I hate undocumented features
Sep. 10th, 2004 08:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsWell, I have a lot to be annoyed about. Maria-Sama is at an end for the year, and while the ending was touching and beautiful I'm now hooked for more. I wonder if Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito will match it for intensity.
My car needed a new water pump and a new fuel system. Pricey. And the rattling noise was a loose flange covering where exhaust entered the engine block. Replacing that was cheap. But still, the overall bill added up. I won't be going to many cons or buying many toys over the next couple of months.
I got an (automated, but still) email from the anime meetup system asking me if I went and did I enjoy it? Of course I didn't go, so I didn't enjoy it. But, according to the machine's own records, nobody else went either.
And, while hacking at the code for mkdvd, I discovered the undocumented feature that lets me pre-transcode my files for NTSC (the US broadcast standard) rather than live with the internal (and terrible) PAL-to-NTSC translator. I hate undocumented features. The .vob argument ought to be front and center in the usage page, never mind it's necessity in the documentation!
My car needed a new water pump and a new fuel system. Pricey. And the rattling noise was a loose flange covering where exhaust entered the engine block. Replacing that was cheap. But still, the overall bill added up. I won't be going to many cons or buying many toys over the next couple of months.
I got an (automated, but still) email from the anime meetup system asking me if I went and did I enjoy it? Of course I didn't go, so I didn't enjoy it. But, according to the machine's own records, nobody else went either.
And, while hacking at the code for mkdvd, I discovered the undocumented feature that lets me pre-transcode my files for NTSC (the US broadcast standard) rather than live with the internal (and terrible) PAL-to-NTSC translator. I hate undocumented features. The .vob argument ought to be front and center in the usage page, never mind it's necessity in the documentation!
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Can you expand...
Date: 2004-09-10 09:07 am (UTC)Re: Can you expand...
Date: 2004-09-10 10:21 am (UTC)The undocumented secret is that, when you're done transcoding, change the extension to .vob. mkdvd will only complain then if the files aren't consistent, but it won't try to transcode them, assuming they're ready to be compiled into a DVD filesystem.
Note that I haven't tried this yet. I only found it this morning while hacking on the bus ride. But if it works, I'm going to be really mad. Still, it might kill the fansub stuttering...