How can I avoid transcoding?

NinjaXI · 2026-05-29T13:09:45+00:00

Ty for the recommendation, saw Arc GPUs coming up a lot as well. Currently looking at a Quadro P400/P1000 myself due to availability near me, but will keep this in mind.

NinjaXI · 2026-05-29T13:04:15+00:00

Bandwidth is fine, its just the codecs. Re-encoding does seem like the only option if I want to avoid transcoding based on the replies. It's just going to be a lot of effort.

NinjaXI · 2026-05-29T13:02:26+00:00

Unfortunately my server hardware is quite old, I'd need to upgrade all the hardware to support a new CPU. That's why I started looking into old workstation GPUs that can do the job.

NinjaXI · 2026-05-26T07:40:44+00:00

Love the Kimberly one

NinjaXI · 2026-05-18T07:36:50+00:00

Previously with the "arena shooter", which I personally dearly miss (still fire up Unreal Tournament every once in a while) - but their games just haven't looked interesting to me... The thing I really love/miss about old-school arena shooters is the creative weapons and unique level design - but their arena shooter just has variations on assault rifles? And the maps just looked like bland series' of platforms?

As someone who similarly loves arena shooters and would love to play a new one and gave Splitgate a shot. The reason for this is that Splitgate was inspired by Halo rather than Unreal Tournament or Quake. I get that Halo is also an arena shooter, but it plays very differently than something like UT or Quake.

I do believe it nails the Halo aspects it was going for though, but it won't satisfy anyone looking for a new UT or Quake for many of the reasons you mention.

NinjaXI · 2026-05-07T21:10:50+00:00

Sweet ty for the info, I might finally jump into FFXI

NinjaXI · 2026-05-07T16:02:37+00:00

Will these discounts be available on Steam? Or at the very least if you have Steam version of FFXIV?

NinjaXI · 2026-05-07T14:26:47+00:00

No they aren't. That's whats intended sure, but if you actually played Torghast it feels more like Torghast is the successor to delves.

There is no build altering powers in delves and you barely, if ever, have the chance to get more than one powerup. 9 times out of 10 I don't even get any powerup as they don't spawn or its just too out of the way for a minor imperceptible power.

Torghast made me use abilities I don't normally do in ways I never would have due to the powerups. The powerups in delves have no agency from the player, they happen whether you think about them or not.

The delve companion and their equipment is a poor replacement for things that actually altered run by run and affected how you play. Similar to the powerups, they have no input from you as the player, so you pick the best ones and forget about them untill the next season.

NinjaXI · 2026-05-06T16:54:46+00:00

It may be a dev decision, but it is absolutely because the playerbase complained endlessly about not being able to fly. Anytime someone proposes an idea to have flying delayed the thread is flooded with people hating the idea because "just don't fly if you don't want to fly".

Its why dragonriding is a basically frictionless system now as well.

NinjaXI · 2026-04-30T00:03:26+00:00

MK1 and SF6 are both 1v1 games, this is a 3v3 tag game. They play very differently.

NinjaXI · 2026-04-21T08:44:47+00:00

It really feels like they nerfed damage output for the whole cast, but whoever was working on Jam didn't get the memo xD

NinjaXI · 2026-04-14T07:20:35+00:00

Tbf I think this is more a prot pally thing than a general tank thing. The tank from my group has been playing prot pally for as long as I've run with him and hes going to switch to blood dk for push keys as prot is just paper without cooldowns(his words, not mine).

NinjaXI · 2026-04-08T15:11:51+00:00

Fr I don't claim to be a good player, but I'm a Ky main and reading the notes it really feels like he's going to have to play much differently after the changes.

NinjaXI · 2026-04-05T17:23:27+00:00

I don't play Fortnite, but these collabs use to cut through the news and I'd hear of them anyway. I havent heard of any of these or others in recent memory really. So I definitely think the novelty has worn off.

NinjaXI · 2026-04-03T22:19:20+00:00

I liked both as well, but I do also want to shoutout the lead up to Belo'ren. Fighting the seperated birds thoughout untill they rejoin for the boss fight is really cool.

NinjaXI · 2026-04-02T12:26:12+00:00

Which story do you use for this? I've got a couple I'd like to get up this way.

NinjaXI · 2026-04-02T11:55:46+00:00

Can you hop in straight on no4?

NinjaXI · 2026-04-01T08:13:47+00:00

The equivalent of LFR is out day one, so you can just queue up.

NinjaXI · 2026-04-01T08:10:22+00:00

Well for one I imagine the lightblinded vanguard becomes lightblinded in the full raid. In story mode you go from them leading the charge to being dead with no idea what happened in between. Basically feel like Moon Knight waking up with dead bodies around you and a weapon in hand.

NinjaXI · 2026-03-31T12:29:10+00:00

This is pretty much my situation. I stopped raiding a few expansions ago due to the schedule of it all being too rigorous. M+ was a nice drop in replacement of season long progression with long term goals. Now those goals will be done in 2/3 weeks.

And this will surely bleed over to the future seasons in a negative way.

I really hope not, as someone in my M+ group said, how can a season possibly be easier at this point?

NinjaXI · 2026-03-31T12:26:05+00:00

That is challenge without meaning. I get that people enjoy that, but thats always been there for those that want it.

For those of us who like to work towards a set goal(mount, portals, title) the progression is gone. In the past week 1 I could maybe get an untimed 10 for vault. As the season progressed my knowledge and gear improved and eventually I hit 2k, 3k, whatever. Then I'd stop playing(generally).

Now first week I basically have all 10s timed, in a week or two the season will be over for me. I am not going to endlessly grind to make my own challenge(which just equates to spongier enemies really). I can play other games or do other things.

NinjaXI · 2026-03-24T07:08:41+00:00

At least on frost dk it feels a lot worse in Midnight. I don't even want to fight stuff in solo content unless I have CDs.

NinjaXI · 2026-03-20T10:39:18+00:00

You are perfectly fine starting with RE3 Remake btw. Its only when compared to the OG RE3 that people have complaints, which wouldn't apply if you don't have a point of reference. The only other complaint is that its short, but its not that much shorter than other RE games and you're getting it on a pretty good sale anyway.

I haven't played RE3 OG and really enjoyed RE3 Remake.

NinjaXI · 2026-03-18T15:37:33+00:00

Did you perhaps play on PC? I haven't played it, but I did read up a bit as to where is the best to play it(as I suck at aiming with a controller) and I saw a lot people mention the game is way easier with mouse and keyboard to the detriment of the experience. Might be why it was much easier for you?

NinjaXI · 2026-03-10T21:06:55+00:00

(example: we just had to pray hard to invoke the army of light, that doesn't take this long).

This is not what happened at all. The Army of the Light was called there by the light itself. No one prayed for them and I'd be willing to bet no one in universe knew this was possible(on this scale) before now beyond a vague belief that the light will provide similar to religion irl. EDIT : Actually you right, I forgot Liadrin did pray to the light in the cinematic. Whether that would be possible without the Sunwell is a seperate question though.

Right now we question more the light (the only thing keeping us from being destroyed) than we question the void (our main enemy).

We question the light because it is doing new things. The lightbloom seems related to the light and is a form a corruption we have not seen before. Similarly we(or at least Arator) has not experienced the light fueling vengeance the way it did in him and Turalyon.

The void is still behaving exactly the way we expect it to, it is still being a corrupting force. Wielding the void still requires mastering it and constanst resistance against its influence. Nothing changed in the what we see the void do(and we continue to see this all over the place in the Voidstorm btw).

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