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Bent_Duck said:
@Null You've mentioned a number of times that you recommend Google DNS (8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4) over using the DNS of one's ISP.

What about Quad9? Is that a reasonable alternative for privacy autists like me who despise google with a passion?

Why or why not?
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Just use anything except for CONFIRMED PEDOPHILE MATTHEW PRINCE OF CLOUDFLARE'S 1.1.1.1.
 
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Does anyone have a good tool for opening up Win7 backups? I've got an old hard drive I'm trying to move files off and the built in restore for Win10 has been giving me trouble.
 
In these times of our discontent I recommend VMware Player, put Linux on it to fend off troon attacks and please, please, please tell me if you get sound working because it's been broken for maybe ten years over here.
 
Handbrake is pretty useful I think. It gives you plenty of options to encode your shit in various codecs. I discovered a bunch of 7055 KHz LSB videos shot on some camera I got as a single digit aged schoolboy for birthday recently. They were fucking HUGE! Not because they were HD, but because they were MJPEG! I transcoded....never mind, endorsing anything with the word TRANS is probably a bad idea here.

Nah, I'm just fucking around! Anyways, I transcoded these to HEVC and holy dickballs did the size decrease and I only reduced the bitrate by about 3x. I did use the NVENC encoder as I was an impatient nigger, meaning that the quality could probably be better if I used x265. But I still have PTSD from my laptop taking a whole fucking week non stop to transcode 720p50 AVC videos to HEVC in veryslow mode. The quality was almost the same tho, at 3x less bitrate!

Why would you want to transcode your videos? Well, it's cheaper than buying more storage. Why have your DV, MJPEG or MPEG-2 HDV encoded camcorder videos from many years ago hog up lots of space when your PC can handle way more efficient codecs that give the same quality for the fraction of the bitrate? Or why have modern codec encoded videos using a less efficient portable device encoder when they can take up less space with almost the same quality?

Furthermore, if you're a stingy Null who can't be bothered to pay Discord nitro, you can also tweak your degenerate Discord kiddie porn clips (or whatever videos is it that you post on Discord) to fit within 8 MB. But in that case, don't use HEVC, as Discord doesn't support it, but use VP9 instead. You will have to change the container format to webm tho.

And of course, it's super useful when you upload long videos on the farms. Some several GB large MJPEG video from your cheapo video camera can be made to actually fit within the size limit!

Edit: Oh shit, I also forgot about deinterlacing. Turns out that's probably why I downloaded Handbrake in the first place! Anyways, you can deinterlace your old DV camcorder videos, DTV recordings that are 576/480i or 1080i and VHS rips so that they retain the smooth motion even on devices that don't do proper deinterlacing!
 
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Cavalier Cipolla said:
Handbrake is pretty useful I think. It gives you plenty of options to encode your shit in various codecs. I discovered a bunch of 7055 KHz LSB videos shot on some camera I got as a single digit aged schoolboy for birthday recently. They were fucking HUGE! Not because they were HD, but because they were MJPEG! I transcoded....never mind, endorsing anything with the word TRANS is probably a bad idea here.

Nah, I'm just fucking around! Anyways, I transcoded these to HEVC and holy dickballs did the size decrease and I only reduced the bitrate by about 3x. I did use the NVENC encoder as I was an impatient nigger, meaning that the quality could probably be better if I used x265. But I still have PTSD from my laptop taking a whole fucking week non stop to transcode 720p50 AVC videos to HEVC in veryslow mode. The quality was almost the same tho, at 3x less bitrate!

Why would you want to transcode your videos? Well, it's cheaper than buying more storage. Why have your DV, MJPEG or MPEG-2 HDV encoded camcorder videos from many years ago hog up lots of space when your PC can handle way more efficient codecs that give the same quality for the fraction of the bitrate? Or why have modern codec encoded videos using a less efficient portable device encoder when they can take up less space with almost the same quality?

Furthermore, if you're a stingy Null who can't be bothered to pay Discord nitro, you can also tweak your degenerate Discord kiddie porn clips (or whatever videos is it that you post on Discord) to fit within 8 MB. But in that case, don't use HEVC, as Discord doesn't support it, but use VP9 instead. You will have to change the container format to webm tho.

And of course, it's super useful when you upload long videos on the farms. Some several GB large MJPEG video from your cheapo video camera can be made to actually fit within the size limit!

Edit: Oh shit, I also forgot about deinterlacing. Turns out that's probably why I downloaded Handbrake in the first place! Anyways, you can deinterlace your old DV camcorder videos, DTV recordings that are 576/480i or 1080i and VHS rips so that they retain the smooth motion even on devices that don't do proper deinterlacing!
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The deinterlacing on Handbrake can be spotty, I would recommend either encoding a small segment to see how it turns out before committing to the settings or use the "preview" button. Yes, there is a preview button, people often overlook that one.
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole 2 said:
The deinterlacing on Handbrake can be spotty, I would recommend either encoding a small segment to see how it turns out before committing to the settings or use the "preview" button. Yes, there is a preview button, people often overlook that one.
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For me it worked good enough, as I deinterlace my shit so that it retains the smoothness. I use the same settings for deinterlacing that I use in VLC when I watch some DTV rips from the old days of 576i MPEG-2 DVB-T (we now use 1080p50 HEVC DVB-T2). If you want proper deinterlacing, then you gotta make sure that you keep the refresh rate (if it's 60 Hz interlaced, encode it in 60 Hz progressive). So long as the video is still smooth, you're good to go. If you display it on a CRT TV it will look correctly.
 
Cavalier Cipolla said:
Handbrake is pretty useful I think. It gives you plenty of options to encode your shit in various codecs. I discovered a bunch of 7055 KHz LSB videos shot on some camera I got as a single digit aged schoolboy for birthday recently.
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What was on 7055 that was notable enough to record?
 
Cavalier Cipolla said:
For me it worked good enough, as I deinterlace my shit so that it retains the smoothness. I use the same settings for deinterlacing that I use in VLC when I watch some DTV rips from the old days of 576i MPEG-2 DVB-T (we now use 1080p50 HEVC DVB-T2). If you want proper deinterlacing, then you gotta make sure that you keep the refresh rate (if it's 60 Hz interlaced, encode it in 60 Hz progressive). So long as the video is still smooth, you're good to go. If you display it on a CRT TV it will look correctly.
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It works very well but there are some encoding problems that can be exclusive to handbrake(maybe encoding shits itself at 41% every single time) that does not exist in FFmpeg or AVIdemux. You might think the file is broken but it is not. If my example happens with a 60hz source the solution might be to change frame rate in Handbrake from "same as source" to 59.94 (or 29.97 if it's 30, or 23.976 for 24 OR the exact opposite of these things).

This is mostly about weird edge cases that have frustrated me in the past, it is only when running in to those and realizing that you have wasted A LOT of encoding time that my advice seems like a good idea. If you run into that weirdness and overcome it it will also teach you a lot of things you will probably never need even once during the rest of your life and not a single person would want to hear you talk about it. Yeah.
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole 2 said:
It works very well but there are some encoding problems that can be exclusive to handbrake(maybe encoding shits itself at 41% every single time) that does not exist in FFmpeg or AVIdemux. You might think the file is broken but it is not. If my example happens with a 60hz source the solution might be to change frame rate in Handbrake from "same as source" to 59.94 (or 29.97 if it's 30, or 23.976 for 24 OR the exact opposite of these things).

This is mostly about weird edge cases that have frustrated me in the past, it is only when running in to those and realizing that you have wasted A LOT of encoding time that my advice seems like a good idea. If you run into that weirdness and overcome it it will also teach you a lot of things you will probably never need even once during the rest of your life and not a single person would want to hear you talk about it. Yeah.
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I never had any encoding issues that were quite distracting that weren't caused by a fuckup on my part. Maybe they are exclusive to some codecs that I don't use, as I always use either HEVC or VP9 as the output codec.
 
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Here's a handy piece of freeware from a talented Russian developer: TagScanner

Basically you can drag in disparate media files and it has a pretty good interface for applying metadata to them. Supports formats that Windows lacks native support for metadata editing (like FLAC) as well. Very handy if you're an autist who wants the most 10/10 foobar2000 experience.
 
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Would like to advise that Quad9 has been absolutely 100% a dream to use. They even have iOS profiles for ya. Their Sony complaint ended up like a Take That Off The Goddamn Internet thread afaik.

Also, shoutout to Pi-Hole for allowing me to switch from Cloudflare to Quad9 with the GUI.
 
Be careful with public DNS servers like Quad9 as they like to censor under the guise of 'malware' blocking. Their default 'malware' blocking address blocks files.catbox.moe. Control D's 'malware' blocking address blocks the farms. So stick to the unfiltered address if you want to freely surf the web. The reverse situation can happen where a site blocks the DNS server, such as Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 getting blocked by the archive.is guy because of some autistic reason.
 
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guiltyspark85 said:
The reverse situation can happen where a site blocks the DNS server, such as Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 getting blocked by the archive.md guy because of some autistic reason.
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You would think that people would take another look at old boyski's very reasonable if mildly autistic dispute with CloudFlare given:
  1. How much of a fucking snake Matthew Prince (who I am told on good authority rapes kids) has been shown to be.
  2. Given that his dispute with Internet Enemy and probable child rapist Matthew Prince is literally over their decision to block information that he needs to effectively run his own alternative to their services, in the same way as Josh is (by running content servers close to his many users and distributing traffic to them).
 
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Given that his dispute with Internet Enemy and probable child rapist Matthew Prince is literally over their decision to block information that he needs to effectively run his own alternative to their services, in the same way as Josh is (by running content servers close to his many users and distributing traffic to them).
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But why only block 1.1.1.1? Quad9 doesn't pass this data by default.
 
Cavalier Cipolla said:
Handbrake is pretty useful I think. It gives you plenty of options to encode your shit in various codecs. I discovered a bunch of 7055 KHz LSB videos shot on some camera I got as a single digit aged schoolboy for birthday recently. They were fucking HUGE! Not because they were HD, but because they were MJPEG! I transcoded....never mind, endorsing anything with the word TRANS is probably a bad idea here.

Nah, I'm just fucking around! Anyways, I transcoded these to HEVC and holy dickballs did the size decrease and I only reduced the bitrate by about 3x. I did use the NVENC encoder as I was an impatient nigger, meaning that the quality could probably be better if I used x265. But I still have PTSD from my laptop taking a whole fucking week non stop to transcode 720p50 AVC videos to HEVC in veryslow mode. The quality was almost the same tho, at 3x less bitrate!

Why would you want to transcode your videos? Well, it's cheaper than buying more storage. Why have your DV, MJPEG or MPEG-2 HDV encoded camcorder videos from many years ago hog up lots of space when your PC can handle way more efficient codecs that give the same quality for the fraction of the bitrate? Or why have modern codec encoded videos using a less efficient portable device encoder when they can take up less space with almost the same quality?

Furthermore, if you're a stingy Null who can't be bothered to pay Discord nitro, you can also tweak your degenerate Discord kiddie porn clips (or whatever videos is it that you post on Discord) to fit within 8 MB. But in that case, don't use HEVC, as Discord doesn't support it, but use VP9 instead. You will have to change the container format to webm tho.

And of course, it's super useful when you upload long videos on the farms. Some several GB large MJPEG video from your cheapo video camera can be made to actually fit within the size limit!

Edit: Oh shit, I also forgot about deinterlacing. Turns out that's probably why I downloaded Handbrake in the first place! Anyways, you can deinterlace your old DV camcorder videos, DTV recordings that are 576/480i or 1080i and VHS rips so that they retain the smooth motion even on devices that don't do proper deinterlacing!
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I really prefer ffmpeg for transcoding, it takes some getting used to but it's so much more flexible.
Dread First said:
Would like to advise that Quad9 has been absolutely 100% a dream to use. They even have iOS profiles for ya. Their Sony complaint ended up like a Take That Off The Goddamn Internet thread afaik.

Also, shoutout to Pi-Hole for allowing me to switch from Cloudflare to Quad9 with the GUI.
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If you have a Pi-Hole, set up Unbound and run your own DNS server! You can set it up on the same Raspberry Pi that you have Pi-Hole running on and it takes less than an hour. They have instructions here: https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/
Ice Station Zebra said:
Here's a handy piece of freeware from a talented Russian developer: TagScanner

Basically you can drag in disparate media files and it has a pretty good interface for applying metadata to them. Supports formats that Windows lacks native support for metadata editing (like FLAC) as well. Very handy if you're an autist who wants the most 10/10 foobar2000 experience.
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How's this compare to Mp3Tag?
 
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