Category Archives: encoding

SKLSDJASFG y r u using 5.1 FLAC?

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 […]

The difference between interlacing and interlacing

Judging from #darkhold conversations, other related sources and mentoring several people about it, this is a subject that has confused many. What’s interlacing, what’s progressive, what’s the difference between film and video, how does telecining work, what’s the difference between hard and soft telecine, what’s BFF/TFF/RFF, what does those numbers in DVD2AVI/DGIndex mean, where does […]

holy fuck stop

using virtualdubmod thank you in advance

Evil Perl scripting

Reencoders rejoice, for I have written a script that given a v2 timecodes file and an output framerate generates an Avisynth script that converts VFRaC to CFR (much like directshowsource(convertfps=true)). It’s very evil, very slow and probably buggy. Don’t use it. I only wrote it because I was promised money for it. If you are […]

Clarifications regarding multisegment Matroska files

“The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax — Of cabbages — and kings — And why the sea is boiling hot — And whether pigs have wings.” – Lewis Caroll, Alice in Wonderland In that other post about MKV features, I mentioned […]