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To be fair, the only change in the newest 1.3.2.1 beta is a fix for the newest NVIDIA driver, and that driver is only available as 64-bit. A 32-bit release for the 1.3.2.0 one would be nice for the few users who need it, though.

It depends on the video. I just compared bitrates on a random one released recently (Nov. 5th available in 8K, and in this instance the 8K definition (only available in AV1) actually is 2x much worse in relative quality (bits/pixel) than the 4K one! The best one is actually 1440, so if you have...

Do you think this means the repeated frames are in the source, i.e. it's the studios that are doing this (erroneously) and not Amazon? If Amazon accepts all those frame rates I don't see why they would then convert some of them. The only times in 2 and a half decades of watching and fiddling...

I'm having a hard time believing Amazon would do something as awful as inserting repeated frames every x seconds in the encoded video itself. Do the people who have witnessed this have verified that this indeed the case by doing a manual frame-by-frame skip when in pause mode? This is the only...

Just as FYI, for the people wondering why Amazon is doing that when Dolby Digital already has a dialog normalization feature: AC-3 & E-AC3's dialnorm is just metadata that indicates the average dialog level, so the dynamic range compressor in every official Dolby decoder can work with that and...

960x540 is still a pretty strange definition. I'd understand definitions like 480p or 576p being available for old shows not remastered or originally shot on tape, as those are the same as SD NTSC/PAL source material, but 960x540 is exactly half of Full HD and was never a broadcast standard, and...

That is apparently a DLL for debugging ('Symbol Server/Service': https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/debug/using-symsrv) Also, 5.1.2600 is the version of Windows XP, so it's pretty weird, worth investigating.

@DeepSpace Did you check the "AppInits" section of Autoruns as suggested by James and others? When searching the Web for the kind of errors you got, it almost always comes down to either DLLs being corrupted (or sometimes 32-bit DLLs being erroneously loaded by 64-bit programs, e.g. when users...

Just my 2 cents, my HTPC is also an old Core 2 Duo (albeit overclocked and upgraded with an SSD, 8 GB of RAM, and a modern graphics card) and to save on precious CPU cycles, what I've resorted to is this: manually add exclusions for folders with the smallest chance of having infected files...

1. They think their offline upscaling is much better than what consumers' TVs could do (I doubt it) and it's worth wasting bandwidth. 2. They do that just so they can stick a 'HD' logo on the material and think consumers won't see the difference and will be happier thinking it's real HD. 3. Both...

JRiver Media Center also has some kind of reclocking feature (I think they call it 'videoclock'), but I'm not sure if it can do PAL speeddown. (Edit: apparently based on their wiki, it can: https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/VideoClock) It's worth asking on their forum. If you're ready to pay for...

Do media platforms use HTTPS to serve the content? If yes then download corruption wouldn't be a problem anymore as the protocol guarantees data integrity.

Refutation of this, direct from an NVIDIA engineer:

I'm sorry but that's just gulping MS' marketing. While it's true that Windows 11 is more secure by default than Windows 10, there was no need for a different OS version to enable that. Ever since the start of the Windows Hardware Compatibility programme, with each release Microsoft has added new...

Those who still don't want to could opt for AMD systems. ;) I bet when official support for Windows 10 ends in 2025, a Windows 12 will be on the way.

More important than color space, the second one is HDR ("Transfer characteristics : PQ"). You need an HDR capable player and display, or if your display is not HDR compatible you need a player that can convert to SDR, or it will look all washed out.

If we look at the timeline for HEVC, it was standardised mid-2013 and first appeared in NVIDIA chips early 2015 (GTX 960), so two years for VVC (standardised mid-2020) sounds realistic indeed. Nice. :) I hope it happens with the upcoming RTX 4000 series. I'm waiting until VVC is supported to...

Even 16 mm, which was sometimes used to save money on very low budget, looks quite good when rescanned for HD. Random trivia: the Monty Python were filmed in both, video for studio bits and film for outside bits.

Even if the 768x576 version is from another older/lower quality source, 750 Kbps is still awfully low a bitrate for that. Even the lower quality SD channels of my European cable provider, which are 720x576 AVC, are around 1500 Kbps minimum. OTOH, 4500 Kbps AVC for the 720x540 version sounds...

Yes, ReClock is 32-bit only.