (retina) the aspect ratio isn't that important

Perplx
Jun 26, 2004


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can we at least agree that ads directed at kids are bad?

Perplx
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linustechtips settled on https://www.epiphan.com/ for their live show after trying blackmagic and a bunch of other, they are also stupid so take it with a grain of salt

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Mr.Radar posted:

the last ac3 patents finally expired so now we're one step closer to viewing and authoring dvds in a fully :rms2:-approved manner (the last mpeg-2 patents expire early next year). also, the last mp3 patent expires next month so you can finally tell turbonerds that ogg vorbis no longer serves any purpose in this world and they can get stuffed for suggesting it (tho thats already been true since opus was standardized...).

i was excited, then i saw that AC4 is part of the ATSC 3.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_AC-4


Lutha Mahtin posted:

do people really store their lossy audio in some turbonerd format instead of mp3 lel

i download flac just to transcode to aac using ffmpeg -c:a libfdk_aac

Perplx
Jun 26, 2004


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you can buy legal flacs, i never did but that's in the past and i just use spotify now

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fishmech posted:

its real bad that tvs still come set up with overscan by default, it looks like real garbo

my tv has uncorrectable overscan, no menu options at all

i did figure out it will display correctly if it has an hdmi signal without sound

so laptop >hdmi cable> TV = overscan with sound
but laptop > displayport to dvi > dvi2hdmi > hdmi cable > TV = no overscan and no sound

Perplx
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wouldn't that be the same as setting your tv to "vivid" or some other bullshit setting

Perplx
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i thought 4:2:2 was bad and 4:4:4 is better because the numbers are bigger

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Perplx
Jun 26, 2004


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if your tv doesn't have displayport just gtfo


65" 4k HDR 120Hz gsync TV's are a thing now

https://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/bfgd-big-format-gaming-display

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