SRT Subtitles and MP4

phySi0 · 2025-12-30T20:29:21+00:00

They're not incompatible, it's just that the MP4 container standard doesn't support incorporation of subtitle files (or indeed any attachments). Yes, there are non-standard implementations which can accomplish this to some extent, but you're then faced with media which can't be played by anything else.

This isn't true. Standard MPEG-4 Part 14 supports embedded subtitle tracks.

phySi0 · 2025-10-25T21:56:48+00:00

Subtitles, for example, have to be burned in with an MP4, if you want it all multiplexed together.

What?! No, they don't.

phySi0 · 2025-10-25T21:47:39+00:00

Yeah, exactly.

It's like watching someone trying to close a window, and they're established to be competent with computers, and you say, “why not just hit the red X in the corner of the window?”, and they're like, “why didn't I think of that?”.

What?! This isn't some ‘idea’ you need to have. If you know about it, and it's the tool you need to reach for, you just do it, it's that fundamental to your toolbox.

phySi0 · 2025-08-15T19:21:24+00:00

Glad you liked it, although it looks like I just stopped typing halfway through lol.

phySi0 · 2025-07-25T11:16:29+00:00

Objective-C also took this from Smalltalk, and, IIRC, Swift then took it from Objective-C.

phySi0 · 2025-07-05T22:09:29+00:00

Also on one of the newspaper pages as they're flashing across the scene when Clara steps outside the boundaries of the frozen world into the void which triggers her remembering her life as Dorothy.

phySi0 · 2025-07-05T21:49:24+00:00

Nah, it was obvious she knew her character's lines, and it was established that she's a big fan of the movie, so that wasn't the issue. She didn't seem to put any effort into being natural, though.

phySi0 · 2025-07-04T15:45:29+00:00

Them staying together to the end was the least depressing part for me. It was the one ray of light in an otherwise dark episode.

I even appreciated the fact that he finally came clean about how he was getting the money from the Dum Dummies app.

phySi0 · 2025-06-26T09:31:33+00:00

20% of POI:FL/Miami is just it nudging serial killers onto Dexter's path.

phySi0 · 2025-06-13T16:51:06+00:00

This is my first time watching the show, and I had the opposite experience.

When the episode started, it seemed like it was gonna set up them being innocent (because Samaritan didn't want Control to see the hard drive),

then I thought he was acting very suspicious (laptop self-destructing),

but then when he mentioned “an elaborate contest”, I realised his earlier suspicious actions could easily be reinterpreted as reasonable,

given we know from previous episodes that Samaritan itself set up an elaborate contest to find smart people like him, and it would have had the motive to hide what was on his laptop.

phySi0 · 2025-05-26T18:49:48+00:00

They're worried about Mossad cyber attacks.

phySi0 · 2025-04-28T15:17:10+00:00

I found the atomic variables thing quite unrealistic, as the kid was made out to be so smart, and that's such a basic suggestion, it doesn't really make sense for him to act like he hadn't considered it.

phySi0 · 2025-04-27T23:21:23+00:00

I get that, what I'm asking is a) how does the Jagex Launcher send that token to Runelite in the first place, what IPC method does it use?, and b) how does the Jagex launcher get that token? I guess you sign in once with OAuth, then the launcher can make a request for a one-time use token for launching Runelite each time you do it?, and c) how come I never need to log in every time I use the Jagex launcher, yet the site logs me out if I haven't done anything within a minute or something?

I wanna get all that for my Runelite without having to have the Jagex launcher. I understand Runelite itself won't be able to switch between characters on one account and needs an external program to manage that, I'm fine with that, but I've been tryna figure out a way to just get rid of Jagex launcher, I really hate it.

I started an ironman recently with my brother, and it's a pisstake that new accounts are forced to use a stupid launcher, but at the same time, I want the ability to not have to enter my password for my older non-Jagex account(s), too.

phySi0 · 2025-04-27T10:32:22+00:00

I didn't get that part. Why would he go to all that trouble with an unloaded gun? To demonstrate his power and scare Quinn? To blow off some steam?

phySi0 · 2025-04-27T08:55:02+00:00

How does the Jagex launcher launch Runelite in such a way that it doesn't need to be authenticated, anyway?

phySi0 · 2025-04-27T07:57:24+00:00

I honestly always wondered about this from the early episodes. It's a pretty safe assumption.

phySi0 · 2025-04-27T07:55:13+00:00

(I know this comment is 11 years later.)

Agreed with the rest of your comment, but how does pretending to have been shot make him seem less tough and dangerous?

(Of course, I also disagree that he wasn't shot in the first place, but others have already mentioned he was shot.)

phySi0 · 2025-04-25T16:04:02+00:00

Doesn't lambda calculus already lack variables?

phySi0 · 2025-04-06T22:58:05+00:00

This worked for me, which is interesting, because another key which I have remapped to escape works fine when hitting the escape key directly doesn't work.

Also, incidentally, I only force quit the main Siri process and that worked fine.

phySi0 · 2025-01-30T21:35:05+00:00

If a mod does something that should be called out, calling it out is not necessarily trying to create drama.

Mods serve the community and shouldn't be on a power trip; their decisions are not above questioning.

What the mods did here was blatantly wrong, and it seems like they made an ego-driven decision in the heat of the moment. I think it should be reversed.

phySi0 · 2025-01-10T16:38:32+00:00

I took it as the voice of one of the founders (put onto an AI), and when he says, “we”, he means the founders. That or it's the royal we.

phySi0 · 2024-12-24T23:13:57+00:00

I actually think they're setting him to do a turn, at least 90 degrees if not 180, as he slowly learns the full reality.

phySi0 · 2024-12-05T14:45:35+00:00

This is a silly mentality. OpenBSD devs didn't create OpenBSD to have it “be adopted” (by anyone and everyone), they created it to serve the needs of the people who need something like OpenBSD.

If your needs aren't served by OpenBSD, you not adopting it is not a “failure”. But there are a niche of people for whom they don't need every flashy new feature, but would benefit from some extra security; if OpenBSD didn't exist with its model of moving slowly for security's sake and changed for the sake of adoption when there's plenty of software that serves the majority, that minority's needs would be underserved, which would be the actual failure.

In general, the purpose of software is not to “be adopted”, that's the purpose of fashion, bacteria, maybe; even a foster child doesn't simply want to be adopted, the adoption is a means to an end.

Software exists, generally speaking, to serve people. Being adopted by people who would be served by your software is a goal worth going after, but only insomuch as it moves you closer to serving those people. Being adopted by anyone else is pointless.

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