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#11

Off-Topic Community / Re: Video Files - playing, edi...

Last post by the-pi-guy - Nov 25, 2025, 04:24 PM

I have around 168 4k Movies. 

Take probably 1.5 weeks to transcode them all.   

#12

Off-Topic News Discussion / Re: Gemini 3 Pro released, the...

Last post by Legend - Nov 25, 2025, 07:01 AM

The one that got me today was that I was talking about a popular tech subject with it, again. 2.5 pro would always ignore what I said and instead lecture me about the popular misconception it thought I said (actually the popular misconception is not a misconception, it is more true than false, but that's another topic).

3.0 pro did not have this problem. It could read my actual words and respond to them. Yet today it did not. And yesterday on other topics it was making similar mistakes.


But i got scientific and redid the old prompts in my history again. Sure enough, they worked.

So yeah I just had a few lucky days. The model has improved from 2.5 pro but not fully solved its many problems yet.

#13

Off-Topic News Discussion / German Night night

Last post by Legend - Nov 25, 2025, 06:40 AM

I only drank diet soda. Gotta be a healthy German.

#14

Off-Topic Community / Re: Movie Thread

Last post by nnodley - Nov 25, 2025, 03:06 AM

Got my tickets for 27th for avatar!!  Going to see it in Dolby cinema 3d 

#15

Off-Topic News Discussion / Re: Gemini 3 Pro released, the...

Last post by the-pi-guy - Nov 24, 2025, 09:29 PM

Maybe you just had a few lucky days. 

Even on my local model, I've had several days in a row where it works fantastically. Then just randomly seems like it's forgetting the conversation immediately. 

Could also be a front end issue (assuming you're using a front end).  

I was using an android app and I started to suspect that it was having issues with passing the full context. Because it would break down way earlier than I was used to. 

#16

Off-Topic News Discussion / Re: Gemini 3 Pro released, the...

Last post by Legend - Nov 24, 2025, 08:51 PM

Past few days the model has been noticeably worse.

I wonder if google pulled a fast one on people. They've been burning cash and letting everyone use 3.0 pro pro to rave about it, and are now down to the sustainable model. IDK. Could be less nefarious, maybe just prompt changes that decrease thinking tokens, but lately it is feeling much more like what I used to get with 2.5 pro.

#17

Off-Topic Community / Re: Programming Thread

Last post by Legend - Nov 24, 2025, 07:13 PM

A lot of people like Visual Studio Code, but I really don't. 

It feels like a terrible partway point between Notepad++ and Visual Studio.

Oh yeah I kinda hate it.

But man are ai agents fun for vibe coding.  Just watching it rip through file after file and set up what you asked for in an almost broken but still functional way.

I don't know if Visual Studio has the same support yet.

#18

Off-Topic Community / Re: Programming Thread

Last post by the-pi-guy - Nov 24, 2025, 04:51 PM

A lot of people like Visual Studio Code, but I really don't.  

It feels like a terrible partway point between Notepad++ and Visual Studio. 

#19

Gaming Community / Re: Video Game Sales Thread

Last post by Horizon - Nov 24, 2025, 02:34 PM

PS5 are going to see massive sales in Europe with the black friday deals.

#20

Off-Topic Community / Re: Video Files - playing, edi...

Last post by the-pi-guy - Nov 24, 2025, 03:42 AM

Been working on a custom scheduled task to downscale my 4k movies for when people struggle to stream them. 


Kind of fun.

- have a C# project publishing to my NAS. 

- had to set up the conversion (4k -> a low bitrate 1080p, while mapping all the audio and subtitles)

- figured out how to use the gpu instead

- still have to figure out why it crashes after it's done.

Plex will also do this, but I have been having issues with it. It hasn't been running. And Plex doesn't keep the subtitles.

In summary:

- check every directory under the Movies/ folder
- check each video's resolution, skip if less than 4k.
- 4k videos will transcode to 1080p at 8 Mbps, copy all the subtitles, and transcode the audio to I think aac. Something to maximize compatibility.
- it prints a loading bar to the console based on the percentage.


.net has a nice utility where you can do a for each async with a specified limit. Made it very easy to spin off into a multi threaded app.


I did mention that Plex does have a feature like this. But the scheduled job has been broken for like a year. You can run it manually, but eh. I'm actually running pretty similar settings to one of the profiles Plex has, with the exception that Plex doesn't keep picture based subtitles (apparently for compatibility reasons)*. Which is what all my 4k movies have...  

*But I don't know of any devices that don't play those subtitles, so *shrugs*

Was looking at doing something like this 6 months ago, but I didn't commit a lot of time to it.


Feeling very accomplished this weekend.