In addition to the main purchase price, this app charges 3.99/month for:
-following channels
-following playlists
-removing shorts
and many more features on top of those.
I thought of the smoothie blenders first too, but I can't see how they would ever have failed given how great they are. My life has changed since buying the first such blender about 4 months ago
That looks -very- nice. What's your experience been with it, do you use Plex or anything like that? What do you mean 'can't go back to transcoding'? What have you been using that doesn't transcode?
I’m using Infuse as well, and it’s pretty amazing.
The main thing that Infuse does differently from all the others is that it always does Direct Play (in Plex parlance) so you don’t need anything powerful or power hungry to be hosting the video.
Most devices that will play video these days are powerful enough to do the decoding themselves and have the bandwidth available.
I use Jellyfin and it defaults to direct play unless you need transcoding (e.g: the client device doesn't support the chosen format, Firefox with h265 for example, due to licensing) and it will just remux if the container is the only issue. The desktop client just uses mpv so it supports basically everything directly.
> Most devices that will play video these days are powerful enough to do the decoding themselves and have the bandwidth available.
IME this varies a lot between devices. Google TV dongles for example, even the 4K versions, are built with extremely weak SoCs (as in early 2010s phone weak) and lean hard on hardware acceleration. If you want to play back a format that isn’t hardware accelerated on one of these, you’ll have to rely on media server transcoding.
In my memory of Plex on my Apple TV device it was off by default and hidden in an advanced menu or something. Not impossible by any means, just annoying.
It can also direct play a lot of formats too though, because Apple TV boxes since the 2017 4K model have enough muscle for problem free software decoding.
Most audio streams are 'direct stream' when you use plex/jf/emby as backend, but your receiver/soundbar only gets the PCM stream, without any object data (yes, you loose atmos, not that it is a lot of loss when using a soundbar, but if you have atmos speakers in your ceiling you want that data)
in an ideal world, the appletv will simply passthrough the audio upstream, so you receiver can do what it does best.
Kodi is my favorite open source project, but I did start it up the other day and thought it felt outdated. I will look into Jellyfin-Kodi. Using Kodi's Games/eBooks/Podcast playing ability with Jellyfin (Streaming, transcoding) features might be exactly what I've been missing.
Really impressing the progress he's made with that MiSTer core, especially since for years people said there was absolutely no way an N64 core could work on the MiSTer's DE10 nano FPGA board.
it's much more about the community knowing for sure that something was impossible while also not knowing what they were talking about. each person said it was impossible because they read someone else say it was impossible, which itself started way back early in the project when someone said that any 3D console would be impossible.
this was obviously always possible, but it required someone who wasn't indoctrinated into the community. the community behind a project is always both the very best and very worst thing about any project.
Ah, so this is the same as the Mister core? I thought it was a different codebase from the Mister core as I couldn’t see any mention of Mister, DE-10 or Nano on the page, so blindly assumed it was developed for a much larger FPGA (making my earlier comment below redundant).
No. The GitHub link is to Mister64. Which is an impressive WIP, but is not related to the main article linked here.
I'm most excited for the next generation of FPGA retro consoles coming in the next 6ish months. Specifically the MARSFPGA. All the existing Mister cores, plus a bunch of new stuff enabled by a better and newer FPGA. The estimated price is $700, that's reasonable for those of us with large disposable income that want the retro kit with no hassle, easy access for the kids, and high Wife Acceptance Factor.
I'm also looking forward to all the upcoming arcade cores for the MARSFPGA.
My M1 Air renders and edits 4k as well as my ryzen 3700x with 64 gigs of ram and a samsung nvme.
It loses out in encoding though. I cant get the same quality/size ratio with VideoToolBox as I can with NVENC.
