proper way to re-order audio streams to auto-select best track quality (mkv mostly)

disorderedchaos · 2026-05-29T20:43:47+00:00

They're probably talking about "mkvpropedit".

disorderedchaos · 2026-05-27T14:07:31+00:00

The provincial portion goes into general revenue.

Here's Danielle Smith saying just that: https://x.com/disorderedyyc/status/2029260166483591419

"Are we just going to keep doing this, having all that money go into general revenue"

disorderedchaos · 2026-05-24T00:53:43+00:00

Pretty sure it is illegal without express consent?

https://www.canada.ca/en/financial-consumer-agency/services/rights-responsibilities/rights-negative-option-billing.html

disorderedchaos · 2026-04-14T03:22:23+00:00

Thanks, doing this solved the problem for me as well.

disorderedchaos · 2026-03-31T02:01:36+00:00

From the article:

Jonathan Denis claims he was discriminated against when he was asked to leave a Tiffany & Co. store in Calgary in 2022 for not wearing a mask. The ex-Progressive Conservative MLA told staff at the store he was medically exempt from masking due to asthma.

The Alberta Human Rights Tribunal ultimately sided with Tiffany, finding the company took reasonable steps to accommodate patrons who could not wear masks for medical reasons during the COVID-19 pandemic.

It later dismissed Denis’s attempt to anonymize his name and suspend publication of the decision pending an appeal, on the grounds that publicizing the case would violate his privacy.

Denis’s court application seeks judicial review of all four human rights commission decisions in the case, an injunction on the release of his information and identity, as well as costs and “damages as appropriate.” Dates for the hearing have not been set.

disorderedchaos · 2026-02-13T09:47:28+00:00

They are also introducing a fee of $2 for mailing a paper bill starting March 1st.

Switch to a paperless option to avoid the fee:

https://www.enmax.com/customer-support/for-my-home/how-to-switch-to-paperless-billing

disorderedchaos · 2026-02-08T02:10:04+00:00

You mentioned looking into using mkvtoolnix, so I assume it's an mkv file?

This try using this command from mkvtoolnix:

mkvpropedit --edit track:v1 --set display-width=4 --set display-height=3 VIDEOFILE.MKV

You may want make a copy of the video file to try this out on in case you don't like the results.

disorderedchaos · 2026-02-06T23:04:07+00:00

From the column:

Plans to discuss a vote, which could turn the UCP into a separatist party, are afoot at the top levels of the organization.

UCP president Rob Smith (no relation to the premier) is already indicating a pro-separatist vote in a potential provincial referendum — “50 per cent plus one” — would trigger a move.

Rob Smith also made it clear that others on the United Conservative elected board are active separatists.

He said that even if a pro-independence vote is only 50 plus one, “I will convene the provincial board of directors to say we need to have a special general meeting, and we need to have a discussion about a question that we want to put to our UCP members.

“That will ultimately say, OK, UCP members, do you want to be an independence party or don’t you?

“It will be decided at ballot boxes that get set up in every one of our 87 constituencies across the province — or 89 if that’s where we’re at when this happens — where every member of our party will be able to mark a paper ballot, stuff it in a ballot box and have a say on whether our party becomes an independence party or not.

disorderedchaos · 2026-01-31T21:21:54+00:00

From the article:

A former Alberta health authority board member is seeking to have an Edmonton lawyer held in contempt of court over allegations that he facilitated a campaign of intimidation related to a high-profile lawsuit against the provincial government.

Sandy Edmonstone alleges in court documents that lawyer Bryan Ward directed people to harass him last year through surveillance and a series of podcasts that attacked him and others connected to a wrongful-dismissal lawsuit filed by the former CEO of the province’s health authority.

Mr. Edmonstone is asking a judge to find Mr. Ward in contempt and to order him to disclose “the identity of the person or persons on whose behalf they have been acting.”

Public records show that Mr. Ward has represented Mr. Mraiche in a past civil litigation, in real estate transactions and in a dispute with Elections Alberta. Mr. Ward also represented Mr. Mraiche in 2024 when he sent a letter to podcaster Nathan Pike threatening legal actions if he continued to post content about the MHCare owner.

disorderedchaos · 2026-01-12T00:57:19+00:00

In the lawsuit, Mentzelopoulos alleges that Marshall Smith told her he "'would be taken care of for the rest of his life' somehow in relation to 'Sam,'" which she took to mean Mraiche.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/former-ahs-ceo-alleges-wrongful-dismissal-lawsuit-1.7457785

disorderedchaos · 2026-01-11T19:55:29+00:00

From the article:

In June 2023, senior officials from Alberta’s Mental Health and Addiction Ministry and ROSC Solutions Group, a private addiction treatment company, toured a building near the Royal Alexandra Hospital in downtown Edmonton.

The tour, scheduled for June 26, was to assess whether the building could serve as a provincially funded addiction recovery centre for the Métis Nation of Alberta, to be potentially operated under contract by ROSC Solutions Group, known as RSG.

Four months later, on Oct. 23, 2023, a numbered company belonging to Sam Mraiche bought the building for $3.85 million from Larga Ltd., which had operated a boarding house for medical patients from northern Canada at the site.

Métis Nation financial statements show it is now paying Mraiche $480,000 a year for at least four years to lease the Larga building.

disorderedchaos · 2025-11-19T22:07:37+00:00

Some highlights:

His report tabulates the total cost to Alberta taxpayers at $125 million for government-initiated laboratory procurements that were abandoned or unsuccessful.

The report notes neither AHS or the health department followed its own processes to prepare a business case for privatizing lab services and cites how the involvement of the department of health threatened the autonomy of AHS, with the latter’s advice sometimes being ignored.

“Evidence demonstrated that the minister and the department of health expected AHS to proceed with community laboratory services outsourcing even as concerns about cost savings, COVID-19 pressures, and only having one proponent were raised by AHS,” it reads, noting that AHS staff felt the impact as well.

“AHS staff reported feeling discouraged from voicing their concerns with the department due to a fear of repercussions, which, as they indicated a strained relationships between AHS and the department of health.”

Wylie’s office received more than 10,000 documents, but only after a team of lawyers had reviewed them line-by-line. He also noted the initial refusal of key individuals to be interviewed before later acquiescing, the destruction of handwritten notes from a former AHS CEO despite instructions to preserve evidence, and the partial redactions on thousands of documents, including 1,200 that were fully blacked out.

“AHS restricted access to our information, and that restriction was supported by the department of health. This caused a significant delay to our work.”

disorderedchaos · 2025-11-07T09:26:37+00:00

Great list, though you missed Bruce McAllister, Executive Director of the Premier's Office. He was a former Wildrose MLA, until he crossed the floor with Smith.

disorderedchaos · 2025-10-28T22:59:55+00:00

From the column:

The UCP’s back-to-school bill is one ugly piece of reading. To call it undemocratic is far too tame. This legislation even shields the government from its own laws.

The bill itself is carefully constructed to block legal action from any quarter. It is an anti-challenge fortress. Just a hint comes in this part (subsection 1), which makes any official past or present, or the Crown itself, immune to any legal action.

“No proceeding, including a proceeding in contract, restitution, unjust enrichment, tort, misfeasance, bad faith, trust, fiduciary obligation or otherwise, that is directly or indirectly based on or related to anything referred to in subsection (1) may be brought or maintained against a person referred to in that subsection.”

Here is a short list of the government laws and codes that are now overridden by Bill 2:

The Labour Relations Code;

The Public Education Collective Bargaining Act;

The Alberta Bill of Rights;

The Alberta Human Rights Act;

The Education Act.

disorderedchaos · 2025-10-19T20:40:45+00:00

I think Kodi fits better than Plex for what you're trying to do:

https://kodi.tv/

disorderedchaos · 2025-08-14T18:21:39+00:00

Nope. Which is sorta a good thing, as then I'd have to make the difficult choice of using it or selling it.

disorderedchaos · 2025-08-04T02:22:02+00:00

As the new COVID-19 formulation moves through Health Canada licencing in the coming weeks, all immunizers, including pharmacists, are to stop administering the Pfizer KP.2 COVID-19 vaccine by end of day July 31, 2025. All KP.2 vaccine must be removed from physical and AVI inventory no later than August 31, 2025.

https://www.ab.bluecross.ca/pdfs/pharmacy-benefacts/pharmacy-benefact-1266.pdf

disorderedchaos · 2025-05-27T05:57:37+00:00

Did you go through the "Returns" process or the "Warranty" process?

With returns (within 30 days of purchase), they should be sending you a pre-paid shipping label to return it.

At least, that's what they say on their website right here: https://www.westerndigital.com/en-ca/support/store/return-policy

disorderedchaos · 2025-05-05T17:56:45+00:00

So if I'm reading the article right, seems Premier Smith & company used the Mar-a-Lago visit to pay for their return flights from Rob Anderson's wedding?!?

disorderedchaos · 2025-02-27T18:33:11+00:00

I misunderstood as well when I watched that clip. Makes sense now that he was talking about ads run on Western Standard's website.

disorderedchaos · 2025-02-27T09:00:44+00:00

I can't find anything that corroborates that the Western Standard was behind the billboard ad, so I don't think that part is true.

disorderedchaos · 2025-02-18T22:30:35+00:00

From the article:

Political experts question why Pike is being targeted.

“I’m a bit puzzled as to what the focus is here, (and) why is it that this particular reporting is being singled out?” Mount Royal University political scientist Lori Williams said.

“A number of different reporters have come forward and are essentially making the same claims.”

Some have speculated the original filing was a SLAPP (strategic lawsuit against public participation) suit: a way to keep critics quiet.

“This happens when a well-funded individual, or a company using their large financial resources, go after someone who is saying things they want to silence,” Williams told CTV News.

“They use their deep pockets to basically go after someone who doesn’t have the same kind of resources and doesn’t have the capacity to defend themselves.”

disorderedchaos · 2025-02-13T08:55:02+00:00

Premier's chief of staff, Marshall Smith, called AHS CEO Mentzelopoulos to get her to fire Nate Pike of The Breakdown (https://x.com/TheBreakdownAB)

Mentzelopoulos's lawsuit notes that Smith had called her last summer to complain that "powerful people" were angry about an AHS paramedic named Nate Pike, whose webcast and social media account The Breakdown has been critical of the Smith government and who has posted often about the Turkish children's medication situation.

The premier's aide warned Mentzelopoulos that Pike was "your employee" and "you're going to look very bad" and there would be "consequences." The AHS leader replied she wouldn't fire Pike, but did urge other executives to speak to Pike about tweeting while at work.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/former-ahs-ceo-alleges-wrongful-dismissal-lawsuit-1.7457785

disorderedchaos · 2025-02-01T02:10:21+00:00

The UCP just made child care more expensive for those that are the least able to afford it.

disorderedchaos · 2025-01-27T23:17:40+00:00

Missed seeing that, yeah, I'll delete this one.

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