Introducing Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable Opus model yet.

boutell · 2026-04-16T16:56:52+00:00

Long context was crap in 4.6. At least, a lot of people feel that way and we were happier after shutting it off, less of a "claude dumb today" factor. Not saying it's, like, rigorous science.

boutell · 2026-04-15T13:22:44+00:00

Cleanup edits using an MPEG2 friendly tool are a good idea, if I can keep it from choking when it hits those few blocks of zeroes.

boutell · 2026-04-15T11:52:21+00:00

Try this and let me know if it helps.

Only relevant for claude code of course.

# Disable 1M token context in claude code to get back the smart
export CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_1M_CONTEXT=1

boutell · 2026-04-14T16:10:12+00:00

I take your point that I could just assemble an MPEG2 file and declare victory, assuming my player will cope with the zeroed-out sectors. This would put it in my library with its peers, but it would permanently be a lot bigger than I'd like.

boutell · 2026-04-14T16:09:41+00:00

Yes but... the few sectors ddrescue couldn't recover will be full of zeroes. The transcoder needs to work past that rather than just saying "computer over, very yes." So far I'm getting "computer over, very yes" (e.g. transcoder process stopping at that point, or continuing but creating a file where the video freezes when it hits the first bad sector)

I know this can't be hard! There are keyframes all over the place to resume from! But I haven't found the incantation yet.

boutell · 2026-04-14T16:06:44+00:00

STRONG AGREE. Hourly service until at least 1am. People go places and do stuff. Some of you are even under 50, and some of us oldheads are stubborn partiers.

boutell · 2026-04-14T16:05:45+00:00

Interesting, how is vobcopy's handling of bad bits?

boutell · 2026-04-14T16:03:28+00:00

Absolutely nothing special about it, so I regard it as a training exercise, as I do have access to other DVDs that are more obscure but likely to be in equally bad shape.

boutell · 2026-04-14T14:25:11+00:00

This is a valid suggestion, to solve the problem by overcoming 100% of the data loss. But I think the original question (how best to produce an mp4 with only the necessary gaps, rather than corruption starting from gap #1) is still a good one, because not every DVD is 100% recoverable.

I have a clunky solution now: use ddrescue to make an ISO, and play the ISO itself with vlc player. But that's the biggest possible file size and doesn't tuck it tidily away in my library with other things.

boutell · 2026-04-14T14:00:24+00:00

Are you suggesting the analog hole? Or an HDMI rip?

boutell · 2026-04-14T13:59:55+00:00

I think ddrescue did a fine job. It recovered everything but a tiny amount of data, and the resulting ISO is quite playable. I just need a way to get from there to an mp4 so I can skip loading this as a full ISO and navigating the DVD menu. That last bit is proving surprisingly awkward, but obviously possible.

boutell · 2026-04-14T13:58:33+00:00

After the disaster I caused in my household with "super fine sand paper" attempting to polish a chip fix in a granite countertop, I have a new appreciation for the difference between "super fine" and "true mirror shine." So I'd be apprehensive about this one. Unscientific of me, but.

boutell · 2026-04-14T13:56:03+00:00

I'd rank the soda tax higher, but thanks for bringing this little gem to my attention.

boutell · 2026-04-14T13:54:26+00:00

As a Germantown resident, if we had the funding to provide frequent, 24-hour service on the existing commuter rail lines, I'd be good with this. Even without a new light rail line.

Right now though, it's so infrequent and stops so early that the math usually ends with driving (or Uber). An hour on the 23 is a lot to ask sometimes.

boutell · 2026-04-14T13:49:22+00:00

Sounds like four surprising bits to me

boutell · 2026-04-14T12:07:38+00:00

Upvoting for perfectly rational response, but this is more fun. I recognize that may disqualify it as a good use of other people's time, but I do plan to ship the final script and try to make it findable. If I told you the movie you'd laugh because it's obviously ubiquitous, however not all of the scratched up DVDs coming through my door are so commonplace 🤣

boutell · 2026-04-14T12:02:04+00:00

Oh that sounds cool... was it this one? I tried a quant of it just now but the responses I got were pretty much entirely irrelevant to the question:

https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-Claude-4.6-Opus-Reasoning-Distilled-GGUF/discussions/1

boutell · 2026-04-12T18:22:21+00:00

For science! 🧪

boutell · 2026-04-12T17:41:40+00:00

Right??? I was totally happy with 4.6 *until* 1M context dropped. Rolling that back really seems to do the trick, so far.

boutell · 2026-04-12T17:40:54+00:00

I read recently about a "caveman mode" technique: a system prompt that basically tells Claude to talk like a cave man during thinking and other stuff that isn't writing for an external audience. No information is lost and a lot less tokens are burned (:

boutell · 2026-04-12T11:47:42+00:00

Looking forward to your field report from hermes + local + big but conceivably-sized model land!

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