I seem to be spending a lot of my time on this here blawg yelling at people and telling them what they shouldn’t be doing or shouldn’t be using. I see no reason to discontinue this since it’s low-effort writing, likely to piss at least someone off and is in the best interests of everyone.
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So you’re doing a Bluray rip, you open the m2ts, and you see over 9000 audio tracks sitting there. You probably go “…” and then you… No. Stop. Did you just pick something with DTS in the name? Danger, Will Robinson! Stop right there!
DTS FLASHFACTS:
It is a lossy codec
It uses constant bitrate at 1509.75 kbit/s [...]
OK so you have a HD transport stream, you encode it and don’t use colormatrix() in Avisynth because you realized back in 2008 or so that doing so was kind of a dumb idea. Now you want to tell decoders what color coefficients the video uses so it will (hopefully) look correct everywhere, even if [...]
If you’re one of those people who cut your transport streams in YMC (or Avisynth in general) and want to keep the original audio, this script is for you. It will read a given Avisynth script, look for the first trim line (or the first one labeled by a configurable label), generate a list of [...]
Most people’s reaction to seeing surround (5.1 or better) FLAC used in releases tends to be something like “lol wut”. Therefore I’m gonna go ahead and write up a small explanation that I can link people to so I don’t have to repeat myself over and over on IRC all the time.
If you see 5.1 [...]
