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alexseanchai) wrote2010-03-16 03:24 pm
alexseanchai) wrote2010-03-16 03:24 pm
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The transcripts on SuperWiki are missing something, says I. I shall transcribe the previouslies with citations for the episodes in which the clips first appeared, says I.
(an hour later, after the tenth time replaying a particular three seconds in hopes of getting a better look at a particular split second)
Doing it this way is a pain in the ass, says I. I shall go through the video frame by frame, says I.
(five minutes later, after discovering that the video player I'd been using, Ubuntu's default, does not support frame-by-frame)
Didn't I download eight thousand caps of this episode? says I.
(ten minutes later, after utterly failing to find the screencaps)
Oh yeah, says I. I shall go search for the caps where I actually put them, on the playroom computer, says I.
(five minutes later, after discovering that the .rar of screencaps never contained the previouslies for the episode in question)
Hey, this is a Windows machine, says I. I shall try the episode in Windows Media Player, says I.
(five minutes later, after scurrying downstairs to copy the episode onto my flash drive and scurrying back upstairs to the playroom computer)
Frame-by-frame works just fine in WMP; shiny, says I. But the playroom computer is the one with the crappy monitor (bright colors show up fine, but dial down the saturation—I think it's the saturation—and it's hard verging on impossible to see what's in the picture, even though the picture shows up fine on any other machine; fiddling with contrast or brightness can only make it worse because both are dialed up to the max); I shall do this on the living room computer, says I.
(two hours later, after the sister on the living room computer has finally gone away)
The audio on the episode plays fine, but instead of the video, there's the multicolor twisty thing WMP does when there's only audio; ARGH WTF, says I. This is obviously a problem with the living room computer alone, since I could see the video just fine (for given values of 'see' and 'fine') on the playroom computer; I shall do this on a school computer, says I.
(three days later, when on campus with time to kill)
Same deal as on the living room computer; ARGH WTF, says I. Poking at the Internet tells me it's probably a codec that the playroom computer has and the others don't, but does that tell me anything about which codec I need and where to find it? Of course not, says I.
(an hour later, after the tenth time replaying a particular three seconds in hopes of getting a better look at a particular split second)
Doing it this way is a pain in the ass, says I. I shall go through the video frame by frame, says I.
(five minutes later, after discovering that the video player I'd been using, Ubuntu's default, does not support frame-by-frame)
Didn't I download eight thousand caps of this episode? says I.
(ten minutes later, after utterly failing to find the screencaps)
Oh yeah, says I. I shall go search for the caps where I actually put them, on the playroom computer, says I.
(five minutes later, after discovering that the .rar of screencaps never contained the previouslies for the episode in question)
Hey, this is a Windows machine, says I. I shall try the episode in Windows Media Player, says I.
(five minutes later, after scurrying downstairs to copy the episode onto my flash drive and scurrying back upstairs to the playroom computer)
Frame-by-frame works just fine in WMP; shiny, says I. But the playroom computer is the one with the crappy monitor (bright colors show up fine, but dial down the saturation—I think it's the saturation—and it's hard verging on impossible to see what's in the picture, even though the picture shows up fine on any other machine; fiddling with contrast or brightness can only make it worse because both are dialed up to the max); I shall do this on the living room computer, says I.
(two hours later, after the sister on the living room computer has finally gone away)
The audio on the episode plays fine, but instead of the video, there's the multicolor twisty thing WMP does when there's only audio; ARGH WTF, says I. This is obviously a problem with the living room computer alone, since I could see the video just fine (for given values of 'see' and 'fine') on the playroom computer; I shall do this on a school computer, says I.
(three days later, when on campus with time to kill)
Same deal as on the living room computer; ARGH WTF, says I. Poking at the Internet tells me it's probably a codec that the playroom computer has and the others don't, but does that tell me anything about which codec I need and where to find it? Of course not, says I.
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