#mpeg-4

[tfc2211]

Play ▶ The Soft Parade (Track 9) 

[shinsources-archived]

Do you know any good places to watch movies for free or even shows? I’ve been looking forward 😭

Hello, anon!

There's quite a few websites that are 100% free and legal to watch stuff on. The ones in BLUE are ones I highly recommend and/or love to bits and pieces. The ones in ORANGE are ones I haven't done extensive research on but have done enough to know they're F2U and recommend at least looking at them. The ones in RED are ones I know have free stuff but haven't even bothered to look at them and have stated why I haven't.

Tubi TV: I love Tubi to bits and pieces. It has a lot of really neat stuff on there (anime, tv shows, movies, indie stuff, documentaries, etc.). It's definitely worth checking out. Subtitles have been available on everything I've watched. Having an account isn't required but it helps with saving things you want to watch later on down the road.

Pluto TV: There's quite a bit of decent stuff on here, too, as well as various anime and tv shows and movies. I still prefer Tubi but Pluto is good. Subtitles have been available on everything I've watched. Having an account isn't required but it helps with saving things you want to watch later on down the road.

ANIX.TO: Has all sorts of anime on it in. It seems like a lot of the stuff has both subbed and dubbed options so that's a bonus. The subbed shows definitely has subtitles but dubbed doesn't seem to have them.

UPMOVIES: You can apparently watch Movies, TV Shows, Anime, Asian Series, and so much more on here for free and with subtitles?? Heck yeah! I tested it by typing in The Flash (1990) and it was a success. You can also very apparently save the videos by Rick Click > Save Video As.. on Firefox as an MPEG-4 file so that's a bonus. Subtitles are available on everything I've seen so far via dubbed and subbed shows/movies have subtitles by default.

Plex TV: I've looked a little bit on here but not much. It has documentaries, animated stuff, and the likes. Not my go-to, personally, but it's worth looking at.

The Roku Channel: I haven't actively looked into this but I do know it's free to use. It's definitely worth giving a look at even though it might not be my go-to place.

IMDB TV: I've legit never used this before so IDK how it works. All I know is that there's stuff on there that's free. You 100% need an account in order to even use it so that's, quite unfortunately, a no-go for me.

There are lots of others out there but these are ones I wanted to at least bring up. If anyone else has any recommendations then feel free to comment, reblog + add stuff, share, and the whole nine yards.

[thealieninhiding]

Behind The Scenes of Fixing Freakdog / Red Mist (2008) Behind The Scenes

Watch the 3 videos on Youtube support me on ko-fi or buy my art on redbubble

Red Mist's BTS videos don't work well with ripping software, the mix of (anamorphic widescreen) 16:9 and 4:3 in the mpeg file isn't understood so the software creates a file that is entirely 16:9, stretching the 4:3 segments. If you disable the anamorphic flag the 4:3 BTS footage displays correctly but 16:9 film clips are squashed, which is not ideal but since the film clips are superfluous it doesn't matter as much that they display incorrectly...

which might be fine for most people but it bugged the shit out of me

correct vs incorrect aspect ratios

The only way to get both to display correctly is to cut each time the aspect ratio changed, which as you can see by the markers/clips is a lot.

editing done with Shotcut

here's a clip from part way through the process - at the start you have the corrected 4:3, which cuts to the original 16:9 then is followed by the stretched 4:3

[archoneddzs15]

Sega Saturn - Lunar Silver Star Story Complete (Lunar: The Silver Star MPEG Edition)

Title: Lunar Silver Star Story Complete / ルナ シルバースターストーリー ＭＰＥＧ版

Developer: Game Arts / JAM / Gonzo / Kusanagi

Publisher: Kadokawa Shoten

Release date: 4 July 1997

Catalogue No.: T-27904G

Genre: RPG

The classic RPG from the Mega CD has found its way onto many platforms over the years but one will always remain special and that's this Sega Saturn Complete version. The game is actually the same as the first release apart from this version features all full-screen FMV scenes in glorious MPEG rather than the boxed crappy Cinepak as seen in the original release. The game also comes bundled with a set of 10 Sega Freak Lunar trading cards as seen below. 

Beware though, this game will not work on any Saturn that doesn't have the MPEG card installed. All you'll get is a message saying that you need to install the MPEG card.

[piratesexmachine420]

i'm currently reading Ignition!, although most of the chemistry goes over my head, it is a nice book to read

do you have recommendations for similar books on the history of rocketry?

I don't think I have many novel thoughts here, nor have I read more than a few books on the subject (not for lack of wanting!) , but I'll give you what I have on what I've done. (Also, anyone who wants to, feel free to comment/reblog with your own suggestions!)

The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe is great. The movie is... fine, but you really want to read the book. Unlike Ignition, which ignores almost everything for the sake of technical information, The Right Stuff is an analysis of the internal politics of the Mercury program with few technical details.

How Do Astronauts Go To The Bathroom In Space? is 112% out of print, and aimed squarely at an elementary to middle school audience, but IMO totally worth it (as someone who first read it in elementary school) if you happen to find it in a used bookstore. It's basically just 200 pages of little anecdotes from Skylab 4, ranging from "How did you go to the bathroom?" to "What kind of work did you do on Skylab?" to "Did you have trouble swallowing?". Being aimed at kids means that it covers a lot of the minutia of life in LEO that a lot of other books ignore. It also has a certain quaintness I really enjoy, emblematic of other ~80s-90s all-ages science books like The Way Things Work.

Endurance by Scott Kelly is fine but makes some weird decisions. Lots of lingering on his ex-wife.

Moon Shot is an iffily-written piece of propaganda and I wouldn't bother. Besides, it permeated the space nerd culture so heavily you've likely already heard all the interesting anecdotes through osmosis.

There's this book I have titled "Sigma 7: The Six Orbits of Walter M. Schirra--The NASA Mission Reports" published by Apogee books that basically just compiles a bunch of NASA documents relating to the mission together (alongside a CD-ROM with MPEG-1 videos) and while I have serious doubts that you'd be able to it or other books in its series (long out of print, low production run: good luck trying to find it in a used bookstore) I can recommend reading NASA's press releases and transcripts and reports and so forth--they're all available on the internet (if annoying to find). ESA is similar. Roscosmos... not really.

Finally, here are some books I've been meaning to read. I make no assertions about their quality, and in most cases I know very little about them, so take this with a grain of salt:

Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by Jim Lovell

Last Man on the Moon by Gene Cernan

Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir by Bryan Burrough

Carrying the Fire by Michael Collins

Diary of a Cosmonaut: 211 Days in Space by Valintin Lebedev

and all of the Haynes "Owner's Manuals" for the Space Shuttle, Saturn V, etc.

[argumate]

Atoms are hierarchical in nature. That is, one atom can contain other atoms, which can contain still others, and so on. This hierarchy is sometimes described in terms of a parent, children, siblings, grandchildren, and so on. An atom that contains other atoms is called a container atom. The parent atom is the container atom exactly one level above a given atom in the hierarchy.

might wanna rethink that terminology bro

An atom, as this documentation describes, is functionally identical to a box, as the ISO specifications describe for MPEG-4 and Motion JPEG-2000.

okay they did, nested boxes makes more sense than nested atoms

[sirenofthegreenbanks]

cant wait until ill have full access toall word of honor episodes again. im still slowly converting the mpeg-4 files to mp4. not many systems make a difference between these two files types but ofc my ipad does (rolls eyes so hard they fall out and run away). im gonna make so many wen kexing character fmvs hehehe

[sekai-fashion]

How does Miku cram a world (or teleport at least)

Short answer: nobody knows

Long answer: the patents expired in 2017 they didn't release the data spec, but we know the header spec, so we can guess from there

The header is 4 bytes (32 bits) formatted as

AAAAAAAA AAABBCCD EEEEFFGH IIJJKLMM

where:

A is always 1, B is the version (01-2.5, 10-2, 11-1)

C is the layer, in our case it's 01/layer 3 (mp3 - MPEG layer 3) and D is security (CRC)

E through I are interesting since they are music related. My best guesses are that they include a location, unique ID, metadata, vocaloid info and pointers to them all in the data section so that however the sekai work they just read the data from the file

Or Miku could be omnipotent and watching everyone relevant at the same time so she can teleport them when they open the file

[sendai21-independants]

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[dballzposting]

idk if trunks is a big music guy but ngl to me hed be a big tears for fears kinda guy. think he'd love the shit out of the seeds of love album ykwim.

iirc i think you've mentioned them at least like one (1) time but as i was listening to swords and knives rn i was like waow..... this is sso future trunks ..... and then a single tear rolled down my face

This is so awesome i agree hardwith this.... Tears For Fears is usualy a Gohan Moment to me but actually it is soooo for Trunks's easy spirit. He'll listen and be chill about it. Nevermind the messages and madness. He can take it all in strides

There is a version of "Tears Roll Down" that goes SO hard that I couldnt find on Spotify or Youtube and so i think it is an iTunes exclusive but i do have it on my computer but it's an MPEG-4 and I tried to upload it just now and it didnt work maybe becasue it was an MPEG-4. Oh god but it's such a Gohan Moment. But this is about Trunks so I guess it doesnt matter ...

Song tyhat Anon mentioned:

So something that Trunks would lie in bed with headphones listening to past his bedtime. Procesing his emotions but he doesnt have a lot going on so there's not much to process so he's pretty much just chilling. Feeling easy and breezy.

NGL I've never heard this song and i cant make out what hes saying so I'll take your word on it being Future Trunks I mean I guess it's all right there in the title isn't it. Future Trunks could listen to Tears For Fears too but I feel like he would enjoy it less than Present Trunks would . Just becasue of their different lives. Future Trunks would appreciate more homey and folky and upbeat and hopeful songs probably , But then again he may be moonstruck and amazed at how 1980s synth euro-bands capture the feeling of the void like that. So IDK

THANKS !!!!

[ofdogsandwolves]

I just finished reading “step by little step (Dear Theodora)”

Let me start my saying I dont usually read Mpreg because its always kinda weird me out. (The concept of CIS man carrying a baby is always weird to me) So I’ve put off reading your story because I was apprehensive of the Mpreg but the story was appealing to me so I finally did.

Let me tell you THIS WAS THE BEST MPREG IVE EVER READ!

Holy shit that was good!

1- You made it seam so natural! The concept was “explained” just enough to make it like this huge thing and it all felt so natural! It’s a C-section not some weird magical birth. Very well done!

2- The emotional development of Lando 🫠 WOW! From calling the baby “it” so slowly using “her” to “that’s my child and I will die for her”. Beautiful 10/10

3- Omg Oscar having a moment because he doesn’t want to lose Lando🥺 He cares so much about them and he never once hesitated to call her his. Not a step-father but a father that step up. 🥺♥️

4-The surprise pregnancy at the end 🥹 the Oscar reacted to it, how Lando is delighted as well. My heart, it cannot take it. It is so cute 🥰

All of this to say… PLEASE WRITE ABOUT THEM AGAIN PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!

AHH it's taken me so long to reply to this but thank you so much!

I was really worried when writing this that it would come across the way I wanted with lando's emotional journal I wanted everything to seem as natural as possible so I'm so so glad it comes across well.

This whole fic is my baby so whenever I get any kind of nice or detailed comment on it my soul lights up! Thank you for venturing into the world of mpeg for my silly little fic 🧡🧡

[tfc2211]

Play ▶ Riders On The Storm 

[fishmech]

was finally able to test out my Sony Mavica MVC-FD200 today thanks to finally getting a new battery and a reliable charger for it!

The FD200 was the final and highest end Sony Digital Mavica that still supported writing to floppy directly in camera. As a transitional model it does also have a Sony Memory Stick slot but all of my Memory Sticks right now are later Pro models that are over 128 MB without banking, so this camera's too old to read them!

In its highest capability mode this camera does 1600x1200 images (which only 4 will fit on a floppy disk at once) and can also record up to 15 seconds of 320x240 MPEG video (no sound, due to not having a microphone) in a single clip (though this feature cannot be used with the floppy disk).

These pictures were taken in the medium quality 1024x768 mode, which allows for 10 photos per floppy disk. In this mode, it's comparable in quality to the lower end/older Digital Mavica camera we used in my high school's newspaper/yearbook classes for snapping pictures that didn't justify getting a better photographer with a high end camera, digital or film, out for!

The floppy disk I used for this has some bad sectors as it turns out, which is why 2 of these images have some corruption on the bottom portions. Woops!

[juette]

how to watch videos on the 3ds

i couldn't find an answer as to what setting to use to convert videos to be readable on my o2ds, so after a bit of experimenting i decided to make this little tutorial. please let me know if you need any aditional help!

your 3ds will need to be hacked. if it isn't already, follow 3ds.hacks.guide.

you will need a computer with handbrake installed on it. you may also need makemkv (if you need to rip the video from a dvd/bluray) and mkvtoolnix (if you wish to add subtitles to your video). you will need video player for 3ds on your console.

step 1: ripping the video from the dvd/bluray

insert your disc into your computer's disc drive. open makemkv. it will look something like this. click the image of a dvd and wait for it to load.

the contents of it will be listed like this. you may uncheck the boxes of anything you don't want to extract: i am unchecking the french audio and subtitles. once you've selected what to extract, click the button i circled in red and let it do its thing.

step 2: converting it with handbrake

these settings are optimized for the old 2ds/3ds. the new 2ds/3ds is more powerful and can play higher quality videos but i do not own one to test settings on.

open handbrake. click "file" to select your video file.

in the summary tab, set the format to mkv.

in the dimensions tab, set the resolution limit to custom and the maximum size to 426x240.

in the video tab, set the encoder to MPEG-2, set the framerate (fps) to 25 and make sure "peak framerate" is checked, and set constant quality to 5.

constant quality 0 also works, though it has occasional lags when playing the video.

in the audio tab, change "bitrate" to "quality" and set it to 2. make sure mixdown is set to stereo.

in the subtitles tab, remove subtitles by clicking the X next to it, unless you want subtitles burned into the video (permanently drawn on it).

save these settings as a new preset for future use, then click "start encode".

step 3: adding subtitles

you may download .srt subtitles from opensubtitles.

open mkvtoolnix-gui.exe. right-click the "source files" window to add your video and your subtitles. click "start multiplexing" on the bottom.

step 4: playing the video on your 3ds

place the file anywhere on your 3ds' sd card. i created a folder named "video" on mine.

place the sd card back inside your 3ds and turn it on. open video player for 3ds.

click the film icon on the touch screen, then press x to choose a file. navigate through your folders until you find your video, then press a to select it. if you have mutiple subtitles tracks, you may be prompted to choose one. your video should play without issues.

did you find this tutorial helpful? you can buy me a ko-fi as thanks!

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This Week’s Horrible-Scopes

It’s time for this week’s Horrible-Scopes! So for those of you that know your Astrological Signs, cool! If not, just pick one, roll a D12, or just make it up as you go along. It really doesn’t matter. Better yet! Check out “Heart of the Game, Fredonia” and see if they can sell you those D12’s with the symbols on them. Tell them “Shujin Tribble” sentcha. And “Hail, Hail, Fredonia!” Home of the Blue Devil!

Sooooo…. Theme, right? (*Sigh*) Ok, ok. So once again a theme has been suggested, and I seriously considered how to twist this one around on the requester. So you know what? Santa’s already done his thing and I’m SAFE! That’s exactly what I’m about to do. So with no further ado, here are New Year’s Resolutions no one wants to do.

Aries 

You get to set the stage presence here with something known as “Film Academy 2×”. It’s a format specifying an aspect ratio of 1.37:1 that was laid out in the 1930’s because no one could agree on a motion picture technical spec. These days it’s a digital resolution of 1828 × 1332, which is better than any monitor you’ve got right now. So This Week… watch some old Buster Keeton films… and remember, he was the ORIGINAL Jackie Chan for performing stunts!

Taurus 

Swinging over the pond and into true weirdness for Television Broadcasting we get to your resolution system: “Undecoded PALplus”. It was a re-do of the PAL broadcast system that brought 16:9 Widescreen broadcasts, but still supported traditional PAL receivers. So This Week… Learn how to add onto your existing knowledge base without breaking what you had already… meaning just read a damned book for a change, would you? 

Gemini  

A true digital system for once, you’re getting “SVCD” aka the “Super Video CD”. It was a digital movie file, encoded in MPEG-2, and came in one of two varieties: 480i (or 480 pixels square), or 576i (or 480 x 576 pixels). The system came out in 1998 and honestly it’s best use was in early shoot-em-up CD games with video cutscenes to them. So This Week… find your collection of old games and play some again. We’re pretty sure Cookie from You Don’t Know Jack misses you.

Cancer Moon-Child 

Another Disk, another digital format. This time it’s the most prolific media adoption in history: the DVD. Bet most of you didn’t know “DVD” stands for “Digital Versatile Disk”. With a MINIMUM storage capacity of over 4 and-a-half Gigs of data, you could backup most computers completely to one of those puppies. But as a movie disk you’re relegated to the venerable standards of NTSC at 480 lines tall, or PAL’s at 576. The system came out in 1996, and these days it’s impossible to find a movie or TV show NOT on this format. So This Week… Just admit that “DVD 3D” is a Dead Format. You bought all that super expensive stuff and now it’s just not worth it. Get over yourself.

Leo 

Look at you, Leo! Scammin’ off the pack! More laser disk goodness, but this time you get the “CVD”. That’s not a typo; CVD stands for “China Video Disk” and that’s exactly what it sounds like. It was a way of making video disks without needing to go through the whole SVCD standard. It was close, but lacking in resolution. So This Week… Your ability to run under the Patent Lawyers' radars is impressive. Keep up the good work, but don’t get caught.

Virgo 

We know you think you’re superior to everyone else, but that doesn’t mean you’ll succeed in all areas. Your format is “Betacam”, which we’re guessing some of you already kinda know what’s coming. Yes it was as-good or better than VHS for the home market, but for the professionals, it was GREAT! Get a short-play cassette at home, but the Long Play version in the studio, and it was basically The Same Cassette! Sad it got shanked in the end, but sometimes that happens. So This Week… Take some pride in knowing your format may have come out in 1982, but it’s STILL got Technical Support through this past year! 40 Years of Active Duty for a supposedly Failed Format’s pretty damned good in our book! 

Libra

Just when we thought the Analogue Film Industry was an anachronism and lost its relevance… just like Michael Corleone they’re pulling us back in again. This time it’s the “Film 8K” format. We’re not dealing with 1.85:1 any more, but with a resolution of 7992 × 4320… and really, WHY?!?! The only reason this is important is if you’re watching this on a freekin’ MASSIVE projection screen! So, good luck with all that on a computer: VLC will CHOKE to death if you’re running a 1440 monitor and a GTX-1660 Super! So This Week… LOSE SOME WEIGHT!

Scorpio 

We’re just gunna call it right now. You! ARE! BASIC! White-Bread Toast, generic as hell NTSC. The format that swept North America because 60Hz power signals are just a wonderful way to make sure everyone’s receiver works right. Your format supports both Black and White and Colour receivers without breaking anyone’s machine. So you've got that going for you. So This Week… Try replacing your mayonnaise with Caesar Salad Dressing for a new kick.

Sagittarius 

Your format cannot be overstated in how great it was! And, sadly, yes.. “Was”. You need to look up what “Laserdisk” looks like, because, holy HELL, that’s a gorgeous disk. And the output was better than standard NTSC and PAL or SECAM and testing proves this. So This Week… check out Linus Tech Tips on YouTube and see the side-by-side comparison between VHS and Laserdisk, and weep at what we were denied.

Capricorn 

You’ve just GOT to be the Odd One Out, huh? Your format is literally called “405-line”. And the fun part about this is it ISN’T 405 scan-lines in format! Nope! It’s KINDA 503 × 377, give or take a little smearing. It’s a monochrome television broadcasting system introduced with the BBC Television Service in 1936, so it’s done well for itself for a while. BUT! In the United States, the FCC had briefly approved a 405-line color television standard in October 1950, which was developed by CBS… only to find out that it was incompatible with existing black-and-white receivers. So This Week… Don’t think of it as “Conforming to the Norm” so much as “Making sure you don’t destroy everyone with your awesomeness.”

Aquarius 

Going fully to the WebCam, or PervCam, systems, you’re getting the Video Conference System “CIF”, aka the “Common Interchange Format”. Developed for company teleconferencing it was a low-rez 352 × 288 pixel image, and if you want to know what that looked like, you’ll have to watch a fair adaptation of a great book. So This Week… watch the movie “Contact”. The teleconference windows are JUST what it used to look like.

Pisces  

You just HAD to be the personification of annoying A-Hole Cat, huh? Take your pick: VHS, Betamax, or Video8. They all had just CRAP picture quality. About 320 × 486 scans in NTSC, or kinda 310 × 576 in PAL or SECAM, they were all just a cluster of sub-optimal tech sold as just this GREAT stuff, and it really wasn’t. So This Week… Learn what the Sunk Cost Fallacy is and stop falling for all the Wiz-Bang-Shiny-New sales pitches. 

And THOSE are your Horrible-Scopes for this week! Remember if you liked what you got, we’re obviously not working hard enough at these. BUT! If you want a better or nastier one for your own sign or someone else’s, all you need to do to bribe me is just Let Me Know - or check out the Ko-Fi page ( https://ko-fi.com/icarusthelunarguard )! These will be posted online at the end of each week via Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, Discord and BLUESKY.