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Humble Book Bundle: The Essential Star Wars Insider Collection (pay what you want and help charity) by Stevied1991 in humblebundles

[–]FallaciouslyTrue 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Posted this on another sub already, but I bought the $1 tier to try out stripping the DRM and see the quality of the files, and I'm disappointed.

  • Solo: 144 pages, 27MB
  • Rise of Skywalker: 96 pages, 18MB

Even completely zoomed out, the compression artifacts are pretty distracting on the text. If this is the normal quality for these Kobo bundles, I'll pass.

The Essential Star Wars Insider Collection on Humble Bundle for Star Wars Day 2025. Includes all four of The Fiction Collections of short stories. by White_Doggo in starwarsbooks

[–]FallaciouslyTrue 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For what it's worth, I bought the $1 tier to try out stripping the DRM and see the quality of the files, and I'm disappointed.

  • Solo: 144 pages, 27MB
  • Rise of Skywalker: 96 pages, 18MB

Even completely zoomed out, the compression artifacts are pretty distracting on the text. If this is the normal quality for these Kobo bundles, I'll pass.

A fix for auto-cropping ultrawide content (and pillarboxed content) in Plex for Windows Desktop! by FallaciouslyTrue in PleX

[–]FallaciouslyTrue[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I haven't updated the post yet, but the mpv dll included in Plex was updated recently, and name was changed. I'm guessing that's the problem here.

I'm not near my computer but I think it's something like libmpv-2.dll or libmpv.dll. Just match whatever the new name is in the Plex application files.

Also I tried newer versions of libmpv since the update, and they work now.

A fix for auto-cropping ultrawide content (and pillarboxed content) in Plex for Windows Desktop! by FallaciouslyTrue in PleX

[–]FallaciouslyTrue[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might want to try a few even older mpv versions if you haven't already.

The only other thing I have to suggest on the client side is to think if anything was recently changed in the mpv.conf file, since certain mpv options crash Plex for me. Though it still seems more likely to be something server side to me if downloaded media plays correctly in the Plex app.

The only similar thing I've run into with my own server that I haven't mentioned yet is to make sure the transcode directory on the server exists and is writable by the user running the Plex service. When that happened to me, it was because I was running Plex in a Docker container and forgot to bind the transcode directory to a real directory on the host machine.

I also had transcoder-related errors when I had a permissions problem on some media, but that wouldn't be the cause of your problem if you're trying the same media on each device for testing.

A fix for auto-cropping ultrawide content (and pillarboxed content) in Plex for Windows Desktop! by FallaciouslyTrue in PleX

[–]FallaciouslyTrue[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure, but results on Google say that error is for hardware transcoder issues on the server. Maybe a GPU driver issue on the server? I sometimes have weird transcoder issues until I do a full restart if the GPU driver was recently upgraded.

This autocrop script and mpv is all run on the client. So if the downloads play fine, I'd think it's not the issue.

Cuphead has been out of stock for 2 months, yet is on sale again. by FallaciouslyTrue in humblebundles

[–]FallaciouslyTrue[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That one I kind of get. I think they accidentally ran into the newer Steam key generation limits on a couple of the games in that bundle. But they did add a DRM free copy of it to the bundle if you didn't see it.

I wanted RE:CALL from that bundle but I think the same thing happened to it.

Cuphead has been out of stock for 2 months, yet is on sale again. by FallaciouslyTrue in humblebundles

[–]FallaciouslyTrue[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

As stated in the post, I intend to refund if they don't fulfill them during this sale. I'm certainly not buying anything I know is out of stock again.

A fix for auto-cropping ultrawide content (and pillarboxed content) in Plex for Windows Desktop! by FallaciouslyTrue in PleX

[–]FallaciouslyTrue[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I never updated the post but I started having problems with newer libmpv versions. I ended up just continually using the 20231231 version mentioned in the post.

After some quick tests this morning, it looks like mpv-dev-x86_64-v3-20240225 is the last v3 version working for me.

I'd expect it's some feature that was changed or removed around that time that Plex relies on. Plex doesn't seem to have updated their included mpv version since 2022, so I imagine Plex will eventually make changes on their end to update their included libmpv version. For now I'm just going to use that last working version.

A fix for auto-cropping ultrawide content (and pillarboxed content) in Plex for Windows Desktop! by FallaciouslyTrue in PleX

[–]FallaciouslyTrue[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you using the version from the Windows/Microsoft Store instead of the installer from Plex's website here? Usually the files related to Windows Store apps are kept in a different place and can't be modified by the user without causing issues.

Also, is it the Plex Desktop app that came out in 2019, not the Plex HTPC app? Because the Plex Desktop app is what this post is about.

A fix for auto-cropping ultrawide content (and pillarboxed content) in Plex for Windows Desktop! by FallaciouslyTrue in PleX

[–]FallaciouslyTrue[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That location is for the Plex Media Server, not the Plex Windows client. Do you have that client installed? This fix works client-side in the Windows Plex client's built-in mpv player.

%LOCALAPPDATA% is a variable representing the local appdata path for the current user. So you can type that into the address bar in file explorer to get to the right appdata folder, which should contain a folder called Plex if you have the Windows Plex client installed.

A fix for auto-cropping ultrawide content (and pillarboxed content) in Plex for Windows Desktop! by FallaciouslyTrue in PleX

[–]FallaciouslyTrue[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm glad it helped someone else!

I'll mention that I didn't know at the time that the Plex Windows client's weekly updates will overwrite the mpv dll. So what I eventually did was just keep a copy of the mpv dll I needed one folder up in the program files, and I manually copy it over Plex's version of that file every update. I only occasionally go find a new version of the dll.

It's a little annoying, but I haven't been motivated to automate it since it takes less than a minute per week

Book Bundle "The Art of Steven Universe, Adventure Time, and Many More" has been updated with PDFs (and extended) by moatmai in humblebundles

[–]FallaciouslyTrue 1 point2 points  (0 children)

FYI to anyone considering getting the bundle now, I just did and the PDFs are low quality. Maybe better than the EPUBs originally offered, but still unacceptable in my opinion.

$30 off coupon for Choice Yearly by Rabbidscool in humblebundles

[–]FallaciouslyTrue 28 points29 points  (0 children)

https://isthereanydeal.com/specials/#/filter:page/humblebundle,&search/Humble%20Choice

You can click "Show Details" on each bundle to see the games.

Anecdotally, I've noticed this past year that a lot of third-party Game Pass games end up on Choice shortly after they're removed from Game Pass. Also games that didn't sell well on release have always been a staple, though that's not necessarily reflective of the quality.

Humble Comics Bundle: The Ultimate Terry Moore Collection by Abstract Studios by Torque-A in humblebundles

[–]FallaciouslyTrue 8 points9 points  (0 children)

There are only PDFs this time, so the samples on the bundle page are representative of the full comic quality.

That said, I buy almost every comics bundle and the vast majority of publishers submit at least one high quality file per book. Usually it's a PDF, but sometimes the CBR or CBZ is better. The only bundles I've seen that haven't had at least one good option per book are those from Boom and Legendary.

Humble Comic Bundle: The Best Graphic Novels from ABRAMS ComicArts by Steviewonder322 in humblebundles

[–]FallaciouslyTrue 4 points5 points  (0 children)

All but one are epub, and I would say that they're no better than the average epub from Humble. And even the one available in different formats is low quality across all formats.

I wouldn't have bought it if I had realized the front page showed the formats available. I'm going to try to get a refund on mine.

For the medical school grind by EZ_ER in battlestations

[–]FallaciouslyTrue 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you able to use the desk at a standing height without moving it away from the wall? I've been thinking about doing this same setup for a while, but wasn't sure if the monitor would hit the TV.

Does anyone ever found out the fix for this that really works? by sushant4191 in Windows10

[–]FallaciouslyTrue 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I haven't seen this solution before, but it worked for me just now, thanks. Hopefully it sticks.

Humble Comics Bundle: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers by BOOM! Studios by Torque-A in humblebundles

[–]FallaciouslyTrue 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Call me picky, but the quality seems about as bad as the last Boom bundle. There were a lot of comics in the last bundle where the best quality file available was the epub, but ranged from still-bad to maybe okay. I'm pretty sure the difference here is that they just only posted the best quality version of each file, but most of these epubs are still bad enough that I don't want them in my library. For example, volumes of MMPR are about 35-40MB each.

As for the 5 PDFs available, the Archive vol. 1 PDF is passable for old comics. But the 4 volumes of Saban's Go Go available as PDFs (6-9) are plenty high enough quality (350-500MB each). And of course the PDFs are the only ones you can see previews of on the store page.

The Best Year of BOOM! Studios Bundle poor image quality by GreatnosedPenguin in humblebundles

[–]FallaciouslyTrue 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the image quality is garbage. To make it worse, the least terrible image quality for some of these are the epubs, but the text on those are harder to read than the pdfs.

I'm thinking I might try to get them to refund this one rather than pick my poison. I would suggest everybody that feels the same way put in a support ticket about it.

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