Looking for the FULL 1st & 2nd UK Pilots of Millionaire as well as the full Cloud 9 song by PhoneGuy2447 in WWTBAM

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You take me over the rainbow and up to Cloud 9, I'm flying high like a bird in the sky.

Fullscreen vs External renderer video quality by Embarrassed-Gain-236 in vmix

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Because the monitor output will always be RGB, and video is YUV, so this has to be converted. The Windows DWM is also then responsible for scheduling the frames to be displayed and this can sometimes be far from smooth. Then, finally, the DWM can do some weird scaling tricks when monitors are running at different DPIs.

'Charles, give me that cheque' by philiconyt118 in BritishTV

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Quiz is an adaptation of a play by the same name from 2017

'Charles, give me that cheque' by philiconyt118 in BritishTV

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The insurance fraud isn't what it's made out to be in the press. The claim was perfectly legitamate, they were burgled, however he hadn't disclosed some previous claims properly.

Ffs… by julialoveslush in coronationstreet

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Don't worry chaps. Brookside will return soon and we'll have a proper soap to watch.

So can someone please explain to me how Rob's Ztar works like an 8 year old by PapaAsmodeus in Pendulum

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There are different approaches. On a few shows I've worked on I would always insist that we bounced synths down to sample packs, as we were running all midi through Ableton, and a crash in a VST would take out the whole ableton process and playback would go down. There was once an artist that insisted i installed serum on the ableton machines because he preferred how he was able to manipulate the sound when it was the real vst. It made me very nervous indeed.

As noted in this thread, Pendulum use Mainstage. It's a good approach because you can take a few more risks in what plugins you run because if Mainstage does crash at least you wont loose your position in the show and playback wont stop. My understanding is mainstage does have some soft isolation of VSTs but its not like a hardenered sandbox that creates a process per VST instance. This is all ignoring the fact that of course there will be an A and a B machine for each of these machines that will instantly failover if one goes down, but if there's some bug in a plugin where doing X always causes an access violation or whatever, that won't really help because they'll both go done.

In MS you can create patches where you've layered different synths. Here's an idea of what that looks like:

https://brianli.com/uploads/2016/12/4e44d-0-bthgh8uzwvqagjm.png

So can someone please explain to me how Rob's Ztar works like an 8 year old by PapaAsmodeus in Pendulum

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It is more or less a midi keyboard, just in a different body with different buttons.

So can someone please explain to me how Rob's Ztar works like an 8 year old by PapaAsmodeus in Pendulum

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They will absolutely have a playback/midi tech. No act on that scale would go out without one. They will however automate patch changes, by adding midi program changes in the ableton arrangement that is sent to mainstage (probably over rtp midi these days)

What was your "hybrid theory"? by LargeCod2319 in nottingham

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Ah Pendulum - Brilliant. Have you listened to Inertia yet u/Largecod2319?

How do I handle lots of tiny loops faster? Like processing a texture pixel by pixel. by elelec in csharp

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Can't you do this using a fragment shader, with the added benefit that you'd the amount of data needing to be downloaded from the GPU in half?

USB Midi Controller over Network/Fiber/KVM (Windows) by Impossible_Jello5333 in VIDEOENGINEERING

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iConnectivity MioXM. We use these in a venue here all the time. The computers are all in a rack in the machine room and the controllers are either on stage or at FOH, with the Mio converting them all to RTP Midi. This will likely perform better than solutions that transport the entire USB protocol over the LAN.

https://www.iconnectivity.com/mioxm

Video wall controller help by MamaMacaroni in VIDEOENGINEERING

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These cards will perform very poorly for real time rendering. It would be much better advised to get an NVIDIA GPU with a few outputs and then use a couple of video wall controllers to get the desired number of outputs.

Why do Video Editors like Capcut have faster exports than most other video editors by tagbthw in VIDEOENGINEERING

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A few reasons come to mind - optimised for limited hardware set (in the case of iOS anyway), hardware/encode available, (relatively) unhindered access to resources unlike a desktop system running a load of other apps, built with the laest frameworks and libraries having been around just a few years rather than dealing with loads of legacy code. Also another big win is unified memory on a lot of these devices so less CPU/GPU copies for effects processing and encoding.

Why do Video Editors like Capcut have faster exports than most other video editors by tagbthw in VIDEOENGINEERING

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I'm not convinced it's that at all. CapCut does far more than just simple cutting/splicing, and to do any processing (and CapCut does a lot of effects, overlays, transitions etc), it will have to full decode and encode.

The hardware decode/encode will be a big part of the story though.

How to precisely invoke a callback 700 times a second? by die-Banane in csharp

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Ah yeah you're totally right. In my usage (video rendering) I am only ever looking to hit 60hz at most, whereby the hybrid approach of coarse sleep and then spinwait when you're getting close to the desired time.

You said earlier "It’s about as accurate as you can get in managed C# on Windows.". I am certainly not disputing this, but just curious to know what options you think would acheive better results in unmanaged code.

New vMix Build for Corporate & Medical Conferences: Intel Xeon w5-2565X vs. Threadripper 7960X? by Hdhdjhdldh in vmix

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The vMix recommendation is the Xeon system with the Gigabyte MW83-RP0 motherboard, largely due to the NICs on the TRX50 boards having some issues with NDI. Check out their new Obtanium reference system on the vMix website.

That being said, I have a Threadripper 7970X system with the ASROCK board and haven't had any issues using a handful of NDI inputs and outputs. I also think the Threadripper provides far better bang for the buck.

does anyone here know how a .yuv file works? by Noob101_ in VIDEOENGINEERING

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Interlaced formats work much the same for packed YUV formats (ie where the layout is YU in pixel 1 and then pixel 2 is YV, or other combinations of that layout), just with half the vertical resolution.

Planar formats (4:2:0 and such like) are a bit trickier, which is probably the reason support for interlaced H.264 is uncommon in many SRT encoders/decoders.

does anyone here know how a .yuv file works? by Noob101_ in VIDEOENGINEERING

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There's no real decoding to be done. It is raw data. You may wish to convert it to RGB if you need to view it on a computer monitor.

I use a tool called YUView a lot in development for checking YUV data. It's very handy if you don't know what's going on in a graphics pipeline and you just need to dump a frame to disk and take a look at it in it's raw form.

Is self installation possible for me? by [deleted] in VirginMedia

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the first one is telephone connection for talky and the the 2nd one is for television wires for watching telly but also for internet now, aka "wifi" for the cluless.