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#11

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. 

#12

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.

#13

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. 

#14

Off-Topic Community / Re: Movie Thread

Last post by Legend - Nov 24, 2025, 01:21 AM

Oh I saw a 10 second avatar ad on tv. Oh man did I get chills.

I love fire!

#15

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

Last post by the-pi-guy - Nov 23, 2025, 11:35 PM

Did you vibecode your app? Maybe AI is at fault for the error.

And if you didn't, maybe AI can fix the error.

I vibe coded a couple parts of it.  


I guess I'm not worried about it. 


Just vibe coded a multi threading for it. 

And that's working great actually. Downscaling two videos about as fast as it was downscaling one. 

#16

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

Last post by Legend - Nov 23, 2025, 10:38 PM

My app is working mostly well, except it throws an error when it finishes a video.

It validates the output afterwards and everything is good, but it seems like ffmpeg is throwing an error. But it doesn't seem to really be affecting anything.

Did you vibecode your app? Maybe AI is at fault for the error.

And if you didn't, maybe AI can fix the error.

#17

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

Last post by Legend - Nov 22, 2025, 11:20 PM

1. money (manpower)
2. data

who has more access to more data then google.  it's a huge advantage. 

Explain Facebook then  



Also found a thing the model really sucks at. I uploaded a v4 and a v5 (unfinished) of a document. I thought it'd be able to use the v4 base and fill in the unfinished parts of v5.

Nope.

Test after test it'd see the changes in v5 and undo them to be more aligned with how v4 did stuff.

In general I found it is extremely bad and ignores instructions/feedback when it has its own assumptions in the mix.

#18

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

Last post by kitler53 - Nov 22, 2025, 10:26 PM

I did not expect google to make it. Their early ai stuff was so bad. Even 2.5 pro was really lame outside of simple coding.


But I guess there's some story about an openai employee lightly making fun of how bad google ai is, and that lit the fire.

1. money (manpower)
2. data

who has more access to more data then google.  it's a huge advantage.  

#19

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

Last post by Legend - Nov 22, 2025, 04:32 PM

cool you like Gemini I guess.

I remember when chatGPT was first announced how the markets were rooming google.  never doubted with there resources that if AI was a disruptive thing they would catch up really fast. 

I did not expect google to make it. Their early ai stuff was so bad. Even 2.5 pro was really lame outside of simple coding.


But I guess there's some story about an openai employee lightly making fun of how bad google ai is, and that lit the fire.

#20

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

Last post by kitler53 - Nov 22, 2025, 04:10 PM

cool you like Gemini I guess. 

I remember when chatGPT was first announced how the markets were rooming google.  never doubted with there resources that if AI was a disruptive thing they would catch up really fast.