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looks good in vlc! i can poke around the whole movie, the chapter markers from both discs have been correctly adjusted and seem to work

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145G The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) - Extended - Ultra HD.mkv

82G The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) - Theatrical - Ultra HD.mkv

"i hope you like lord of the rings"

[brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net]

you're fucking shitting me

#monsterdon

[brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net]

me: "Who would collect this?"

also me: *quietly adds it to my 'save for later'*

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In a light computer environment, some of these dark scenes do better with a 1-stop exposure boost (applied here via hdrfix with `--exposure=1 --tone-map=linear`)

[brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net]

the irksome thing is that VLC always saves out an 8-bit color depth PNG, so it loses some color depth from the 10-bit original, _before_ the colorspace conversion and tone-mapping.

;_;

still look nice once color-corrected tho

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[brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net]

Two Towers extended edition ripped and re-assembled.

[brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net]

jeez 4 hours 23 minutes for The Return of the King's extended edition?

a mere 176 gb

[brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net]

hm, i wonder if there's a way to convince VLC to save snapshots of high color depth sources as 16-bit PNGs instead of 8-bit PNGs

would be easy to update hdrfix to read them...

...but i haven't the slightest idea if that's something that's trivial to change in VLC or Really Hard :D

so that's a thing to explore for later maybe, i'm too swamped this month to dive into VLC source for funsies :D

[brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net]

holy crap they're making some tv show blu-rays in 4k uhd now

fallout (season 1 is out, season 2 can be pre-oredered) and mandalorian for starters

my hard disk's free space:

[brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net]

thanks i hate it

[brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net]

so this star trek movie blu-ray set is laid out nicely on-disc.

the disc title is clean and legible, there's no weird duplicate entries that point to the same stream, and the movie comes at the front followed by the special features

it's like they were being considerate to rippers ;)

[brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net]

Arrived today. "There were no signs" ;)

[brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net]

Ran the numbers on estimated re-encoding times based on the codec breakdown, targeting settings for about a real-time encode on my 16-core rig for HD.

870 total hours of material
6.3 TB of input data
savings ratio very variable
~650 hours of estimated encode time (27 days non-stop)

opportunity cost of having background shit running for a month versus buying a new drive: dunno ;)

[brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net]

there would also be an electricity cost to running a 27-day batch encode, which i estimate at $15 ;)

which i guess is cheaper than a drive, by itself ;)

[brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net]

meanwhile back in Star Trek

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hmm, I wonder how far VLC on Linux is from being able to display HDR video as actual HDR

At least under Wayland, my GNOME desktop has a big "HDR" switch on the Displays settings, and I can see it switches me to HDR *mode* and gives me a big brightness slider for the SDR windows (everything) but nothing I've seen yet shows me anything in HDR. ;)