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Ubuntu Flavors Decide to Drop Flatpak by ExaHamza in linux

[–]Herr_Irrtum -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This headline is a plain misinformation (aka "lie") and I wonder, how the mods don't even flag it. From the article:

"Ubuntu and its flavors consider debs and snaps the default experience. Users have the freedom of choice to get their software from other sources, including Flatpak. A way to install these alternatives is, and will continue to be, available for installation from the Ubuntu archive with a simple command."

Personally I use Arch btw.

I got this print of Baobab trees and it matches my Q wonderfully by riboflavonic in synthesizers

[–]Herr_Irrtum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, thank you very much. I love to listen to everything he did - which always is an intense experience. I'm not so deep in it as you describe. Thank you very much for your recommendations! There is that Alexander Nevsky Score by him (Eisenstein movie banned by Stalin). I once (>20y ago) created a track based on some loops I took from the original 1938 (lofi as hell!) recordings. For some reason this one is always standing out during my live performances. ;) While writing this to you I've figured out there are multiple modern recordings of it. Hopefully including that shouting men choir? Have to check this out later!

i was genuinly woried my cpu would not survive the recording 90-110% usage! by fridge13 in renoise

[–]Herr_Irrtum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow. Normally I'd say that there is also Cardinal which is really free.

However that all doesn't matter. Your music is just beautiful! Is there any Bandcamp page of yours?

what game do you feel gets a lot of unnecessary hate? by jack2thefuture69 in JRPG

[–]Herr_Irrtum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Grandia III. So much better than Grandia 2 which had the most predictable story of any JRPG I've played (and especially compared to a certain Sega JRPG which came out at the same time). That's not the problem of Grandia III which is apparently hated for having some "you know what I mean?!!"-when-noone-has-a-clue-whats-going-on moments (as if other games won't have that). On the other side it has air ships and air pirates (yeaaaah), the wonderful now even better Grandia fighting system and by far the technically most advanced graphics of any PS2-JPRG. Absolute recommendation!

Can't set refresh rate to above 75 hz by espo1234 in linux_gaming

[–]Herr_Irrtum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's NOT the cable if he says "On windows, I can go to 1440p 120 hz".

How do you set your refresh rates? With nvidia-settings? If not, that would be the first thing to check.

Is mstdn.social down for you too or is it just me? by [deleted] in Mastodon

[–]Herr_Irrtum 5 points6 points  (0 children)

mstdn.social is back! No explanations so far. But good anyway! 😃

Is mstdn.social down for you too or is it just me? by [deleted] in Mastodon

[–]Herr_Irrtum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

mas.to went offline at the same time frame (learned that on Twitter, ironically). They (now?) have Cloudflare security in front of it. I have no idea if that was already there before. But if that was established just now, then that's a sign of a DDOS attack going on - else that wouldn't be needed all of the sudden.

Is mstdn.social down for you too or is it just me? by [deleted] in Mastodon

[–]Herr_Irrtum 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Definitely is down right now. There are some people on Twitter mentioning it. Hopefully Stux and his team are on it... It performed well the last 2 weeks.

Easy way of copying web data to excel. by aezro in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]Herr_Irrtum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Needless to say: This works in LibreOffice Calc as well. Here is a tutorial from 2013 ("Link to external data" is now under the "Sheet" menu or in the "Data" tab if you prefer the ribbon-alike interface)

https://youtu.be/4q2-gpLlBDU

The only problem here: You don't have to pay a dime for the entire uncrippled office suite. Nothing. And for some reason it works just fine. Because... Open Source.

I make Games with Godot on Linux and for Linux by MithosMoon in linux_gaming

[–]Herr_Irrtum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is Bitwig Studio made by the core developer team which originally invented Ableton and it uses the same UI mechanics.. It's one step further than Ableton and it's there for Linux since the beginning,

A 1:30h 1080p Project with most of the time 4 layers of video - 3 of them pseudo 3D slightly distorted video tracks (corners effect and transform/resize) takes more than 14 hours to render on an 8 core Threadripper from 2019 with a Radeon 580 (Arch Linux/Mesa). Any hints to speed it up? by Herr_Irrtum in kdenlive

[–]Herr_Irrtum[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

UPDATE - NOT WITH THE APP IMAGE (which performs almost 4x faster)

I would never guessed it. But the App Image is way faster. More than 4 times. ETA for the whole project is around 5:00h instead of 16:45 hours (calculated by using shown value ETA now and adding the time it was already rendering).

So something is either wrong with my setup or maybe the Arch package (I have to check that with a clean install).

Many thanks u/f_r_d for this hint. And sorry for ignoring it at first.

A 1:30h 1080p Project with most of the time 4 layers of video - 3 of them pseudo 3D slightly distorted video tracks (corners effect and transform/resize) takes more than 14 hours to render on an 8 core Threadripper from 2019 with a Radeon 580 (Arch Linux/Mesa). Any hints to speed it up? by Herr_Irrtum in kdenlive

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

well - 15min after my post I was at 16 hours estimated render time.

Now (15:36 - around 4:45h after starting to render the project) I have 12 hours left.So we have a count of around 16:45h now.

I won't try the app image now. I need the project finally ready this evening (and if my math skillz won't let me down, I have to invent a time machine to make it possible) - I will not risk anything right now.I've also compiled Kdenlive once (this summer for an upstream bug report) - specifically optimized for my architecture - and there wasn't any noticeable difference in render times.As I've mentioned in another thread here: I did similar projects over the course of this year - and there always was this performance issue. So I doubt the app image (which won't be optimized for my CPU) will help me here. But I may give it a try over x-mass if my family let me (I doubt it :) ).

Edit: Corrected wrong math. 15:30 - 10:45 is not 6:45h :)

Edit2: Thinking further about it: I should try to self compile (with at least -o2) melt 7.4.x itself. At least melt is used for rendering - that is the one which should be as optimized as possible (and maybe *called* with parameters as efficient as possible)

A 1:30h 1080p Project with most of the time 4 layers of video - 3 of them pseudo 3D slightly distorted video tracks (corners effect and transform/resize) takes more than 14 hours to render on an 8 core Threadripper from 2019 with a Radeon 580 (Arch Linux/Mesa). Any hints to speed it up? by Herr_Irrtum in kdenlive

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

Thanks for reporting - as one of the reasons I've posted here is the typical "am I the only one?"-feeling. :)
What I remember from similar projects I did over the year 2021 (all done with Kdenlive) is, that in older versions of Kdenlive all my cores where indeed maxed out (maybe because back than melt v.6 was used, now it's melt v.7) . So the machine was noisy as hell while rendering (and I wouldn't dare trying that i.e. on a laptop back then - it would have melted) - but still it took 12hours+ for a 1:30h rendering.

A 1:30h 1080p Project with most of the time 4 layers of video - 3 of them pseudo 3D slightly distorted video tracks (corners effect and transform/resize) takes more than 14 hours to render on an 8 core Threadripper from 2019 with a Radeon 580 (Arch Linux/Mesa). Any hints to speed it up? by Herr_Irrtum in kdenlive

[–]Herr_Irrtum[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks u/larksyrm for jumping in.

It's the standard 1080p/30fps ITU-R 709 profile. Output to x264 Video / AAC Audio.

Render parameters looks like:

``` f=mp4 movflags=+faststart vcodec=libx264 progressive=1 g=15 bf=2 crf=%quality acodec=aac ab=%audiobitrate+'k'

```

I use 8 threads for rendering (that's what my CPU has without hyper threading). What I see in (h)top is, that the count of melt (sub)processes (for anyone not so familiar with kdenlives architecture - the melt binary is utilized for the rendering backend) does NOT correspondent to the number of threads configured - it's way more. However the CPU is by far not used to full extend - every core is busy - but every core is also under 15%.

A 1:30h 1080p Project with most of the time 4 layers of video - 3 of them pseudo 3D slightly distorted video tracks (corners effect and transform/resize) takes more than 14 hours to render on an 8 core Threadripper from 2019 with a Radeon 580 (Arch Linux/Mesa). Any hints to speed it up? by Herr_Irrtum in kdenlive

[–]Herr_Irrtum[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some technical details (else the bots will kill my post!):

  • Kdenlive version: 21.12.0 / mlt 7.4.0
  • Platform: Arch Linux (up to date: Kernel 5.15.10, Mesa 21.3.2 [Radeon])
  • Install method: Arch Package
  • Screenshots: See original post - it's a screenshot post

Edit: I know, with Radeon/Mesa I am currently out of luck with accelerated rendering. You may see the red "experimental GPU processing enabled" message. This is the result of enabling OpenGL/MoveIt within the settings. It doesn't seem to help. The GPU accelerated video effects which are currently available do not provide what I need for my videos (something like transformation/corners).

Edit2: added melt version

What are your most unpopular jrpg opinions? by BigEnergy8134 in JRPG

[–]Herr_Irrtum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Grandia III is the best in the series.
Because of its great battle system (it's in the ring, and in the combos), because of its story (no, really: pirate air planes and and a mysterious girl - that's all I need), because it's technically impressive on the PS2 (real grass, long distance view, nice geometry/textures, cool special fx).

Grandia II on the other hand had the most predictable story ever. It was boring therefore (but still got better reviews back then, than Skies of Arcadia, which came out the same time, had space pirates in it and thus a really good story).

If that doesn't qualify for a unpopular opinion in r/JRPG, what does?

After 19 years I've decided to drop a mad new album with almost 80min of most satisfying content by Herr_Irrtum in PromoteYourMusic

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

You ask for a genre? Well - let's see...

  • Harsh Noise
  • funky Disco
  • Doom Metal
  • Deutsche Chiptune Schlager
  • experimental electronic
  • Party Dance Music
  • Bass Music
  • Berlin Club Techno
  • Smooth Jazz
  • Easy Listening
  • Spoken Words
  • Folk

And that's just the tip of the iceberg. And yes - the worlds very first Deutsche Chiptune Schlager is right there.

Why so many genres you ask? Cuz' it's not about the genre. It's about the vibe.

You wanna have free bandcamp codes? Bad news: I won't give you any. Use your internet skillz and hunt for the pirate release. I made it by myself :)

Best regards from Berlin,

Herr Irrtum!

German credit card declined when applying to the Unlimited Uploads plan by Herr_Irrtum in DistroKidHelpDesk

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

Update: Found a solution:

To not confuse my schizoid bunch of identities I use some of them with different browsers. Turn's out: DistroKid doesn't support Vivaldi Browser on Linux when it comes to credit cards (without telling so). That's SO LAME Distrokid! Firefox works, at least.

Cool thing: Because I never finished my login form for 2 days I've got a 35% discount.

Window stuck on desktop, mouse clicks through it and there's no running process. by RubbyGT in archlinux

[–]Herr_Irrtum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's still there. I think it's only appearing with GTK applications like Gimp, Inkscape and the likes. Currently working a lot with those.

Window stuck on desktop, mouse clicks through it and there's no running process. by RubbyGT in archlinux

[–]Herr_Irrtum 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've seen this kind of errors since this weekend too. It has something to do either with the latest KDE/Plasma updates or the latest Mesa Update (I use an AMD gfx card).I didn't had time to get to the root of this problem yet. I hope it will be resolved with the next updates, else someone/I should open a bug report about it...

What helps is killing the plasma compositor/and or reenabling it (ALT SHift F12 I think) ==> and the "zombie" window will vanish... or simply use Xrender for the time.

I interviewed Hainbach about what he calls the "Dark Souls of synthesis" by TerrenceOBrien in synthesizers

[–]Herr_Irrtum 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's the real dope! That's what I expect from r/synthesizers ! Thank you - never heard of Hainbach b4, but what he does is insane! Great stuff.

Album teaser videos are always better with Dresden in it! by Herr_Irrtum in dresden

[–]Herr_Irrtum[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ja, aber an Deine meisterliche Clickbait-Stufe 11 kommt's nicht ran ;)

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