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indomara , to mildlyinteresting in At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book—one page at a time, by hand.

Today I learned that firefox doesn’t like to play certain types of mp4 files. I also learned that you can copy a video link and paste it into VLC media player and it will play!

Watching these books being archived is amazing, I would love to do this!

papalonian ,

I also learned that you can copy a video link and paste it into VLC media player and it will play!

You can also use this trick to download YouTube videos without the need of a 3rd party website!

  1. Copy the URL of the YouTube video you wanna download
  2. VLC / Media / Open network stream… And paste your URL
  3. Once the video has opened, Tools / Media Information
  4. Copy the URL in the “Location” field and paste it into your web browser, you should have the option to save the video

It’s a couple of steps but once you memorize what you need to do it’s a million times faster (and I’d wager equally times as private) than finding one of those websites to give you a link.

imecth , (edited )
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or just use youtube-dl
edit: here's an electron gui wrapper: youtube-dl-gui

kamiheku ,

Yes! Though yt-dlp has been the preferred fork for a good while now. yt-dlg is a nice GUI that supports downloading with the fork.

indomara ,

Neat! I figured out accidentally that you don’t have to do step 2, you can just open VLC and ctrl+v!

I am downloading a test video now, thanks that’s very cool!

papalonian ,

Nice, step 3 can also be accomplished with CTRL-I, at least on the windows version of VLC

indomara ,

Amazing! I showed my husband last night, he was equally amazed. :)

MonkderZweite ,

Today I learned that firefox doesn’t like to play certain types of mp4 files.

Probably missing a few dll’s or something, works fine for me.

indomara ,

I tried googling and came up with nothing other than articles suggesting I delete my cookies and update firefox. If you know what dll’s I should check please let me know! :)

MonkderZweite , (edited )

Depends on your OS and the alignment of Venus with the moon. For Linux, there’s Archwiki, sacrifice a lamb few bytes for good measure.

It’s usually something with media acceleration not set up yet. I believe i had to install the amdgpu-32bit driver first, before it worked? (oc only if you have amdgpu)

eerongal ,
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MP4 is just a container, the specific audio/video streams can be one of several different codecs, and if you don’t have the codec used it won’t work. If you can identify the encoding you could probably just download a codec and be good to go.

Edit: for this video the video codec is Codec: MPEG-H Part2/HEVC (H.265) (hvc1) and audio codec is Codec: MPEG AAC Audio (mp4a)

indomara , (edited )

The more I read about this, the more confused I am! Near as I can tell, Mozilla refuses to support H.265 because it is “encumbered by patents”. Is that right?

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/…/Video_codecs#h…

There are a few other places that mention the same… and I don’t know of a reputable place to download codecs.

However people in this thread say they are viewing this video in Firefox just fine! o_O

Edit: I downloaded the HEVC codec from the Microsoft store and it has had no effect. (Feel no obligation to reply, at this point I am just lost!)

eerongal ,
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Yeah, firefox doesnt support H.265 it looks like from some googling. Not exactly sure how other people are getting it to work, but it does look like there’s some extensions for firefox to toss the media streams to VLC instead, that could work for you.

emptyother , to mildlyinteresting in At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book—one page at a time, by hand.
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How do you reliably turn pages that fast without accidentally grabbing two pages and skipping? Im impressed!

intensely_human ,

Meditation practice helps with this kind of thing.

KnightontheSun ,

That and your king fu skills as you travel the west in the search for your family’s roots.

intensely_human ,

It definitely improves your kung fu. But meditation really only activates super small refinements. You gotta build the kung fu before there’s anything for the meditation to sharpen.

Basically it increases the resolution of your sensory streams. I mean, that’s the lowest-level effect of all that time spent focusing on the streaming present.

RizzRustbolt ,

Tacky-Finger.

Dolphinfreetuna , to lemmyshitpost in Ghost-riding the whip

You can instantly tell everyone’s init roll

AlmightySnoo , to mildlyinteresting in At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book—one page at a time, by hand.
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There are DIY tutorials for that for those interested: www.diybookscanner.org/en/intro.html

Pantoffel ,

This is awesome, thanks!

SayJess , to mildlyinteresting in At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book—one page at a time, by hand.
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That is really cool!

CH3DD4R_G0BL1N , to lemmyshitpost in Ghost-riding the whip
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I’m really confused by the bail. What was he headed towards? Was it on fire? Was it school children? Puppies and kittens? What possessed him to take that roll?

guyrocket , to mildlyinteresting in At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book—one page at a time, by hand.
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Thank you, Internet Archive.

Grumpydaddy , to mildlyinteresting in At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book—one page at a time, by hand.

Looks like two pages at a time to me.

vynlwombat ,

Gotem

xor ,

each piece of paper is a page, since they do the front of one and the back of another at the same time, it’s one page total…

Grumpydaddy ,

One Sheet, Two Pages A sheet of paper has two sides. Each side is considered one page. So a single sheet of unfolded paper is two pages.

RecallMadness ,

One sheet, two leaves, four pages.

A7thStone ,

Is that why each sheet of paper has the same page number on both sides in books? Oh wait they don’t.

xor ,

;)

Vex_Detrause ,

c/theydidthemath /s

BeMoreCareful , to mildlyinteresting in At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book—one page at a time, by hand.

Why not run the spine through a table saw and just use a regular document feeder?

aeronmelon ,

I think they actually want to keep the book.

SinningStromgald ,

Sometimes books are valuable so cutting them into bits so they can go on the Internets faster isn’t feasible.

nonailsleft ,

In 10 years you can just reprint the book by molecule so why bother

Wistful , to mildlyinteresting in At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book—one page at a time, by hand.
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Wow that seems painfully slow/tedious. Why isn’t it automatized? I think I saw a robot do like 20 pages a second on a yt some years ago.

prenatal_confusion ,

That would be interesting to see!

This is probably the method that gives you the best quality (deskewing, lighting) without cutting the back of the book and feeding it into a scanner. (AFAIK)

I saw a book scanner similar to this one that used a vacuum to turn pages but otherwise same principle.

Dave ,
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Google have digitised a lot of books using some more advanced tech, though they started out with something a little like this.

cashews_best_nut ,

What happened to that in the end? I heard they wanted to digitize the worlds books and then it just petered out at some point and heard nothing about it. Did they continue or was it spun to Internet Archive to do?

Dave ,
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My understanding is the project led into Google Books. Google fought many legal cases and ultimately won but their enthusiasm to scan more books seems to have waned. Google basically convinced judges that by only letting people see a few pages, it fell under fair use, but then that meant you didn’t get a giant library because you couldn’t read the whole book.

There’s an article about it here: edsurge.com/…/2017-08-10-what-happened-to-google-…

Also see www.hathitrust.org/about/ which is mentioned in the article.

aeronmelon ,

Do you remember the results of those speed scans? Crooked pages, parts of the document cut off, blurry scans, etc.

It was a lazy method that resulted in a lot of junk data.

Wistful ,
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I think this is what I saw. Not quite 20 pages/s hahah and also a different method.

camr_on , to lemmyshitpost in Ghost-riding the whip
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Whoever added this audio should feel bad

MeatPilot , to lemmyshitpost in Ghost-riding the whip
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AI is really getting out of control.

AI_toothbrush , to lemmyshitpost in Ghost-riding the whip

This is probably the funniest shit ive seen this whole fucking month

SecretSauces ,
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The whole year even!

cnirrad , to lemmyshitpost in Ghost-riding the whip

I love how he tries to steer it, but then just nopes out of it.

Everythingispenguins ,

That man knows when to quit

tyrefyre ,

You gotta know when to hold em, know when to fold em….

tyrefyre , to lemmyshitpost in Ghost-riding the whip

I would like to know more

Big_Boss_77 ,
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The pylons have a really weird weight distribution and it makes it really easy for them to fall in the floor and push the pedals when no one is in there.

Source: Have had a similar scenario play out in a much smaller, less crowded venue.

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