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gravis again @cathoderaydude3/16/2024, 7:06 AM

daria said "well my mst3k rips are really old" and i said "i mean how old can they be" and then i was absolutely leveled by the fucking codec properties she sent me

this is divx 3, and you can only know that if you look up the program that generated it, because divx didn't have its own fourcc, because it was just a binary hacked version of microsoft's nonstandard mpeg4 codec.

also they're fucking 480x360. if you thump one of these files it emits volcanic dust from mount vesuvius

gravis again @cathoderaydude3/16/2024, 7:08 AM

these were ripped before 9/11

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living in 16QAM @vxo3/16/2024, 7:09 AM

We had to crawl before we could walk, after all, and this was, uh, where we were just getting the crawling dynamic down

living in 16QAM @vxo3/16/2024, 7:11 AM

Dare I ask what the audio format is?

Once I had some really old anime fansubs that were like this and I freaking swear the audio format was cursed beyond all recovery. It was weird divx audio codec that absolutely nothing supported

gravis again @cathoderaydude3/16/2024, 7:12 AM

mp3

Laurel @Lalalascivious3/16/2024, 8:09 AM

I was just thinking about finding and watching some MST3K, and now I almost want to watch this level of a rip. ..... Only almost. That sounds enormously crusty.

signal eleven @widr3/16/2024, 8:18 AM

0.18 bits per pixel holy god is that true

that is like more than 13x the weight of a fairly decadent modern encode i chose at random

sirocyl @sirocyl3/16/2024, 8:41 AM

I wonder if a pentium II can playback H.265 or AV1 or something at ~~480x360i60~~ 480x360p29.97. it'd have to be compiled with MMX but no SSE, which may be a challenge.

signal eleven @widr3/16/2024, 9:01 AM

gosh. probably not honestly. at one point i paid actual money for an h264 codec wasn't hella slow and that was several generations later

nortti OH1CAU @nortti3/17/2024, 12:50 AM

on syys which has a 447MHz pentium II, we got 360p30 h.264 off of youtube playing just barely, so I highly doubt it

EDIT: also, I remember having trouble playing some not-even-HD video on a low-end pentium III already 10 years ago. I sometimes couldn't stream using mplayer without excessive framedrops, so I had to download the file and use ffmpeg to convert to mpeg4 video

Xīn Jīn Mèng @xinjinmeng3/16/2024, 8:23 AM

Pixels as big as hams! 💙

@darryl @darryl3/16/2024, 12:42 PM

Because I was only into downloading video for a brief window of my life, there’s a part of my brain that still instinctively reacts, “oh, DivX is pretty good”

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@plutesboots3/16/2024, 7:03 PM

Oh divx...those were some times. I'm remembering needing codecs to play so many videos. CCCP my beloved..