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    1. R

      TV signal issue with Freeview PVR

      Yes, please lay off the pedantry a bit. It does nothing but put concern in people's minds that they are going to get 'hauled up' in a schoolmaster type way for any minor mistakes (for whatever reason) that in no way alter the meaning or intent of the message. Not only that, they are being...
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      Hummypkg Remote Scheduling Problems

      BBC scheduling timings used to have an internal convention where hours extended beyond 24 as necessary (when there was a closedown and ‘pages from Ceefax’ overnight before the days of 24 hour broadcasting), making it unambiguous which programme followed which. For example, for a Monday...
    3. R

      Humble feature request

      Put simply, it is making material that was shot on video look like it was shot on film instead by post processing it. Shooting on film is an expensive process, so if you want your programme to look like film but can’t afford to shoot on film then applying film effect to cheaper video shot...
    4. R

      Humble feature request

      It sometimes happened by accident too. We were running the BBC1/2 Christmas Day TX backup tapes one year and noticed on the monitor that the ‘main’ version of The Two Ronnies actually going out on air had a rather nasty film effect being applied, where as our copy (the actual tape from which...
    5. R

      Humble feature request

      It’s far more likely that certain luvvy producers want their output to look more ‘arty’ - like the trend many years ago for applying ‘film effect’ to video based material. Some of it looked simply awful before the technology improved to do it (Casualty being an example - that didn’t last long)
    6. R

      Humble feature request

      The problem with picking multiple separate sample points is the overhead in starting up ffmpeg each time (on a Humax at least). It sits for quite a long time ‘thinking’ before it actually starts processing frames. Having to do that only once therefore might be preferable. You could ignore the...
    7. R

      Humble feature request

      You can do this ffmpeg -ss 00:05:00 -i <ts_file> -vf "select=not(mod(n\,10)),crop=iw/8:ih:0:0,blackframe=99:20" -t 5 -an -f null /dev/null -vf "select=not(mod(n\,10)),crop=iw/8:ih:iw*7/8:0,blackframe=99:20" -t 5 -an -f null /dev/null selecting (say) every 10th frame for 5...
    8. R

      Humble feature request

      There may be some mileage along the lines of the following, based on a few assumptions. The pillarboxed programme you're interested in scanning is running at a point 5 minutes into the file (rather than 16:9 adverts) The complete 16:9 frame would never be completely black for 5 seconds at a...
    9. R

      Humble feature request

      What would be helpful is if the stream contained the active format descriptor flag (AFD) which would (when used correctly) have a value of 9 for 4:3 pillarboxed in 16:9, but sadly it doesn't seem to be there if I probe a known pillarboxed ts file with either ffprobe or MediaInfo...
    10. R

      Words we cannot abide.

      'Samantha has to nip off now as she's being driven to North Wales for the weekend by a gentleman friend. He's a builder by trade, but as his car is currently in for repairs he's hoping to get to Bangor in his old van'
    11. R

      SCP broken

      I've had a similar issue on both my HDR-Fox T2's. Neither would accept an SSH connection and 'netstat -tln' showed that neither was listening on port 22 despite 2020.79-3 apparently being installed. No amount of force reinstalling would correct it - everything I tried complained that...
    12. R

      Post crash and installation wizard

      In this case you can get away with either since the entire Class A 10.x.x.x range is defined as private, but it wouldn't be so good being that wide on 192.168.x.x etc.
    13. R

      Post crash and installation wizard

      Not necessarily, it depends on what you expect to reach locally from the individual device. When at work I'm on a 255.255.0.0 subnet usually, but if I restrict my machine further to 255.255.255.0 then I can still ping another device within that now smaller subnet even though that device is still...
    14. R

      Post crash and installation wizard

      Just to add to what BH said about subnets. The subnet effectively defines the maximum size of your 'private' local network, which for most people means the stuff in their own home connected to the router either wired or wireless. Hence if you use a 192.168.0.x range with a subnet of...
    15. R

      Post crash and installation wizard

      I used to use the 10.10.10.x range so that my address range was less likely to clash when VPN'ing in from outside of it. I'm 18 years with Plusnet as well, and last year upgraded to fibre, getting a PN Hub One (AKA BT HH5) in the process. I was disappointed to see that the 10.x.x.x range was not...
    16. R

      MAC Security

      Pretty much no risk from what I can read online, and even if there are some then it definitely doesn't class as 'many'. I think some people just default to the paranoid opinion that ANY piece of information that is uniquely coded to you (even though MAC addresses aren't and can be easily...
    17. R

      The Hummy Roundabout

      That's not a word your hear often. Isn't that a large van that melts in the mouth?
    18. R

      Words we cannot abide.

      I thought it ought to have been, and doing a search on ‘reach out’ in advance of posting revealed nothing, but I now see it was done as ‘reaching out’ 😀 Reaching Out = Retching Up ‘Stakeholder’ is one that grates with me..... .... and ‘Customer Experience Ambassadors’ 🤬🤬🤬
    19. R

      Words we cannot abide.

      My daughter was until recently a member of a theatre organisation where the use of the term 'family' was rife in certain circles. The number of posts on the organisation's forum from the ambitious 'theatre mummies' gushing obsequiously over how they were so privileged to be part of the...
    20. R

      Words we cannot abide.

      Got to love a good bodge !
    1. R

      TV signal issue with Freeview PVR

      Yes, please lay off the pedantry a bit. It does nothing but put concern in people's minds that they are going to get 'hauled up' in a schoolmaster type way for any minor mistakes (for whatever reason) that in no way alter the meaning or intent of the message. Not only that, they are being...
    2. R

      Hummypkg Remote Scheduling Problems

      BBC scheduling timings used to have an internal convention where hours extended beyond 24 as necessary (when there was a closedown and ‘pages from Ceefax’ overnight before the days of 24 hour broadcasting), making it unambiguous which programme followed which. For example, for a Monday...
    3. R

      Humble feature request

      Put simply, it is making material that was shot on video look like it was shot on film instead by post processing it. Shooting on film is an expensive process, so if you want your programme to look like film but can’t afford to shoot on film then applying film effect to cheaper video shot...
    4. R

      Humble feature request

      It sometimes happened by accident too. We were running the BBC1/2 Christmas Day TX backup tapes one year and noticed on the monitor that the ‘main’ version of The Two Ronnies actually going out on air had a rather nasty film effect being applied, where as our copy (the actual tape from which...
    5. R

      Humble feature request

      It’s far more likely that certain luvvy producers want their output to look more ‘arty’ - like the trend many years ago for applying ‘film effect’ to video based material. Some of it looked simply awful before the technology improved to do it (Casualty being an example - that didn’t last long)
    6. R

      Humble feature request

      The problem with picking multiple separate sample points is the overhead in starting up ffmpeg each time (on a Humax at least). It sits for quite a long time ‘thinking’ before it actually starts processing frames. Having to do that only once therefore might be preferable. You could ignore the...
    7. R

      Humble feature request

      You can do this ffmpeg -ss 00:05:00 -i <ts_file> -vf "select=not(mod(n\,10)),crop=iw/8:ih:0:0,blackframe=99:20" -t 5 -an -f null /dev/null -vf "select=not(mod(n\,10)),crop=iw/8:ih:iw*7/8:0,blackframe=99:20" -t 5 -an -f null /dev/null selecting (say) every 10th frame for 5...
    8. R

      Humble feature request

      There may be some mileage along the lines of the following, based on a few assumptions. The pillarboxed programme you're interested in scanning is running at a point 5 minutes into the file (rather than 16:9 adverts) The complete 16:9 frame would never be completely black for 5 seconds at a...
    9. R

      Humble feature request

      What would be helpful is if the stream contained the active format descriptor flag (AFD) which would (when used correctly) have a value of 9 for 4:3 pillarboxed in 16:9, but sadly it doesn't seem to be there if I probe a known pillarboxed ts file with either ffprobe or MediaInfo...
    10. R

      Words we cannot abide.

      'Samantha has to nip off now as she's being driven to North Wales for the weekend by a gentleman friend. He's a builder by trade, but as his car is currently in for repairs he's hoping to get to Bangor in his old van'
    11. R

      SCP broken

      I've had a similar issue on both my HDR-Fox T2's. Neither would accept an SSH connection and 'netstat -tln' showed that neither was listening on port 22 despite 2020.79-3 apparently being installed. No amount of force reinstalling would correct it - everything I tried complained that...
    12. R

      Post crash and installation wizard

      In this case you can get away with either since the entire Class A 10.x.x.x range is defined as private, but it wouldn't be so good being that wide on 192.168.x.x etc.
    13. R

      Post crash and installation wizard

      Not necessarily, it depends on what you expect to reach locally from the individual device. When at work I'm on a 255.255.0.0 subnet usually, but if I restrict my machine further to 255.255.255.0 then I can still ping another device within that now smaller subnet even though that device is still...
    14. R

      Post crash and installation wizard

      Just to add to what BH said about subnets. The subnet effectively defines the maximum size of your 'private' local network, which for most people means the stuff in their own home connected to the router either wired or wireless. Hence if you use a 192.168.0.x range with a subnet of...
    15. R

      Post crash and installation wizard

      I used to use the 10.10.10.x range so that my address range was less likely to clash when VPN'ing in from outside of it. I'm 18 years with Plusnet as well, and last year upgraded to fibre, getting a PN Hub One (AKA BT HH5) in the process. I was disappointed to see that the 10.x.x.x range was not...
    16. R

      MAC Security

      Pretty much no risk from what I can read online, and even if there are some then it definitely doesn't class as 'many'. I think some people just default to the paranoid opinion that ANY piece of information that is uniquely coded to you (even though MAC addresses aren't and can be easily...
    17. R

      The Hummy Roundabout

      That's not a word your hear often. Isn't that a large van that melts in the mouth?
    18. R

      Words we cannot abide.

      I thought it ought to have been, and doing a search on ‘reach out’ in advance of posting revealed nothing, but I now see it was done as ‘reaching out’ 😀 Reaching Out = Retching Up ‘Stakeholder’ is one that grates with me..... .... and ‘Customer Experience Ambassadors’ 🤬🤬🤬
    19. R

      Words we cannot abide.

      My daughter was until recently a member of a theatre organisation where the use of the term 'family' was rife in certain circles. The number of posts on the organisation's forum from the ambitious 'theatre mummies' gushing obsequiously over how they were so privileged to be part of the...
    20. R

      Words we cannot abide.

      Got to love a good bodge !
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