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  • I ripped a ton of my stuff back in the day, guess I’ve been lucky, every generic BD drive i’ve used just worked.

    But once you get past the “works” hurdle, the real struggle begins.

    It’s slow, like really slow. Assuming you can find the right titles and convince makemkv extract them, it’s a start the process and go brew a cup of coffee slow. But hey, I’ve got time and you don’t need to watch it … mostly.

    Depending on the disk, it’s still either crap quality or it takes up an ungodly amount of space. Even a decent sized drive buckles sooner or later if you’re generating 20GB images.

    Unless you’re up on your network game, your streaming sticks/tv’s can hardly handle the throughput to stream the video.

    So you encode the video. HEVC (which is getting dicey starting january as the royalties go up and processors stop support hardware decoding) or hopefully AV1, which still has spotty support in places. and the re-encode? The easy software isn’t free, the free software isn’t easy, but FFMPEG isn’t that hard to work with.

    OR, you find an ISO provider and download it.





  • rumba@lemmy.ziptoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldQuitting Spotify for Navidrome
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    13 days ago

    Can’t crossfade, developers won’t add the features the server doesn’t support it. I get a random crashes at least once a session. Search sucks because I don’t feel like wiring up elastic. Doesn’t stream large lists, browse to P? With 5000 artists and 20K tracks? Forever.

    The beta is a little smoother but doesn’t address any of my issues with it.

    Symphonium is 100 times better, never crashes, solves lists/streaming by downloading the lists and handling them locally.









  • rumba@lemmy.ziptoMemes@lemmy.mlDemocrats: Stop dividing the left
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    1 month ago

    know progressive policies get people excited. They’re not interested in being progressive. They’re only interested in maintaining the status quo and if stepping on you is necessary to do that, they’ll happily do it. Some of them will make a somber face on

    All fine and dandy, but voting 3rd without the 3rd being actually viable is just voting 1st for the other side.