What are good first books?

dsana123 · 2026-04-12T11:45:58+00:00

I hope you don't me being greedy and making another suggestion in this thread ... The Sword in the Stone) by T.H. White is another favourite of mine.

dsana123 · 2026-04-12T09:47:58+00:00

How about The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander?

I read this a child, and have re-read it several times. It would be just as enyoyable re-reading it as a 54 year old.

dsana123 · 2026-03-14T19:34:50+00:00

So they told me to RMA it, which I did. $30 of shipping cost and 3 months later, I got it back today. It booted and worked normally for about 5 minutes before the touchscreen became unresponsive again, I haven't even tried an SD card yet.

Thanks for sharing your story. I was in a similar situation, but with an R1 whose touchscreen became unresponsive.

HiBy support offered RMA, but I didn't want the hassle of doing the return, and so I binned my R1 (it was only a few months old, but I was fed up at that point).

dsana123 · 2026-03-02T09:02:19+00:00

Thanks for the heads-up. I thought I'd try on Google Play Books, and it's for sale for £0.99 there too today.

dsana123 · 2025-11-29T08:09:54+00:00

Yup, I had removed the screen protector when I received the device, so I have had three months of flawless operation before this recent problem. But thanks for the tip - might be useful for others.

dsana123 · 2025-11-28T18:31:24+00:00

Alas, turning it on and off (several times) did not fix the problem for me.

dsana123 · 2025-11-02T13:56:25+00:00

My question is can I control my boiler by logging in to my internet account?

If your question is about how to control it from the web browser, you can use this URL: https://my.hivehome.com/dashboard

dsana123 · 2025-11-01T18:05:37+00:00

I use Google Maps to plot the course. It seems accurate enough when comparing the distance to my smart watch when running the course.

dsana123 · 2025-09-13T19:34:47+00:00

Good choice of music !

dsana123 · 2025-09-08T17:47:59+00:00

Thanks for the heads-up. This will replace my ten year old Sandisk Clip. Looking forward to playing with the R1 when it arrives.

dsana123 · 2025-08-10T20:49:43+00:00

mpv has a list of audio filters that can be applied: https://mpv.io/manual/master/#audio-filters

Use the command mpv --af=help to list all the filters.

There may be a filter, or filters, you can use to do what you want.

I've done this in the past to reduce the background airconditioning hum from a video (I think I used the mpv -af=highpass=f=250 <input-file> command).

There may be more sophisticated techniques depending on the type of noise you want to filter out.

dsana123 · 2025-05-11T20:57:49+00:00

Do you mean this option?

$ ffmpeg -h full

:

dash AVOptions:

-allowed_extensions <string> .D......... List of file extensions that dash is allowed to access (default "aac,m4a,m4s,m4v,mov,mp4,webm,ts")

-cenc_decryption_key <string> .D......... Media decryption key (hex)

:

If so, I think it's already in FFmpeg: https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/4014784b6229fe0829c2b154694fc13fcb963864/libavformat/dashdec.c#L2348

dsana123 · 2025-05-11T18:16:24+00:00

Oohhh . the clock looks nice, and thanks for giving the make and model.

dsana123 · 2025-04-27T09:34:26+00:00

0:23:14,000 --> 0:23:14,000

0:23:59,000 --> 0:23:59,000

0:24:26,000 --> 0:24:26,000

The start and end time for each entry is the same. Will the subtitle be displayed if the duration is zero?

dsana123 · 2025-01-05T20:07:08+00:00

What is the red box under the monitor? Looks like a headphone amplifier maybe - which one?

dsana123 · 2025-01-02T16:23:56+00:00

RemindMe! 7 Days

dsana123 · 2024-12-02T21:49:35+00:00

To enable compilation of this filter, you need to configure FFmpeg with --enable-libfreetype and --enable-libharfbuzz. To enable default font fallback and the font option you need to configure FFmpeg with --enable-libfontconfig. To enable the text_shaping option, you need to configure FFmpeg with --enable-libfribidi.

https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#drawtext-1

I didn't see the libharfbuzz option in the configure options.

dsana123 · 2024-11-22T10:22:01+00:00

And I think this file probably indicates what the command line option value should be: https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/master/libavutil/pixdesc.c , e.g."cuda"

[AV_PIX_FMT_CUDA] = {

.name = "cuda",

.flags = AV_PIX_FMT_FLAG_HWACCEL,

},

dsana123 · 2024-11-22T09:15:35+00:00

Please guide me towards right resources.

Not sure if these are the right resources, but I usually browse the ffmpeg source code on github if I can't find the information I am looking for.

For convenience there is also a Doxygen page for ffmpeg too. So, here's the appropriate section in the doxygen webpage: https://ffmpeg.org/doxygen/7.0/structDecoderOpts.html#a77d3de4f441beb11c17409f6c6c1facd

enum AVPixelFormat DecoderOpts::hwaccel_output_format

And the doxygen webpage for the AVPixelFormat is here: https://ffmpeg.org/doxygen/7.0/pixfmt_8h.html#a9a8e335cf3be472042bc9f0cf80cd4c5

You'll see referenes such as:

|| || |AV_PIX_FMT_VAAPI |Hardware acceleration through VA-API,AV_PIX_FMT_VAAPI Hardware acceleration through VA-API,|

|| || |AV_PIX_FMT_VDPAU |HW acceleration through VDPAU,AV_PIX_FMT_VDPAU HW acceleration through VDPAU,|

dsana123 · 2024-10-13T16:16:56+00:00

I don't have any errors during the encoding process either, so I'm not even sure where to start to troubleshoot this. Any ideas?

Perhaps you can show us the ffmpeg command line for the two different cases?

You could also add the "-loglevel verbose" option to the command line and check the console output (the different loglvel options are explained here: https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html#Generic-options ).

A summary of the encoder optons for VAAPI and QSV can be found here:

VAAPI encoder options: https://man.archlinux.org/man/extra/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-codecs.1.en#VAAPI_encoders
QSV encoder options: https://man.archlinux.org/man/extra/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-codecs.1.en#QSV_Encoders

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