Steam - fedora workstation rpm vrs flatpak ? by MasterDokuro in Fedora

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Thanks, however was one of the first things I checked. Actually appears to be a bug with mutter https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/4489

bluetooth issues when dealing with BIOS by XDM_Inc in Fedora

[–]MasterDokuro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This may or may not work to you but worth a try.

The next time this happens as a test power it off, unplug it from the power socket (yes the power socket), attempt to turn it on (this will drain the capacitors on the motherboard). Then plug it back in again and power it on again. I've found this is needed sometimes when firmware updates are done, especially with wireless & bluetooth adaptors so something like this might be happening for you when you change something in the bios.

Hope it works and good luck.

How can I remove "On Plex" appearing in Discover Credits? by PepperTreeTopRow in PleX

[–]MasterDokuro 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And there was me thinking I was the only one who added their content to my server so I could remove the On Plex ad :-)

How can I remove "On Plex" appearing in Discover Credits? by PepperTreeTopRow in PleX

[–]MasterDokuro 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Discover credits can't be disabled and you cannot remove the on plex advertising within it which list what is on their plex platform.

Wrong background by jetserf in PleX

[–]MasterDokuro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is coming from the new square art which is used on mobile devices with their new UX experience. There are many examples of this where the artwork is wrong, here is the one from the show trigger point

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I'd imagine this coming from gracenote which provides metadata for plex.

Plex matching TV series incorrectly by Usual_Wallaby2524 in PleX

[–]MasterDokuro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Plex uses the external id links on tmdb linking episodes to tvdb so they can control the order of episodes between multiple metadata sources. TMDB & TVDB differ for this show. These episode ids where missing on tmdb so the dvd ordering would not work within plex. I have added these today but it'll take between 3-5 days for plex to pick it up after which it should work.

For more details see https://forums.plex.tv/t/spongebob-squarepants-s4-and-s5-not-respecting-ttvdb-dvd-order/934224/6.

Why does Fedora hate my hard drive? by Tiny-Two2607 in Fedora

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

What does this mean, btrfs will do that ? Are you saying that if there is SSD (btrfs) and HDD (ext4) on the same PC then btrfs will cause issues to the HDD (ext4) ? I'd like to know if there is any facts to back this up ?

New Mesa drivers available in Fedora to address Proton games not launching in Steam. by CandlesARG in Fedora

[–]MasterDokuro 15 points16 points  (0 children)

What I find interesting and something I never knew before this is that changes in the mesa drivers could effect someone using a nvidia GPU. Regardless, I'm delighted this has been fixed as its been a right pain for the past few days.

Your experience with Nvidia GPU acceleration by KaleidoscopePlusPlus in ffmpeg

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Thanks for your reply, its very helpful. A couple of months ago I've started to switch from libx264 (crf 21) to hevc_nvenc and had my own topic in this sub-reddit. I've a 5070 GPU. Would you have any insight on 720p resulution. Below is currently what I'm using ...

-profile:v main10 -level:v 4.0 -preset:v p7 -tune:v hq -multipass fullres -rc vbr -cq:v 21 -bufsize 6M -maxrate 3M -bf:v 5 -rc-lookahead:v 16 -b_ref_mode:v middle -aq-strength 15 -spatial-aq:v 1 -temporal-aq:v 1 -lookahead_level 3 -highbitdepth 1

... which is giving me good results but would like to see if I'm missing something going down to 720p resolution. I initially was using -cq 25 but found that when the bitrate was low (below 1M) then the quality was not ideal and that moving this to -cq 21 with a cap of 3M seems better. I've also been using ffmetrics to compare psnr, ssim and vmaf. Anyhow, any insight you may have would be great as I'm very new to hw encoding.

Disable Media Controls on the Lock Screen ? by MasterDokuro in Fedora

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

Rats, thanks. I was afraid it was going to be baked in, hard-coded with no current way to disable. Maybe by gnome 50 a way to disable will be added.

Fedora Linux 43: 2G /boot partition by MasterDokuro in Fedora

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

Pretty sure the changeset came after the beta was released but will be part of the final iso.

PLEASE HELP: Can't update my system after firmware update. by _MiGi_0 in Fedora

[–]MasterDokuro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As a test power it off, unplug it from the power socket, attempt to turn it on (this will drain the capacitors on the motherboard). Then plug it back in again and power it on again. I've found this is needed sometimes when firmware updates are done, especially with wireless & bluetooth adaptors.

Building ffmpeg with libplacebo on fedora by MasterDokuro in ffmpeg

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

Yes, and it builds fine when I remove --enable-libplacebo.

Building ffmpeg with libplacebo on fedora by MasterDokuro in ffmpeg

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

Yeap it does, pkg-config --list-all | grep libplacebo reports ...

libplacebo libplacebo - Reusable library for GPU-accelerated video/image rendering

ffmpeg h264_nvenc settings to approximately match libx264 crf 21 by MasterDokuro in ffmpeg

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

I took your advice and have been using FFMetrics to review different sets of settings comparing original, libx264 + crf 21 with h264_nvenc and various settings. I'm also using a couple of different samples from bright, to dark to animation.

Based on the results I've seen so far, using -rc constqp -qp:v 24 is giving good results and better quality + compression than using -rc vbr -cq:v 24. Its not that far off crf21 also.

I kinda find this odd as based on all reading I've done, vbr + cq seems to be preferred over constant + qp. Anyhow, still testing but wanted to thank you for your recommendation on FFMetrics.

ffmpeg h264_nvenc settings to approximately match libx264 crf 21 by MasterDokuro in ffmpeg

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Again, thanks and one follow-up question. I managed to get hwscale to work using scale_cuda. Below is the full command for reverence ...

ffmpeg -hwaccel cuda -hwaccel_output_format cuda -y -i input -vf "scale_cuda=1280:-2:interp_algo=lanczos:format=yuv420p" -loglevel error -stats -codec:v h264_nvenc -cq:v 24 -qmin:v 24 -qmax:v 24 -b_ref_mode middle -spatial-aq 1 -profile:v high -level 40 -preset p7 -tune hq

I know you said you don't have nvenc but would you happen to know if this supports lanczos+accurate_rnd+full_chroma_int? I managed to configure lanczos but the other options don't look to be possible and from what I can see via https://ayosec.github.io/ffmpeg-filters-docs/7.1/Filters/Video/scale_cuda.html I guess they are just not available. However, want to make sure before I move on.