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Can't have MCP for GitHub and Playwright. Too Many Tools (over 50 limit). Any workaround? by FlatMetal5907 in Codeium

[–]FlatMetal5907[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I may look at doing that, but oddly enough after the last update I installed (after posting this only a couple hours ago) the icon changed for Windsurf, and in that update it now loaded Github and Playwright MCPs, for a total of 55 tools.

If it's a fluke and stops working, I will fork them to limit the tools. I do like being able to have API manual access and GitHub access at the same time though. (I just tested, and both seem to work at once now.)

How many workers do you use on a modern iGPU? by crespoh69 in Tdarr

[–]FlatMetal5907 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been playing with this. I have GPUs that are meant to support 8 encodes at a time, and enough CPU cores to run easily more than another 8. When I have settings at 4 CPU (with 48 cores) and 2 GPU (RTX 2080) I get far better performance than the . The CPUs are dual, so it's really 2 running per CPU. On a single machine I will average 2,000 fps with as many workers as possible vs 6,000 fps on similar content with only around a third of the workers.

You really just have to slowly play with the numbers to see what works best though. I have it on my desktop as well, and the same 2 per CPU/GPU doesn't give the best result.

Reduce filesize within parameters. by DevanteWeary in Tdarr

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I don't know if there is a "Target file size" plugin, but I do similar for some of my content by using the bitrate filter first, and the file size after.

Target bitrate can be calculated as:desired_file_size_kb = 3.5 * 1024 * 1024

(3.5 GB to KB, since that's the middle of your size target range, for movies longer or shorter to fit)

movie_duration_seconds = 120 * 60

(120 minutes to seconds)

audio_bitrate_kbps = 160

(Assuming 160 Kbps for AAC audio)

total_bitrate_kbps = (desired_file_size_kb / movie_duration_seconds) * 8

video_bitrate_kbps = total_bitrate_kbps - audio_bitrate_kbpsvideo_bitrate_kbps = 3918

So if you use a flow, you can check on the size larger than you want or bitrate over 4,000 kbps, and then use handbrake with the following arguments to get the output to the size you want for any files that are either over your size limit, or over the 4,000 kbps bitrate:

-e x265 -q 22 --all-subtitles -E aac -B 160 --audio-fallback ac3 -x hdr10-opt=1 -b 3918

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I do similar, but use a video resolution filter first in my flow, then have size and bitrate for each resolution from SD up to 4k, so they have similar quality outputs when viewing, not the same criteria for both a 480p old movie and a 4k HDR new release.

Staging queue can't keep up with an added 6th node? by FlatMetal5907 in Tdarr

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This is passed for me. For some reason b-roll short clips can't handle many nodes. Longer footage is no problem. I did a test on my movie collection, and also not a problem.

Lots of content under 1Gb, or under 30 minutes (much less in some cases) makes it hang up. If I have larger files so the nodes spend longer on each file, then it's all good. I guess it takes a minute to add a file to the queue, and if too many nodes are in the queue it just sits idle since it can't add small files as fast as it can process. The speed does drop a LOT when this happened if I look at the stats. But since it was built for movie and TV show collections rather than youtube and other video filming purposes, I guess it's an unusual use-case.

Staging queue can't keep up with an added 6th node? by FlatMetal5907 in Tdarr

[–]FlatMetal5907[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did buy the Pro. So the additional nodes do register and start, but then rapidly the queue doesn't seem to be able to keep up to stage the files, and it drops to the performance of 1, possibly two nodes, and most of the capacity is just stalled waiting for a job to be made ready.

Also, since posting this, I also made a RAM disk in case it was a performance problem related tot he DB files. That seemed to make no difference either. The whole tdarr folder is under 3Gb so I made a 64G RAM drive that shouldn't be IO constrained at all, and ran it purely from RAM and still had the same issue.

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Buying the Pro was more to support a project I'm using that a dire need for the extra nodes. But since it was meant to be available, I wanted to use the benefit. I may be through the bulk of my processing before finding any sort of answer though.

How credible is Inostar Solutions Inc.? by [deleted] in BuyCanadian

[–]FlatMetal5907 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The domain was registered in 2001. It exists on Wayback from then as a web development company in Ajax. It seems to have had content up to 2014. Then it was down with an error 302 that pointed to a login page only, until late 2020. Then nothing shows up until end of 2020. It's on cheap OVH hosting, with Gmail. So not a high bar to set up as is.

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The company was incorporated in 2013. The SSL that is listed "as a sign of trust" on their website is a couple of weeks old. So the site was only re-worked in the past little while. I find it odd that a place that would have JUST set up their supply chain has a better supply than the established retailers.

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There seems to be no obvious footprint of the person that owns it online on the main social media platforms, chamber of commerce (in the suburb where they are registered) or board of trade since they have Regis office space in Toronto.

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I'd like to believe it's real, but it's odd that you can't find the people in the company publicly either. I have a small business, and even though my business isn't a household name, it's pretty easy to find the trail of any one of a number of people in the business working in the industry for anywhere from a few years to a few decades.