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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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completely blind computer geek, lover of science fiction and fantasy (especially LitRPG). I work in accessibility, but my opinions are my own, not that of my employer. Fandoms: Harry Potter, Discworld, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Buffy, Dead Like Me, Glee, and I'll read fanfic of pretty much anything that crosses over with one of those.
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Birthday 1987-12-20
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
5mo
@jscholes @andrew @klittle667 I...I...hate everything about that system. No really, everything. Does the standard also require that you play back all audio in mono because of years-old limitations having to do with the SAP on analogue TV? That's the only way I can think of to make that worse.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
5mo
@jscholes @andrew @klittle667 I am utterly and completely baffled. If I'm not allowed to control the mix levels myself, what on earth is the point of not just mixing at source? This has all the disadvantages of both approaches.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
5mo
@jscholes @andrew @klittle667 Wait what? The TV Stream packets themselves include parameters for ducking? Why! I assumed TV receivers got to choose how that would work, either by using some kind of autoducking, or just playing the default track at a constant (slightly lower) volume and the AD track at a higher volume. That's what I was assuming you'd do with ffmpeg; it does allow basic modifications of track volumes.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
5mo
@jscholes @andrew @klittle667 Also, the idea that he'd have to make huge modifications to the player is nonsense. Channels DVR already includes ffmpeg. It already can do live transcoding of streams. Literally all he has to do is create a thing in the advanced preferences to enable mixing audio description and TV audio together, then let ffmpeg handle it all.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
5mo
@andrew @jscholes @klittle667 So looking into this a bit more, it looks like ffmpeg can just do everything you want itself with amix and amerge. ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#amerge

So use ckucoo to intercept Channel's call to commskip so you'll know when the recording is done, and run ffmpeg to modify the output recording to have audio from both audio streams mixed together. github.com/Channels-DVR-Goodies/cuckoo

Sadly I can't actually do this myself as I'm not in the UK, so I couldn't test it. But once someone does, the process could be easily documented.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
5mo
@klittle667 @jscholes @andrew It marks the ads as chapters in the metadata, and then has a setting that allows you to auto-skip chapters marked as ads. Because it only gets it right about 95 percent of the time.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
5mo
@andrew @jscholes @klittle667 You'd have to write a script to make a copy of the show, flip the track order, then have describe align align the two files.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
5mo
@jscholes @andrew @klittle667 This should be pretty easy to fix with Describe Align: github.com/julbean/describealign
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
5mo
@klittle667 @andrew Channels supports AD just fine here. getchannels.com. What model of HD Homerun do you have? If it's one of the ones with a built-in transcoder, you need to disable that, and let Channels do the transcoding on whatever computer is running it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
The longer I look at five-star reviews for objectively terrible books on Kindle unlimited, the more I think: "I could do that better!" Is spite an appropriate reason to a book? Samuel Proulx: published , but only because he was irritated into it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
@quanin @munchkinbear Same! People are gonna die from all this stress!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
@quanin @JamminJerry @FreakyFwoof @Rosalyn No no. We're going to pass age verification laws. In order to use Facebook or YouTube, or have sex, you need to submit your identity and be validated as an adult over 18 years of age! The company issuing sex licenses will, of course, be privatized. It'll probably end up being Meta.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
@quanin @JamminJerry @FreakyFwoof @Rosalyn I dunno. They're either teens or in their 40's or 50's. Normal people manage to get some in their 20's or 30's.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
@quanin @JamminJerry @FreakyFwoof @Rosalyn Wow, rude. What do you have against lonely Horney perverts?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
@quanin @JamminJerry @FreakyFwoof @Rosalyn Well sure. But the people I know tend to come in two types:
* people who know furries exist and would sleep with them
* people who have never met a furry, but are desperate and lonely and would sleep with anything that walks and talks
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
@quanin @JamminJerry @FreakyFwoof @Rosalyn Hmmm. I don't think I know anyone who wouldn't! sleep with a furry.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
@quanin @JamminJerry @FreakyFwoof @Rosalyn This is the fediverse. If you don't know at least one furry, and someone who sexually identifies as a food processor, are you even part of the network?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
@quanin @JamminJerry @FreakyFwoof @Rosalyn As someone who almost identified as a broney for a couple years there, I've had no choice but to embrace my perversions.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
@JamminJerry @FreakyFwoof @Rosalyn As someone who owns a Bidet, this discussion is entirely irrelevant to me. People who wipe themselves with dead trees are weird perverts.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
@JamminJerry @FreakyFwoof @Rosalyn But the worst thing for you is social media. LOL