Blithering Confabulations
Tuesday June 16, 2009
Some whining and brief happenings, ultimately polished with the recommended deadly allowance of tat from b3ta.
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Some whining and brief happenings, ultimately polished with the recommended deadly allowance of tat from b3ta.
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.
Wasting 100 quid on an ACM membership is the single most smacktardy thing I did last month. I discovered a few things – it’s easy to be gullible after mind-melting radioactive monitor beams have finished frying your head at the end of the day, and that the ACM is basically a magazine subscription for all kinds of clever types…