Faceman2K23

Faceman2K23 , 7 months ago to selfhosted in Poor video playback quality on Kodi

The difference you see is probably due to different post processing presets, you could probably tune kodi to look better but in general it was designed originally for very low power devices and never added a lot of enhancement functionality outside of a few plugins for it. Try using the older kodi+dsplayer version for more tweakability or look I to madvr for massive image enhancement capabilities

The only reason I have kodi installed on my main nvidia shield is because it’s the only player ive found that will play back surround and atmos audio files (multichannel Flac and Atmos M4A) without then having to be in video containers. So it works well for my surround hifi rig.

I use plex and jellyfin for video

Faceman2K23 , 7 months ago to selfhosted in Poor video playback quality on Kodi

Jellyfin is great but it’s nowhere near feature parity with plex. I run them side by side. Jellyfin for my personal local playback and plex for everything else.

I’ll switch over eventually but for now, for someone with over 110tb of content and over a dozen remote streaming clients there is nothing better than plex.

Faceman2K23 , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to selfhost in Experience with N100 / N200 CPUs?

One of my mini PC’s is an N95, which is similar to the n100 but with a higher peak power. It’s faster than the old legend 2600k and has a decent little igpu for video processing or general desktop use.

I run a jellyfin test server from it, transcodes high bitrate 4k HDR H265 to 1080p SDR tonemapped H264 at over 200fps, while running my security camera Dashboard with multiple video feeds.

Their only limitation is they usually only have a single memory slot so keep that in mind.

Faceman2K23 , 7 months ago to android in This is why your phone doesn't have a matte display - GSMArena.com news

Transflexive displays can work, but they arent as easy on the eyes as e-paper and they have poor contrast in direct sunlight.

Faceman2K23 , 7 months ago to android in This is why your phone doesn't have a matte display - GSMArena.com news

I love my Boox Note 3. It’s am older device but still gets updates lots of tweaks for tuning the display on a per app basis, runs Google apps etc. I use it mainly as a reader for books and manga but also for drawing notes and browsing the Web.

Faceman2K23 , 7 months ago to android in This is why your phone doesn't have a matte display - GSMArena.com news

I wish TCL would stop referring to it as electronic paper, it’s a matte LCD with some desaturated modes for eye comfort.

for me, the major selling point of a true e-paper display is sunlight readability, if your “electronic paper” LCD cant match e-ink, then it’s not good enough.

The main E-ink patents are due to expire in 2026, so we should see some rapid development after that.

Faceman2K23 , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to pics in [OC] Small Plane over the Alps

Not often I see a plane I cant immediately name?

low wing, looks like a radial engine maybe, round tail, but with retractable gear and looks like a 4 seater?

Edit: I think its a Yak 18T, wasn’t aware of that variant of the Yak18 cause it looks so different with the modified 4 seat cabin changing the roofline dramatically, but its a good looking plane.

Found it : Yak-18T Registration D-EYBH Germany for the planespotting autistic nerds out there.

Faceman2K23 , 7 months ago to piracy in I just deleted my entire library and redownloaded it.

If I was to rebuild it from scratch with new parts but equivalent performance and capacity it owuld only be a couple of grand honestly…

my AV distro gear on the other hand… oof… decent small car money, and a terrible investment.

Faceman2K23 , 7 months ago to piracy in I just deleted my entire library and redownloaded it.

Well my main server is currently at 16 drives plus 2 SSDs, so 18 total counted for the licence, arranged as 12 drive unraid array and 4 drive ZFS, plus an appdata+vm disk and a general cache disk.

I’d like to go with Ceph eventually, because I think it’s a solid platform, but multiple nodes and a heavier duty network backbone would be required to do that properly, also the extra disks required to protect a ZFS array of multiple Vdevs, which is safer and faster sure, but the costs are significantly higher than just buying an unraid licence.

Faceman2K23 , 7 months ago to piracy in I just deleted my entire library and redownloaded it.

Unraid pro is expensive (compared to free DIY linux or Truenas for example) but it is extremely flexible and very easy to get started with.

Their free trial is very flexible though, and once set up and running most people will already be set and happy to pay for the licence.

Faceman2K23 , 7 months ago to piracy in I just deleted my entire library and redownloaded it.

Most of it just runs on my unraid box, bunch of Docker containers and a vm for a couple of windows apps I needed running. I also run a small secondary proxmox server with some home automation amd networking stuff that I wanted to stay online when the server is off-line for updates or maintenance.

Faceman2K23 , 7 months ago to piracy in I just deleted my entire library and redownloaded it.

That’s why unraid was (in my opinion) a good starting point, you can use whatever disks you have regardless of size and speed and pool them all together pretty easily. Stick jellyin or plex or both on it and you have a great starting server.

Faceman2K23 , 7 months ago to piracy in I just deleted my entire library and redownloaded it.

Not sure it’s more than 10years of slow upgrades. Nothing compared to the true datahoarders out there

Too much probably.

Faceman2K23 , 7 months ago to piracy in I just deleted my entire library and redownloaded it.

mostly unraid, some ZFS ontop for high priority storage, a couple of TB of SSDs on top of that for caching and ingest.

Just added it all up, its 110TB at the moment, with another 16tb to add in a couple of weeks.

Faceman2K23 , 7 months ago to piracy in I just deleted my entire library and redownloaded it.

Sonarr/Radarr will do this for you automagically for most TV and Movies, never have to visit a dodgy torrent site again.

Started setting it up years ago and over time re-downloaded all those shitty yify rips with full fat bluray remuxes wherever available and the highest quality possible otherwise. Hit 100tb pretty quickly lol.

I have my rig set up to automatically upgrade to bluray remuxes when available, then once they are older than 1 month and over a certain filesize they get automatically compressed with a fairly slow, low crf H265-10bit encode with FileFlows to cut their size roughly in half while still being visually perfect on the normal TVs, all 4k content stays untouched for the main theatre.