This. We're all overworked so we all have less energy for things like keeping ourselves fit. And actually exercising really doesn't sell itself either, it hurts and it's hot and I'm still trying to catch my damn breath from my sets earlier. Stupid maintenance.
But it beats the hell out of literally slowly suffocating in my chair at my desk.
My advice would be to try transcoding one or two media files first, and test the transcode on different devices. HISTV gives a lot fewer options than Handbrake, but the idea is minimal effort, maximal compatibility.
Specifically, AV1 is a newer standard, and not supported on devices older than ~2020 I think. HEVC (aka x265) produces slightly larger files but works on devices back to 2016 or so, and MP4/H.264 gives yet bigger files but compatibility goes back even further.
For good quality at a reasonable size you can use the default values of 20/22 but to save a little more space you can probably bump these to 24/26. I went with QP instead of CRF because it's better for streaming (while still giving better perceived quality than a constant bit rate).
As I say, Handbrake is great, does all this and more, but that was my problem with it - the controls look like something out of a space shuttle and I just don't need all that most of the time 😅 I'd love to hear how you find using HISTV vs Handbrake, if you give it a go! 🙌
But yes, I did create a GitHub account just because it can build binaries for a wide range of systems; the binaries are currently only available on Github. I'm trying to figure out how to create a release on Codeberg, but if it's in the Tags, every time I click into one I get a 502 Bad Gateway, soooo... I think it's safe to say that I have been running into Codeberg's availability issues, and I'm now glad I've got both 😅
Oh, I know the answer to this one. It's because we don't have single-payer healthcare, which Republicans don't want because they don't want bureaucratic death panels of disconnected doctors denying people access to medication.
They'd much prefer to have bureaucratic death panels entirely disconnected from any medical expertise denying people access to their medication and for spurious reasons.
It's not that I need it to be perfect, it's that I need to make sure I can get my environment running for work on Monday 😅 But thanks, I'm excited that it's even a feasible option!
That's exactly what this is part of! HISTV is the fruit of one of my many explorations, and that genesis is part of why I posted this in a selfhosting comm.
As to escaping Windows entirely, thanks to Valve's work on the Proton layer I can feasibly switch to daily driving some flavour of Linux. Soon. I just need to metaphorically get off my ass and trial it out for a few days on a live boot USB to work out any bugbears before making the actual switch (for personal reasons, I'm going to be starting from scratch and setting my environment up right, so it has to go smoothly).
Oh! Apologies, I wasn't directing that at you. I see how it came off that way though; my tone was meant to be self-deprecating. By the last bit I just meant I saw a downvote or two. Could be any reason for those, or none at all.
TIL, cheers! That's pretty awesome. Now that this is working, I'll probably drop it entirely and move on to learning Tdarr, I'm really curious how the network compute works 😅
This isn't better than Handbrake. It's simpler, though. Also, as I said in another comment, I wanted to see if I could get it to work - it was as much personal challenge as anything.
And I got it working, and I'm proud of my dumb little first project, so I posted about it. There seem to be some people think I shouldn't have done that last bit, though.
Thanks! Yeah, that's pretty much my exact use case lol. I can't run the transcode on my server for various reasons so I have to do it on my local machine. Dunno if tdarr supports that. Probably should have found out before rolling my own, but I wanted to see if I could do it 😅
Control. I've always had a fondness for SCP-related stuff so when I saw Control on sale for $3 or $4 it was an instant mindless purchase. Bored a few days later I decided to give it a go, and then I went and beat the entire game and the DLC. Great power fantasy, great lore, great voice acting, fun moment to moment gameplay balanced between exploring, upgrading, story beats, and boss fights. Also ties in to their other games like Alan Wake; I haven't played that one, but I've strongly considered it just because of Control and wanting more of that universe.
Or just wilfully ignore me and strawman me, whatever, it’s the internet so most likely that one 🤷♀️
And you're taking a gentle poke in fun far too seriously (which is a bad idea, because you can't seriously defend yourself - the charge of hypocrisy is accurate). Complaining about toxicity in the RimWorld community, no less, widely known as one of the nicest communities in gaming. Get off your high horse, you smug git.
Or don't, and keep being insufferable. Again, it's the internet, so most likely that one 🤷♀️
You're talking about the paradox of tolerance, which isn't a paradox and isn't relevant here.
You said games should be about having fun, and then immediately proceeded to proscribe one kind of fun by baselessly denigrating the people who enjoy the challenge of a difficult game.
Some perspective for you: RimWorld is single player. There are no toxic behaviours to block, except the very ones you're complaining about and perpetrating here like gatekeeping.
Or just wilfully ignore me and strawman me, whatever, it's the internet so most likely that one 🤷♀️
This. We're all overworked so we all have less energy for things like keeping ourselves fit. And actually exercising really doesn't sell itself either, it hurts and it's hot and I'm still trying to catch my damn breath from my sets earlier. Stupid maintenance.
But it beats the hell out of literally slowly suffocating in my chair at my desk.