Month: May 2025

How to Play 24 FPS Video on a 60 Hz Refresh Rate Display

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Screens used to be fixed at 60 Hz, but many videos are 24 frames per second (fps), which can cause screen tearing, ghosting, and other issues. The solution is to repeat frames 1|2|3|4 of the video as 1A 1B|2A 2B 2C|3A 3B|4A 4B 4C, so that the 24 fps video corresponds to the 60 Hz screen.

However, this solution causes each frame to be displayed for varying lengths of time, and viewers may notice strange judder or other unsmooth sensations. There are two better ways: process the video, or make the display a multiple of the video frame rate.

AMD’s Fluid Motion Video frame interpolation technology in older graphics cards could smooth things out, and its successor is now AMD Fluid Motion Frames. In video players, you can use third-party plugins to invoke AMD graphics card frame interpolation. However, the disadvantage is that you need a suitable AMD graphics card and cannot optimize videos on web pages.

Another method is to modify the refresh rate of the display. A 60 Hz display usually supports a working range of 50 ~ 75 Hz, which can be modified with the software Custom Resolution Utility. This way, when playing 24 fps video, adjusting the display to 72 fps will smooth out the frame duration.

However, this problem is now gradually being alleviated by high refresh rate displays. 120 and 144 Hz displays are multiples of 24, so the effect should be good. For other displays that are not multiples of 24, as long as they have FreeSync variable refresh rate, and use some methods (such as frame doubling), the video can trigger the FreeSync variable refresh rate effect.

The first half mainly refers to the blog post “螢幕更新率Hz與影片幀率fps” by “黑米奇SVP”.

xyz Child

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〇〇 children, such as left-behind children, latchkey children, and migrant children, are common ways to construct words. It is used to refer to a certain type of children with specific living environments, growth backgrounds, or social phenomena.

Left-behind children used to appear frequently in news reports because the household registration and school district system restricted children’s freedom of movement, and job opportunities were concentrated in big cities, so there were many cases where the main guardian and children were separated for a long time. Data from 2013 shows that the number of left-behind children is estimated to exceed 60 million.

Latchkey children are probably a lightweight version of left-behind children, meaning that the main guardian often leaves the children to look after the house alone due to work and other reasons. The term originated from the CBC program “How the War Affects Canadian Children” during World War II. Similar to the problems caused by left-behind children, children may suffer from depression, low self-esteem, and other effects due to lack of companionship. (Hobbies such as the Internet, games, and television may alleviate the negative effects of latchkey children)

After that, some regions tried to alleviate this problem by restricting working hours and increasing laws to protect children (such as depriving irresponsible guardians of custody). Finally, there are migrant children, which is a concept relative to left-behind children, referring to the main guardian taking the children to work in big cities. If the guardian’s work is unstable, they may move frequently, causing trouble in learning and life, and the household registration and school district are also a big problem.

I mentioned before that neglecting emotional development may lead to the inability to establish emotional bonds and other emotional problems. Although not being a left-behind, latchkey, or migrant child does not necessarily guarantee healthy growth, it can at least reduce the risk. But to reduce the risk, it may be necessary to modify the household registration, school district, working hours, etc., unless AI is used to accompany the children……

The Colors of Freedom

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Freedom has colors. In the field of political colors, red is often the left wing, blue is often conservatism, and liberalism is yellow or gold.

In flags, it is more complicated. The blue in the French Tricolore represents freedom, the white rays of the Blue Sky, White Sun flag represent freedom, and the Philippines uses a golden sun to represent freedom.

However, in the system interface of Sina Weibo censors, freedom is orange. Content containing sensitive words will be detected by the machine and then appear in the censor’s system interface, marked in orange. The censor thinks that the mention of the sensitive word is normal before it will be released, before which it will be in a shadow ban state. (Highly sensitive words are marked in red)

P.S.: Freedom is freely given color.

Games with Zero Pre-Launch Marketing

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On February 4, 2019 , Apex released the game on PC, PS4 , and Xbox One without any pre-launch marketing by EA. Immediately, many well-known streamers began streaming Apex, which were pre-arranged by EA. This promotion reached ten million game players in 72 hours.

I wonder if The Finals was inspired by Apex. Although The Finals had already announced game information due to the internal beta test, announcing that the game was immediately playable at TGA 2023 can be considered as not setting a release time for specialized preheating. It then accumulated over ten million game players in two weeks.

In addition, Hi-Fi Rush, Metroid Prime Remastered, and Deltarune Chapter 1 / 2 were all suddenly released, without any pre-heating or pre-order promotional activities. The common point of these games is that the developers are very confident in the game, but for Apex, this also has benefits.

Apex is a battle royale game, but at that time, various battle royales made players feel aesthetically tired. If Apex was still pre-heated, it might only make players feel like “another battle royale game”. When it was released, players could play it immediately, and major streamers were also streaming the game, which might make players want to try it out first.

The recently popular extraction shooter games are also somewhat homogeneous, which may make players feel aesthetically tired. Perhaps these games will learn from Apex and The Finals and use a zero pre-launch promotion strategy to avoid dissatisfaction in the player community.

Earlier, ARC Raiders leaked a mysterious countdown page, the end point of which is June 6, 2025 , which is “Summer Game Fest”. Maybe ARC Raiders will announce big news on this day, such as the game going online immediately.

Music Tailor: Part Two

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其一在 2022 年的微型博客 里提过，是 Omae wa mou 这首歌。它的旋律复制了「东方 Project」的同人曲，MV 的舞步是「布卡漫画」的加载 GIF，封面是《悠哉日常大王》的角色，还有《北斗神拳》「你已经死了」的台词采样。

可能是几乎没有原创内容，对「东方 Project」的同人曲『タイニーリトル・アジアンタム』的改进，仅仅加了些鼓点，所以最后被下架了。用音乐鬼裁来形容 Omae wa mou 的作者，应该很有趣。

Cry For Me (feat. ami) – Michita 同样是借来的旋律，原曲是泽野弘之的 0001。但标题也表明了 ami 是演唱者，改编曲子的是 Michita。而 Michita 之前先做了无人声版的 Ozora Crystal，所以 Cry For Me (feat. ami) 这首歌大概算三创。

之后有人上传音乐到视频平台，并使用《蓦然回首》电影截图制作了封面（BV1KdSmYyEyY），目前播放数接近一千万。算是传播很广的渠道了，也为这首音乐带来了非官方，但印象深刻的封面。

借来的旋律，被别人强加的封面，组成了这首歌。不过 Michita 借用的旋律不多，编曲也做了许多工作，所以应该算合理使用（只是这种事情还是写在显眼的地方好些）。可能侵权的封面是第三方上传者做的，与 Michita 无关，所以不会像 Omae wa mou 一样被下架吧。

附言：利用二次元封面吸引人来视频网站听音乐，最早大规模这么做的，可能是 Nightcore 类音乐。

A Strange Microwave Accident

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A few days ago, when I was heating zongzi in the microwave, I removed the zongzi leaves and covered it with a pot lid. But the bowl was a bit small, and the zongzi touched the top metal of the lid, ultimately ruining it.

I had previously mentioned that, under certain circumstances, metal containers and products can be used in the microwave. However, after the zongzi corner touched the glass lid with a metal handle, it seemed to discharge electricity to it, making a hole in the glass part of the metal…

Besides a hole in the middle, the glass lid was initially intact, but it shattered after the temperature dropped. While cleaning it, glass shards may have pricked my hand, causing my finger to hurt for two days. Fortunately, I didn’t feel any discomfort on the third day.

The reason for getting pricked was that I didn’t take enough precautions. Generally, putting a thick plastic bag over your hand can safely pick up glass (of course, a better method is to use thick wet wipes). But gledos found a plastic快递bag, which was very thin, so it broke…

Image: Generated by ChatGPT, a schematic diagram of zongzi in a microwave oven. The gap between the zongzi leaves and the pot lid was probably added by AI for aesthetic purposes, but it didn’t actually exist.