One by one, the games get fixed up.
One by one.
There can't be that many JSE games already, right?!

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71?!!
There's already 71 games in JSE?!
...
Plus the few that I haven't added to the Game Archive yet.

Blimey, that's a lot of games.

I made a start, yesterday, whilst Countryfile and Antiques Roadshow were on in the background, so I know I spent at least 2 hours doing it.
Making my way through the game archive, going back through time (I stole Roland's time machine).
Ensuring each game still works as expected given all the JSE tweaks over the years.
Adding a scrolling message where I hadn't previously added one.
Implementing the new icons for the background.
Making everything look neat.
Then reuploading (that's quick enough!) and then editing the JSE "Black Disk" code so they're inside that menu.

...
And then I realised the "Black Disk" code is broke, and only the first 20 or so games are showing up.
.. Oh joy..

Today, then..

I haven't even started a game for today, yet. So I think that'll be the priority, right now.
Get that done, or at least start something half-decent, and get it into a playable state.
Next, I need to open up JSE (which, frankly, has barely been closed over the past couple of weeks!) and get started on a complete and total rewrite of the Project list.
That oughta be easy enough, right!?

If you've any suggestions as for what kind of layout that might entail, please do drop your thoughts in the comments!

Meanwhile...

I've started again on the DVD Archiving.
Though I do have all the Stargate and Red Dwarf backed up to the NAS, I decided to do a bit of digging and have found a much better way to convert them all.
1. Use MakeMKV to extract the DVD to .mkv files.
Then
2. Use ffmpeg and some complicated jiggery pokery to convert to a decent quality .mp4 file.

ffmpeg -i "As An MKV.mkv" -c:v h264_videotoolbox -b:v 2000k -c:a copy -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -map 0:2 -map 0:3 "As an MP4.mp4"

The above will input the .mkv file, and spit out the mp4. The quality is "good enough for me", and importantly those extra -map 0:1 to -map 0:3 means that it keeps the directors commentaries as additional audio tracks. Hurray!!

You do, of course, have to add/reduce the number of maps, depending on what's included in the original. Like Stargate SG1's episode 200 has two commentaries, so you need to map 0:1 for English, 0:2 for Commentary and 0:3 for Commentary 2.
Most other episodes only have one episode, so you scale back to only 2 maps.. And the extras usually only have the plain English track, so only map 0:1...
It's awfully slow and kinda clunky, but it results in 45 minute Stargate episodes being about 780Mb with commentary, in a decent enough quality, which is good enough for me.
\o/yeay\o/

Next I need to experiment with ways to make a good media drive, because the MacMini's 1Tb hard drive is going to fill up pretty pretty quickly!!


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