entropicdrift

entropicdrift, 1 day ago

Only if you support China blindly.

I’m a socialist and I have many issues with the take that China does no wrong.

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, 5 days ago

Yeah, switching to LTA craft with solar panels and batteries is way more feasible

entropicdrift, 6 days ago

I debated with it, out loud, about what would constitute a conscious AI and whether consciousness is an inherent property of sufficiently advanced intelligence, regardless of whether it’s got any capacity for emotion. It conceded that that’s a valid perspective held by a number of computer scientists but it’s yet to be seen and when prompted gave a number of examples of ways we could infer if an AI had developed sentience.

It was pretty trippy.

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, 8 days ago

Alright, I’m gonna be that guy:

You said “discreet GPU”, that would mean something like a GPU that is careful, guarded, and keeps your secrets.

I think you meant a “discrete GPU”, which would mean a GPU that is distinct and separate from the rest of the system, so not built into the same silicon as the CPU or motherboard.

entropicdrift, 10 days ago

Also, plenty of people call non-insects “bugs”

Some would even argue that shrimps is bugs.

entropicdrift, 11 days ago

As an old anime fan, welcome to the club lol

entropicdrift, 12 days ago

Stallone?

His mom owned a salon in the 70s. She didn’t really get famous till the 80s/90s, well after her son.

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:

<span style="color:#323232;">/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"
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</span>

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

<span style="color:#323232;">/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
</span>

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, 9 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, 14 days ago

Personally, I think it’s because he wants to erase the contribution of his ex-wife Marcia Lucas. He’s just that petty.

entropicdrift, 14 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

Starship Troopers. Yes it’s worth watching. It’s both an excellent satire of a society dominated by its military (it’s portrayed as if it’s an in-universe propaganda film) and an extremely well crafted action film.

It was directed by Paul Verhoeven, the same guy who directed RoboCop and Total Recall.

entropicdrift, 14 days ago

Well now you know for next time, dad it forward

entropicdrift, 15 days ago

Yeah, this. It ought to handle all of them no problem. If you run low on RAM (doubtful), you should switch from Windows to Linux, but you’re probably fine with 16GB.

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

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