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Almost any old Laptop can be made useable again by upgrading the HDD to SSD. Then Linux (eg.g. Mint or MX Linux) works just wonderfully.
(Writing from such an old laptop on the terrace)
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I Installed Gentoo So You Don’t Havtoo - A popular expression in the Linux forums nowadays is noting that someone “uses Arc... - https://hackaday.com/2024/11/04/i-installed-gentoo-so-you-dont-havtoo/ #customization #installations #oldhardware #linuxhacks #initsystem #sourcecode #featured #useflags #compile #macbook #gentoo #source #linux
Hackaday · I Installed Gentoo So You Don’t HavtooA popular expression in the Linux forums nowadays is noting that someone “uses Arch btw”, signifying that they have the technical chops to install and use Arch Linux, a distribution des…
slinging around 15GB of timelapse images and videos between computers is still a challenge even on a relatively modern home network….
I've come to the conclusion that unfortunately #footiMac simply won't be up to the task of creating month-long timelapses for all 3 cameras. Hardware acceleration simply doesn't appear to be supported with the old AMD RV470 based chip.
I just sent the archive over to my more modern 2018 iMac running MacOS X and ffmpeg happily used software/CPU for the mjepg and videotoolbox acceleration for the h264 “mjpeg (native) -> h264 (h264_videotoolbox)” on the first try.
It's encoding at 30fps, which is half-speed of the video itself, whereas #footiMac could barely manage 1fps. The IMac will be done in about 30minutes where #footiMac took 15 hours.
So ya... I'll have footiMac send over the timelapses to the iMac for processing.
#timelapse #ffmpeg #Mac #Debian #oldhardware
![A white on black screenshot of the output from ffmpeg shows the settings used:
“ Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p(tv, bt470bg/unknown/unknown, progressive), 3840x2160 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 60 fps, 15360 tbn
Metadata:
encoder : Lavc59.55.103 h264_videotoolbox
[swscaler @ 0x7fdaac7b6000] deprecated pixel format used, make sure you did set range correctly
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frame=20185 fps= 29 q=-0.0 size= 386048kB time=00:05:36.41 bitrate=9400.6kbits/s speed=0.488x “](https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/system/media_attachments/files/112/549/223/942/238/281/original/c81a7bf20cb0c51d.png "A white on black screenshot of the output from ffmpeg shows the settings used:
“ Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p(tv, bt470bg/unknown/unknown, progressive), 3840x2160 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 60 fps, 15360 tbn
Metadata:
encoder : Lavc59.55.103 h264_videotoolbox
[swscaler @ 0x7fdaac7b6000] deprecated pixel format used, make sure you did set range correctly
Last message repeated 3 times
frame=20185 fps= 29 q=-0.0 size= 386048kB time=00:05:36.41 bitrate=9400.6kbits/s speed=0.488x “")
Well, I forgot this netbook is 32 bit. LibreELEC only works on 64 bit. Shoots that idea down.
Trying out LibreELEC on my very old netbook. Can't play some movies without the video lagging on my Raspberry Pi 3B+. Maybe the additional 200MHz on the processor and the whopping 400 MHz graphics processor will fix it.