Monthly Archives: May 2008

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Doing Pointless Things for Stupid Reasons: Part 1

Nothing makes me want to write stuff more than getting annoyed by things in my immediate surroundings. Today’s annoyance is fansubbers translating production credits. Among all gay and meaningless things you can do when fansubbing, this ranks incredibly high on the idiocy scale, right up there with AFX karaokes that take two days to render, […]

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 […]

Some protips for aspiring elitist encoders

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 […]