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Make MPC-BC more like MPC-HC

I have been a long time user of MPC-HC which was recently abandoned by its developers. It’s a shame, because the media player was not only versatile and minimal. It was blazing fast, very user friendly, and supported all media formats I could think of. So I started to use MPC-BC instead, as recommended by many. Its a great alternative, though it honestly looks like a cheap and tacky version of MPC-HC. For me though, some of the default settings are a bit odd. Player window does not adjust to resolution First of all, the player window does not adjust to the video resolution. This means that if you open a video in UHD resolution, for example, the video player might be super small. Here is how you can fix it: Just turn on “Auto-zoom” to 100% in Options -> Playback. Blurry subtitles Another strange default setting in MPC-BC is that subtitles look very blurry. Almost as if they are burned in the video, even if they are external subtitles. You can fix this by going to Options -> Subtitles -> Rendering and set the “maximum texture resolution” to “Desktop”. Turn off dark theme You can also turn off the “dark theme”. Not sure why everyone is so obsessed with that these days. Options -> Player -> Interface -> Uncheck “Use dark theme”. Remove the logo The startup MPC-BC logo is not really too good looking either. Why not just remove it? Options -> Player -> Logo -> Skip with right arrow until the picture is gone.

Super simple Windows 10 and Windows 11 automated installation

Update 11 October 2021: This autounattend.xml script also works for Windows 11 version 21H2. There are a lot of ways you can automate a Windows installation. The most obvious and simple way is using an answer file. So what’s an answer file? A Windows answer file is basically just an XML file that gives Windows instructions on how and what to install. So you don’t have to sit and click next, next, next… 😉 When installing Windows you just place the answer file at the root of the installation media and name it autounattend.xml. Of course, the file has to be a valid XML answer file for it to work. You can’t just put anything in it. Here is an example of an automated installation of Windows 10 using an answer file. Here is an example of the same script installing Windows 11. Making an answer file can be a little complicated and involves using Microsoft System Image Manager. If you want you can create one from scratch, but in this post, I am just going to share my go-to script. The following code is a simple file that will: Make a local Administrator called “User” without any password. Set the keyboard and regional settings to Norwegian. There is no activation, no license, no nothing. Just save the file as autounattend.xml and place it at the root of your Windows installation media. The only thing that is not automated is which disk Windows should be installed on. I intentionally skipped that step because of the risk of accidentally deleting a drive/partition.

Modding Nintendo Wii U with Homebrew and Haxchi

This is an explanation of all the steps I had to go through to make a modded Wii U in November 2018. I am not sure if it still applies, but I assume that if you have the same firmware, it should work. Basically all the info here is from wiiu.hacks.guide. The documentation can also be found on Github or as an archive per 2018.11.25. The type of Wii U used here is: Wii U with firmware 5.5.3 E. WUP-101(03) 32 GB version Reset your Wii U This whole process could take a couple of hours so make sure you have the time and patience. 🕓… Start with resetting your Wii U to factory settings. Note that you will lose all data on the Wii U if you do this. Turn on your Wii U Go to “System Settings” Go to the right until you see “Delete All Content and Settings”. Press the icon, click next, and “Delete everything”. After the formatting is complete the Wii U will shut down. Turn it back on and go through the whole “first-time-setup”. While you are at it, it is a good idea to logon with a Nintendo account, because we will need to download a game from the Wii U Store later on. You should connect to the WiFi, but try not to update the console if you are asked. Prepare the SD card and download files This information is from https://wiiu.hacks.guide/get-started Find a large SD card of at least 8 GB. Format the SD card as FAT32 and make sure it is in MBR (Master Boot Record) format. If the SD card is large, say 128 GB Windows will not format it as FAT32, but you can use the “Fat 32 Format” software tool to format it. Download the following files: […]

Convert subtitles from the command line with SubtitleEdit

We can use SubtitleEdit from the command line in Windows to do batch operations on subtitle files. Just install SubtitleEdit first. If you are using the portable version, make sure you put the exe in PATH. Example: Convert TTML to SRT: It’s even easier in a Directory Opus button. Just make sure it is set to run as MS-DOS Batch function: Output: Becomes this:

Rotate videos with FFmpeg

There are actually two ways you can rotate videos with FFmpeg: You can rotate the video “physically” with the -vf transpose option. This will re-encode the video, thus it might degrade the video quality slightly. Or you can just change…

Convert audio to visualization video

FFmpeg has a bunch of really cool filters you can use to turn audio into visualizations. Showvolume is my favorite as it shows volume changes in real-time, but the others are great too depending on use case. avectorscope showcqt ahistogram aphasemeter showfreqs showspectrum showwaves showvolume

Convert video to WebM in FFMpeg

What is WebM and why should you use it? To better understand what WebM is you can watch this short video explanation: What is WebM?. The good news is that as of 2018, ​most browsers support VP9. Read more here.…