{"id":9271,"date":"2008-03-08T00:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-08T05:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/03\/08\/the-lives-of-others\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:36:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:36:48","slug":"the-lives-of-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/03\/08\/the-lives-of-others\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lives Of Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight Danielle and I watched <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Lives_of_Others\">The Lives of Others<\/a>. There are two notable things about this.<\/p>\n<p>One, it&#8217;s an excellent film. Probably one of the best I&#8217;ve seen in a while.<\/p>\n<p>Two, this movie was rented via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflix.com\">Netflix<\/a> a week ago, but I ripped it using <a href=\"http:\/\/handbrake.fr\/\">HandBrake<\/a> because Danielle wanted to return it. Dropping it into ~\/Movies and playing it on my Xbox 360 via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nullriver.com\/products\/connect360\">Connect360<\/a> worked out <em>very<\/em> well. Ripped at an average bitrate of 1500kbps with 2-pass encoding, turbo first pass, and no deinterlacing (samples of the movie in the transcoder GUI showed this to be unneeded) they played just fine and looked to be of the same quality as movies played using my upscaling OPPO DV970HD <em>(photo gallery retired)<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight Danielle and I watched The Lives of Others. There are two notable things about this. One, it&#8217;s an excellent film. Probably one of the best I&#8217;ve seen in a while. Two, this movie was rented via Netflix a week ago, but I ripped it using HandBrake because Danielle wanted to return it. Dropping it\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-moved-from-livejournal","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12358,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9271\/revisions\/12358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}