CatBus

This is reason #479 why for all languages, SUP is the best option. They always look the way they’re supposed to.

If you simply must use an SRT (which I don’t recommend), then for RTL languages, the -compat file is probably best. The trick is that there are so many embedded players (i.e. Smart TV’s) that it’s fairly likely someone writing the player code for the TV will just grab some text-rendering code off the Internet and accidentally make RTL text render correctly. I definitely have heard about Smart TV’s that display RTL subtitles, er, I hate to say wrong, but let’s say unexpectedly right. Generally when there’s a player that does BiDi correctly, people who use RTL SRT files learn to just avoid using it.

Yes, your description is accurate. There’s also the tractor beam controls in Star Wars which qualify as onscreen text, but those are always present in the video in English, so you’ll only ever see those subtitles in other languages.

I rephrased it yet again, since I think I know where the trip-up is now:

native: no onscreen text is subtitled, designed to accompany video that already includes burnt-in alien subtitles
nocrawl: the opening titles and crawl are not subtitled, designed to accompany video that does not include burnt-in alien subtitles

Is this text clearer?

native: onscreen text is not subtitled, designed to accompany video that already includes burnt-in alien subtitles
nocrawl: onscreen text is not subtitled, designed to accompany video that does not include burnt-in alien subtitles

From the “Why did this even make it to court?” files.

Anti-racist protester DeAndre Harris, who was brutally beaten by a group of white supremacists, had the assault charges filed against him dropped after a judge said on Friday the 20-year-old black man was defending himself.

Basically a reminder that Nazis were also reviewing the Charlottesville video footage, looking for more targets to attack, legally or otherwise. There are also some other incidents that may just be coincidence.

I think in seriousness if a “cult” is big enough (i.e. millions), it must include seemingly normal people. There are different degrees of cult devotees. In Rand’s case, there are the full-on-Kool-Aid-literalists who think the world ends when they die*, and there are people who just think the Golden Rule is for saps who don’t know how to leverage their advantage. Paul and Greenspan are toward the latter end. Their thinking is infused with her philosophy, but they probably would still be standing in a Jonestown scenario. They believe as much as benefits them at the time, which I guess is sort of meta-objectivist.

* Yes I realize there’s a symbolic philosophical thing going on here, but it’s still effed up.

The -compat business is really baffling to me. I think you’re right, it just blows me away that media players have all standardized on a completely effed-up SRT file format for RTL languages. I saw a media player that handled correctly-formatted RTL subtitles once, and, sure enough, there was a bug filed that it didn’t work with the vast majority of RTL SRT subtitles already in existence.

On the latter issue, the description is confusing but correct (I may work on that). “native” means Greedo’s lines aren’t included in the SRT/SUP file, because they are expected to be burnt-in on the video. “nocrawl” means the translated crawl is not included, but Greedo’s lines are, if the video doesn’t burn in Greedo’s lines. For example, if the English version of the video doesn’t have Greedo subs, then you’d want the Greedo lines in your SRT/SUP files but you would still not want the English crawl text in your subtitles, because that’s still in the video. Unless you’ve got the German Krieg der Sterne video, in which case you want -eng-full. It’s a bit of a mess, but that’s what I get for trying to cover every possibility.

EDITED TO ADD:

For clarification on what the difference is between -compat files and normal files… if you run Windows, Notepad is a great artifact of primitive Unicode text technology. In Notepad, if you open a -full RTL file, it will look all messed up (primarily punctuation on the wrong side of the text). If you open the -compat file, it looks fine. But try that using some more modern Unicode text-handler (a browser, word processor, whatever), and the situation is exactly reversed.

A crazier example is if you open a -compat file in Notepad (which looks fine), and then copy and paste into a browser – the characters get all jumbled around in the paste operation, because they were never in the right order to begin with, Notepad just displayed the jumbled characters in a jumbled way that made them look like they were okay when they actually weren’t.

Argh! Unicode solved this problem decades ago!

Anyway, all of this seems a little academic until you consider that I have scripts that read the SRT files and render images based on that text, and I can’t afford to be messing around with scrambled text. And I copy the subtitles and paste them into Google translate all the time, to make sure I’m working on the right line, where, again, text scrambling is unhelpful.

SilverWook said:

Mrebo said:

SilverWook said:

Well, in the event you do get in, start a rumor Obama prevented a proper release of the OOT. 😉

You better believe it!

If I could get the truth about UFOs revealed and the OOT released from the Library of Congress then I’d be a happy camper.

I’m a bit crestfallen Trumpy hasn’t bragged about us having crashed UFO tech and dead aliens in freezers over at Area 51. Unless they really do keep the President in the dark about such things ala Independance Day.

Give Alex Jones a few more minutes. He just needs to snort type a few more lines and that’s your headline news for the next news cycle.

Anyone know if qbittorrent is Organ-compliant? They seem to have special client requirements there, and I chose rtorrent simply because I knew it was a compatible CLI Linux client. But if that part’s the same and there’s relevant feature differences, I could go for something else. Not looking to do magnet links or public trackers. Just an old-school .torrent file on a private tracker. Or chicken out and have someone else do it again, that’s also a strong contender.

Thanks for the tutorial by the way. I knew some of that, but it can’t hurt to assume I don’t know even the most basic things.

Working for the White House does look good on one’s resume (more prestige than just getting a job somewhere because your were a friend of the owner’s family), and as a public servant you could do things like, whether you agreed with the administration’s decisions or not, you could make sure they were using good, accurate data upon which to base those decisions, etc.

At least that’s how it used to work.

Now… wear a wire. Not to convict anyone, but to ensure you don’t take the fall.

With all the people exiting the White House, I certainly hope some of those remaining are still wearing wires.

PM sent.

Mrebo said:

I’m no engineer, but somebody made a huge mistake.

At least six people were injured Thursday afternoon when a pedestrian bridge at Florida International University collapsed onto eight lanes of road traffic and police believe multiple people have died.

The bridge was installed just last week. During the ceremony, FIU President Mark Rosenberg said, “FIU is about building bridges and student safety. This project accomplishes our mission beautifully.”

It’s easier to get the low-bid contracts when you cut corners.

What am I, chopped liver? Can’t I be the childish one? Come on, guys! That’s not fair, let me have a turn!

Possessed said:

We can all be childish.

Nuh-uh!

Mrebo said:

I’ve never understood why Rand is seen as so influential and a lightning rod. Then again I’ve never read her books.

Ever hear of Alan Greenspan or Paul Ryan? She’s basically an extreme, unrepentant form of Gordon Gecko. And her sci-fi is meh at best.

moviefreakedmind said:

CatBus said:

Ayn Rand.

This guy is worse than she ever was in terms of psychotic right-wing cult figures:

Stefan Molyneux (Free Domain Radio)

Yeah, I used to think “sure, there’s people with crazier ideas than Rand, but they don’t have the same degree of influence.” Now I know better. There really is no bottom.

Ayn Rand.

I wouldn’t know anyone here from a stranger if I met them in real life, and maybe I even have. We all spend more time stewing in our own shit than thinking about other people’s shit, and that’s just the human condition, not selfishness. Nevertheless, Possessed, I would encourage you to stick with this existence. This tiny corner of the world that hardly anyone knows or cares about would be emptier without you. You would be missed. By a bunch of strangers, perhaps, but missed nonetheless.

Mrebo said:

Does this go here or…?

Reminds me a bit of doubleofive’s post here which I can’t link directly because I can’t figure out how to do that anymore unless the post has been edited.

http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/General-Star-Wars-Random-Thoughts-Thread/id/12545/page/31

…from 2011. Can’t remember what I had for breakfast half the time but I remember that post.

Mrebo said:

Contained in Warb’s paranthetical is the idea that a gun safety lesson in a school can be legitimate but this guy shouldn’t be teaching it based on actions evincing recklessness. mfm takes the view that no such class is ever acceptable and/or any accident is proof of absurdity and incompetence.

Distilled like a fine gin.

Looks like another Dem pickup in PA, with a big swing of 20 points from 2016, despite being massively outspent. The Republican explanation seems to be that their guy was a particularly lackluster, unappealing candidate, and that may actually be true. For example, would the Dems have picked up Alabama had the Republicans not selected a particularly revolting human? Probably not.

Democrats can’t hope to keep this up indefinitely. What are the chances that EVERY Republican candidate will either be a vacuous empty suit, completely unqualified neophyte, and/or some sort of depraved monster?

Oh, nevermind.

TV’s Frink said:

dahmage said:

Who is TIL?

Tublic Image Ltd

You’ll dance to anything.

It turns out that if someone fires people so frequently it becomes their tagline, it may just be because they make really crappy personnel decisions. Who knew?

DuracellEnergizer said:

CatBus said:

moviefreakedmind said:

one69chev said:

The concept of ‘speaking in tongues’ is another failed attempt to make every single word of scripture applicable to today. And you’re right it is super weird amd creepy.

It’s like something you’d see in The Exorcist.

Or Pootie Tang.

'Til now, I barely remembered that movie exists.

Pootie Tang will draw you a picture of how he’s gonna kick your ass, then mail it to you ten days in advance. The picture gets there, right? You go, “What the hell is this?” Then Pootie Tang knocks on your door, promptly kicks your ass, and you still won’t know what happened to you!

Warbler said:

ChainsawAsh said:

CatBus said:

Well, that’s it. Mueller can go home now. There’s no basis to any of it. Cue the pardons!

I have to subscribe to read the full article? Fuck off, WSJ.

WSJ? Who is that? btw, I could not read the whole article, it said something about have to sign in or sign up and I am not going to do that.

WSJ = Wall Street Journal. Good solid journalism with a conservative slant in a sea of tabloids, worth consideration. But yeah I accidentally posted a paywalled link. Mea culpa.

Done. It’s in Cantonese though.