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Windows 10 goes the Schrödinger way
(dead and alive at the same time 😵)

Microsoft says it wants to add new features to Windows 10.

Microsoft has reopened the beta channel of the Windows 10 Insider Program to test new features and ideas before introducing them to the general public.

https://www.windowslatest.com/2024/06/05/microsoft-says-it-wants-to-add-new-features-to-windows-10/

Windows 10 nags users with full-screen end-of-life and Get Windows 11 banners.

🤬

https://www.windowslatest.com/2024/06/03/windows-10-nags-users-with-full-screen-end-of-life-and-get-windows-11-banners/

GREAT. :rolleyes:

Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts.

Many users use an e-mail trick to avoid creating a Microsoft account. This has now apparently been stopped by Microsoft.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2354686/microsoft-blocks-windows-11-workaround-local-accounts.html

Many BIG thanks to you. :thumbs_up:
Even though I currently don't have a desktop and there is no mkvtoolnix for Android :D

Windows 11 preview update causes taskbar crashes. :D

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-may-2024-kb5037959-windows-11-preview-update-causes-taskbar-crashes/

Windows 10 is dead (AGAIN) -_-

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-10/microsoft-gives-a-subtle-reminder-about-the-upcoming-death-of-windows-10

Okay, I admit, bashing Google is fun. :D

Glue pizza and eat rocks: Google AI search errors go viral.

"Google's new artificial intelligence (AI) search feature is facing criticism for providing erratic, inaccurate answers."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd11gzejgz4o

Google Search adds a “web” filter, because it is no longer focused on web results.
Google Search now has an option to search the "web," which is not the default anymore.

💀 ⚰️

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-search-adds-web-filter-as-it-pivots-to-ai-focused-search-results/

Gluegow gets more and more evil each day :thumbdown2:

AI Overviews are now available in the US and will roll out to more than a billion people by the year's end.

https://www.engadget.com/google-search-will-now-show-ai-generated-answers-to-millions-by-default-174512845.html

So your Windows 11 machine is running fine and shiny?
Don't worry, Micro$0ft will break it again soon.


Microsoft is testing a new Windows 11 Start menu with floating widgets
/ A replacement for Live Tiles seems to be on the way.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/9/24153058/microsoft-windows-11-start-menu-companions

Deceased, pero no mucho. :D

Well, or something like that.

What the dev¡1 is going on? :confused:

The Andreessen Horowitz general partner warned that "BS jobs" have material consequences.


https://qz.com/google-white-collar-staff-andreessen-horowitz-1851460910

Microsoft cautions that Patch Tuesday Windows kernel bugfix could break something. 😆

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-cautions-that-patch-tuesday-windows-kernel-bugfix-could-break-something/

Century #20: "if you create a computer that even an ¡d¡0t can use, then an ¡d¡0t will use it".
Century #21: "if you create an operating system that only the ¡d¡0ts can like, then only the ¡d¡0ts will use it" :|

Microsoft is getting rid of the following File Explorer features on Windows 11:

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/microsoft-is-getting-rid-of-the-following-file-explorer-features-on-windows-11

HEVC supports interlaced video, BUT there is no freeware/open-source way to decode interlaced HEVC correctly.
Anyway, interlaced video should be already dead in this century.

youtube-dl is dead, just use yt-dlp from now on.

Well, if anyone still had any doubts about Mosu becoming less of a Matroska developer and much-more of a Qt poster boy... :shock:

https://gitlab.com/mbunkus/mkvtoolnix/-/wikis/Dark-mode-issues

I DID NOT say and I DID NOT mean you should use mkvtoolnix-gui for checking which version of Qt was used by the compiler.⬇️


The problem of course is, professional computer programming REALLY makes people somewhat narrow-minded, sadly.😔

Not sure if this is useful :confused:, but...

menu Help --> System information --> Qt

Non-official build says: "Version: 5.15.8".

1) :goodpost: and THANKS! (again) :)

2) surely it is time for someone (not yourself, evidently) to create a NON-qt mkvtoolnix GUI for Windows...

the dot-NET fanboys should accept the challenge :)

But if the non-official GUI was written in Java 😈, it could be used by the Linux & Mac OS minorities as well 😏 😇

Microsoft is changing the function of the Print Screen key in Windows 11.

https://betanews.com/2023/04/11/microsoft-is-changing-the-function-of-the-print-screen-key-in-windows-11/

WILD GUESS:

you forgot to edit some .IFO(s) or/and some .VOB(s) :?: :confused:

— so that mkisofs "thinks" the VIDEO_TS folder should fit on a dual-layer disc and then it will pad the .ISO file with zeroes. :confused:

Windows 10 21H2 End-Of-Service is coming.

source: https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-windows-10-21h2-eos-reminder/

Microsoft reminded its customers today of the impending Windows 10 21H2 end-of-service (EOS) on June 13, 2023. It will affect the editions released in November 2021, such as Windows 10 Home, version 21H2; Windows 10 Pro, version 21H2; Windows 10 Pro Education, version 21H2; and Windows 10 Pro for Workstations, version 21H2.

“These editions will no longer receive security updates after June 13, 2023,” reminds Microsoft in its latest announcement. “Customers who contact Microsoft Support after this date will be directed to update their device to the latest version of Windows 10 or upgrade to Windows 11 to remain supported.”

Microsoft noted that the June 2023 security update of Windows 10 21H2 will be the last one it will receive. This EOS signals the stop of updates for version 21H2, especially the security and monthly quality updates. This could expose users to possible issues without necessary future security patches and bug fixes. With this, the Redmond company encourages users to get Windows 10 22H2 (Windows 10 2022 Update) or upgrade to Windows 11. The former has been available since November 2022 for users running Windows 10 20H2 or later via Windows Update. Microsoft said it would also push the update to consumer and non-managed business devices running Windows 10 20H2.

You can use MP4Box for adding various audio tracks to a single video stream.


mp4box -add video.mp4 -add audio01.m4a -add audio02.m4a ...... -add audioNN.m4a OUTPUT.mp4



Better read the TV's user guide, I guess. :confused:

IF you want to use VirtualDub OR Mencoder, both of them support the vp6vfw DLL.

NOTICE, it is a 32-bit encoder, and since it is very-old, it (probably) can use only one thread :?: :confused: ,
which means the encoding speed will not be very-high, especially with big frame dimensions.
NOTICE 2, I really don't know or remember whether the DLL supports anything above 1080p. :confused:

In VirtualDub, you must flip the image vertically before encoding to VP6;
after remuxing into a .FLV file, the image will be displayed correctly during the playback.

I *suppose* Mencoder can read the VFW DLLs's settings from Windows's Registry,

Audio streams don't have a "framerate".
I said 25 fps because when I chose any other framerate value, the total playing time of the reencode was always different from the original one. :confused:

Also, you still haven't said what version of MKVtoolnix you're using.
MAYBE it has a bug. :confused:

First of all, make sure you ALWAYS select "25 fps" in the Master Audio Suite GUI,
regardless of the video's actual framerate.

MAYBE the actual problem is in the version of MKVtoolnix you're using. :idea: :confused:

Microsoft plans major platform upgrades for “Windows 12” that will modernize the OS with AI, faster updates, and better security.

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/microsoft-windows-corepc-modern-platform-hudson-valley-2024

Windows 11 KB5023778 update adds promotions to the Start menu. 😒

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-11-kb5023778-update-adds-promotions-to-the-start-menu/

❤️

But of course. The name of the topic is
"When is AI going to make everything else obsolete?" :)[/QUOTE]

And your point is?[/QUOTE]

If you have to ask, then you will never know.

But of course. The name of the topic is
"When is AI going to make everything else obsolete?" :)

Evidently those guys are not smart enough. ;)
If they were, they themselves would have already stopped saying things like "natural languages".
ALL languages spoken by earthlings are artificial, spoken languages are built and rebuilt by actual people every day.
They are not fruits on a tree :D

You are wrong. :)

Through my Yandex email account... :)

Microsoft tries to justify A.I.‘s tendency to give wrong answers by saying they’re ‘usefully wrong’.

KEY POINTS

*Microsoft debuted ChatGPT-like features dubbed Copilot that will eventually come to its business apps like Word and Excel.

*Current AI technologies like ChatGPT can often produce inaccurate responses, and some technologists are fretting over the possibility that people may place too much trust in the software.

Latest Windows 11 update is causing slow SSDs & WiFi connections, BSoD, and more.

Would you really expect anything else? 🤡

https://www.techspot.com/news/97973-latest-windows-11-update-causing-slows-ssds-wifi.html

MAYBE on the "dark web",
very-unlikely you can find that kind of stuff through a "normal" (well-known) search engine.

But be careful, because while subtitle files are usually NOT regarded as "warez",
audio tracks of movies certainly are.

Well, what defines a so-called "K(wag) Video Disc" is just a low-bitrate/high-compression custom quantization matrix. :idea:
And you don't have to use only the "copyrighted" :D one.
As long as it's only for learning purposes, I think it's O.K. to play around with the K-discs in 2023. :)
I have read somewhere that HCenc produces better quality at low bitrates than TMPGenc, so give it a try and see the difference (if any) with your own eyes.
One problem in HCenc: its maximum GOP size is only 36 frames. TMPGenc, on the other hand, does not have such limitation.
Other MPEG-2 encoders which allow very-long GOPs are x262 and mpeg2enc (part of the MJPEGtools package).

P.S.:

Not even an octopus brain in the foreseeable future. :D
And "artificial intelligence" is a huge misnomer, to begin with. ;)