frissons and frabjous merriment in sharesize portions
Or how to force the issue when it comes to watching regionally restricted content. Oops, did I let slip a glowing endorsement of circumventing questionable legal barriers? No, this is all about freedom of information…
wget error handling is atrocious. In these modern days, webservers kick out all kinds of crap and wget is a little antequated in the ways it expects content to be delivered. I found some bugs and fixed them for the latest stable version (1.11.4)
So it seems my previous reverence for VLC is now somewhat diminished since discovering it’s ineffably crap at rendering HD videos. Unsurprising, since it cannot take advantage of cards that support hardware-level decoding of the bits and bytes that provide such fine definition.
Jerky, jittering playback pissing me off to the highest degree, I set out with a metaphorical hammer to give this irritation some percussive debuggery.