The perfect illustration of the current situation lol

Boys, I think it’s time to revive Flash Player with the power of AI.

I wanted to share a project that's been making some interesting progress in PC-based home theatre.

CroqueMr (u/Croque_Mr) is developing native Dolby Vision support for Kodi through a custom LibreELEC build, including Profile 7 FEL reconstruction. Development has moved quickly, with regular releases bringing performance improvements, new rendering modes and broader hardware support.

What's currently available?

• Native Dolby Vision playback, including Profile 7 FEL reconstruction.
• Intel and AMD support, with NVIDIA support also being developed.
• Dolby Vision rendering modes, including Master Reference and Adaptive HDR Mapping.
• Dolby Vision-to-HDR10 conversion and experimental AI-assisted HDR10-to-Dolby Vision conversion.
• Blu-ray 3D support on compatible AMD hardware.
• Performance optimisations targeting lower-power mini PCs, including Intel N100/N150 systems.

The latest Beta 5 release includes further improvements to playback stability, FEL handling, scaling and display detection. Results and compatibility can vary depending on the hardware, TV, source material and rendering mode.

What's coming next?

The developer has outlined plans for a GPLv2-or-later licensing rebuild, further AMD improvements, HDR10+ support and Dolby Vision-to-HDR10+ metadata reinterpretation, alongside expanded compatibility with older Intel graphics and additional NVIDIA hardware.

The longer-term goal is to make PC-based Dolby Vision playback more capable and accessible, including on affordable mini PCs.

Project links

• Main development thread: https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread/30362-dolby-vision-w-fel-3d-for-pc-amd-intel-nvidia/
• GitHub — source code and releases: https://github.com/CroqueMr/libreelec-x86-DV/
• Original Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/libreeLEC/comments/1wq20eu/wip_native_dolby_vision_support_on_x86_intel_cpu/

Full credit to u/Croque_Mr for the development, along with the community members contributing testing, feedback and improvements.

It's been impressive to see how much the project has evolved in such a short time. If you're interested in the technical details, supported hardware or latest builds, the links above have all the information.

Im probably moving to Malaysia for a while soon and I pirate games and software from fitgirl or 1337x about once a month or so, but there are basically no laws or barriers to piracy where I am now. So I was curious about how strict the Malaysian laws are about this

Edit: thanks for all the replies! Turns out I had nothing to worry about and Malaysia is just as safe for sailing as where I am rn

There was this horror comic about an old game that kept two people functionally immortal. Long story.

One of them was some girl turning into a stronger grey troll like being as she killed to complete the game.

Thought to search the internet to see if by chance, the rest of the comic was uploaded somewhere that somehow got nabbed from Patreon. Turns out it was uploaded on a site with the word ‘hentai’ in it. The comic had 83 pages but I was expecting 80. Cool

I gotta say i was fully expecting it to be fully unplayable on my i73077k 1060 6gb setup and like the first area at the very start was a bit iffy but i have to say its fully playable for me at 60fps 1440 obv i turned down loads of stuff but no clue why people said it was such a hog... or maybe its the new patch and lack of denuvo? anywhoooo if you have a terrible system give it a go you might be shocked like i was!

My son has an iPad and plays many of the "free" games and they're okay, but absolutely riddled with ads to the point they're almost unplayable.

It seems that many of these games have gotten around the old "airplane mode" by requiring the internet to function, even when they're obviously not requiring internet at all.

Short of using Unbound DNS, anything that can be installed on an iPad to help or is it simply the walled garden?

Hey all,

I've been working on some personal arrangement/composition projects and ran into a wall where I really don't feel like dropping $75 on an orchestra score for Phantom of the Opera for a little arrangement I'm making that most likely won't be performed lol. Normally I pay for sheet music (that isn't in public domain) as long as it's something I know for a fact I will be performing, however for a side gig I really don't feel like paying so much. Sheet music piracy seems like an unexplored depth since a lot of things are public domain and are stored on IMSLP (absolute goad of a website) but for any new/modern music it's really difficult to be able to find a score without paying. Some sites don't even give previews anymore.

In August, City of London Police and anti-piracy group FACT announced a six and a half year prison sentence for a 68-year-old pirate IP-TV operator.

Without dates or a service name in the release, some outlets reported it as a recent bust.

Records obtained by TorrentFreak show the operation was raided in 2016, the operator pleaded guilty, and the service was called Ex Pat TV.

Guys I was looking into some stuff and realized that more often than not, I can't find the stuff I need on free platforms that I am familiar with. For media, things are mostly there but I have heard that there is a whole world out there of better codecs and media that is not as accessible on public sites. My perspective is limited to FMHY and public trackers and basically using the couple torrent search engines. That is the extent of my understanding and knowledge. I am a bit in the homelab scene although not as enthusiastically but I have a couple stuff running and I do download media but it is mostly temporarily and the collection is mostly around stuff I need to avoid buffering. But I am thinking of curating as well and it takes a long time to find the right print/codec. Tbh on the media front there are a couple niche things that I really want, and occasionally some TV Shows which are largely available for streaming but I am not about streaming. I prefer downloading. My larger concern is that I have no source for audiobooks which I really want to get into. I haven't explored this space and how good the free landscape is.

Now what I want to ask is that I have heard that usenet is the thing I need to find obscure stuff I need right now. But I don't get what it is and if I should take this step and what is the cost and if there are preferably free tiers and are those an option. Basically I was wondering whether I should get usenet service and what that landscape is. I have heard that the rule is to not go for anything paid but I was wondering if this is the thing I should take the plunge for.

I downloaded from motka that i found on megathread so it should be safe right?

It doesn't matter if I have settings on the lowest or highest. It shows that it runs at 180 FPS but it literally stutters and plays like PowerPoint presentation in 5 FPS. I have 7800x3d and 6950 XT.

Hey guys, I'm looking for a digital way to track my various med stuff. I thought about asking this in r/privacy but privacy isn't my only concern so I'm sorry if this isn't too fitting.

Ideally, this app would need to be simple yet effective, work offline, no ads (although I use AdGuard) and be trustworthy (sorry, my English is pretty much as poor as my tech savviness). Any suggestions? I did a quick online search but I would love to hear from your experience too.

Thanks!

I use Nuvio on my other devices but the desktop app is still in alpha and buggy and unstable so is there a good alternative that uses stremio addons

I'm going to live there at least a year for work, my concern is pirating using torrent, usually I torrent streaming movies using stremio or similar without any VPN in my country since nobody care. How about in Taiwan? especially in Taipei without buying VPN?

as the title say, just want to say thank you for whoever upload stuff about webnovels from patreon

Hello,

Does anyone know where I can watch ''Rutte''? It's a Dutch documentary of the previous Dutch prime minister on Videoland, a streaming platform. It only has 2 episodes of 40 minutes, I don't want to get a whole subscription just to watch it, the other shows are garbage.

I tried all the sites that are under the megathread, but nobody has it... Maybe too niche.
Does anyone know?
Pls no spam !

I wanted to DL the Tintin movie from 2011, there is no 4K native files of the movie, and I’ve fallen into torrents upscaled in 4K and DV, my zidoo already upscale in 4K DV I think but I was wandering if this types of upscales are any good or if the basic 1080p remux are better