Mastodawn

i dont think ive gushed hard enough about btop lately. or at all.
here it is.
its beautiful
i wish it supported the stupid intel gpu on this thing better, but its still glorious

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Viss 18h ago

its funny, this little doodad supposedly has an 'npu' in it, and it was marketed towards ai bro types to be some kinda at-home llm-biased thing.

its an asrock-industrial nuks box-255h. its basically an off-brand intel nuc, and its *BEEFY*. its physically smaller than the phobos nucs (we have a fleet of em we ship to customers to do onsite stuff if they prefer that over someone in person) and its easily 10x the power.

but .. how do you use the npu at all?
ollama doesnt support it

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Viss 18h ago

its super weird, and i liken it to the copilot button on lots of laptops these days

nobody asked for it, nobody wanted it, and its there, and it takes up space (and power?) but you cant do anything with it because nothing supports it.

who knows. maybe hashcat can light it up, or maybe jellyfin gets another leg of code into its own ffmpeg fork and can use it. for now it sits idle.

@Viss
I like to preconvert to WEBM with OPUS+AV1 so the jelly can relax

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Viss

@chillybot i need to do something about volume. i got metalocalypse episodes and flapjack episodes that are like 5x louder than everything else. now that i got the gpu sorted out it trivially handles all formats and transcoding no probs. it streams to a chromecast tv dongle plugged into a projector

@Viss
Did you run the audio normalization task?

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Viss 18h ago

@chillybot not only have i run it repeatedly, ive been told off on the forums that the thing is only supposed to work on audio, not video, so it ignores tv shows

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Tyler 16h ago

@Viss @chillybot That’s an interesting issue. Audio transcodes will always be done with the CPU though unless Jellyfin is using a very modified ffmpeg. I got a GPU to transcode 100Mbps 4k to 20Mbps 4k for special cases. I use Usenet and don’t transcode on my AVR/TV but even on my desktop that transcodes I haven’t had an issue like that. Best guess is whomever procured those episodes didn’t follow best practices when making it..available. There’s a huge list of banned groups for this reason. I have a 150TB media server and a decade of pain, I mean experience, I am always too happy to discuss.