• Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
    1455·
    10 months ago

    WHY do people think everything needs to be cropped to hell just to fit on their phone. The screen rotates. Just twist it around ya lazy bastards.

    Anyhow, here’s a link to the full size video that isn’t pointlessly cut down by 75%: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QThaHpkFVzw

  • Ohi@lemmy.world
    463·
    10 months ago

    We so appreciate your efforts, but ya’ll need more funding so you can start working smart and not hard. From the looks of things, I see no reason why page flips can’t be automated there.

    I just made a donation. Please use it to save this poor woman from the tedious task you’ve shown us today.

    • IndefiniteBen@leminal.space
      41·
      10 months ago

      I think this is one of those things that seems like it should be easy to automate, but actually has lots of hidden complexity.

      They probably don’t use this to scan commonly available books, because for those you can just cut the spine off the book and scan the pages in a regular scanner.

      This is likely used for books that need to be preserved and can’t be damaged during the scanning process.

      How do you make a machine that will always turn exactly one page and never tear a page, while adapting for different page sizes and thicknesses, and avoiding the static charge that can make pages stick together? All for less money than it costs to pay people to operate this machine.

      • droans@lemmy.world
        10·
        10 months ago

        Iirc they did experience with automation before and did get it to copy well…

        But like you said, it would damage books pretty frequently. That’s not what you’d want for old and fragile materials which are rather irreplaceable.

    • activ8r@sh.itjust.works
      13·
      10 months ago

      We should start doing charity style TV ads.

      “You, too, can help us build page turners and save the lives of dozens of archivists. Just £2 a month will allow Margaret to finally rest.”

      • theRealBassist@lemmy.world
        2·
        10 months ago

        Man I got some friends who are archivists, and they’d love that shit lol.

        They love their field, but it’s a lot of mind-numbing work

  • Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de
    344·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • aeronmelon@lemmy.world
      482·
      10 months ago

      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.

    • Dave@lemmy.nz
      15·
      10 months ago

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

    • prenatal_confusion@lemmy.one
      8·
      10 months ago

      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.

  • Bravebellows@lemmy.world
    19·
    10 months ago

    There should be a law that should any book go out of print, to be digitized and made available online. Publishers shouldn’t dictate which books are allowed to be consumed once they allow it out of print when digital versions cost next to nothing to make available for a nominal price.

    That goes for authors owning the copyright, as well.

  • indomara@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    10 months ago

    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@lemmy.world
      11·
      10 months ago

      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.

    • eerongal@ttrpg.network
      6·
      10 months ago

      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@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        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?

        https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Formats/Video_codecs#hevc_h.265

        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@ttrpg.network
          2·
          10 months ago

          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.

    • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch
      2·
      10 months ago

      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@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        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@feddit.ch
          3·
          10 months ago

          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)

        • intensely_human@lemm.ee
          2·
          10 months ago

          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.

  • yamanii@lemmy.world
    8·
    10 months ago

    I don’t often donate since it’s mostly in USD, but internet archive was one of the few that I did.

  • Sensitivezombie@lemmy.zip
    7·
    10 months ago

    Ah, this takes me back to my college times when I scanned textbooks one page at a time at the library because I couldn’t afford to buy one and renting a book was scarce