https://www.jsoftware.com/help/learning/23.htm is the closest i've found, but wondering if i'm missing something perhaps, Julia?

tyvm

git worktrees and sidequests

but i do enjoy antialiased blu-ray subtitles of course YMMV :)

edit: plus the blu-ray subtitle encoder itself is new...

is the most recent.

I'm taking a phased approach with an agentic host repo that drives the source changes in FFmpeg. generally, i do a "sprint" for adding features, then a sprint reorganizing for coherence with an eye on possible upstreaming.

honestly, it would've taken me about 2 years to do this otherwise.

there are many FATE tests added and a lot more to add when the hardware verification bits i'm planning are done.

edit: do you know if upstream have ever taken an AI assisted commit? i've not seen anything yet and would hate to be controversial or a burden on hardworking reviewers!

https://connollydavid.github.io/pgs-release/

such a fun project!

I built this with Claude Code over a few weeks. Claude wrote most of the encoder, found an integer overflow in the decoder buffer tracking, and ran review from five angles. I read the Panasonic and Sony patents, made the architectural calls, and told it when it was wrong about the spec. We argued about whether DTS computation belongs in the muxer. (It does, and also in fftools. We did both.)

Animation is an interesting problem. Advanced SubStation Alpha fades have to survive conversion to Blu-ray's PGS format. The encoder watches pixel changes between frames and classifies them: palette shift or full redraw. Fades become palette-only updates, no bitmap retransmission. Overlapping subtitles with different end times took four rewrites and an event lookahead window.

I'd like to maintain this properly and get the patches upstream eventually. If you hit a bug or have a subtitle workflow that doesn't work, open an issue. I'm dead curious what people do with this, but i have some plans for translation related plugins building on the OCR work.

Six iterations. 23 patches. libass and Tesseract were already in FFmpeg's filter library. I wired them into the main pipeline the same way sub2video works. Text to bitmap, bitmap to text, 114 OCR languages, RGBA-to-GIF. The development page has the history.

Pre-built for 6 platforms, no dependencies: https://connollydavid.github.io/pgs-release/

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https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/...

worked perfectly on a fully updated Windows 11 24H2 installed on an old Surface Pro LTE i5-7300U that is perhaps unlikely to receive another firmware update...

And from a more local angle & purely for a lovely day out, may I recommend a trip to Cork City and a wander through George Boole’s old stomping ground in UCC.

Enjoy reconnecting!

one thing i would like to see happen is deprecating SMS message with Labels rather than numbers, phishing has got far far too common in my jurisdiction RCS + some sort of DNS validation like atproto of sender would go a long long way

FM-Towns was an always 32-bit approach, really really early and features a port of Strike Commander (1993) that is pretty great.

does anyone have any manuals from the Phar Lap Run/386 dos extender from back in the day? sadly not preserved online as far as i have found.

doubtless, the irish representatives wouldn't support any divergence between Dublin and Belfast, (especially considering this is wrong from a spatial perspective as population density is heavily skewed to the east of the island).

edit: i was curious enough to email all of the irish delegates to this organisation. some fairly heavy hitters, as a citizen with a keen interest in Dublin & Belfast being in the same timezone will be interesting to hear back!

the slides may be of interest: https://treasures.scss.tcd.ie/miscellany/TCD-SCSS-X.20121208...

and a hub of related content: https://treasures.scss.tcd.ie/ludgate/