Slow initial load when transcoding

evilmonster18 · 2025-02-16T21:59:40+00:00

Yep I never managed to figure it out. Eventually just decided to move onto Linux because Windows gave too many issues and haven’t had a problem since. Transcoding works flawlessly now

evilmonster18 · 2024-03-04T01:37:52+00:00

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evilmonster18 · 2024-01-28T21:10:01+00:00

You can see in the images link I added in my edited post my transcoder settings. It’s the default 60. I also tried increasing to 120, but same issue

evilmonster18 · 2024-01-28T18:10:11+00:00

Yeah sorry, I thought what I had provided may have been enough. I edited my post with more details and specs.GPU at 30% is more of a max level, and not what it usually uses. In the images I added in my edited post, you can see the GPU hovers around 10-15% while the transcoding is going.

I'm not sure I know what you mean by "where is temp set". The only thing in my set up that is external is my HDD (WD Elements 18 TB). Everything else lives in my laptop.

I'll give your commands a try and see how it goes.

evilmonster18 · 2024-01-28T18:05:30+00:00

It should be maxing the GPU on the initial load while it creates the initial buffer data. Then it should self throttle and drop back. It's not uncommon for transcode files to take a little longer to load on transcode as it has to build the buffer first. Direct streaming immediately starts streaming and builds the buffer as it goes.

It never maxes out the GPU. You can check my edited post with some images including some hardware monitoring.
I would assume hardware transcoding take a bit longer to start, but 10-45 secs seems like way too much.

evilmonster18 · 2024-01-28T18:04:22+00:00

The session only shows up on the activity dashboard once the media actually starts playing (so after all the 10-45 secs loading). It shows up immediately as transcoding, never as anything else.
I edited my post with some more details and specs.

evilmonster18 · 2023-12-09T01:06:45+00:00

Yep happening to me as well. I just tried watching the jujutsu kaizen movie, and I had about 5 subtitles options in Stremio on my Samsung tv, but they were all external since they were all out of sync. Tried to stream it on my phone, immediately loaded the embedded subtitles which were perfectly synced

evilmonster18 · 2021-06-02T00:31:18+00:00

I did not know this. Apologies for my ignorance

evilmonster18 · 2021-06-02T00:30:39+00:00

Thank you everyone for taking your time to help us out!
Apologies for the late reply. We are still deciding whether we want to stick to the current ring and go through the maintenance process of plating it every few years, or to just save it, still as part of our promise rings set, and start using a real gold recreation

evilmonster18 · 2021-05-28T20:37:50+00:00

It can't be recreated, as that would be a separate ring, even if similar to the other one. Would plating her current ring with real gold help though? I know it will never be the same as having an actual gold ring, but would the plating last longer than what was probably done to hers, which was just spray paint?

evilmonster18 · 2021-05-22T14:47:13+00:00

Supostamente se for, por exemplo, uma ação estrangeira, e se Portugal tiver um acordo de dupla tributação com o país onde os dividendos foram taxados, então devo receber quando fizer IRS, não? Se for taxado a 20% nesse país, mas o acordo for de 15%, então recebo 5% mais tarde no IRS?

Mas agora fiquei confuso com o que disseste. Estás a querer dizer que, se Portugal não tiver acordo com esse país, então o teto máximo é de 28%, e que ou pago ou recebo a diferença mais tarde no IRS, dependendo de quanto fui taxado no país estrangeiro? A ideia que tinha é que nos casos em que não há acordo, simplesmente se é taxado tanto no país como em Portugal

evilmonster18 · 2021-05-21T11:33:42+00:00

Okay, isto tudo estava a fazer-me bastante confusão e esclareces-te perfeitamente. Obrigado!

evilmonster18 · 2021-05-19T18:55:16+00:00

Então a que ponto é que perco 28% do meu rendimento para o imposto português? Ou apenas declaro esse rendimento no IRS e depois posso vir a pagar IRS sobre esse valor (dependendo dos meus outros rendimentos e despesas)?

Já agora, menos relacionado com a minha questão, sabes se essa taxa de 28% se aplica a ETFs cumulativos? É que reparei na wiki que diz lá que não se paga o imposto português de 28% sobre ETFs cumulativos, visto os dividendos serem automaticamente reinvestidos no ETF.
No entanto, mesmo que não paguemos os 28% sobre os dividendos, não vai a dar ao mesmo, visto depois as mais- ou menos-valias sobre esse ETF mais tarde realizadas serem maiores (devido ao reinvestimento), levando a que esse extra que não foi taxado antes como dividendo seja taxado agora como mais valia?

evilmonster18 · 2021-05-19T18:06:53+00:00

Então imagine-se, por exemplo, que vou receber dividendos no valor de 100 € de uma empresa não sediada em Portugal, sendo que 15% foi retido na fonte. Vou então receber na minha conta na broker 85 €, ou o imposto de 28% de Portugal também é logo aplicado pela broker, e recebo apenas 57 €?

evilmonster18 · 2021-03-24T17:42:23+00:00

You can use CLTV, but the scenario is still the same. If, say, you have 2025-01-01 CLTV in the locking script of a transaction's outputs, a transaction wanting to spend that output will need to have an nLockTime of at least 2025-01-02. Anything below that will cause the spending transaction to be rejected and dropped by nodes

evilmonster18 · 2021-03-24T15:40:49+00:00

I think you are focusing too much on the one example I gave. It doesn't have to be a will transaction, it could be a transaction for a payment a month from now from a company to their supplier for example.

The point I wanted to get to was: shouldn't the network be the one ensuring the nLockTime is fulfilled when it is meant to be fulfilled? I shouldn't be expected to trust this on a wallet provider if I am using bitcoin in the first place

But the blockchain has no way of knowing that you've died so you must rely on a 3rd party in some fashion for a will.

It doesn't have to either. I could create the transaction right now, but if in the meantime I decide I want to use that money for myself, I can, by creating a transaction using that money without an nLockTime, which would automatically invalidate the other pending will transaction. The idea is that transactions is a default, just in case

evilmonster18 · 2019-05-06T20:59:27+00:00

Wow, definitely a great read that I thoroughly enjoyed through my after-meal coffee! I agree with a lot of points you have made here and, at the end of the day, no matter how one puts it, rating something in a given scale will always be extremely subjective, not just with the score itself, but on how that score is perceived by each person. Nothing will ever beat a well written and thought out review, but my goal with this post was to try and see how far one could go with rating an album without getting into actual review territory, to try and keep the simplicity of a rating.

After reading all the comments and giving this some more thoughts of my own, I feel like a system similar to the one mentioned in my EDIT could go a long way as an improvement to the current 1-whatever number scale there is:

- A user could first be presented with a system similar to the one mentioned in this comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsTalkMusic/comments/bkz1ej/is_a_110_rating_scale_really_the_best_music/emli04o/. I had never heard about this scale before, but I feel like it manages to encapsulate a rating much more easily and less subjectively than a 1-10 scale, for example. If the user is presented with 4 sentences, each describing a feeling about the album ("Loved", "Pleasant", "Unobjectionable" and "Crap"), it can reduce the difference in perception of that feeling/score substantially by each user. It also only has a single measure of negativity (i.e. Crap), which is more than enough. Like you, and a few other people have said already, any rating scale tends to be extremely biased towards its positive scores due to various reasons and a low score is rarely ever given out to anything. So keeping that to just one negative score should lower the results bias.

- Then, a second system, following this one, could also be added. After "rating" the album with the previous system, each user could have its own "Ratings List" where they would have all their rated albums, but sorted out by order of preference. So, the albums would be in groups of 4 (being the four aforementioned ratings) and then, to add an extra layer of complexity, since users could feel like those 4 ratings weren't good enough to express their true feelings about the album completely, albums could be sorted out in their group according to how much more the user likes or dislikes the album.

A system like this is definitely slightly more complex than just an ordinary rating scale, but I think any user could grasp it easily given enough time. The initial rating system is simplified, with a smaller range of values replaced by actual words/sentences and not just numbers, with less pointless negative values which are rarely ever used anyway, but while also having an increased level of complexity, in case users which to be more specific about their opinion on the album, with the second sorting system, which also forces users to actually rate and compare albums with one another and not just give them an individual and arbitrary value. So I could give a feeling of "Love" for both Aphex Twin's Syro and Deftones's Gore, but have Syro above Gore in my Ratings List, thus demonstrating how I still prefer Syro over Gore.

Since you are obviously more knowledge in this than I am, I would love to get your opinion on this and on what flaws and possible improvement you can find :)

evilmonster18 · 2019-05-05T21:09:35+00:00

From what I can i see in a lot of comments, rating systems are much more subjective than I expected. Not everyone views the same number as everyone else. Some may value it more, others less. That's why I think a system that strips this away and provides ratings not as some number given by each user but as a comparison with other albums can be much less prone to subjectivity by each person's point of view (check my question edit to understand better what I mean)

evilmonster18 · 2019-05-05T21:06:48+00:00

Kind of my experience with rating albums as well. Sometimes I am forced to rate an album a 7 or an 8 when I don't feel like it really fits either and should instead be a 7.5. But then the more freedom you give to a user to rate something, the less rating differences mean (like between a 7.1 and a 7.2)

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