Added workaround for AMD driver bug to make VP9 hardware acceleration work on compatible AMD GPUs
Confirmed DXVA is activated while playing a downloaded 4K VP9 Youtube video. If it works on a Vega integrated graphics, it sure will work on my desktop's Polaris-based GPU.
People still use that MPC-HC shit? Lol. Feels like 2007 in here.
Eh? It's shit? I dunno about that. I guess the reason I kept using MPC-HC began more than a decade ago. SMPlayer was buggy as hell and didn't support as many codecs, while VLC displayed green artifacts in video playback. Played the same videos with MPC-HC, there're no artifacts, proving the video files weren't corrupted. When uploaders started encoding animes in 10-bit which wasn't yet supported by any codecs at the time, I was able to make MPC-HC play the files via the use of a 3rd-party filter. I never looked elsewhere since then.
You do of course realize that that's impossible. Much like those breasts.
Her poor back.
She did a review of RGB wearable lighting that works on her breasts because of the implants.
RGB everything.
QUOTE(loli-hujan86 @ May 24 2020, 19:01)
Then uploaders started encoding animes in 10-bit which wasn't yet supported by any codecs at the time, I was able to make MPC-HC play the files via the use of a 3rd-party filter. I never looked elsewhere since then.
Yeah same. MPC had some cool add ons for AMD video cards for enhanced up-scaling and denoising using the graphics cards that worked really well on old anime rips.
Bit of a non-issue now but some of my collection is quite old. Especially if I can not remember if I have blu-rays or DVDs somewhere.
I'm really starting to grow on this Cherry G80-3000 keyboard, despite how loud it is, even with the case packed full of foam. Blue o-rings did help the feel of it, and I'm hoping the softer open-celled foam I ordered will dampen the sound more. The redragon keyboard turned out to be a bust, it's just a dome keyboard, with very mushy and floaty keys. No wonder MSI never put their name on it in the US market. I did remove the awful RGB barf backlighting. Guess I'm still looking for a chiclet / scissor key keyboard with 6-key rollover.
Coco-Yam is alive, and so far performing great. I've been playing some Minecraft at 118fps, and My Summer Car, a relatively CPU heavy and unoptimized game was holding 99-124fps. I've been using an old Lenovo 1440x900 60Hz 19" via DVI connection. I should get my real monitor, an Acer 1920x1200 75Hz 25" DisplayPort tomorrow. I was able to get the memory running at a true 1800mhz, or bump the CPU speed up, but opted for a more conservative approach till I get a feel for the system and things are burned in a little bit. When I went through the auto-tune thing in the bios, it set my CPU clock to 3800 instead of 3600 and turned the voltage down from 1.464V to 1.088V- right now I'm keeping the clock rates and multipliers stock, but undervolting to 1.088V, CPU seems to run much cooler that way. It was holding 30C in the fancy bios, and is 36 right now.
I tried out Xubuntu 20.04lts. I had a horrible system stuttering issue- minus my fans being idle and the clock widget in panel stick ticking, it felt like the system was going to deadlock any minute and was entirely unusable. I'll stick with 18.04.3lts until the 20.04.1lts patch comes out.
Hmm, trying to delete those files while in the file browser of the video player was a bad idea. Now things are undeletable, or rather, the delete dialog don't appear, but it may appear a lot later. Something weird is happening in an unseen background part of my system (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) I hope it won't lead me to reboot, since I now have H@H, so I'd especially want to avoid it if possible.
edit: ok, after some wait on each new deletion attempt, 4 delete popup got summoned, and deletion was successful...I hope since it was all weird.
This post has been edited by uareader: May 25 2020, 19:09
Guess I'm still looking for a chiclet / scissor key keyboard with 6-key rollover.
You'll need to find one with either a PCB with diodes, or diodes on a membrane. Unlikely to happen in either case. I still prefer buckling springs.
QUOTE(loli-hujan86 @ May 25 2020, 01:01)
Eh? It's shit? I dunno about that. I guess the reason I kept using MPC-HC began more than a decade ago. SMPlayer was buggy as hell and didn't support as many codecs, while VLC displayed green artifacts in video playback. Played the same videos with MPC-HC, there're no artifacts, proving the video files weren't corrupted. When uploaders started encoding animes in 10-bit which wasn't yet supported by any codecs at the time, I was able to make MPC-HC play the files via the use of a 3rd-party filter. I never looked elsewhere since then.
Windows-only software is shit. Worse still, it's not cross-platform despite using cross platform decoding software (ffmpeg).
I just use mplayer (regular mplayer), even in windows. Mpv is also decent. They Support all codecs ffmpeg does.
VLC is kind of buggy trash, I agree. If it works, then it's fine, but it's hard to fix problems with and has some weird design choices. It's also just another ffmpeg wrapper.
interesting. what was it then? back in the MPC (non-HC) days, people used the K-Lite codec pack to get ffdshow and other windows-API-compatible video decoders. IIRC, MPC-HC started moving away from DirectShow though, not sure what they used to replace it since I stopped using things like MPC in around 2009 in favor of cross platform solutions which also tended to perform a little better.
I distinctly remember that the color depth in MPC-HC was worse for a while. And 10-bit h.264 decoding is natively supported in ffmpeg.
When installing o-rings on the Cherry, I managed to pop the tops off a couple of switches, and did notice an internal diode.
Yeah I knew that board might have them; I was saying if you want a scissor switch board you're unlikely to find one of those with diodes built into the key matrix.
Got one of my newer SCSI drives working with my Amiga A500/A590 finally. Much, much quieter than my HDD from 1996. Also runs cooler I think. This is its first successful boot. [i.imgur.com] (IMG:[i.imgur.com] https://i.imgur.com/ILWMoLKg.jpg)
O-rings do nothing for the 'clack' when the keys return to their top positions, so I've never really understood why people like making their boards mushier. I guess it's not really my business though. I've seen people do silly things like putting dental floss in their buckling spring boards too.
It's funny that my Amiga uses a 10K RPM drive while my desktop doesn't.
This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: May 26 2020, 16:04
wondering whether i should go for a hybrid sshdd (1tb) or simply buy a normal (1tb) 7200rpm hdd for my laptop
last couple of months it became very slow
I first thought about to get a 240gb ssd for my operating system an a regular 7200 hdd for storage but my stupid laptop have only single storage slot. also no nvme slot
A good 1tb ssd is out of my budget. so i have to decide between the above 2 ... what to do what to do >_<
wondering whether i should go for a hybrid sshdd (1tb) or simply buy a normal (1tb) 7200rpm hdd for my laptop
last couple of months it became very slow
I first thought about to get a 240gb ssd for my operating system an a regular 7200 hdd for storage but my stupid laptop have only single storage slot. also no nvme slot
A good 1tb ssd is out of my budget. so i have to decide between the above 2 ... what to do what to do >_<
I say normal HDD. But if you're running windows it'll just slow down again. I just have been burned by bad SSD's before where controller failures prevented recovery of any data (and even device enumeration from my desktop when connected over SATA). Meanwhile my oldest working laptop HDD is 24 or 25 years old now (I have no memory of how large the capacity is and it's inside a tiny toshiba laptop I hate opening up), and my desktop still boots off a 15 year old 500GB SATA drive (yes, I have a backup).
That being said, while I still don't trust or like SSD's from personal experiences, if you have an ExpressCard slot you can install an NVMe in there with an adapter. I know expresscard slots aren't common nowadays but my machine has one (I use it for USB 3.x slots, though, since my motherboard doesn't have any). It's just a PCIe lane, same as NVMe drives use.
I just have been burned by bad SSD's before where controller failures prevented recovery of any data
OCZ agility 3?
There was an intel SSD ages back with a bug if you powered on and off a couple of times it would forget its internal decryption key. I think that was the only intel SSD to fail on me.
Intel and Samsung are pretty reliable.
OCZ was hilarious. Worse than Seagate when they dropped a load of hard drives at the docks and still tried to sell them.
There was an intel SSD ages back with a bug if you powered on and off a couple of times it would forget its internal decryption key. I think that was the only intel SSD to fail on me.
Intel and Samsung are pretty reliable.
OCZ was hilarious. Worse than Seagate when they dropped a load of hard drives at the docks and still tried to sell them.
It was Samsung made but I forget the drive model. I wasn't the owner, my neighbor was using one as a boot drive. It was around 2015.
When did that seagate thing happen? My google-fu is failing.
This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: May 26 2020, 18:10
I say normal HDD. But if you're running windows it'll just slow down again. I just have been burned by bad SSD's before where controller failures prevented recovery of any data (and even device enumeration from my desktop when connected over SATA). Meanwhile my oldest working laptop HDD is 24 or 25 years old now (I have no memory of how large the capacity is and it's inside a tiny toshiba laptop I hate opening up), and my desktop still boots off a 15 year old 500GB SATA drive (yes, I have a backup).
That being said, while I still don't trust or like SSD's from personal experiences, if you have an ExpressCard slot you can install an NVMe in there with an adapter. I know expresscard slots aren't common nowadays but my machine has one (I use it for USB 3.x slots, though, since my motherboard doesn't have any). It's just a PCIe lane, same as NVMe drives use.
Yeah ssd are risky unlike hdd if it goes down all your files go boom. That is why my main pc have only a 240gb nvme (samsung) for fast boot and rest of the storage is handle by normal HDDs
I only keep windows files in that nvme drive so if it goes out suddenly I have nothing to lose
So are ssdhd bad ? I mean i need to upgrade my laptop performance also want a decent storage size without heavy investment.
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