This post caused by recent events in my immediate surroundings. No matter what filters you used, you’ve overfiltered it. Almost all new encoders invariably make this mistake. Don’t be one of them. VFR isn’t as complicated as it seems and you would do well to learn how to use it to your advantage. Be very […]
Today on the Fluffy Channel: magic tricks with the Matroska container. Namely, editions, file linking and ordered chapters. (Warning: very large amounts of techobabble walls of text ahead.) These are easily some of the most (if not the most) obfuscated features of the format; a few people know how to use them (and it has […]
VFR (variable framerate) is a pretty tricky concept. Not only is it hard to understand, it’s hard to work with and hard to really wrap your mind around, as evidenced by for example the VFR thread on the AnimeSuki forums, or this other recent thread which is a good demonstration of some of the most […]
I happen to have seen quite a few DVD’s in my time. Quite a few are pretty good, but then there are the more “interesting” ones that leaves you wondering what the flying fuck the DVD mastering studio crews are smoking (one popular theory from famed ZX encoder Rayek is that they are in fact […]
