| * davef waves | 14:53 | |
| daftykins | \o | 14:54 |
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| daftykins | got my nvidia shield tv this morning, it's working out really well... out of the box 4K HDR10 playback with Kodi and a neat remote | 14:54 |
| zxmpi | so you won't be lazy over crimbo you'll be studying every option on the new hardware you got before the holidays :-P | 14:56 |
| daftykins | eh pretty much covered it already, just set it up enough to browse to some 4K HDR content to try out, works nicely which'll do | 14:57 |
| daftykins | i just recently read Asimov's first 'Foundation' triple of short stories, so i could give the TV series a try now | 14:58 |
| davef | Maybe I should plug in my Shield, I've just been using the features on the TV because they're good enough for Netflix, etc. | 14:59 |
| davef | Either way, my data is exfiltrated and spied upon. | 14:59 |
| daftykins | :) | 15:00 |
| daftykins | it's night and day faster UI wise than the TV built-in was for Amazon Prime at least, i don't really use it, i just sponge off my mum's account | 15:01 |
| zxmpi | it's not sponging, it's debugging | 16:05 |
| penguin42 | talking of which; what' the right tool these days to rip and play DVDs? | 16:39 |
| daftykins | MakeMKV | 16:39 |
| daftykins | great for tossing a disc in, ripping the main movie only 1:1 as pure I/O, no conversion/transcoding etc for max quality | 16:40 |
| penguin42 | hmm something open? | 16:41 |
| daftykins | who cares when the results are the best? | 16:42 |
| * penguin42 sticks to open | 16:43 | |
| daftykins | answer probably depends whether you truly mean standard definition DVDs only or blu-ray as well etc | 16:44 |
| daftykins | hang on it has source on the forum | 16:45 |
| daftykins | https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=224 | 16:46 |
| davef | I still use the old DVD Decrypter for DVDs, but it's a Windows thing. It's the only thing I found that can rip different region DVDs without switching the drive to another region. | 16:47 |
| zxmpi | on mac and linux i used to use handbrake but it started having trouble with copy protection a long time ago | 16:48 |
| daftykins | i used to as well but MakeMKV is a much more modern choice | 16:48 |
| davef | I'll check it out. I've been archiving my old Red Dwarf DVDs from the UK. | 16:48 |
| davef | lol, looks just like DVD Decrypter | 16:49 |
| davef | Wait. There's a bunch of versions. Which is the one I should be using? | 16:58 |
| daftykins | not following you there | 17:01 |
| davef | There's https://www.makemkv.net/ and https://makemkv.com/ .. which is the correct one? | 17:04 |
| daftykins | dot com, maybe this is why penguin42 responded as he did, too | 17:05 |
| penguin42 | no, I just prefer open source stuff | 17:26 |
| daftykins | yeah but it seems it *is* so i wondered if you saw the very paid looking website above to start with | 17:27 |
| penguin42 | what makes you say it's open source? | 17:28 |
| penguin42 | I'm not seeing links from either the .net or .com pages | 17:29 |
| daftykins | i don't know for sure but i linked above the forum post for the Linux version that links to source | 17:30 |
| daftykins | there's got to be a conflict somewhere because i thought you used to be able to buy it - i always have to hop on the forum and get the free-use license key to enter :D | 17:31 |
| daftykins | kind of blurs the lines | 17:31 |
| diddledani | makemkv.com is the correct one | 18:43 |
| diddledani | it's part oss part proprietary - the business logic of breaking the encryption is heavily obfuscated binary-only | 18:43 |
| daftykins | mmm focus mostly being on the blu-ray generation development for that | 18:44 |
| diddledani | if you're concerned about the black box, then use the snap I maintain that is heavily sandboxed as much as I can get away with without breaking it | 18:45 |
| penguin42 | doesn't have any blurays so that's not the issue | 18:52 |
| zxmpi | might give it a spin over crimbo and see how it goes | 18:52 |
| * zxmpi wonders where i left the dvd of 'the guard' | 18:53 | |
| daftykins | don't you mostly transcode to crap devices? :) | 18:53 |
| zxmpi | absolutely. with my eyesight anything above 640x480 is wasted storage :-D | 18:54 |
| daftykins | it's not really for you, then | 18:55 |
| daftykins | https://www.macrumors.com/2021/12/21/car-owner-airtag-thieves/ - saw this earlier, these things are definitely of dubious benefit | 19:11 |
| daftykins | ooh dear my curry is late D: | 19:49 |
| davef | Bad curry! No tika! | 20:19 |
| daftykins | good news, i got a second free beer due to the lateness \o/ | 20:19 |
| davef | #winning | 20:20 |
| davef | I overpaid my credit card, I need to balance it back to zero, so therefore I will order food tonight. | 20:25 |
| daftykins | :) what will you pick? | 20:26 |
| davef | Now, do I want a hamburger or should I consider Chinese? | 20:26 |
| daftykins | both! | 20:28 |
| davef | Too much | 20:31 |
| penguin42 | obviously you need a Chinese hamburger | 20:44 |
| daftykins | :D | 20:44 |
| davef | there is a place that does that, but it's ridiculously expensive | 20:47 |
| daftykins | when i lived in Portsmouth, i was very close to a KFC and McDonalds at a kind of biz park, i would walk to the furthest and get a sandwich only deal at one, then walk back past the other and repeat xD | 20:51 |
| daftykins | that's what growing up on a fast-food free island did to this guy! | 20:52 |
| davef | I went here a few weeks ago, it felt very.. north american.. https://www.chichestergateleisurepark.co.uk/ | 20:53 |
| davef | there was a five guys, taco bell, kfc, mcdonalds, etc. | 20:53 |
| davef | all within 30 seconds walk of each other | 20:53 |
| davef | imagine the messy monstrosity you could make | 20:53 |
| daftykins | haha | 20:54 |
| daftykins | best location to compare the chips/fries of all | 20:54 |
| davef | five guys fries are usually pretty good | 20:56 |
| daftykins | never been to one! | 20:57 |
| penguin42 | sounds like the Trafford centre food court | 20:57 |
| davef | mmm.. maybe i'll do that tonight | 20:57 |
| davef | the texan burger has been ordered. double, whisky bbq sauce, cheddar cheese, bacon. mmmmm..... | 22:38 |
| penguin42 | Y'all enjoy it now | 23:46 |
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