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donmelton/video_transcoding is awesome

These are an excellent set of smartly-written wrappers to easily convert and manipulate video files. Huge fan. HUGE.

Hi, I’m Don Melton. I created these tools to transcode my collection of Blu-ray Discs and DVDs into a smaller, more portable format while remaining high enough quality to be mistaken for the originals.

What makes these tools unique is the special ratecontrol system which achieves those goals.

This package is based on my original collection of Video Transcoding Scripts written in Bash. While still available online, those scripts are no longer in active development. Users are encouraged to install this Ruby Gem instead.

Most of the tools in this package are essentially intelligent wrappers around Open Source software like HandBrake, MKVToolNix, MPlayer, FFmpeg, and MP4v2. And they’re all designed to be executed from the command line shell:

* transcode-video Transcode video file or disc image directory into format and size similar to popular online downloads.

* detect-crop Detect optimal crop values for video file or disc image directory.

* convert-video Convert video file from Matroska to MP4 format or from MP4 to Matroksa format without transcoding video.

* query-handbrake-log Report information from HandBrake-generated .log files.

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Head up, love

She’ll lie and steal, and cheat, and beg you from her knees
Make you think she means it this time
She’ll tear a hole in you, the one you can’t repair
But I still love her, I don’t really care

When we were young, oh, oh, we did enough
When it got cold, ooh, ooh, we bundled up
I can’t be told, ah, ah, it can’t be done

It’s better to feel pain, than nothing at all
The opposite of love’s indifference
So pay attention now, I’m standing on your porch screaming out
And I won’t leave until you come downstairs

So keep your head up, keep your love
Keep your head up, my love [x2]
Keep your head up, keep your love

And I don’t blame you dear for running like you did all these years
I would do the same, you’d best believe
And the highway signs say we’re close but I don’t read those things anymore
I never trusted my own eyes

When we were young oh, oh, we did enough
When it got cold, ooh, ooh we bundled up
I can’t be told, ah, ah, it can’t be done

So keep your head up, keep your love
Keep your head up, my love [x2]
Keep your head up, keep your love
Head up, love
Head up, love
Head up, love
Head up, love

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Anna Paquin’s Interview with a Vampire

King: “Are you a non-practicing bisexual?”

Paquin: “Well, I am married to my husband and we are happily, monogamously married.”

King: “But you were bisexual?”

Paquin: “Well, I don’t think it’s a past-tense thing.”

Larry King: “No?”

Paquin: “No. Are you still straight if you are with somebody, and — if you were to break up with them or if they were to die, it doesn’t prevent your sexuality from existing. It doesn’t really work like that.”

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Hank’s Look-Around Café

Take your meal on a rickety, spinning adventure with this supercut of most (all?) references to Hank’s Look-Around Café. One of my favorite episodes of The Larry Sanders Show is undoubtedly The Grand Opening but it’s hard to pick favorites with a show that has so much nuance. It’s brilliant, really, from writing to casting and everything in-between.

I’ve always been one to say, at least for my money,
That, uh, nothing really aids digestion quite like centrifugal force.

That’s Hank’s Look-Around Café, 336 Melrose. Go ahead.