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Dick Trauma posted:I'm not an audiophile but as I played with the settings I recognized that watery, swishy sound of over-compressed music, but my Mac was so wimpy that bumping the encoding rate to 256 took too drat long! https://i.imgur.com/wqbpj3v.mp4
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It's important to remember that when the mp3 format was introduced, your average home computer had a tiny fraction of the processing power of today. Compression of data isn't just a tradeoff between quality and file size, but also cpu use. Today's high quality codecs would not be able to decode in real time on a 25 year old Pentium.
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Collateral Damage posted:It's important to remember that when the mp3 format was introduced, your average home computer had a tiny fraction of the processing power of today. Compression of data isn't just a tradeoff between quality and file size, but also cpu use. Today's high quality codecs would not be able to decode in real time on a 25 year old Pentium. "man, Hotel California is gonna sound awesome an hour from now when it finishes buffering!"
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I've been meaning to get that album, but I'm not sold on some of the newer doom bands playing that style. That's a super fast conversion though! Are reviews for albums obsolete now you have access to Youtube and Spotify immediately? 
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Collateral Damage posted:It's important to remember that when the mp3 format was introduced, your average home computer had a tiny fraction of the processing power of today. Compression of data isn't just a tradeoff between quality and file size, but also cpu use. Today's high quality codecs would not be able to decode in real time on a 25 year old Pentium. The Opus decoder runs on some pretty low-powered hardware, it's partially designed for telephony after all. The decoder requires more CPU for real time encoding, obviously.
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Collateral Damage posted:It's important to remember that when the mp3 format was introduced, your average home computer had a tiny fraction of the processing power of today. Compression of data isn't just a tradeoff between quality and file size, but also cpu use. Today's high quality codecs would not be able to decode in real time on a 25 year old Pentium. I was so disappointed when my first netbook couldn't play MP3's and run a web browser without hiccups. And that was a 1.3ghz processor. So there have been new computers in the last 15 years that couldn't handle it. My 2011 Mac Mini with an i5 was shipped with so little stock RAM that it had issues playing MP3's smoothly
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Krispy Wafer posted:I was so disappointed when my first netbook couldn't play MP3's and run a web browser without hiccups. And that was a 1.3ghz processor. For thread topic: consumer grade Mac desktops because lol paying $1000 for an eMachine.
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My 2013 27" iMac plays PubG fine and would probably still sell for $1000 today if I wanted to sell it.
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Krispy Wafer posted:I was so disappointed when my first netbook couldn't play MP3's and run a web browser without hiccups. And that was a 1.3ghz processor. That's more an issue with iTunes/WMP/browsers being stupidly over-bloated. I was playing MP3s just fine on a 100MHz Pentium with 16MB RAM back in the day, in Winamp 2.
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ladron posted:I remember people going nuts over the video for peter gabriel's "sledgehammer" and how groundbreaking it was Why did Will Arnette make that video for Huey Lewis??
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I remember being able to play Hornet 3.0 and listen to midis in Winamp at the same time on a 300 MHz Pentium II, but listening to mp3 was too much.
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Krispy Wafer posted:I was so disappointed when my first netbook couldn't play MP3's and run a web browser without hiccups. And that was a 1.3ghz processor. And my $130 2Gb Lenovo Android tablet does it flawlessly, as well as streaming tunage on not so hot WiFi at work while reencoding to send to Bluetooth earbuds.
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Samizdata posted:And my $130 2Gb Lenovo Android tablet does it flawlessly, as well as streaming tunage on not so hot WiFi at work while reencoding to send to Bluetooth earbuds. Probably because while your tablet is also 1.3 GHz, it's a quad-core.
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GotLag posted:I remember being able to play Hornet 3.0 and listen to midis in Winamp at the same time on a 300 MHz Pentium II, but listening to mp3 was too much. I used to try listening to Fear Factory and play GTA on my old Pentium 75. That was a big NOPE.
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GotLag posted:Probably because while your tablet is also 1.3 GHz, it's a quad-core. Wouldn't it have dedicated hardware for codecs too?
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GotLag posted:Probably because while your tablet is also 1.3 GHz, it's a quad-core. Yeah, but less memory, a slower bus, and a power limited processor. GRINDCORE MEGGIDO posted:Wouldn't it have dedicated hardware for codecs too? Don't think so.
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Humphreys posted:I used to try listening to Fear Factory and play GTA on my old Pentium 75. That was a big NOPE. I made mix tapes for the car off my all-in-one Presario. The tapes are long gone but to this day certain songs sound weird since they don't have that hiccup after like the first chorus because I forgot to disable AfterDark and it tried to kick in.
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Last Chance posted:My 2013 27" iMac plays PubG fine and would probably still sell for $1000 today if I wanted to sell it. Weird since nothing else plays PubG fine 
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Copy-pasting this from the aviation thread. Lots of old engines.Slo-Tek posted:I dunno if I am late to the party on this, but there is a TON of weird experimental stuff here I had never seen or heard of, with well written medium-sized articles with pictures on them.
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From the YOSPOS bitcoin thread:eschaton posted:some friends worked on a commodities trading platform atop the Mac II back in 1988-89  As an "IBM compatible" user, I remember seeing a Mac II-ish type machine in the early '90s with one of those monochrome monitors that you could rotate to switch between landscape and portrait and I thought that was amazing. I don't think I could have conceived of 6 monitors attached to a single PC until this century.
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That must have cost an absolute fortune, not to mention the heat produced by 6 CRT monitors.
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Buttcoin purse posted:As an "IBM compatible" user, I remember seeing a Mac II-ish type machine in the early '90s with one of those monochrome monitors that you could rotate to switch between landscape and portrait and I thought that was amazing. Most people I've worked with in the past five or so years have been amazed when I showed them they could do that with modern LCD VDUs. (At least all the ones we have here at work.) However, the ERP system we use understands gently caress-all about scaling so the feature is not much use.
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Obsolete: using the term "VDU" when referring to computer monitors. I thought that died out in the 90s. Semi-related, I currently have a 24" 1920x1200 monitor flanked by two 20" 1600x1200 monitors on my desk at work, all driven from my laptop in a docking station. If you had told me 15 years ago that I would be doing completely ordinary everyday work on a setup like that, I would have called you some kind of crazy sci-fi pie-in-the-sky weirdo.
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Buttcoin purse posted:From the YOSPOS bitcoin thread: Yeah, Macs were high end machines back in the 80's and early 90's. They never really made it in the home user market because they were so expensive. You could do a lot with them but the home user market stunted them for a lot of things. I get the feeling they only survived because businesses liked them back then because you really didn't need a lot of training to use one compared to a DOS or UNIX shell.
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KozmoNaut posted:Obsolete: using the term "VDU" when referring to computer monitors. I thought that died out in the 90s. But I didn't 
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The_Franz posted:They did, but they never ripped on them like in the old days. I distinctly remember people saying at the time that they couldn't really make fun of music videos anymore because, unlike back in the 90s, *everything* had to go through legal and be cleared with the rights holders and nobody was going to voluntarily let them publicly mock their work. Which is a drat shame, because I've seen interviews with artists that Beavis & Butthead ripped the piss out of and they were proud. Like, appearing on B&B was a badge of honour even if they made fun of your music. The reboot was really good, if rather mean spirited with some of the reality TV bits. There's a bit where they're watching 16 & Pregnant, and Beavis comments "this chick is horrible actress." Butthead points out that they're watching reality TV, so Beavis says "okay so she's not a horrible actress, she's just a horrible person."
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Iron Crowned posted:Yeah, Macs were high end machines back in the 80's and early 90's. They never really made it in the home user market because they were so expensive. You could do a lot with them but the home user market stunted them for a lot of things. I get the feeling they only survived because businesses liked them back then because you really didn't need a lot of training to use one compared to a DOS or UNIX shell. The education market was definitely one of the things keeping Apple going throughout the 90's. For example, all of the liberal arts colleges around here used macs exclusively in their photography/graphic design and teacher education departments. A/V production was also a big deal to Apple back then, too. Sadly, Apple appears to have lost a lot of that market in recent years. empty baggie has a new favorite as of 02:29 on Jan 26, 2018 |
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KozmoNaut posted:Obsolete: using the term "VDU" when referring to computer monitors. I thought that died out in the 90s. I used to have a dual setup and thought that was kicking rad, then I got the bug and ended up with 6 screens and lived the sci-fi life. Now I have a 55in 4K and it's marvelous! No hidden windows!
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My father used to tell me he could remember the first time he tried ice-cream. I, on the other hand, remember the first time I heard an MP3. My friend downloaded Hungry Like the Wolf by Duran Duran in the late 90s. I think the first home "console" game I ever played was a dedicated Star Chess machine that my uncle had.
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Hi thread, hoping someone here has a solution to my problem. I'm using an old amplifier that I'd like to be able to use with a remote, the problem is the IR receiver is in the tuner which passes the remote commands to the amp via a cable. Unfortunately, I no longer have the tuner. Is it possible to just have an IR receiver plugged into the remote control port (and if so, where would I get this) or is the tuner what's actually telling the amp what to do?
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So before there was VCD, there was CD-V. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u2j1Q8uCgQ Besides what good ol' Techmoan has to say on the subject, I think there's a funny comparison to be made here between CD Video and 7-Up Gold (which came out around the same time, in 1988), in that they were both presented as follow-ups to popular products, but were really rebranded updates to other products, and as a result, fundamentally deviated from the essential qualities of their namesakes. I.e., CD-V was a rebranded upgrade of Laserdisc that (partially) did away with the compact size of Compact Disc, and 7-Up Gold was a rebranded reformulation of Dr. Pepper that did away with the "crisp, clean, with no caffeine" image of 7-Up. Oh ya, and lest we forget, they both had an affinity for GOOOOOOOLD. e: fact-checking Doctor Bishop has a new favorite as of 10:41 on Feb 2, 2018 |
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Der Kyhe posted:Living here I found out that ordering a new metal-bodied Maglite 4D cost me total of 40 EUR ordering it from the Amazon.de. The same flashlight is sold at our retail chains for ~100e. Back 20 years ago when I was a boyscout, the hot stuff to have was a Maglite, naturally powered by alkaline batteries and with a small incandescent light bulb. Weak and yellow-ish color, pathetic compared to what we have today. I just had the small one with 2 AA batteries, but always window-shopped the huge 4D one. I recently started researching buying a decent flash light again (just for around the house and garden), and of course it's all LED these days, and all Made in China. What's more interesting is that 99% of flashlights claim to have a Cree LED, and are either powered by regular alkaline batteries, a rechargable LiPo battery, or hybrids that can accept either. There is so little variation. From what I read, the cheap "ultra bright 10000 Lumen Cree LED" flashlights on China are bullshit; the Cree LEDs mostly only go up to around 1000 Lumen per LED. Also, it makes no sense that supposedly cheap flashlights around the world use genuine LEDs from American manufacturer Cree - it must be 99% unauthorized copies. Which suppliers sell genuine, good quality (housing and electronics) flashlights with Cree LED's, anyone? It's hard to tell junk from gold, since of course even a pretty cheap China flashlight works okay, particularly for the price. I've found the SureFire brand, but they are over £200 for a tiny one smaller than a hand - that is way more than I want to spend. Here's some reading: http://forums.mtbr.com/lights-night-riding/chinese-clone-leds-cree-vs-latticebright-1000703.html http://budgetlightforum.com/node/41084 http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/please-explain-confusing-lumenscree-variants-on-cheap-chinese-lights-to-me/
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Doctor Bishop posted:So before there was VCD, there was CD-V. Ha! Just watched that a few minutes ago because of falling down a Goon-inspired YouTube rabbit hole.
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Pilsner posted:Which suppliers sell genuine, good quality (housing and electronics) flashlights with Cree LED's, anyone? It's hard to tell junk from gold, since of course even a pretty cheap China flashlight works okay, particularly for the price. I've found the SureFire brand, but they are over £200 for I've had a Fenix E05 (single AAA) on my keychain for a year now. Really really nice flashlight, and super bright on the highest setting. Lasts quite a while on a good NiMH cell, too. For something cheaper, I have a couple of Hugsby lights, specifically an XP-12 and an XP-11 (2xAA and 1xAA respectively). They're inexpensive, well made and very bright. Lots of lovely knockoffs on eBay, though.
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