Subj : Re: Old computer
To   : DustCouncil
From : fusion
Date : Tue Jun 28 2022 17:59:17

On 28 Jun 2022, DustCouncil said the following...
 
 Du> I can capture them with OBS just fine as it is.  And I can, of course,
 Du> pirate the hell out of them with Bittorrent if I am so inclined.  But
 Du> what I cannot do is play them legally in FreeBSD, which seems downright
 Du> stupid since, it is at least rumored, Netflix is using one of the BSDs
 Du> on the server side.

the current best pirated copies of a lot of things that don't come on Blu-Ray are direct downloads from Amazon/Netflix/etc. a few of the groups have
defeated the DRM. whether you agree with DRM or not, if they manage to fix the hacks people use, the 4K torrents of a lot of new shows/movies would be gone.

currently it's not easy, and the release groups don't share their tools
because they'd immediately be patched.

capturing with OBS is trash. that's how you get inferior encodes with frame rate problems, jittery motion during action scenes, etc. they know it sucks and no release groups use it.

 Du> Here is one last gripe: there is no equivalent of Irfanview for Linux. 
 
irfanview is just a knockoff of pmview. unfortunately the same problem tho, no
linux version. i've considered cloning it because i too think gwenview is
rather lame. irfanview does work just fine with wine though, and there aren't any downsides other than that it's kinda ugly against KDE's ui.

don't know why everyone dislikes wine..

.... A program is used to turn data into error messages.

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