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entropicdrift , 6 days ago

Symphonium is also the best for listening to audiobooks in the car. It has a really comprehensive set of DSP options

entropicdrift , 6 days ago

Intel N100 Beelink box with 16GB of single channel RAM runs my Jellyfin server and Caddy. It's also hooked up to my home theater system directly so I can use Moonlight on it to stream my main gaming PC.

My storage is a 4-bay aluminum USB 3.0 external enclosure attached to an M1 Mac Mini running Asahi Linux (Arch BTW). The Mac mini runs my Arr stack and mergerfs on the external drives so I can load balance across them and scale it up or down as needed. So basically the Mac Mini acts as a NAS.

entropicdrift , 9 days ago

Quantized with more parameters is generally better than floating point with fewer parameters. If you can squeeze a 14b parameter model down to a 4-bit int quantization it'll still generally outperform a 16-bit Floating Point 7b parameter equivalent.

entropicdrift , 9 days ago

I believe commercial LLMs have some kind of watermark when you apply AI for grammar and fixing in general, so I just need an AI to make these works undetectable with a private LLM.

That's not how it works, sorry.

entropicdrift , 9 days ago

Just that they're no easier to use to fool an anti-AI system than using ChatGPT, Gemini, Bing, or Claude. Those AI detectors also give false positives on works made by humans. They're unreliable in the first place.

Basically, they're "boring text detectors" more than anything else.

entropicdrift , 9 days ago

So first of all, you shouldn't involve yourself in your friend's business. Fraud is generally frowned upon.

But secondly, you know that ChatGPT was trained on the entire internet, right? Like, every book. I don't think "more books" is gonna help.

I hope you take your computer skills and make something of yourself. Try not to get any more involved in this scheme, seriously. You don't need this crap marring your reputation.

Besides, there are better reasons/ways to fight the system than helping other people avoid learning.

entropicdrift , 18 days ago

Have you tried setting up Kodi and the Jellyfin plugin instead on it?

entropicdrift , 1 month ago

IMO, if you want the beast deals right now on a 12+ TB HDD, you should use serverpartdeals.com instead. I've got 2 manufacturer recertified 14 TB enterprise-grade drives from them and it was way cheaper than buying any 14 TB external drive.

entropicdrift , 1 month ago

Only if you support China blindly.

I'm a socialist and I have many issues with the take that China does no wrong.

entropicdrift , 1 month ago

The AndroidTV client does notably have a quirk in that it'll stop playing at the end of a season if doing an autoplay of a TV show and playlists don't seem to work for TV shows yet, so unless you've got something with long seasons you can put on, it might be best to make a collection and play that.

entropicdrift , 1 month ago

I pay for ChatGPT+ and it's real. I talked to it for about an hour today from my Android phone.

There were occasionally longer pauses than shown in the promo video, but only ever between when I spoke and when it started replying

entropicdrift , 1 month ago

I'd recommend a DAS setup (just a 4-bay USB 3.0 or better hard drive enclosure) with a server with any modern Intel CPU in it.

entropicdrift , 1 month ago

They're still mounted individually, so you do RAID5 or ZRAID on them, same as if they were internal. You can potentially be bandwidth-limited since USB 3.0 has a 5 Gbps speed limit, but realistically only for reads and you're still fine in terms of overall performance since they're all spinning disks anyhow and 5Gbps is fast enough for any media server/NAS unless you've got a 10-gig LAN/internet connection and feel the compulsive need to saturate it.

entropicdrift , 1 month ago

You can easily do smooth 4K HDR transcoding with any modern Intel CPU with integrated graphics.

I have an Intel N100 and it can probably handle 2-3 4K HDR transcodes at once. Definitely more if they're being transcoded down to lower resolutions. Encoding is the most intensive part of the process.

entropicdrift , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I use QSV hardware acceleration with Low Power h264 and HEVC encoders enabled, plus VPP tonemapping on Jellyfin. I have Prefer OS Native DXVA or VA-API decoders checked (apparently this is needed for VPP tonemapping) and also Enable Tone mapping checked so it can fallback onto OpenCL if VPP doesn't work. Thread count set to Auto. Preset is set to medium. h265 encoding CRF of 25, h264 encoding CRF of 23 and I have Throttle transcodes enabled, which seems to increase the number of videos I can have transcoding at once due to not transcoding more than necessary whenever a player has enough buffer for the moment.

This is on the latest Jellyfin linuxserver.io container with the OpenCL-Intel docker mod.

Also, not sure if this is a factor but I've got 16 GB of single channel RAM on it and I use a USB-mounted SSD for my cache and transcode folders. In the past I ran into bandwidth issues by having my transcodes be on the same drive as my media.

I get 4K HDR to 4K SDR tonemapping plus 7.1 Dolby TrueHD to 2.0 AAC transcoding at 70-75fps with my setup.

Transcoding of 4K down to lower resolutions is even faster. 4K HDR to 480p SDR runs at 191fps.

I took a look at the benchmark script those results are from and compared them to the ffmpeg commands auto-generated by my Jellyfin server for actual transcodes.

Here's how the command to transcode a 4K HDR 10 bit HEVC with 7.1 AAC audio to 4K SDR h264 with 2.0 AAC audio looks on my machine:

/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg -analyzeduration 200M -init_hw_device vaapi=va:,kernel_driver=i915,driver=iHD -init_hw_device qsv=qs@va -filter_hw_device qs -hwaccel vaapi -hwaccel_output_format vaapi -autorotate 0 -i file:"/Films/Man of Steel (2013)/Man of Steel (2013) Bluray-2160p Proper.mkv" -autoscale 0 -map_metadata -1 -map_chapters -1 -threads 0 -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -map -0:s -codec:v:0 h264_qsv -low_power 1 -preset medium -look_ahead 0 -b:v 7616000 -maxrate 7616000 -bufsize 15232000 -g:v:0 72 -keyint_min:v:0 72 -vf "setparams=color_primaries=bt709:color_trc=bt709:colorspace=bt709,scale_vaapi=format=nv12:extra_hw_frames=24,hwmap=derive_device=qsv,format=qsv" -codec:a:0 libfdk_aac -ac 2 -ab 384000 -ar 48000 -af "volume=2" -copyts -avoid_negative_ts disabled -max_muxing_queue_size 2048 -f hls -max_delay 5000000 -hls_time 3 -hls_segment_type mpegts -start_number 587 -hls_segment_filename "/transcodes/53a1ea6d1a7a34b888e73230f9ff04e2%d.ts" -hls_playlist_type vod -hls_list_size 0 -y "/transcodes/53a1ea6d1a7a34b888e73230f9ff04e2.m3u8"

And here's the command that benchmark runs for 10-bit HEVC:

/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg -y -hide_banner -benchmark -report -c:v hevc_qsv -i /config/ribblehead_4k_hevc_10bit.mp4 -c:a copy -c:v hevc_qsv -preset fast -global_quality 18 -look_ahead 1 -f null - 2>/dev/null

So I'm gonna go out on a limb and say there's a major difference in configuration between the two. Setting global_quality to 18 is kind of absurdly high quality for hardware h265 encoding. You can easily get away with 28 for "good enough". My setting of 25 for the CRF of h265 encoding is already edging into placebo territory for most videos. That's all without considering the impact of low power mode, extra_hw_frames, etc.

entropicdrift , 1 month ago

The transcodes folder exists by default and the cleanup defaults to daily, I think. You'd only need to mess with the configuration for transcode caching if you want them to stick around for longer

entropicdrift , 1 month ago

Dunno. My point was just that it's an easy change, so presumably if you care you could figure it out pretty simply

entropicdrift , 1 month ago

Bon Jovi is alive, though?

entropicdrift , 1 month ago

All good, just made me double take lol

entropicdrift , 2 months ago

If you're gonna spend that level of money, you may as well go for an M1 Mac Mini. MacOS is a Unix flavor and in the new 10.9 version of Jellyfin it actually has the best hardware transcoding support. The M-series chips are video processing beasts for the money/electricity

entropicdrift , 2 months ago

Yeah. Linux, Mac, and Windows are all officially supported by the Jellyfin server project. Everything else is not.

entropicdrift , 2 months ago

Same. Caddy is absurdly simple to configure

entropicdrift , 2 months ago

If you set the bitrate in the player below the bitrate of the video, it'll force Jellyfin to transcode. You can set Jellyfin to only ever transcode to h264, so that should work.

entropicdrift , 2 months ago

It won't block them. It just won't transcode to h265. It'll still direct play h265 wherever appropriate

entropicdrift , 2 months ago

I've been making a small album of music out of lyrics I wrote and a consistent general style/genre using suno. It's pretty fun.

As a musician with experience recording albums, even when the songs come out basic, I can always re-record them myself and make them less generic.

entropicdrift , 2 months ago

I realize you may already be locked-in on the name, but you should probably be aware that Pine64 have an upcoming pair of ear buds called PinePods as well. So not just another project with the same name, but another FOSS-community project, to boot.

This seems like an awesome project though. As a fellow Rustacean, it excites me to see.

entropicdrift , 2 months ago

You'll need a USB 3.0 to gigabit ethernet adapter and a separate gigabit ethernet switch, but this setup is considered to be excellent as a lower-cost OpenWRT solution.

entropicdrift , 2 months ago

It's planned to be upstreamed in version 10.10, due to come out approximately 6 months from now.

entropicdrift , 2 months ago

It's cool. I stalk the discord and the forums, so I pick up the dev chatter.

Hope you're enjoying it! I love how there's no central servers like Plex has. It's my own private Netflix so I can share what I have with my friends and family easily!

entropicdrift , 2 months ago

Paywall ʕ ͡° ʖ̯ ͡°ʔ

entropicdrift , 2 months ago

Did I say it was? I didn't downvote, I'm just whining

entropicdrift , 3 months ago

Who is your ISP? I had some issues with my FIOS ONT. Had to disable IPv6 on my router for it to stop dropping packets.

entropicdrift , 3 months ago

Ah, you're right. I didn't read closely enough. Sorry!

entropicdrift , 3 months ago

And the tech world will often force you to use a macbook, as well. As if Windows wasn't locked down enough.

entropicdrift , 3 months ago

There's a couple things that stick out to me in these logs:

1. the androidtv client logs show the crash was due to a time-out while waiting for the server to respond to a request for over 3 seconds.

2. you included a DirectStream log, that's usually not too hard for even a Raspberry Pi to handle reasonably well

3. the first log I looked at showed libx264 was using 36 threads

So my guess is that, due to video encoding not scaling all that well across larger numbers of threads, your server is being bogged down with this transcoding and isn't providing http responses fast enough to your client device(s).

A simple way to troubleshoot this would be to explicitly set the transcoding thread count to something a bit lower than what your server has, say 16 or 20, and see if that does any better.

An obvious potential fix would be to use hardware acceleration if it's available to you. I run my Jellyfin server off of a little N100 mini PC and it can transcode 4K HDR 70 Mbps video (tonemapping included) at about 45 fps due to the hw acceleration. That said, I know it can be tricky to set up in a VM and you may not have the HW accel capability in your server CPU anyhow.

entropicdrift , 3 months ago

Could always use UNRAID for the backup if you're trying to be storage efficient, but it's really no better than RAID5

entropicdrift , 3 months ago

You're misunderstanding. The government isn't arguing that they're preventing people from switching to Android, but that they're running a monopoly within the iPhone ecosystem.

entropicdrift , 3 months ago

Corporations making AI tools available to the general public are under a ton of scrutiny right now and are kinda in a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation. At the other extreme, if they completely uncensored it, the big controversial story would be that pedophiles are generating images of child porn or some other equally heinous shit.

These are the inevitable growing pains of a new industry with a ton of hype and PR behind it.

entropicdrift , 3 months ago

CIFS is probably more robust than curlftpfs, but I'd probably just go full NFS on it if you care about performance.

entropicdrift , 3 months ago

Personally I have a secondary external SSD I use for my cache and transcode directories so that my transcodes aren't throttled by being read from and written to the same disk.

Also of note is that Jellyfin does have a cron job built into it to clear the transcodes directory. You can see it under Dashboard -> Scheduled Tasks -> Clean Transcode Directory. I have mine set to run every 24 hours.

entropicdrift , 3 months ago

And that's why you always make a backup before trying out alpha or beta software

entropicdrift , 3 months ago

I use Jellyseer for the same thing. Works great and integrates with radarr/sonarr

entropicdrift , 3 months ago

The good news is, you don't need your eyes for listening

entropicdrift , 4 months ago

I've personally found that maintaing Jellyfin via Docker is far simpler and provides a more convenient upgrade path than a direct installation. I have a docker compose file in my home folder so when I want to upgrade it's just docker compose pull followed by docker compose up -d

entropicdrift , 4 months ago

I use my Jellyfin server as a Moonlight box for one of my TVs, works fine for me. It's an Intel-based mini-PC so the hardware decoding for Moonlight takes basically no CPU usage.

entropicdrift , 4 months ago

Easy, the guy who wanted to make this truck has never worked a day in his life.

entropicdrift , 4 months ago

Correct. The -a stands for all

entropicdrift , 4 months ago

https://www.dungeonmastersvault.com/

Not self hosted but I believe it is open source. Their discord has content packs that cover all officially released content.