Category: Computers

  • My laptop is dead

    My laptop is dead

    My lovely, would have lived with it for a long time in the future, is now dead to me. It does power on and log into Windows but I found a horrible thing had happened. I don’t know exactly when\what did it but something extorted decently big force onto it, the spiderweb crack center right,…

  • Windows 11

    Windows 11

    What’s the worst thing about Windows 11. Yes, File Explorer, lack of thumbnail options. No options, in other words.

  • Re-encoding

    Re-encoding

    My VC1 project got derailed. (Have to re-do all 3 seasons of Star Trek) …later. H.265 – I’m playing with a rip of Total Recall (1990) from Bluray. I have Avidemux encoding it as H.265 mkv. I have had the movie for awhile but hadn’t watched it until I started to on my Tablet (Samsung…

  • VC1 TV Show project

    I’m running out of space on my harddrive(s) fast since getting The Office complete series on it from Bluray. I’m still in process. My VC1 project from the end of September ’20 became very important to complete. Original Star Trek on Blu-ray, all VC1 ugh. I had converted via Emby in Oct. ’20, but didn’t…

  • VC1 Codecs – Getting rid of them.

    HD content with a VC1 codec doesn’t play easily. It gets dicey when using Emby on Android. Starts and stops, looks mushy, jumps, really unpleasant. If a transcode is applied, everything is good, but it’s a resource hog, of course. So what is the idea of needed action? Make the file Direct Play possible ……