(Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46]
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kind of.
He mostly left because of bullying. Just posting video updates and rare posts.
Who the fuck is bullying this guy? I will round up a goddamn posse, Alec is a treasure.
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Piracy has none of these problems.
Once again, playing by the rules is a worse experience.
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Who the fuck is bullying this guy? I will round up a goddamn posse, Alec is a treasure.
Fediverse being fediverse.
For large accounts it's a genuine toxic cesspit.
Scroll back to a year ago and you can regularly see posts from him where he calls people out.
small sample from just scrolling through:
Technology Connections (@TechConnectify@mas.to)
Look, I'm gonna lay this out on the line: This place is fucking shit for my mental health. It's that simple! And it is *not* helped that any time I voice this, I get replies which one way or another make it clear it's my problem to solve.
mas.to (mas.to)
Technology Connections (@TechConnectify@mas.to)
FYI my last boost? That's why I don't hang out here so much anymore. Kind of a drag to see someone share a video of mine then deal with that kind of sentiment. Also I'd really like to be able to quote toot but alas...
mas.to (mas.to)
But that's just the stuff he openly shows
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DVDs have already been left behind so not much of an issue.
Someone didn’t watch the video
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After watching his video it feels like it was already left behind.
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Piracy has none of these problems.
Once again, playing by the rules is a worse experience.
It really depends on the ripper. I'd say 9/10 times captions are included on most of my downloads.
It's that 10th one that is super annoying and I have to wait for jellyfin to download them one by one from open subtitles.
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DVDs are getting left behind.
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It really depends on the ripper. I'd say 9/10 times captions are included on most of my downloads.
It's that 10th one that is super annoying and I have to wait for jellyfin to download them one by one from open subtitles.
And the downloaded ones are never in sync properly.
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Alec is also (unsurprisingly) on the Fedi: https://mas.to/@TechConnectify
His Bluesky is also a delight
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It really depends on the ripper. I'd say 9/10 times captions are included on most of my downloads.
It's that 10th one that is super annoying and I have to wait for jellyfin to download them one by one from open subtitles.
If you run your own server you can have a look at bazarr.
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DVDs are getting left behind.
30 years old next year
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Fediverse being fediverse.
For large accounts it's a genuine toxic cesspit.
Scroll back to a year ago and you can regularly see posts from him where he calls people out.
small sample from just scrolling through:
Technology Connections (@TechConnectify@mas.to)
Look, I'm gonna lay this out on the line: This place is fucking shit for my mental health. It's that simple! And it is *not* helped that any time I voice this, I get replies which one way or another make it clear it's my problem to solve.
mas.to (mas.to)
Technology Connections (@TechConnectify@mas.to)
FYI my last boost? That's why I don't hang out here so much anymore. Kind of a drag to see someone share a video of mine then deal with that kind of sentiment. Also I'd really like to be able to quote toot but alas...
mas.to (mas.to)
But that's just the stuff he openly shows
Thats just social media.
Which is why social media shouldnt exist. cause its not good for anyones health.
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reads meta data 1st We gotta get Alec to show up on William's chaos ranch for an episode of Farmer's with Brain Damage. If anyone can get 1
millionbillion Sunflowers to grow in sand and not get eaten by Kevin's dog it'll be Alec.Now I'll watch the video. I'm sure it's good. It's always good.
edit: Yep. Interesting.
I think, it's not very expensive or difficult to find work around solutions to the few people holding onto standard definition media.
You're taking about bringing a man of control and order into that den of chaos and goblinry? I don't think Alec would enjoy it.
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After watching his video it feels like it was already left behind.
What is the "it" that you think got left behind?
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It really depends on the ripper. I'd say 9/10 times captions are included on most of my downloads.
It's that 10th one that is super annoying and I have to wait for jellyfin to download them one by one from open subtitles.
As a ripper myself for one of the internal groups, both DVDs and Blu rays have this annoying thing where they include the subtitles in image format (PGS for BRs, forgot what the DVD one was). It’s a headache for the rippers and encoders because we then need to OCR the subtitles for the encodes we put out there. Sometimes if we get lucky the movie is on a streaming platform making this process obsolete as we grab the .vtt files from the streaming service and sync it with the BR we’re making (as well as transforming it to .srt) . My only assumption as to why MPAA decided on image format subs for both DVDs and BRs is because it makes it easy to deal with different languages and the likes, you just display a static image and fk everything else. But for the people putting out quality releases if we ship PGS that means we’re just doing a bad job.
Support your fav trackers (and their internals!)
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DVDs have already been left behind so not much of an issue.
You would be surprised but in the US DVDs are still king. They sell far better than regular BluRays and even better than 4K UHD BRs. So saying it’s dead is difficult.
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As a ripper myself for one of the internal groups, both DVDs and Blu rays have this annoying thing where they include the subtitles in image format (PGS for BRs, forgot what the DVD one was). It’s a headache for the rippers and encoders because we then need to OCR the subtitles for the encodes we put out there. Sometimes if we get lucky the movie is on a streaming platform making this process obsolete as we grab the .vtt files from the streaming service and sync it with the BR we’re making (as well as transforming it to .srt) . My only assumption as to why MPAA decided on image format subs for both DVDs and BRs is because it makes it easy to deal with different languages and the likes, you just display a static image and fk everything else. But for the people putting out quality releases if we ship PGS that means we’re just doing a bad job.
Support your fav trackers (and their internals!)
I rip for my personal collection/data hoarding and was surprised to learn how much of a pain PSG subs are. I figured I just had HandBrake configured wrong until I started looking into it.
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I rip for my personal collection/data hoarding and was surprised to learn how much of a pain PSG subs are. I figured I just had HandBrake configured wrong until I started looking into it.
Yeah, really makes you wonder if it’s by design as some sort of evil anti piracy measure.
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kind of.
He mostly left because of bullying. Just posting video updates and rare posts.
How is this bullying not moderated? That just seems weird. I've always felt Mastodon kinda fails at moderation in this aspect. He should go to Lemmy instead.
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Someone didn’t watch the video
Correct, because anything related to DVDs as the title suggests is wholly irrelevant in 2025.
Watching now - I’m in PAL land so line 21 captions were never a thing for me.
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