Ffmpeg is an open source command line tool for working with video. For doing a quick lossless transcode like from mkv to mp4, it’s pretty painless to use, and is actually easier than messing around with all the options in something graphical like handbrake or whatever.
Felix’s script above would copy the audio and video streams as they are into a new container format, you just have to substitute in your file name. You can run that in good old cmd.exe or Powershell, or that thing Felix just linked too, but before any of that you’ve got to install ffmpeg.
For whatever reason, ffmpeg is usually just distributed as a zip file. If you want an installer to do the work for you rather than messing with little used menus to properly globally set up command line programs, you can just install imagemagick which is a command line tool for doing still image stuff that includes ffmpeg. For whatever reason, that all gets packaged in a nice friendly installer.
it has to be installed I can’t just like copy ffmpeg.exe to the folder with the video file and run it like that? also why is the thing felix linked better enough than the normal powershell thing to bother with
I decided I’d just wait for the mkv cartel to sort out it’s dolby vision issues than bother with the mp4 thing anyway so I guess it doesn’t matter too much now
you can just run it like that, but if you’re going to be doing anything in the terminal on a regular basis, you want:
a *nix-style shell, because windows cmd/powershell syntax is generally just really bad and hard to work with and most use terminal snippets you’ll find online don’t reflect it
the binaries that you use most often to be on your path, which an installer will do – it’ll add imagemagick/ffmpeg’s install directory to the list of directories that get checked for command line tools when you run them from anywhere
got a used 2080ti for $570 off reddit, now I don’t have to worry about playing gpu musical chairs against scalper bots for the next 6 months. it doesn’t feel like a great deal, but a less efficient, slightly better 3070 at about 20 bucks more than an msrp card would cost after tax/shipping is about as good as I’m gonna get
I was very very close to going with an LG BX OLED, but my OCD brain would probably never stop obsessing about uneven wear.
55" is probably way too big to use as a monitor, but I’m all in. I also ordered it from one of those shady “open box but new” dealers with an 80% positive feedback rating.
I guess there’s no way to get a 4k 120Hz signal to this thing using an RTX 2070 Super is there?
also I just want to say that I think trump killed the USPS. I ordered a power supply off of newegg and they say it’ll be here fuckin december 4th. I bought a keyboard from some guy in california and some keycaps from china on the same day. the caps are already fuckin here from fedex and the keyboard is stuck in hell. also I definitely need to stop buying shit now, christ.
I really really really don’t need $600 of CPU but inarguable that it’s the good one this generation (and it’s basically at the performance level now that I’d hope to upgrade to in the next 2-3 years)
this also means I have a 1070 for sale. I’d do $150 + whatever shipping costs, if anyone wants it. I, uhh, don’t remember what brand it is? it’s either a gigabyte WINDFORCE or some MSI one. pretty sure it’s a mid tier factory OCed board. if anyone is interested I’d sell it after newegg comes through with the snail shipping on my PSU + a day or two of stressing the 2080ti to make sure it works. still a very good 1080p card and not bad at 1440p. I think this is the sweet spot value card right now if you’re not willing to jump to $500+
Now all that’s missing is the mobo from ASRock Rack, that would be a perfect boxing days stayin’-at-home NAS build that has been a year in the coming already, if that would come to pass…
This is the kind of thing I had in mind could go wrong with Big.little
But if x86 vendors are already doing it even on symmetric architectures, then it means Apple is ahead in the game. They have a platform designed for it, and much more experience with it. I wouldn’t expect Apple to do anything so crude as a 10 second timer, that is some 2012 Android phone nonsense
well, i was wondering why ars would go ahead with such a clickbait article, but as its turns out, the whole thing is basically a why even bother piece. I didn’t know that they nowadays don’t allow to test shit like battery life (seriously?) and i can only feel for those poor saps that have to obey such embargos for a living.
Just did a flash BIOS via USB and hitting a button on the rear panel. A first for me; would be real nice if it works and you can update a board for a new CPU without needing an old CPU to do it.
