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Handbrake? PGCDemux?

Oy, got a scare today. Fired up my DGDemux project and Visual Studio failed to load it, saying it is "incompatible". Tried right click and 'Reload project". Now it said application not found. Crikey. Google revealed like 50 different possible causes. Gonna be a shitty Saturday, but got lucky. Was looking at the installed extensions and saw one called "Get Xamarin" (not the actual Xamarin just some shill extension). Looked up Xamarin and it is something useless for me. So I deleted the extension and restarted VS. The project loaded. So MS sneaked this little thing into the install. I never asked for it. And it broke everything! All's well that ends well, I suppose.

Apparently, Xamarin sucks anyway:

https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/1 ... grade-code
https://medium.com/@kibotu/everything-t ... 399075e50a
https://medium.com/@vladfaust/xamarin-s ... 132fb99c24

I rescued all the DG products because I got lucky. Let that sink in, guys.

And that is why I don't allow Windows to update automatically, breaks too many things on occasion

One can pause Win 10 updates for only 7 days. So not quite the same.

Actually, one can stop them for as long as desired, which I do.
Tired of chasing down which fix/update broke something on my system

Crikey indeed.

I wonder ... class action available for micro$oft to pay for your time in finding and fixing it ?

Rocky wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 19, 2020 7:38 pm

One can pause Win 10 updates for only 7 days. So not quite the same.

Just disable Windows Update service (wuauserv).

Rocky wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 19, 2020 9:25 am

Handbrake? PGCDemux?

Just found that MakeMKV has a manual mode, handy indeed.

Ha ha! Our esteemed admin's previous career has been discovered:

https://youtu.be/7uxyg1aUaoI?t=16

Wow, admin. You can really dance! Kisses, Brit.

Oh, such a whirlwind. First Boltzmann told me it's all about distributions and then Newton told me it's all about initial conditions. Who to believe?

Anyway, I re-based my speedup code on slipstream 43, which seems pretty stable. I still reduce demux time for the video from 3:26 to 0:58 for a representative disk. I would like to put the code back under an INI option so that it doesn't diverge from the main line again. Is that all right, Rocky?

Distributions and initial conditions are the same thing. There is no abstract distribution divorced from a specific sampling of reality, and such a sampling can itself be taken as a set of initial conditions given at a specific time.

Go ahead and integrate your stuff (use Commit on the VisualSVN pulldown). When you have everything supported, we can publish the INI setting so that our great users can test it out. 3:26 -> 0:58 sounds great. Git 'er done!

What Bullwinkle said.

Let me guess:

Speedup=0/1

Natasha wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 22, 2020 10:31 pm

Speedup=0/1

Simple things please simple minds.

New_Single_Level_Parsing_Architecture=false/true

Brain_Dead_Design_From_The_Past_Finally_Excised=duh/huh

Silly billies, only DGDemuxGUI reads the INI file, so there has to be an option to DGDemux: maybe -fast.

And then in DGDemuxGUI, if you hold down the shift key when pressing the Show or Demux buttons, the -fast option is issued. That way we don't have to create a new option line in the GUI (which would just have to be removed down the road) while still being able to go fast or slow without needing to edit the INI file or exit the GUI.

Great idea, Britney. I implemented that and hopefully Rocky will include it in the next slipstream. I'll keep adding to it until all the stream types are supported in fast mode. Then when we switch everything over we will have fast mode by default.

BTW, I demuxed the AC3 stream from 1917:

old mode: 3:46 secs
fast mode: 0:32 secs
Seems like a useful development. :belly-laugh:

BTW, I found a little bug in build 43. DV streams are not marked as DV (regression from the fix to not show PIP as DV). Say thank you.

Britney wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 22, 2020 11:04 am

Wow, admin. You can really dance! Kisses, Brit.

Talk about exposing people's early careers. Still, not quite in your league:

https://youtu.be/76pYZjhVylw?t=40

Let's expose Natasha. Sunlight kills vampires. Nyuh nyuh.

Spin in circles, doughboy.

Settle down children! Love and respect one another.

Sherman, thank you for checking in your code and for reporting the DV marking bug. I noticed that gaps correction is not working for DTS in fast mode (AC3 is OK). Can you look into it please? Great speedup BTW.

Rocky wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 24, 2020 7:51 pm

Great speedup BTW.

Not too shabby for a 7-year-old hoomin.

Sherman, did you solve the quantum measurement problem yet?