Sad GAF Nomad noises. But to be fair, they’re not exactly in production any more. But I reckon we could build a few factories.

Can’t tell if your referring to jorn in relation to meme or why ‘jorn’ is so good.

Jorn is the Jindallee over the horizon radar network.

Not sure exactly how it works, but someone put up a big array of radar transmitters and receivers in the outback and it might use the HF band like Ham radio users use to bounce off the ionosphere to get returns.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. - Bruce Lee

If nowhere else, make a post on NoStupidQuestions and I’m sure there’s a few people that will help. I made a reply here suggesting raspberry pi os as a good starting point. No command line skills needed and quite a bit of software is available free from Debian (Linux which raspi os is created from).

The user interface is similar with a start menu etc.

If you’ve got a spare PC, I’d use it as a guinea pig system first before moving onto the main system.

Try Linux on it, specifically have a crack at raspberry pi os first. https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/ . See the section for Raspberry pi desktop for PC and mac .

No pixelation from me , viewed through a mobile browser.

To answer the specific question (and im rusty on winrar but familiar with 7zip), you should be able to change flags for compression ratio and dictionary size.

When a file is compressed using a general purpose compression algorithm it looks for long repeating patterns and substitutes it for a smaller ‘code’ , it builds a dictionary of these codes which is stored in the file so the decompression algorithm knows how to expand it.

Take Morse code for example, E is represented by a single dot while Z is dash dash dot dot and as E is used a lot more frequently in the language. And if we only used the 26 letters, we could compress sentences down to a compact binary code of 1’s and 0’s with dashes as 1’s and 0’s as dots.

Others have said that handbrake is a good tool and i recommend it too. and as i dont know you use case, im assuming you might want to transfer all these from one computer to another. I believe you could use winrar to make volumes up at 4.7gig (or 25gig) and burn a series of DVDs (or blu-rays) with each disc being full, however if one of the discs gets scratched, corrupted (say disc 12 of 20) then all following data might also get corrupted.

Im going to assume that you’ve got these from a recording of a set-top box from a playback transfer of a VHS on its last legs and you’re digitising an old family home movies.

Lets also assume the video was also recorded at full HD, 1080p (ie. 1920x1080 pixels. The video stream is going to show 2,073,600 pixels every frame), and it also recorded the audio as stereo and the box had an encode rate of 25,000kbps (kilobits per second. This figure is used as an example and may be way off reality bitrates).

So every minute of video might equate to 5megabytes of file size (again picking numbers as guesses).

Handbrake can help make this smaller.

You can do this by shrinking the pixels to be displayed. you could downscale the video to 720p (1280x720 pixels. So 921,600 pixels for every frame) and if everything else was kept the same, the files could be nearly halved but you lose out on some of the fine detail.

You could take this even further by compressing down to something like 360 pixels high and that would be ok to watch on a mobile device, but you’d notice the lack of detail on a 4k monitor.

You could keep the resolution the same at 1080p, and get handbrake to compress it further by lowering the bitrate from 25,000kbps to say 8,000kbps, this would affect the image quality, but handbrake does a good job unless you go for a really small bitrate.

Say my video was of a sunset and the camera doesnt move, the pixels displaying the building in the foreground arent going to change colour often so its compression algorithm adapts. Lets say a bird flies across the screen, so the pixels do change, but there might be a bit of blur around the bird as it flies and with more compression this could be more noticable.

One thing handbrake can do that the Set top box couldnt is look ahead with multipass encoding, so it ‘watches’ the movie and takes notes of when there are large changes in the image and can use more bits in the file on the segments of change, for example you watch a tv show and it cuts from a indoor scene to outdoors, this change would use a lot of data, but once it shows the first frame, it can switch to just changing a few pixels each frame.

You could also adjust the framerate of the video if it was recorded in 60 frames per second to 30.

You can also adjust the audio recorded by lowering its bitrate, and also merging the audio tracks from stereo to mono, but compared to video compression, this isnt significant.

Without knowing your usecase, id suggest something like a compression down to a 480pixel or 360 pixel resolution and lowered bitrate as a way to burn a low resolution copy of the movies that could be stored offsite as cheap way to have a backup of last resort.

Edit: in summary, try handbrake, use two pass encoding and just adjust the bitrate first and see if the quality is still ‘good enough’, and if you need smaller files, then try and change the resolution, the frame rate, and audio encoding.

I hope it helps,

Probably ‘Australia Zoo’, Queensland. Steve Irwin is Robert’s dad and was known as ‘The Crocodile Hunter’ .

Not the first time Robert has been in the enclosure. Steve copped a bit of heat from the press after he went in one day with an infant Bob.

It may not be malfunctioning. It might be it’s way of saying my battery is low, so replace me.

There are 3 types I’ve seen over here.

Wired into mains, 10 year battery and 9 volt battery.

I think some places changed building codes so all sold or new dwellings had to have either a 10yr or mains, but some 9 volts still exist and I know one which will start chirping when the battery is low.

‘Glory’ is a movie about Col Shaw and his regiment and worth a watch. Cast (from memory) Matthew Broderick as Col Shaw and co starring Carey Elwes, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman.

sometimes i ssh 127.0.0.1 to mix things up a bit.

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Try this. Red vs blue season 15. https://youtu.be/U06Xp8CV1Fg a reporter appears after the intro about 3 mins in.

I think so too…info dumped for OP.

I think one of the Red vs Blue plotlines did include a reporter as part of the episodes around season 10-13. It got a pretty good following, so much so people called for the voice actors to be part of the official games, but they got.pretty close with caboose venturing into reach. https://youtu.be/Sh3AXwolioQ

So they started season 1 with halo 1 filming people playing the game and putting their own voices over it. They had two groups of soldiers in a box canyon with bases and they were fighting as part of a ‘training’ program for super soldiers like master Chief but were freelancers.

They even promoted the new games by making videos about them playing new levels.

They got access to he official models and did motion capture of fights for videos in seasons 6-8 and I turned out about the time the reporter turned up.

If you get into it, my recommendation is watch seasons 1, 6,7,8 and maybe 20 if you want more. 1 introduces the characters , 6,7,8 is a nice trilogy and 20 is the final season.

Spoiling a little . It turns out project freelancer use an AI fragment and tried tonmake super soldiers and the director did some shady stuff and I think the reporter got wind of some things freelancer did.

I dint have first hand info, but did have a look at the released source, but I could be wrong.

I don’t think the cutscenes and media were released and someone said that the original source and openra were written in different languages.

And instead of making three different games tailoring the same engine, they made one engine and put three different overlays on it so its open to customisation and modding.

They also released an update recently after a long play test. I haven’t explored it but think it’s new maps, game balancing and stability updates.

Source. I have played it a ‘little’…

I haven’t delved into the other posts, so sorry if this is a duplication.

What if you make a post saying posts to the sub will now require manual review and as the only mod, you log in occasionally and approve posts.

Probably add some automod restrictions for comments too.

Who knows when you’ll get a chance to approve posts.

My former coworkers (except I don’t know it cause … Someone used the flashy thing…)

I don’t know about repeating or being able to have very long playtimes, but I do know the MIDI (.mid) file format can play songs at extremely small sizes compared to mp3 as it effectively stores the sound like music on a sheet which is played by a synthesizer. Also the MOD file format allows samples to be recorded as a sort of blend of synth and recordings.

I’d give it a test run before you set off and make sure things like the batteries are up to expectations.

Go for a day trip in your own city and put it through its paces rather than pack it and figure out something isn’t as expected on day 1 of the fortnight trip.

8megapixels is low, but I reckon it’ll still make good A4 prints.