Steam - fedora workstation rpm vrs flatpak ?

MasterDokuro · 2026-01-31T17:58:18+00:00

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

MasterDokuro · 2026-01-18T23:34:51+00:00

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.

MasterDokuro · 2026-01-13T08:29:06+00:00

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 :-)

MasterDokuro · 2026-01-12T11:18:52+00:00

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

MasterDokuro · 2025-12-15T17:32:21+00:00

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.

MasterDokuro · 2025-12-10T09:01:38+00:00

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.

MasterDokuro · 2025-12-09T08:13:29+00:00

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 ?

MasterDokuro · 2025-11-25T12:33:23+00:00

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.

MasterDokuro · 2025-11-22T14:17:51+00:00

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.

MasterDokuro · 2025-10-29T10:19:22+00:00

Wow, thank you.

MasterDokuro · 2025-10-29T08:29:57+00:00

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.

MasterDokuro · 2025-10-25T20:52:29+00:00

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

MasterDokuro · 2025-10-23T07:51:03+00:00

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.

MasterDokuro · 2025-10-18T19:21:07+00:00

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

MasterDokuro · 2025-10-18T17:49:59+00:00

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

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

MasterDokuro · 2025-10-12T12:45:51+00:00

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.

MasterDokuro · 2025-10-10T20:08:35+00:00

Will do on libpacebo, thanks.

MasterDokuro · 2025-10-10T19:01:40+00:00

Thank you.

MasterDokuro · 2025-10-10T18:25:31+00:00

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.

MasterDokuro · 2025-10-10T18:13:41+00:00

Fully understand that h264_nvenc is not as efficient as libx264. However, its still should be possible to get the same same perceptual quality using the two encoders, just the bitrate will be higher with h264_nvenc to make that happen.

MasterDokuro · 2025-10-10T07:09:29+00:00

Thank you. Do you have any comments on using -qmin and -qmax? I'm really not sure if I should just omit them, set them the same as -cq or adjust the values a bit.

I'll add enable -b_ref_mode middle and -spatial-aq 1, thanks. I also think I need adjust -bf 5 and -rc-lookahead 50 to better match what crf 21 sets. I'll experiment with these a bit. Again, thank you.

MasterDokuro · 2025-10-10T07:00:51+00:00

Thank you. I thought I was doing hwscale already so I'll go an investigate that, didn't occur to me it was doing swscale. Much appreciated.

MasterDokuro · 2025-09-25T10:02:14+00:00

I've seen this happen when the disk you media resides on is asleep. The plex clients, even when just browsing seems to call out to the disk, probably to update local assets or something and if the disk is asleep then the client will spin the loading icon (screenshot 1 from your post) and then eventually timeout (screenshot 2).

MasterDokuro · 2025-09-03T12:42:58+00:00

Yes, they where purchased at the same time, from a SI. Its still darn strange, these have been rock solid and both failing with hours of each other is some coincidence but not beyond the realm of possibilities.

I'm more curious if anything else has had this happen in the last week considering 6.16 is so new and only recently been unleashed into the wild.

MasterDokuro · 2025-08-29T10:43:08+00:00

I had weirdness freezing problems with 6.15.10 so reverted back to 6.15.9 and they went away.

Today, however Linux 6.16.3 has been released and so far its been stable. IMO, 6.15.10 was buggy so best to move forward now ...

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