Not sure why we had to go here to generalize. Don't think Mike needs to chill in posting, what maybe boring in content to you is not the consensus for everybody. With respect for both of you guys in posting this is a big no in posting such. Mike don't stop posting what you think might be informative information even if it might be native information to some.
Down2Earth
Hiya Down2Earth,
Not a big deal to me, I'm normally a pretty chill guy and try not to get involved in back & forth stuff.
If I feel that something could be helpful or informative to someone, I'll probably post away.
Like I did recently with Roku Ultra USB ports utilizing hardware upscaling to help with those 720p's at a fairly small one-time cost, Topaz Ai enhancing/upscaling usage of 720p/sub 720p stuff and adding new luster/viewing enjoyment to old valued movies, HBO Max being added back to Amazon as a channel, Apple+ free for 2 months, NetLimiter discovery/usage, pointing out GPU usage - which had the added benefit of getting KidJoe to clarify and bring more information to the table re: the Faq he compiled.
More information IMHO is nice and each of us has the ability to weigh it for our needs and incorporate/ignore if we find stuff redundant or boring.
Heck much of the things I learn are in response to my needs and to people's questions/needs and software shortcomings - whether long-term or short-term.
One person's boring/redundant post about something, could be helping someone else and might spur action on the part of those that can act.
Even stuff read somewhere else could turn out to be very helpful and give people a healthy heads-up
For instance Cats4U's post about 2 weeks notice gave many of us a foreshadowing of what might be coming shortly and resulted in many of us moving into high gear and updating as much content as possible just in case.
There were several posts about users utilizing that time as an opportunity to update as much as possible and maxing out their limits.
Heck, I listed all by 720p/sub 720 (hundreds) by using explorer on all my disks & adding/sorting by dimensions, bitrate sound quality then throwing those in a sub directory on disks.
Then reviewed/prioritized content I liked, searching Justwatch & Reelgood, going to providers and getting the better/new updates.
It took several days - but *mission accomplished*.
Those not finding better updates on streaming providers and worthy of updating have dates with Topaz Ai.
Mike
PS: Just utilized StreamFab to play Emancipation in it's browser (Chrome/Firefox/Edge won't show) after cancelling download and did a screen capture in real-time at 12,000 kbps using "background" mode of screen capture software which allows "obscuring" of StreamFab/playing window without effecting capture (
see attachment one and two). I can browse & use other software at the same time. Probably will use DVDFab/Topaz AI (enhance/upscale) to get to a size I like - 1080p? which beats the heck out of StreamFab's current Apple+ resolution/video bitrate and unusable audio rate of 32.4 kb/s - but StreamFab's browser is allowing me to do this. ;)
The odd larger size is due to defining the capture window above & below the actually playing video into the "black", which captured the subtitle's when the characters spoke in "Swahili", I believe - noticed that when I first looked at - wanted to include that too.
US - CST, No VPN, Win10/64 Pro & Win11/64 Pro, current StreamFab version, Current DVDFab
