Brooke Vibber 
trying makemkvcon's firmware dump before attempting to flash the drive firmware, and it's just hanging
apparently this is a problem for the linux version of makemkv that others have seen :(
will attempt to resolve...
forum recommended downgrading to a known-good version for the firmware flash: eg makemkv 1.17.7
this runs and claims to be successful but when i reboot i'm on the same firmware so it's not taking
i may have the wrong images :D
ok seem to have found the right version; attempting to read a 4k disc now :D
claims to be ripping Ghost in the Shell (1995) in Ultra-HD now :D \o/
movie itself is 54 gigs, plus a few gigs of special features which I assume are in HD, we'll see later
Ultra-HD discs ship with video in HEVC, so they'll benefit the least from a potential re-encoding to AV1 for space savings despite being the largest space-takers because they ship four times as many pixels as HD :D
For MPEG-2, VC-1 and H.264 discs I can get much more significant space savings if I decide to re-encode them, but I have to deinterlace any 480i, 576i, or 1080i material.
Interestingly a lot of Blu-rays these days ship lossless audio tracks which are also quite large!
3.1G Ghost in the Shell (1995) - DVD.mkv
21G Ghost in the Shell (1995) - HD.mkv
51G Ghost in the Shell (1995) - Ultra HD.mkv
ah, moore's law
score! Infuse on the AppleTV actually plays back the original HDR HEVC, even if I enable subtitles
looks nice. is it worth an extra 51 gigabytes of disk space? maybe :D
ok back to the salt mines...
and now back in the Ultra HD mines... :D
another HD/UHD pair:
25G Pitch Perfect 3 (2017) HD.mkv
56G Pitch Perfect 3 (2017) Ultra HD.mkv
the HD disc has an H.264 8-bit SDR video track at about 26 Mbps average, plus several audio tracks and subtitles
the Ultra HD disc has an HEVC 10-bit HDR video track at about 74 Mbps average, plus the same audio and subtitles
my rough mappings for experimental AV1 transcodes:
2 Mbps for 480p/480i/576p/576i <- from ~5 Mbps MPEG-2 on DVDs
12 Mbps for 1080p/1080i <- from ~24 Mbps H.264 on Blu-rays
60 Mbps for 2160p HDR <- from ~75 Mbps HEVC on Blu-rays
(for interlaced sources I have to deinterlace))
However I'm not certain my current AppleTV groks AV1 in hardware, I'm going to have to do some test runs before I commit to anything.
And I'm not committed to re-encoding in the first place still, just fiddling around.
the ultra hd ghost in the shell blu-ray is fucking gorgeous
Dark City Director's cut Ultra HD disc has *eleven* audio tracks:
* 7.1ch Dolby TrueHD + Dolby Atmos
* 5.1ch ac3
* 5.1ch DTS-HD MA
* 5.1ch DTS
* stereo DTS
* stereo ac3
* 5x stereo ac3 audio commentary tracks
and one English SDH subtitle track
and for some reason the HD Blu-ray of Babylon 5: The Road Home (2023) has a second copy of the film, with only a video track (no subtitles or audio)... at a higher bitrate than the main copy
The Stuff (1985) - Theatrical release Ultra HD disc has three audio tracks:
* stereo 24-bit PCM
* 2x stereo ac3 (commentary)
Apparently you can straight up ship uncompressed PCM audio on Blu-ray and everybody considers this a fine use of bitrate. :) :P
found the secret to selecting which version of a title to play back in the Infuse front-end on Apple TV:
*long-press* the play/resume button on the title screen
then pick 'Select version' from there
it occurs to me there was a time when these 100Mbps Ultra HD Blu-ray streams would fill my entire network bandwidth <3
fuck yeah 2.5Gbps backbone in the apartment
Dark City 4k edition comes with both director's cut and theatrical cuts in Ultra HD 2160p/HDR
The Stuff 4k edition has the theatrical cut in Ultra HD 2160p/HDR and a prerelease cut in HD 1080p/SDR
Pitch Perfect 3 and Ghost in the Shell 4k editions ship the same cut in both Ultra HD 2160p/HDR and HD 1080p/SDR versions on separate discs.
no consistency :D it's the wild west here
Hm, the external drive doesn't like Max Headroom disc 4. I'll try it on the other drive later...
the portable drive seems a lot pickier about discs than the internal drive
internal drive likes it fine \o/
i now has a complete archive of Max Headroom, both seasons (and they're short seasons for an American show of its time: 6 and 8 episodes respectively. what is this fucking britain?)
also done ripping The Starlost, which'll be fun
and working on Jeramiah season 1
still have to track down season 2 of that; I'm not 100% sure I saw the whole end of season 2 when it first came out
up to series 7 watching Red Dwarf, finally got into episodes I haven't seen before :)
*watching Max Headroom ep1*
how did they get this project funded it explicitly shows the network executives as evil bastards :D
also, this show has the namesake of Ogg Theora ;)
A/B testing should definitely come with rebus tapes (hashtag dystopia)
wait, Theora has a *car* in her bedroom?
how does she afford this apartment in the big city
the casting in this show is just great
Matt Frewer, Amanda Pays, Jeffrey Tambor... all just do *wonderful*
Max Headroom is a DVD release, seems to ship 480i; single stereo audio track, single subtitle track, no extras.
Nothing fancy, but it's got every episode of the US show and it seems like a clean enough transfer for a 1980s show! :D
This is gonna be fun to finish going through over the next few weeks. Haven't seen them since it came out in the 80s!
how u know when an episode is gonna fuck your shit up:
Babylon 5: "Written by J. Michael Straczynski"
Blake's 7: "Written by Terry Nation"
I still feel like in an ideal world this Blake's 7 Blu-ray set would've just shipped 576i50 data instead of upscaling to 1080i59.94
but whatever. my AppleTV would've just done the same upscaling realtime anyway
did they recast Kristine Kochanski when they bring her back in series 7 Red Dwarf or do i just not recognize the actress after a few seasons' worth of time?
K4-713 
@brooke If it was just a recast of essentially the same character, that would have worked for me. But upon trying to give it a chance the first time, I spent the whole episode wondering what the writers thought Lister would see in this new version, and coming up with not a lot.
...Apparently this is one of my buttons.
...Apparently this is one of my buttons.
@K4_713 yeah i'm not convinced by kochanski 2.0
but i guess she's from an alternate universe, so *whatever*
"fine but i'll complain the whole time"
@brooke The whole 2.0 thing so struck me as a vehicle to get the laziest, oldest, and most worn gender tropes available and usable in the writing.
Jfc, just write in a friend for Kochanski tagging along if you have to have a lady character that absolutely must have the kind of day where you sit quietly with cucumbers on your eyes and can't be interrupted or she gets lady mad.
I'm sure she and the Cat would have found a lot of common ground to play with.
...yep, definitely one of my buttons.