Questions tagged [encoding]
The fine art of converting letters into numbers. ASCII, ISO Latin-1, Unicode, EBCDIC… There are dozens of currently used encodings and converting between them is now a witch craft.
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Why do subtitles appear constantly in bold in Windows 11? Only embedded subtitles display correctly
I just reinstalled Windows (Windows 11 25H2, 10.0.26200 Build 26200). Now the subtitles look like this and appear in bold or bigger shadow/outline. Before I noticed this problem, I changed several ...
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How to import into Excel a UTF-8 encoded CSV file containing line breaks within fields?
Importing CSV files containing line breaks within fields is tricky and the usual import methods as described for Excel do not work. Only opening a file directly with "File -> Open..." ...
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Why am I seeing an unexpected code page in PowerShell properties?
Not sure if that matters, but OS is Windows 11, 24H2
This is freshly started admin powershell window, "Current language for non-unicode programs" is set to "English (United Kingdom)&...
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In UTF-8, why do two-byte codes range from U+0080 to U+07FF instead of U+0080 to U+087F
In UTF-8, two-byte codes are used to encode the code points from U+0080 to U+07FF (211 - 27 code points) instead of U+0080 to U+087F (211 code points). I fail to see why the range of valid two-byte ...
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jxs_encoder.exe from JPEG XS fails with "Unable to allocate encoding context" for lossless 4:2:0 10-bit YUV
I am trying to losslessly compress a raw 4:2:0 10-bit YUV file using the official JPEG XS test model encoder (jxs_encoder.exe), but it fails when lossless mode is enabled.
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Encoder: JPEG ...
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Email sent from bash script badly encode accented chars
I want to send a mail from a bash script. I'm using the curl command to do that:
#!/bin/bash
curl --url 'smtp://ssl0.ovh.net:587' --ssl-reqd --mail-from '[email protected]' --mail-rcpt 'to@mydns....
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Complex insertion of variable length silence in audio file with ffmpeg?
I have an audio form like this:
Only one file it has about 50 audio parts of duration between 0.9 to 2 seconds, those audio waves separated by silence chunks of duration between 0.6 to 1 second ...
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How to re-encode audio tracks within a multi-language video with FFmpeg?
I have a video with 4 language audio tracks that works nicely within the QuickTime player for 3 of the 4 audio tracks. I think the 4th audio track is encoded differently because the FFmpeg listing ...
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Re-encode a video keeping the GOP structure of the original video
Is there a way to re-encode a video with ffmpeg keeping the GOP structure of the original file?
That is, if a frame is IDR, I, B or P in the input file, keep the same type in the output file, even if ...
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How to figure out terminal keys with telnet MUD?
I started trying out MUD's recently. Via the terminal on Mac, I had no issues. I then tried logging on via my Linux computer, in RXVT-unicode/Bash.
$ echo $TERM
rxvt-unicode-256color
$ telnet aardwolf....
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How to grep on accented vowels? [duplicate]
I have a logfile, written in French, containing the following information:
Nouvelles données [Status : 32
I was looking for all possible values of the mentioned status, but I didn't find anything:
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Why might Outlook be blocking/affecting the email open rate monitoring from Mailchimp? [closed]
Since December 2024 something is stopping us tracking the email open rate(s) in Outlook. I wonder if someone can give us a clue as to what is actually doing the tracking i.e. url/image.
And what in ...
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Can I make my FFmpeg encoding more efficient without sacrificing quality or file size?
I'm currently recording gameplay footage through OBS in a near-lossless format, which preserves quality nicely, but generates gigabytes of video. For distribution, I want to re-encode my video files ...
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What are Base64 strings?
I have a column in an SQL-Server table, containing information like the following:
Data
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AAC Encoder return same pts for different frame with different pts
I wrote a mp4 recorder, i used aac encoder for sound, the problem is I got this error when writing into mp4 file;
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[mp4 @ 000001d33e381dc0] Application provided invalid, non ...