Ah, I’ll put in a zoom feature, that’s a good idea!

Remind me of the hardware you’re running on? 22 hours for a 4k HDR movie sounds about in the ballpark for converting on CPU. I’ve just switched to Linux (Mint, not Cachy) and I think there’s an issue with detecting GPU on Linux, so this’d track (or you have Precision Mode enabled) - if you see “libx265” or “libx264” in the top right, you’re on CPU. I’m looking into this one.

Can I ask which version you downloaded? I’ll look into the DVTools/MP4box issue.

Also, yes, I removed the codec and container selection boxes - it’s HEVC/MKV by default unless you go for “Compatibility Mode” in which case you get H.264/MP4. “Preserve AV1” of course preserves AV1 which is incompatible with MP4 so they’re mutually exclusive.

So… How’s it working? 😅 (Just realised it’s been a while since I’ve touched HISTV and this came to mind, I’ve been working on my business and day job)

LLMs will never be people

Boy oh boy, you’re not gonna like this one bit: https://www.npr.org/2014/07/28/335288388/when-did-companies-become-people-excavating-the-legal-evolution

(To be clear, I understand you think you covered this with “computers may be” but my point is different: the law is often dumb and you would be amazed at what politicians who don’t understand tech - or get paid not to understand it - will pull off)

Edit: Downvotes from people who missed the point. You can’t say “LLMs will never be people” because you simply can’t guarantee your/our lawmakers won’t be that stupid.

Ah, what version did you try? This is due to issues with the renderer, but I just got this fixed by disabling GPU drawing for the form last night. Give 2.5.9 a go 😊

When Reddit started, Spez and Aaron made “sock puppet” accounts to make the site seem more active than it was, because you have to have what looks like an active user base to attract more users.

Now, after Reddit has gone public, they need the appearance of lots of users to attract advertising dollars and keep their stock price high, and there’s no need to operate sock puppets by hand anymore because of LLMs - they can be the sock puppets, and if you have enough of them acting human enough, it doesn’t even matter if some people realise or if one gets called out as a bot.

This also has the extremely useful benefit of steering society slowly towards the ideology of the billionaire, by having those bots normalise hate in the tsunami if messages they post.

I think the account you interacted with was an LLM, not even a real troll.

Dammit I miss having raw semiliquid sugar encapsulated in more, solid (also, more solid) chocolate-flavoured sugar. Guilty pleasure, plus nostalgia?

From Software patched the original Dark Souls PC port to remove Games For Windows Live when that service shut down, replaced it with steam networking. This was years and years before the remaster, so they weren’t making money on it - they just up and fixed it. MMOs? A bunch of unpaid modders brought up the first WoW custom servers, and some of those were reverse engineered.

Your argument doesn’t pass the “just look and see if it’s true” test.

Hey, I haven’t made a full post about this yet, but I thought you’d like to know: v2.5.0 is out, and it implements quietvoid’s tools for DoVi support! https://github.com/obelisk-complex/histv-universal/releases

It’ll even handle DV 5 and 7 😊

I’ve been thinking about the longer stops and I don’t hate it. Being forced to get up and move around sounds kinda pleasant, if I’m honest.

I’m planning a road trip and I saw over $7 around Vegas just yesterday. And this ain’t even the top.

Yes, it does imply it. It’s the most common association for mushroom clouds in our media since the bombs were dropped. Doesn’t guarantee it of course, but to act as though “they’re unrelated and anyone making the association is ignorant” would be an indefensible position.

You totally can though. It’s a common phrase.

Sweet as, lmk if you have any questions or run into any issues! 😊

This is how I know I’m old. I consider the “Reddit API debacle” recent history.

Whether it’s an alternative depends on what you use Handbrake for. HISTV can’t convert ISO or rip discs, it only converts video files. If you just use Handbrake to get smaller videos, HISTV will work for you without having to use more controls than it would take to launch the space shuttle 😅

Thanks for your patience, took me a minute to get my VM up and running so I could test the Flatpak, but it’s working and with no permissions: https://github.com/obelisk-complex/histv-universal/releases/tag/v2.3.6

By which I mean “Replace source” works out of the box with no permissions; in order for “Place next to source” output to work, you’ll have to give permission to the folder via flatseal (as you noted).

I’ve got a few more updates to make - I’m simplifying the UI a little, and I’m adding the ability to transcode AV1 - and then I’ll work on getting it building entirely offline in order to submit it to the Flathub store for review. Great suggestion, I appreciate it! (👉ﾟヮﾟ)👉

laughs in jellyfin

It’s great for sending money abroad. No bank, minimal fees. I use it for that all the time, to send friends gifts for weddings and birthdays and stuff.

Yes, this requires everyone in the transaction to be on the network and know how to sell cryptocurrency; the question is whether it’s useful, not whether it’s useful with no caveats 😋

Jeeeeeesus. I’ve got 20TB and that feels like a lot 😅

Ah-ha, thanks for the update on Docker! Saves me going down that rabbit hole 😅

On the files on the NAS: yep, that’s by design. My files are across the WAN, not LAN, so I built it to stage remote files locally before transcoding. It currently pulls a file, transcodes it, and moves it wherever you chose for output. This does mean that going over a network is slow, because you have to wait for the staging and cleanup before doing another file. That’s deliberately conservative though; I wanted to avoid saturating networks in case the network operator takes exception to that sort of thing. A secondary benefit is that the disk space required for operations is just twice the size of the source file - very low chance of having to pause a job because the disk monitoring detected there’s no room.

I’ll look at putting in an override that disregards the network and treats remote files as local for you!