Just built a brand-new media server with an Intel Arc A750, and I’m trying to get FFMPEG to use QSV for compressing/transcoding content. Built FFmpeg with appropriate flags: ffmpeg version 7.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2024 the FFmpeg developers built with gcc 13 (Ubuntu 13.3.0-6ubuntu2~24.04) configuration: --prefix=/home/ciuffo/ffmpeg_build --pkg-config-flags=--static --extra-cflags=-I/home/ciuffo/ffmpeg_build/include --extra-ldflags=-L/home/ciuffo/ffmpeg_build/lib --extra-libs='-lpthread -lm' […]
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I am thinking of buying a German QWERTZ laptop because the price is much cheaper. In the past I worked with QWERTZ by remapping it to QWERTY on Windows, but this time, since it’s a backlit keyboard, I would prefer to physically swap the keys. Is it possible? Is it […]
Operating systems are Archlinux and NixOS. In short, I don’t understand is why is this: for part in ./offsite-backup.2025-02-16T10-23-18.part*.tar.gz.gpg; do gpg --decrypt --always-trust --recipient offsite-backup $part > ${part%.gpg}; rm $part done cat ./offsite-backup.2025-02-16T10-23-18.part*.tar.gz | tar -xzf - -C restored Doesn’t work the same as this: mkfifo decrypted.pipe cat decrypted.pipe | […]
Drive model: ADATA Legend 970 Pro 2TB Motherboard: MSI Pro Z890 OS: Windows 11 24H2 Build 26100 This is crystaldiskmark: [Read] SEQ 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 171.193 MB/s [ 163.3 IOPS] < 48589.07 us> SEQ 128KiB (Q= 32, T= 1): 169.888 MB/s [ 1296.1 IOPS] < 24493.47 us> RND […]
I have an old audio CD in a folder in my PC and I want to transfer to MP3 or any way I can extract the audio. This is what I have: What is the best way to RIP this to convert it? I tried mounting as a DVD but […]
Due to data loss, I have lost some keyfiles to access some fully encrypted drives. As always there is very important data on the drives and information I better not lose. The drives have been encrypted using only keyfiles, no additional passwords or whatsoever. The drives have been encrypted with […]
I’ve tried everything I could find on the web and now I’m all out of ideas. Some background apps simply refuse to be turned off. Instead, these apps keep showing up running in the background. Right in the task bar, on the bottom right when clicking ^ and some apps […]
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I have virtual desktops with different background images. At which location does Windows store all of the background images? Virtual desktops screenshot Wallpaper settings screenshot I know there’s the %APPDATA%MicrosoftWindowsThemesCachedFiles folder but it only contains the wallpaper of the current desktop. Where does Windows store the other wallpapers?