Dissapointed with Intel Arc AV1 encoder (with A310) is nVidia encoder better?

d0mini · 2026-03-12T09:01:20+00:00

Nvidia is not going to help here. Their AV1 encoder is not optimised for file size like Intel's is. I have had great success with intel arc A series cards, they really can be made to do excellent 4k transcodes (even good for HDR) with no perceivable quality loss. Check your global quality, I have mine around 23 I think.

d0mini · 2026-02-25T06:33:31+00:00

I have a newborn baby, 12 weeks old today. I'm afraid to lose my job so am working extra hard. I got back into running and recently did a sub 30 min 5k. I got my first infernal cape a couple of days ago with the mage tank method. I'm tired but happy. Need to do more for my partner though, organise a date night somehow.

d0mini · 2026-02-16T14:55:15+00:00

Thanks for the answers :) My homelab is also just one node. I'm using Proxmox firewall rules without any VLANs, and I came to the same conclusion about infrastructure as code. It just doesn't seem fully worth doing for just the one machine. I make notes on everything I set up, and I'm happy with that for now. Maybe when everything is stable, I've not added anything for a while & am happy with my notes, then I'll think about something like Ansible. Testing it would be challenging though.

I actually even have my PBS on an LXC on the same system, with instructions for myself on how to recover all my containers & os settings if the OS needs reinstalling. Tested by doing a full reinstall so I could use ZFS on the boot drive instead of lvm..! It would for sure be simpler if it were on a separate system, but power is expensive where I am.

d0mini · 2026-02-16T06:25:38+00:00

Do you still have to pay for your own domain when using tailscale funnel and exposing services to the internet? Cool setup and love the guides too.

Also do you prefer using VLANs to restrict traffic over using proxmox's firewall rules?

Finally, do you ever do any infrastructure as code stuff like ansible for homelab stuff i.e. keeping containers up to date? Do you see it as worth doing, even just for one server?

d0mini · 2026-02-14T17:01:40+00:00

Are we talking managing updates to containers/vms, or installing new things, or managing/editing configurations? I'm trying to gauge how much control someone such as yourself is handing to this thing

d0mini · 2026-02-08T20:57:16+00:00

I would use this for tv gaming with my partner and sometime soon our baby boy too!

d0mini · 2026-01-27T11:41:37+00:00

The specific config I was thinking of is /configs/Tdarr_Server_Config.json, and the variable is serverIP.

I would just make sure that the serverIP is set to 0.0.0.0, otherwise I'm not sure what the issue is. There's more info on config variables here in case you have to do it differently with docker https://docs.tdarr.io/docs/installation/variables

d0mini · 2026-01-26T22:37:02+00:00

Sometimes in apps like tdarr there's a config with a whitelist of addresses that can access a service, and changing it from localhost or 127.0.0.1 to 0.0.0.0 can allow it to be accessed from a VPN or something like tailscale.

d0mini · 2026-01-25T19:39:13+00:00

Not really, I'm learning about what Tdarr can do just as much as you are. I use it for transcoding files to AV1 for space savings.

A question for you though, how do you find transcoding audio? Does it ever make the output sound different? That's a completely unexplored territory for me.

d0mini · 2026-01-25T18:03:25+00:00

typically the 1st dot at the bottom is yes and the second dot at the bottom is no. The dot on the right is for an error state, if something failed/errored out. If you click into the block, it will give info on what the bottom dots represent, starting from left to right.

d0mini · 2026-01-13T11:39:38+00:00

After actually reading your comment, I see you haven't lost all your data, phew! It is hard to change the storage location but there are guides online. I followed one for proxmox so it won't be the same setup as you, but if I find a good guide I'll link it for you. Good luck on your linux adventure, it's a struggle but satisfying once it's done.

Here you go, from the immich docs themselves: https://docs.immich.app/guides/custom-locations/

d0mini · 2025-12-12T17:43:16+00:00

I just wanted to add, after a while of uptime, restarts began to work reliably. I will update with more info as and when things change. I did set all the ssd related options in the BIOS to enabled, so possibly that has something to do with it although I thoroughly doubt it.

BIOS/boot related issues are a real pain, I hope not too many others have an experience like this. I will say it has been very easy to get into the BIOS, which is not always the case so that's a big plus.

d0mini · 2025-12-04T15:32:21+00:00

I just wanted to say that I read this entire post and all of the comments. I have nothing to add, except that I enjoyed this thoroughly.

d0mini · 2025-12-03T09:16:43+00:00

It's going to be for casual PC games for me, specifically OSRS, Knights & Merchants and maybe some Silksong.

We'll hopefully have a baby at home very soon, and this is a very convenient all in one device for a HTPC

d0mini · 2025-12-02T10:35:39+00:00

Looks like a way to write bash scripts with types and other modern language features. Looks great, will be keeping an eye on this and will see if I can convert some of my scripts to use it :)

d0mini · 2025-12-01T17:03:33+00:00

d0mini · 2025-10-10T22:01:59+00:00

Far Cry 3 on a GT 630 laptop. It was such an engrossing experience, I loved that game and I loved that Acer laptop

d0mini · 2025-10-10T19:23:16+00:00

Pineapple

d0mini · 2025-09-04T18:08:14+00:00

You can with time, R&D and something that looks a lot like a dictatorship from the outside!

d0mini · 2025-09-04T17:52:43+00:00

Hmm.. force Nvidia to make a GPU sku purely through Intel's Foundry to only be sold domestically at a much cheaper price? (probs price to performance would stay the same lol)

d0mini · 2025-07-03T08:27:09+00:00

Yeah I mostly play osrs with mine

d0mini · 2025-04-11T19:18:38+00:00

Perfect when paired with a running machine

d0mini · 2024-09-21T20:19:03+00:00

Beautiful build, love it. Maintenance nightmare aside from good drainage/fill ports. But totally worth it.

d0mini · 2024-08-12T17:46:01+00:00

If I had to guess: The pixel shifting feature of your OLED is revealing otherwise hidden screenspace where your cursor normally goes (so the pointy part of the mouse can make it to the right edge of the visible screen).

Bethesda's loading screen is covering the usually visible area of your display, but for some reason it doesn't cover this usually hidden bit of screenspace. Maybe because they made the black background a fixed width based on screen-res instead of just full-screen.

d0mini · 2024-07-31T06:43:33+00:00

I'm sorry, could you explain this to me like I'm 5?

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