Video: Revo & Zbox
Added 2024-12-21 20:06:48 +0000 UTChttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Gqm1qdXGY
Haven't decided on an actual name for this video yet, it was kind of a "i have these two things that are in some way connected; how can i find a common Topic" project that worked better than I expected. I had a bunch of misgivings but I think the final product is a decent watch.
I should mention that this is definitely not finished, I found a bunch of missing (minor) onscreen images, some bad cuts, and one or two sentences I need to clean up, so there will be a second upload, probably tomorrow, so if you wanna leave comments you should do it here or on that one when I upload it; I just wanted to get this out on the weekend. Enjoy!
Comments
"Hell it [The PS3] could even play SACDs" That's a fun rabbit hole! https://www.ps3sacd.com/faq.html#_Toc180147566 Actually everything about SACDs is a cursed rabbit hole. Blech. The PS3 was a very... dynamic console.
qdoggie
2024-12-22 10:12:59 +0000 UTCOn the Atom front that was an aside early on in the video, my favorite Atom device is one that at first glance is imminently boring - the HP Mini 1000 netbook. It's an eeepc knockoff running Windows XP, right? Except it was also available running HP's completely custom Linux - "HP Mobile Internet Experience" or "MiE". From what I can tell, this was the only commercial OS ever released for the "LPIA" architecture. For those unaware, Atom CPUs were "standard x86", later ones x86-64. But they *ALSO* supported a subset of x86 called "Low Power Intel Architecture" - x86 with the power-hungry instructions removed. In theory running in LPIA mode would be noticeably more battery-friendly. As far as I can tell, HP is the only company to ever actually bother porting an OS to LPIA instead of just plain x86. This does mean that packages had to be specially-compiled for LPIA for HP MiE, even if 100% of the code in the package was LPIA-compatible, simply because the OS would insist it was the wrong architecture.
Anonymous Freak
2024-12-22 06:23:21 +0000 UTCHonestly that Zbox looks more like a PS2 Slim than a PS3; I wonder how they compare size-wise.
Pietro Gagliardi
2024-12-22 05:44:37 +0000 UTCFor reaaaaallllll. I rip everything to my computer convert to x265 and then if I need to keep a disc copy I'll just burn it to a DVD ROM and play it back on my computer if I have to. Sure you don't get any menus or anything but it's much less clunky than playing back at Blu-ray
Nicole Crawford
2024-12-22 02:01:06 +0000 UTCIt's very funny that in this day and age, MakeMKV really IS the best way to play blu-rays on PC. It's like how people will pirate games to get better frame rates since the DRM isn't running in the background anymore. I've fucked with getting them working on VLC before - you have to install specific versions of Oracle Java (and disable updates or it'll break) and hook makemkv's decoder DLL into VLC and maybe rename some files and make sure region codes are set and manually tell VLC the disc is a Blu-ray and not a DVD every single time and make sure you don't mess around too much in the menu or VLC will crash and don't pause it more than 5 seconds or the drive will spin down and it'll take 10 seconds for VLC to ping the drive and spin it up to continue playback because VLC doesn't read ahead at all or anything and god it's miserable. I stick the disc in my PC, open makekv, wait 15 minutes for the movie file to rip, do something else, come back, and then click the mkv file and just watch the movie. My god, it's almost as convenient as a Blu-ray player, if you had to wait 15 minutes for your Blu-ray player to load the disc after you closed the tray. ... Blu-ray kinda sucks, man 😔
Xaviette Katzenfrau
2024-12-22 01:38:27 +0000 UTCyeah, we sorta thought "huh, that's a little sparkly, and not in a good way... ok, so that's not mp3 encoding, that doesn't sound right, mp3 artifacting is a lot swimmier and ringy, it sort of rings along with the audio, so yeah. AAC."
Saoirse Ó Catháin
2024-12-22 01:07:49 +0000 UTCI noticed that! I used aac instead of wave for export; never doing that again
Cathode Ray Dude
2024-12-22 01:04:08 +0000 UTCoooo, did you change something about the audio capture on this video? Some os the 's' sounds in words are being turned into mp3 or AAC audio encoding artifacts...
Saoirse Ó Catháin
2024-12-22 00:19:44 +0000 UTCMuch to my annoyance later on, neither USB 2.0 or Wi-Fi were standard on laptops purchased in 2001.
Matthew Cooper
2024-12-21 23:58:50 +0000 UTCso, are you looking for a nettop or a netbook? Oh that's delightful. I wonder how fast he can... oh god we are in fact going there.
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2024-12-21 21:00:54 +0000 UTC
