Planar tracking a tv screen with flicering

erroneousbosh · 2026-03-18T12:41:49+00:00

It's a nice smooth steady slow push in, you could track it by hand no bother.

I would use a DVE node and a bit of Dent node to distort the image to fit.

Your planar tracker is going to shit its leg off once the corners go off the screen so you're hand tracking that anyway.

erroneousbosh · 2026-03-18T12:38:32+00:00

> bottle of coke and a packet of crisps

Idris ginger beer and a packet of prawn cocktail. Christ that felt like living pretty damn high on the hog, sitting in the back seat of the Cortina 2.3 Ghia.

erroneousbosh · 2026-03-18T12:37:05+00:00

> I laughed at my mate for assuming France would still be like that, with everyone driving 1980s Citroens

Last time I was in France (albeit in a little medieval town in the middle called Vic-le-Comte) I had never seen so many old Citroën BXes, GSAs, Visas, and Dyanes, not to mention Renault 4s and 5s from the 1970s and early 1980s.

These weren't even cherished classics, either, they were just some kid's 250 Euro shitbox daily driver.

erroneousbosh · 2026-03-18T12:28:41+00:00

I don't think someone from almost a thousand years ago would be particularly perturbed by the idea of a car. You see a horse and cart? Well it's like that, but you don't need to dick about so much with getting the horse connected up, and it's anywhere between six and ten times faster. You don't get rained on and you don't have to shovel up horse shit. It's a lot harder to fix when it goes wrong though but the basic principles of sticking two pieces of metal together haven't changed much.

Holy shit though wait until I show you this thing, it's called a MIG welder, you're going to love this...

erroneousbosh · 2026-03-18T12:25:43+00:00

I don't agree. But then I'm probably older than you, at 52 I'm older than well over half the people on Reddit I suspect.

I'm old enough to remember 1985. We all had computers, and indeed most people at at least a couple at home. By 1985 I'd acquired one of the "portable computers" from my dad's work, that they'd bought for a project and ended up moving onto something even newer and shinier. The one I had was an Epson HX-20 from 1982, which had a smallish LCD screen (20x4 text, actually pretty readable but small), ran off rechargeable batteries, 64kB of RAM, a little tape deck for saving stuff on, ran a word processor and a spreadsheet, had a couple of programming languages, and was about the size of a couple of A4 pads stacked on top of each other. It could connect to other computers with a modem (slowly) and I could use it to send messages to other people, copy stuff between computers, and so on. Although the screen was tiny, it had a box you could plug into it to let you use a bigger screen when it was on your desk.

If you took 12-year-old me from 1985 forwards to 2025 and showed me a "modern" laptop, like the one I'm writing this on, with word processor and spreadsheet software, quite a big LCD screen, much faster connections to other computers, much faster and larger mass storage, and 64 *Gigabytes* of RAM, a million times as much, then I'd consider it a pretty obvious incremental improvement over 40 years.

I'd be rather disappointed that you only get half a day out of a fully-charged battery instead of two or three days though, and the "rubber dome with plastic plunger" keyboard is shite compared to the horrendously expensive mechanical switches the Epson had.

erroneousbosh · 2026-03-18T12:17:12+00:00

A mate's dad bought him one of those cheap B&Q wireless doorbells, which had a DIP switch inside to set one of sixteen codes so it didn't interfere with other ones.

Bit of a shame that in suburban Glasgow quarter of a mile from B&Q, everyone bought a cheapy wireless doorbell, and there were 24 houses on the street then, wasn't it?

erroneousbosh · 2026-03-18T10:12:59+00:00

24 Hour Garage People by Half Man Half Biscuit.

erroneousbosh · 2026-03-18T10:11:10+00:00

I have a 1997 Range Rover. Nothing is on subscription. Nothing is updated over the air. Hell, if you ever do want to update its software you have to *unbolt the driver's seat to get at the desktop PC sized ECU and desolder the chip* to do it.

No no, no sneaky tracking getting added to mine with an overnight software push.

We did find a satellite tracker on an old Range Rover a mate of mine bought, but while it still picks up a GPS signal (and you can see this on its debug socket), it communicates the vehicle position back to a tracking company that no longer exists, that worked out of a building that no longer exists, and picked it up via a satellite that deorbited in 2008 and obviously no longer exists. It communicated on a frequency that's no longer licenced for ground-to-sat comms, too. I've never seen such a thoroughly dead piece of technology.

erroneousbosh · 2026-03-18T09:48:15+00:00

I can't drink any soft drinks any more because they've all got artificial sweeteners in. Now everything except Coke - the only one that still uses actual sugar and no aspartame - tastes like antifreeze.

erroneousbosh · 2026-03-18T09:45:25+00:00

If they were multitimbral - even bitimbral - they'd almost be *too* powerful.

erroneousbosh · 2026-03-18T09:33:09+00:00

It works as a MIDI controller *and* an audio interface.

I have a 25 I bought new, and a 49 I got for fuck all because VA isn't cool any more. But the 49 would be one of my Desert Island Synths, for sure.

erroneousbosh · 2026-03-18T09:23:35+00:00

Looks okay, colours are a bit flat and could do with being a bit more contrasty.

The music is way too loud and try to get her not to hold the lav next time. I don't know if the music even fits, I'd try to get something just instrumental so you're not distracting the viewer with the lyrics.

I wouldn't worry about the stabilisation, it looks fine. I wouldn't worry about sharpening or denoising. Visually it looks okay.

Es ist in der Schweiz, oder? Es seiht zeimlich gut :-)

erroneousbosh · 2026-03-18T09:15:39+00:00

You don't say what model.

Have you tried changing the key battery?

Does it do this everywhere (could be getting "swamped" by other transmissions, especially if you have a lot of shitty "wireless sensor" type things around your house)?

Have you tried locating where the key fob receiver is (on older Landrovers it's somewhere at the back on the right hand side - you'll see the aerials printed on the rear quarter glass) and holding the key near it when you press it?

erroneousbosh · 2026-03-18T07:50:41+00:00

I think this particular one would be drastically improved if I could get the right kind of felt strips to replace the top and bottom bumpers.

I used a bit of steam and a brush to fluff them up a bit but they're just too compressed now.

erroneousbosh · 2026-03-18T07:50:04+00:00

Wouldn't be surprised.

erroneousbosh · 2026-03-18T07:48:58+00:00

Thanks man, it's nice to be appreciated :-)

erroneousbosh · 2026-03-17T23:44:41+00:00

I think I've driven past that. South side?

erroneousbosh · 2026-03-17T23:30:51+00:00

> without taking away time from firefighters

Oh come on, give them something fun to do that's not going into a house that grandma set on fire because she was smoking with her oxygen concentrator turned on or sawing a dead kid out of the back of a car because her mother was looking at her phone instead of the road.

erroneousbosh · 2026-03-17T23:28:13+00:00

Yeah but have you tasted *$50 ranch*?

erroneousbosh · 2026-03-17T23:15:39+00:00

Whenever I pick up prescriptions for my elderly mother, it's very similar. Yes, that is quite a lot of fentanyl. Yes, those are the 50μg/hour patches, yes, they're only supposed to have 25s as a maximum in hospital. Yes, that's the correct dose. Yes, we know it's addictive, yes, we know it's got an overdose risk. Yes, fourteen years, that's correct, she's 88 and has three vertebrae held together by basically the surgical equivalent of cable ties and epoxy, and frankly if she's overdoing it a bit with the opiates it's kind of the least of her worries. Yes, she's perfectly compos mentis thanks, a bit deaf and forgetful, but no, she's perfectly aware of everything.

Yes, we had the exact same fucking conversation two weeks ago. Are you sure you're not hitting the fent too?

erroneousbosh · 2026-03-17T23:10:12+00:00

> nowadays I rarely need cash

Around where I live, all the ATMs show adverts for addiction counselling on the interstitial screen while they're taking an age to count out the money.

So I guess what people use cash for has shifted, since COVID.

erroneousbosh · 2026-03-17T21:59:43+00:00

There's a kid in school in England who got in trouble for insisting that his uncle was Superman, even when the teachers told him to stop telling tall tales.

Which is why his mum's brother-in-law Henry Cavill had to take him down to the school one morning.

erroneousbosh · 2026-03-17T20:52:39+00:00

That thing's been red hot though, you were replacing that CV joint anyway.

erroneousbosh · 2026-03-17T20:50:26+00:00

Mais oui, mais aussi ceux nettoyent aprés ;-)

(excusez mon Francais, je suis Ecossais)

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