entropicdrift

entropicdrift , 1 day ago

My 2019 model runs Shield Experience 9, which according to Nvidia is Android 11

entropicdrift , 4 days ago

Try using rusticl for your OpenCL implementation. It runs OpenCL on top of Vulkan, which is very well supported by Radeon cards.

entropicdrift , 6 days ago

I pay for ChatGPT+ and it's real. I talked to it for about an hour today from my Android phone.

There were occasionally longer pauses than shown in the promo video, but only ever between when I spoke and when it started replying

entropicdrift , 7 days ago

I know the movies have been in a slump, but X-Men '97 has been like a 9.5/10

entropicdrift , 6 days ago

Agreed. It's also worth noting that '97 is basically an uncensored version of the OG, so like in the old show Wolverine never gets to knife anyone who bleeds with his claws. In '97 he can

entropicdrift , 8 days ago

I'd recommend a DAS setup (just a 4-bay USB 3.0 or better hard drive enclosure) with a server with any modern Intel CPU in it.

entropicdrift , 7 days ago

They're still mounted individually, so you do RAID5 or ZRAID on them, same as if they were internal. You can potentially be bandwidth-limited since USB 3.0 has a 5 Gbps speed limit, but realistically only for reads and you're still fine in terms of overall performance since they're all spinning disks anyhow and 5Gbps is fast enough for any media server/NAS unless you've got a 10-gig LAN/internet connection and feel the compulsive need to saturate it.

entropicdrift , 11 days ago

As an old anime fan, welcome to the club lol

entropicdrift , 13 days ago

You can easily do smooth 4K HDR transcoding with any modern Intel CPU with integrated graphics.

I have an Intel N100 and it can probably handle 2-3 4K HDR transcodes at once. Definitely more if they're being transcoded down to lower resolutions. Encoding is the most intensive part of the process.

entropicdrift , 13 days ago (edited 12 days ago)

I use QSV hardware acceleration with Low Power h264 and HEVC encoders enabled, plus VPP tonemapping on Jellyfin. I have Prefer OS Native DXVA or VA-API decoders checked (apparently this is needed for VPP tonemapping) and also Enable Tone mapping checked so it can fallback onto OpenCL if VPP doesn't work. Thread count set to Auto. Preset is set to medium. h265 encoding CRF of 25, h264 encoding CRF of 23 and I have Throttle transcodes enabled, which seems to increase the number of videos I can have transcoding at once due to not transcoding more than necessary whenever a player has enough buffer for the moment.

This is on the latest Jellyfin linuxserver.io container with the OpenCL-Intel docker mod.

Also, not sure if this is a factor but I've got 16 GB of single channel RAM on it and I use a USB-mounted SSD for my cache and transcode folders. In the past I ran into bandwidth issues by having my transcodes be on the same drive as my media.

I get 4K HDR to 4K SDR tonemapping plus 7.1 Dolby TrueHD to 2.0 AAC transcoding at 70-75fps with my setup.

Transcoding of 4K down to lower resolutions is even faster. 4K HDR to 480p SDR runs at 191fps.

I took a look at the benchmark script those results are from and compared them to the ffmpeg commands auto-generated by my Jellyfin server for actual transcodes.

Here's how the command to transcode a 4K HDR 10 bit HEVC with 7.1 AAC audio to 4K SDR h264 with 2.0 AAC audio looks on my machine:

/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg -analyzeduration 200M -init_hw_device vaapi=va:,kernel_driver=i915,driver=iHD -init_hw_device qsv=qs@va -filter_hw_device qs -hwaccel vaapi -hwaccel_output_format vaapi -autorotate 0 -i file:"/Films/Man of Steel (2013)/Man of Steel (2013) Bluray-2160p Proper.mkv" -autoscale 0 -map_metadata -1 -map_chapters -1 -threads 0 -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -map -0:s -codec:v:0 h264_qsv -low_power 1 -preset medium -look_ahead 0 -b:v 7616000 -maxrate 7616000 -bufsize 15232000 -g:v:0 72 -keyint_min:v:0 72 -vf "setparams=color_primaries=bt709:color_trc=bt709:colorspace=bt709,scale_vaapi=format=nv12:extra_hw_frames=24,hwmap=derive_device=qsv,format=qsv" -codec:a:0 libfdk_aac -ac 2 -ab 384000 -ar 48000 -af "volume=2" -copyts -avoid_negative_ts disabled -max_muxing_queue_size 2048 -f hls -max_delay 5000000 -hls_time 3 -hls_segment_type mpegts -start_number 587 -hls_segment_filename "/transcodes/53a1ea6d1a7a34b888e73230f9ff04e2%d.ts" -hls_playlist_type vod -hls_list_size 0 -y "/transcodes/53a1ea6d1a7a34b888e73230f9ff04e2.m3u8"

And here's the command that benchmark runs for 10-bit HEVC:

/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg -y -hide_banner -benchmark -report -c:v hevc_qsv -i /config/ribblehead_4k_hevc_10bit.mp4 -c:a copy -c:v hevc_qsv -preset fast -global_quality 18 -look_ahead 1 -f null - 2>/dev/null

So I'm gonna go out on a limb and say there's a major difference in configuration between the two. Setting global_quality to 18 is kind of absurdly high quality for hardware h265 encoding. You can easily get away with 28 for "good enough". My setting of 25 for the CRF of h265 encoding is already edging into placebo territory for most videos. That's all without considering the impact of low power mode, extra_hw_frames, etc.

entropicdrift , 10 days ago

The transcodes folder exists by default and the cleanup defaults to daily, I think. You'd only need to mess with the configuration for transcode caching if you want them to stick around for longer

entropicdrift , 8 days ago

Dunno. My point was just that it's an easy change, so presumably if you care you could figure it out pretty simply

entropicdrift , 13 days ago

Actively being worked on by Nightdive, right now

entropicdrift , 15 days ago

The first major update in over a year is coming out in the next week or two.

Apparently their build pipeline was a major issue for a long time, now that it's fixed they're planning to do major releases a lot more regularly.

entropicdrift , 15 days ago

I've been following the development in their discord channel and tracking their general github issue progress.

This big release is coming, for sure.

They've been in feature freeze while testing it for over a month, now

entropicdrift , 8 days ago

https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-release-10.9.0/

entropicdrift , 16 days ago

Chromebooks use a customized Linux kernel with often proprietary code included from the manufacturer. Same thing as Android in that sense.

Upstream Linux, using mostly open-source code, does not have these bits of proprietary code in most cases. This means that ARM devices are frequently missing some drivers under mainline Linux, so things like TouchPad, wifi, or even GPU might be partially or fully unsupported.

Armbian Linux supports a large number of devices using mainline Linux with some tweaks to it pre-configured, but typically you're not going to get every feature of the hardware supported until several years after its release (like 5+).

x86 on the other hand usually will just work out of the box, especially Lenovo laptops.

entropicdrift , 17 days ago

I mean, sometimes it's that and other times it's just that the "stupid" feature was actually in high demand.

entropicdrift , 18 days ago

If you're gonna spend that level of money, you may as well go for an M1 Mac Mini. MacOS is a Unix flavor and in the new 10.9 version of Jellyfin it actually has the best hardware transcoding support. The M-series chips are video processing beasts for the money/electricity

entropicdrift , 18 days ago

Yeah. Linux, Mac, and Windows are all officially supported by the Jellyfin server project. Everything else is not.

entropicdrift , 19 days ago

This has the same solution as the original. You ask them "which door would your brother say leads to certain doom?" and then you take that door.

entropicdrift , 20 days ago

You probably want EndlessOS

entropicdrift , 21 days ago

It is a good choice. I use and love it.

entropicdrift , 23 days ago

I don't like most of them, but I enjoy Dimension 20 for the creative homebrew settings and funny group dynamics as well as the editing.

I also will occasionally watch an episode of a different actual play if it uses a system I'd like to try out, for instance I was thinking about running Beam Saber for some friends, so I found a one-shot actual play where the GM was the creator of the game. That gave me a strong idea of the intended style of the system and tone of the setting.

entropicdrift , 22 days ago

Same. Caddy is absurdly simple to configure

entropicdrift , 21 days ago

If you set the bitrate in the player below the bitrate of the video, it'll force Jellyfin to transcode. You can set Jellyfin to only ever transcode to h264, so that should work.

entropicdrift , 20 days ago

It won't block them. It just won't transcode to h265. It'll still direct play h265 wherever appropriate

entropicdrift , 24 days ago

Agreed, LXQT is the shit if you want a slow machine to go faster and look decent while doing it.

entropicdrift , 25 days ago

I've been making a small album of music out of lyrics I wrote and a consistent general style/genre using suno. It's pretty fun.

As a musician with experience recording albums, even when the songs come out basic, I can always re-record them myself and make them less generic.

entropicdrift , 25 days ago

Zelda 2 is more of an RPG than ODST, but the thrust of your argument is true.

entropicdrift , 27 days ago

I realize you may already be locked-in on the name, but you should probably be aware that Pine64 have an upcoming pair of ear buds called PinePods as well. So not just another project with the same name, but another FOSS-community project, to boot.

This seems like an awesome project though. As a fellow Rustacean, it excites me to see.

entropicdrift , 1 month ago

Here I googled it for you

entropicdrift , 1 month ago

Yeah, I'm team @umbrella on this one. It's important but it's not revolutionary

entropicdrift , 1 month ago

You'll need a USB 3.0 to gigabit ethernet adapter and a separate gigabit ethernet switch, but this setup is considered to be excellent as a lower-cost OpenWRT solution.

entropicdrift , 1 month ago

Mint with XFCE or MATE

entropicdrift , 1 month ago

Paywall ʕ ͡° ʖ̯ ͡°ʔ

entropicdrift , 1 month ago

Did I say it was? I didn't downvote, I'm just whining

entropicdrift , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Rollercoaster Tycoon 2

ADoM

Donkey Kong Country and SNES9x

2005, you say? I bet KOTOR could run on low on a shitty office PC.

Master of Orion 2

entropicdrift , 1 month ago

I'm well aware, thank you

entropicdrift , 1 month ago

I'm similar: hard G, long E, ahhs

entropicdrift , 1 month ago

Who is your ISP? I had some issues with my FIOS ONT. Had to disable IPv6 on my router for it to stop dropping packets.

entropicdrift , 1 month ago

Ah, you're right. I didn't read closely enough. Sorry!

entropicdrift , 1 month ago

This isn't mystery, they're saying any old command that prints out or copies a file's contents will do.

If you need to use a tool that "just works" without growing your own understanding, there's plenty of GUI-centric bootable USB writers out there.

entropicdrift , 1 month ago

Ubuntu Studio 8.04, I believe. I was a broke high schooler looking for free recording software.

entropicdrift , 1 month ago

It's not getting abandoned, it's just having some major components redone.

entropicdrift , 1 month ago

Just what we needed, more open world AAA games.

Does nobody remember Dynasty Warriors 9?

entropicdrift , 1 month ago

I didn't say it was inherently bad. I expressed my opinion and nothing more.

Let people have opinions

entropicdrift , 1 month ago

Could always use UNRAID for the backup if you're trying to be storage efficient, but it's really no better than RAID5