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15th November 2019, 02:27 | #541 | Link |
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I feel the pretty much the same way about Win10 itself, but the problem here is just cosmetic. We know we're going to have a lot of problems soon. You're going to protect yourself, not depending on security patches by Windows Update (actually I disabled Windows Update itself many years ago, in the services.msc level). While it would be great if many devs try to keep supporting Win7 in the future, maybe that won't happen so we're going to have to deal with minor conveniences by ourselves. The way I see it #1 problem of Win10 is forced updates (you don't own your windows; Windows own you... like in Soviet Russia). From what I gathered, the privacy issues of Win10 can be fixed relatively easily (there are many tools for that too). Anyway, let's be strong. You're not alone.
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I think traditional QT isn't High DPI independent like QT Quick or WPF.
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Second example is PowerShell which I as .NET programmer consider far superior to bash, everything .NET including PowerShell runs fine on Linux but there is still an ideology problem on Linux against Microsoft even though MS nowadays does much for Open Source, much more than Apple I believe and also even Torvalds made a statement that this kind of thinking does not help. If I remember correctly than you left github the time around when it was acquired by Microsoft.
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Yeah, history repeating itself...
But there is one big difference this time. This time you are pushing your users towards using an Operating System (I am talking about Win10, IMO not many users consider Win8 or 8.1 as a viable alternative) which neither corporate users nor government agencies or other public organizations can legally use in Germany. And probably not in the whole European Union because the privacy laws come from the EU. Did you even read the Heise artikel I linked to? https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meld...0-4584678.html One of the key statements of this article: Quote:
And Win10 does just this. Last edited by manolito; 15th November 2019 at 19:59. |
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15th November 2019, 20:36 | #547 | Link |
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Again, I'm _not_ pushing you to use Windows 10. I would if I only offered a Windows 10 version of MKVToolNix. But I don't. I actually offer it for quite a range of operating systems.
And my philosophy is really easy: if the vendor doesn't support it anymore, I don't either. Unsupported software & unpatched machines are quite a problem on the internet (not just Windows, mind you, pretty much all IoT devices fall under this category as to wide swaths of home routers/modems). So don't try playing the "W10 bad, W7 good" card; I completely reject that premise as it's a very selective view on a rather complex matter.
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15th November 2019, 20:47 | #548 | Link |
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I'm well aware of Qt's documentation regarding high DPI settings. MKVToolNix is using the settings there (Qt::AA_EnableHighDpiScaling). However, that leads to interesting results, especially with the 125% scaling mode in Windows.
In general it works more or less. What I haven't turned on yet is using proper high-density pixmaps for icons, mostly because I haven't figured out how to make the tool selector's icons behave properly (size calculation, drawing high-density pixmaps properly so they're scaled accordingly). Certainly not impossible but rather time-consuming. And the only high DPI monitor I have is connected to my Windows machine. That's all fine, but it makes testing with Linux hard & with macOS (this is just a VM) impossible. Hence me not liking having to work on this particular feature
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Speaking of privacy... In MKVToolNix GUI, the "Check online for available updates" option is enabled by default. There are many such tools today, but good old tools tend to ask, "Do you want to automatically check updates...?" before phoning home for the first time. Yes, the right thing for me to do would be compiling my own version the way I like. I know that. @manolito Don't worry too much. (1) Mosu explicitly said: “No, this doesn't mean the GUI will magically stop working on W7 on that date.” It's not like W7 support will be intentionally terminated. (2) We're free to keep using an old OS; similarly we're free to keep using an old version of MKVToolNix forever. Not using the latest version too soon (i.e. using the same old version for a while) is actually a good idea for most (including Win10) users, so you can avoid accidental regressions and tacit compatibility-breaking changes, and make sure you have your MKV files consistent. (3) Even if GUI becomes incompatible in the future, it's probably easy (if not trivial) to maintain Win7 compatible fork privately, as long as mkvmerge runs on Win7. Quote:
X : potential security/privacy risks by keeping using Win7 Y : immediate privacy issues and daily annoyance by using Win10 Many somehow assume X > Y. While X > Y might be true for naive users (e.g. if you use Google on Win7, you're already in a worse world than Win10), if you're careful, my gut feeling is X < Y at least for the time being. Sorry OT. Last edited by Liisachan; 16th November 2019 at 00:16. |
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GET /latest-release.xml.gz HTTP/1.1 Host: mkvtoolnix.download Connection: Keep-Alive Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept-Language: en-US,* User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Other things to consider:
I'm not opposed to having that question asked and would accept patches/merge requests that implement such functionality.
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What I don't really like is, when the GUI shows info about new version(s), a link to youtube is shown in such a way that the user may think it's a link to the release note. If you click such a link, youtube.com is called, then indirectly gstatic.com, accounts.google.com, etc. While one might argue this trick-to-click is okay because mkvtoolnix.download itself is affiliated with Google anyway, I think the link should honestly say "Search this on youtube" if it's a link to youtube. Related to the DPI problem (cosmetic): v40 on Win7; it seems that the "Disable scaling for high DPI displays" option doesn't change anything when the GUI is closed and restarted: tested three 3 dpi values (113; 120; 138). PS Win7 users should be aware that just because you don't use Win10 doesn't make you "safe." |
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For me, the root of the problems is that random applications try to connect to remote addresses when the user does not ask/allow them to do so. Such a behavior might have been frowned upon 10 or 20 years ago. Today people seem okay with that. MKVToolnix GUI is just one of many such “today” tools. The solution is obvious (a firewall set up to block/intercept every connection by default). The update check of this GUI does not cause any real problem, easy to disable, and perhaps many people today love automatic checking. So I'm not requesting any changes about this. I block its connection and don't use that dialog box, so its links are not my problem. What I'm unhappy about is not your GUI, but this trend in general. Even free software (e.g. firefox) doesn't necessarily respect your privacy anymore. Free/nonfree and privacy-oriented/Google-like, are two different dimensions. Anyway, I'd like to report something different. In /doc/en/mkvmerge.html 1) 12. Attachments: in the example, TTF is attached with --attachment-mime-type application/octet-stream (!!) Yes, I remember I used this MIME in early days. I really hope that the Matroska specs will have a footnote, clarifying which MIME types should be supported as an embedded font. 2) --aac-is-sbr is explained as “needed if a) the source file is an AAC file (not for a Matroska(tm) file) and”... this "not for" is a bit confusing. Perhaps you mean "not from", "not stored in" or something like that? |
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Why RF64 and what playback device are you intending using?
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Portrait / landscape
.mp4 files have a 'rotation' parameter which ensures that portrait filmed clips (for example from mobile phones) are played back in portrait orientation on TV etc.
When remuxing such files to .mkv the orientation flag seems to get lost and the portrait clip is shown in landscape orientation (90° flipped). Is there an option for keeping the rotation flag in .mkv, or would I have to resize and re-encode the source before remuxing it to .mkv? |
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There is an element called ProjectionPoseRoll, but this element is nowadays not supported.
You can use Matroska Tags (3 players support it) with a SimpleTag -> TagName = ROTATE; TagString = 90 or 180 or 270 and in the Targets element you add a TrackUID element with the UID of the video track. You could try chapterEditor. |
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MKVToolNix v41.0.0 released
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here's one last release before the end of the year, and it's a bit bigger than the previous ones. Have a look at the news below for details. Nothing's changed for package maintainers. Here are the usual links: the MKVToolNix home page, the Windows installer/portable version & macOS DMG & Linux AppImage and the source code. The Windows and macOS binaries as well as the Linux AppImage are available already. The other Linux binaries are still being built and will be available over the course of the next couple of hours. Here are the NEWS since the previous release: Version 41.0.0 "Smarra" 2019-12-06 New features and enhancements
Bug fixes
Have fun
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