Does anyone else have concerns about Platner? I just think of him as The Guy With The Nazi Tattoo, and I can’t trust anything he says or does because of it. It screams Fetterman 2.0 to me, or worse. I would really like to be wrong, but I can’t escape the fact that I don’t have a symbol so clearly historically linked to hate inked on my body, and nor does anyone I know.

What gives you’re instance of anything any importance.

As in, why would anyone sign up on my instance? Why would anyone come see my content?

Answer me this: Why would they have to sign up, or come to my instance, to see my content? If I’m not broadcasting objectionable shit, my instance will remain federated, so everyone will see posts from me and my instance on their preferred instance. And I’ll see all their content, on my own instance.

The problem you’re imagining is already solved. Even if a big popular instance gets bought, or taken over by fiat, defederation works as a solution; the content is posted by users, so there’ll just be an explosion of content from a different instance as everyone moves.

This is the real reason I do so much DIY. I don’t save a lot of money, at least on the initial outlay, but I learn.

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)

I watched Quantum Leap with my dad when I was a kid. You’re gonna try and tell me I’m not writing this reply on Ziggy?

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 😊

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 😊

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 😋

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!

Haha thanks! You mean, support them for output, as well as being able to convert from? Last night I outlined adding an “Auto” option for container, which would keep the source container if possible, but the controls I’ve exposed vs the ones I haven’t are a conscious choice, to maximise player compatibility for the outputs without the user having to know anything about codecs, containers, encoders, their hardware, or quality settings. I’m deliberately keeping the options to a minimum because I didn’t want to make Handbrake 😅

As to why I chose these codecs: h264 works on devices from 15+ years ago, and HEVC is compatible back to 2015-16. AV1 is 2020 onwards and requires GPU decoding; that’s too new and resource-intensive for my goals with HISTV.

I’ll think about how I could pull this off though. Perhaps a “lite” mode that keeps the original codec and container, or an “auto” mode for codec dropdown too. I think I like the second one better: lets you mix and match keeping container or codec or both, without adding any real complexity to the options.

Hahaha baby steps! But I’ll look at it; if nothing else I think it would be very funny to have the dev equivalent of Jar Jar Binks end the format war by accident (which I say as just a joke; I of course have no idea how complex the issue actually is).

Edit: Damn dude, you weren’t kidding about the challenge. You’re right that HISTV won’t work for DoVi 5 in its current state - “Fundamental to FFMPEG” does kinda mean “fundamental to HISTV”, being that it’s basically just a clever wrapper around FFMPEG. That said, if your tooling is ready, I’ve got a plan to integrate it. The philosophy with HISTV is to preserve whatever we can and fall back gracefully as far as we have to if we can’t preserve the current profile, which your tools slot into like they were made for it (Rust Gang represent (👉ﾟヮﾟ)👉).

Ah, then the real slowness is going to come from having them on a spinning disk HDD. For friends, 3Mbps or 4Mbps target bitrate should be plenty, with the 2x multiplier should be enough to preserve detail. No need to touch anything else, you don’t need precision mode for it. Maybe start with 3 and that on just one episode, and see how you go - if you find yourself noticing it looks blocky, bump up to 4Mbps and you’ll be golden.