That is truly my greatest accomplishment. Met my wife, became a better person for her, and started a family.Created a viable “pied piper” audio compression method that can reduce already-compressed music sources up to a further 6:1 ratio with no perceptual loss in quality.Mentored a vintage computer enthusiast to create a brand-new DOS game in 2018 (and contributed some key performance-sensitive code myself).Led a dream team of demosceners to win first place (“oldskool demo” category) at the world’s largest demoparty.Wrote an open-source project that allows vintage computers to be used as easy-to-use, low barrier-to-entry historical research tools.Created two novel methods of displaying full-motion video on 1981-era personal computers without requiring additional hardware.Produced three demoscene anthology series on DVD and Blu-ray with full commentary and participation of the authors.Designed and founded MobyGames with my high-school buddy and Best Man Brian Hirt.Was one of the 10 founding fathers of the Abandonware movement (and the very first Abandonware site in history to get shut down because of it).Participated in NAID ’95 and ’96, where I formed some friendships that helped me later in life.Sang on the stage at Carnegie Hall (a live performance, with a paying audience).I’m granting myself permission to be proud of everything on this list. It ends with a list of things I’ve achieved in my life by my own skill, intelligence, and volition. Not in the manner in which my friends and fans might have hoped, but it simply has to end if I’m going to be available for the people who matter (including, most importantly, myself). Combine this with yearly instances of FOMO and you end up with someone who goes through waves of trying to join the party, only to feel sheepish once they get there. ![]() I am, thankfully, able to praise and mentor other people as necessary, but I cannot provide that for myself. It has prevented me from starting projects, finishing projects, and having normal levels of self-confidence. (It is also a first-world problem apologies if this offends you.) I have it fairly bad, and it’s gotten worse as I age. My vote for the most subtle-yet-cruel entry in the category of brain mis-wirings is Imposter’s Syndrome. Posted in Digital Video, Entertainment, Technology | Leave a Comment » REM The 120M bufsize represents a 3-second window 40M vbr that a max of 60Mįor %%a in ("*.*") do ffmpeg -find_stream_info -hwaccel auto -i "%%a" -map 0 -c copy -c:v hevc_nvenc -pix_fmt p010le -tune:v hq -preset:v p7 -color_primaries bt2020 -color_trc smpte2084 -colorspace bt2020nc -spatial_aq:v 1 -temporal_aq:v 1 -b_ref_mode middle -profile:v main10 -tier:v high -b:v 40M -maxrate:v 60M -bufsize:v 120M "Plex Versions\LG C8\%%~na.mkv" ![]() REM Call this batch file from the plex directory containing your main movie. REM as possible without exceeding an LG C8's ethernet 100mbit/s capabilities. Here’s the script: REM This creates a Plex Versions proxy that preserves as much quality The end result is worse than the source if you pixel-peep, but if you’re sitting 10 feet away from your projector, it’s perfectly fine - and it’s certainly better than a blu-ray rip of the same material. It leverages a modern nvidia card to do the transcode without any CPU usage, and preserves the HDR10 information. Included below is an ffmpeg script I’ve used to transcode UHD 4k blu-ray rips down to a bandwidth that can be handled without trouble using my LG C8’s ethernet connection, which I used during a period when I was unable to use the TV over 5GHz wifi (since corrected, thankfully). So what happens if you want to stream to your TV over ethernet because you can’t use wi-fi? The LG Cx series of OLED TVs have terrible network chipsets in them: They can do more than 100mbps over 5GHz wifi, but can only do 100mbit/s over ethernet (my experiments with a USB-to-ethernet adapter were mixed). ![]() (This post has been edited with new information) ![]() Demoscene Digital Video Entertainment Family Gaming Home Ownership Lifehacks MindCandy MobyGames Podcast Programming Sociology Software Piracy Technology Uncategorized Vintage Computing Weight Loss
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