Post by Cop on Feb 17, 2017 12:28:42 GMT -5
Ok, so I felt like watching Macross Plus again, a rather ace anime OVA, but I was never that impressed with the DVDs I got, even back in the day. Especially the compression errors in the final episode always annoyed me to no end. Getting them on bluray seems to be quite hard (over here at least). Amazon only seems to have an Italian set, which would be cool if it had anything other than Italian subs on it. But Japanese with Italian subs is probably even worse than just unsubbed Japanese...
So downloading an illegal copy it is. Only 1 bluray version available but the specs seem promising and so does the picture and sound when it finishes downloading... ...on the PC that is. Put it in the media player. Great sound, no picture. Put it in the TV directly: stuttering picture even worse stuttering sound. Plug it in the much newer TV downstairs (2016 Samsung), works great for about a minute, then sound starts stuttering...
AAAARGH!
OK, VLC has an option to convert video files, let's give that a go. Make a short test because seems like it'll take as long as the movie run time, which is 2.5 hours so no time for that. Seems to work on the TV downstairs but not gonna watch it there, needs to work upstairs. Media player: unsupported format, TV: same stuttering sound...
OK, option eleventy: just take a laptop upstairs and play movie on the laptop using the TV as a screen. Of course laptop res and TV don't match cloning the screen but at least it works. Can even get the laptop's screen to take itself out of the equation so I can use the TV's resolution and have the video file also at its native res. Play the video file. Looks fine... ...mmmh, is that stuttering? Close full screen, replay windowed. FUCK! fullscreen was stuttering. Why does it stutter fullscreen when it doesn't windowed? Fuck this, native laptop res it is then, movie is old enough not to notice the slightly lesser resolution...
Right, now all I need to do is turn off the laptop's screen so it's not flickering in the corner of my eye while I'm watching the movie on the TV. Do that, TV resets itself to native res, WHYWHYWHY?
Nothing changed for you! Can't I have the one screen off without changing the entire dynamic of the setup? Goddamnit!
So here's what's going to happen: I'm going to start watching that movie later tonight, all 2.5 hours of it, but my guess is around 90 minutes in something is going to go wrong and I'll have to take out the DVDs and watch the rest of it on my CRT TV. I can already feel it...
So downloading an illegal copy it is. Only 1 bluray version available but the specs seem promising and so does the picture and sound when it finishes downloading... ...on the PC that is. Put it in the media player. Great sound, no picture. Put it in the TV directly: stuttering picture even worse stuttering sound. Plug it in the much newer TV downstairs (2016 Samsung), works great for about a minute, then sound starts stuttering...
AAAARGH!
OK, VLC has an option to convert video files, let's give that a go. Make a short test because seems like it'll take as long as the movie run time, which is 2.5 hours so no time for that. Seems to work on the TV downstairs but not gonna watch it there, needs to work upstairs. Media player: unsupported format, TV: same stuttering sound...
OK, option eleventy: just take a laptop upstairs and play movie on the laptop using the TV as a screen. Of course laptop res and TV don't match cloning the screen but at least it works. Can even get the laptop's screen to take itself out of the equation so I can use the TV's resolution and have the video file also at its native res. Play the video file. Looks fine... ...mmmh, is that stuttering? Close full screen, replay windowed. FUCK! fullscreen was stuttering. Why does it stutter fullscreen when it doesn't windowed? Fuck this, native laptop res it is then, movie is old enough not to notice the slightly lesser resolution...
Right, now all I need to do is turn off the laptop's screen so it's not flickering in the corner of my eye while I'm watching the movie on the TV. Do that, TV resets itself to native res, WHYWHYWHY?
Nothing changed for you! Can't I have the one screen off without changing the entire dynamic of the setup? Goddamnit!So here's what's going to happen: I'm going to start watching that movie later tonight, all 2.5 hours of it, but my guess is around 90 minutes in something is going to go wrong and I'll have to take out the DVDs and watch the rest of it on my CRT TV. I can already feel it...