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#11

Off-Topic Community / Re: Video Files - playing, edi...

Last post by darkknightkryta - Dec 03, 2025, 06:41 PM

@the-Pi-guy What's going on with your Darkwing Duck?  I think my DVDs were good?

#12

Off-Topic Community / Re: Video Files - playing, edi...

Last post by darkknightkryta - Dec 03, 2025, 06:38 PM

Got a bunch of things going.

- Deinterlacing an early 2000's anime that came in 1080i on the disc, which annoys me. (Have QTGMC set up, which is supposed to be one of the best deinterlacers)

- Upscaling another early 2000's anime that has only been released on DVD in the US.

- I'm still not sure how to handle it. But there's an older Cartoon Darkwing Duck, that for whatever reason looks atrocious.  Like worse than DVD. I feel like I need to do some combination of sharpening, denoising and upscaling.

Install Hybrid.  I've been using their detelecine tools with avisynth.  I was having trouble with Archie's Weird Mystery.  Used Srestore, and set the bob on.  It put the framerate back to 25 fps since it was apparently a pal conversion.  Fixed all the telecining issues.  It's pretty good at finding the changes too.  Handbrake can't make sense of anything that's been modified, so if I compressed a MakeMKV rip or something, without touching the interlace, handbrake can't fix it.  Hybrid can.

#13

Off-Topic Community / Re: AI General Thread

Last post by the-pi-guy - Dec 03, 2025, 04:59 PM

I kind of feel like I'm not that interested in image generation...

I really want video generation on this level...

#14

Off-Topic Community / Re: Movie Thread

Last post by Legend - Dec 03, 2025, 05:32 AM

what video games??

Well they might keep killing their studios, but they still own the ip.

#15

Off-Topic Community / Re: Movie Thread

Last post by kitler53 - Dec 03, 2025, 12:59 AM

And I hope they don't screw up videogames.

what video games??

#16

Off-Topic Community / Re: Movie Thread

Last post by Legend - Dec 02, 2025, 09:23 PM

Please be paramount.

#17

Off-Topic News Discussion / Re: Russia launch pad collapse...

Last post by Legend - Dec 02, 2025, 09:23 PM

Oh! On top of this, a russian astronaut is accused of leaking classified information about american rockets. He has been removed from the crew 12 mission.

#18

Off-Topic Community / Re: Movie Thread

Last post by the-pi-guy - Dec 02, 2025, 07:47 PM

It sounds like it's between Netflix, Paramount, Comcast.   

And it seems like Netflix is the favorite right now. A $71 billion mostly cash offer for WBD streaming and studios. 

#19

Off-Topic Community / Re: AI General Thread

Last post by the-pi-guy - Dec 02, 2025, 07:42 PM

I also asked it to generate a bunch of pictures of "a planet".  Made like 8 of them or so.  

All of them were basically pictures of the Earth, two of them were Earth with Saturn's rings so that was interesting.  I think 2 of them were an almost identical Earth at the same angle, and 4 of the others were at different angles. 

That's a major flaw. With stable diffusion I'd only encounter that issue if I had a specific part of the prompt cranked too high. Like hamsterx3 would produce an identical extreme version of a hamster, but just the regular prompt would produce many different hamsters.

Hopefully the non-distilled version is better.  

#20

Off-Topic Community / Re: Do you even lift bro?

Last post by Legend - Dec 02, 2025, 07:25 PM

I bought a running watch. Only had it for one day, but at least last night I saw my heart rate was 49 bpm before going to bed. So that's pretty good!

But today I did a treadmill run (winter has come) and it seems to have totally spazzed out. Thought my average heartrate was 180 bpm. I was running for 35 minutes so that is pretty much impossible unless I am a freak of nature, but I can't explain it with standard tracking problems like cadence lock.


Oh well. Will try again on Thursday. Maybe I'll be getting a chest strap heartrate monitor for Christmas.