frissons and frabjous merriment in sharesize portions
wget error handling is atrocious. In these modern days, webservers kick out all kinds of crap and wget is a little antequated in the ways it expects content to be delivered. I found some bugs and fixed them for the latest stable version (1.11.4)
Some whining and brief happenings, ultimately polished with the recommended deadly allowance of tat from b3ta.
So it seems my previous reverence for VLC is now somewhat diminished since discovering it’s ineffably crap at rendering HD videos. Unsurprising, since it cannot take advantage of cards that support hardware-level decoding of the bits and bytes that provide such fine definition.
Jerky, jittering playback pissing me off to the highest degree, I set out with a metaphorical hammer to give this irritation some percussive debuggery.