I use BTRFS with zstd compression at the default level basically everywhere and it’s great. I don’t notice any performance difference but I have a lot more storage.

I use upscayl-ncnn (basically just the cli version of Upscayl) and it doesn’t support vapoursynth. I’ve heard of it before but I don’t really know what it is or how to use it.

I don’t really wanna buy another SSD just for this. I already have two SSDs in my PC, I just don’t have enough storage left. All the frames are gonna be like 300gb.

I have a Ryzen 5 3600. My command was ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -threads 12 -distance 0 -effort 1 extract/%06d.jxl.

Yes, I compared it to the same frame exported as a png

Even if they use the same technique, they’re entirely different algorithms and h.264 also takes information from multiple different frames, which is why the video is 1.7gb but a folder with each frame saved as a png is over 300gb.

The formats with the best compression, where it might be fine, are jpeg xl and webp, as far as I know. They’re even slower tho because they’re so CPU intensive and only use one thread.

Setting the png compression to 0 doesn’t help because the bottleneck for png is the hard drives write speed. I already tried that.

A) I actually didn’t know about this before, do you know what option I need to use in ffmpeg to set the effort?

B) I tried those but it’s the same issue as with png, that the hard drive’s write speed is too slow (or it’s the USB 3 connection but the result is the same)

Edit: Just found out how to set the effort. Setting it to 1 is quite a bit faster but still slow at only 3.8 fps.

Using bmp has the same bottleneck as png, which is the write speed of the hard drive

I’m doing this to upscale and interpolate the video and I want the best quality possible, since the source is using h.264 and I’m exporting to AV1. I was using jpeg with qscale:v 0 and 100% quality but you could still see compression artifacts, which is why I want to use a lossless format now. The upscaling and interpolation also takes quite a lot of time, so I’m also trying to minimize the time each step takes, if possible, since I’ll be doing this with multiple videos and I’ll probably use these scripts I made in the future a few more times.

Yeah, that’s the probably the case for those. I looked at CPU usage when using webp and one CPU core was always at 100%. Even tough it seems to not be able to use multiple cores, that’s still really slow, no? Or is that normal?

Also, my CPU is a Ryzen 5 3600, just to get an idea of what performance would be expected.

h.264 (the compression algorithm the video uses) and jpeg are entirely different, so it does have to re-encode

I think that advice is already coming too late

You should be able to control every music streaming app from the desktop notification if you use KDE Connect. I use Tidal nowadays, which isn’t open source but it’s a very good streaming service. It normally costs 11€/month but the family plan is 17€/month for up to 6 people. Even if you only have 2 people in the plan it’s a lot cheaper than the individual plan or Spotify.

But I’d recommend the unofficial one from flathub. The official one has stopped receiving updates in 2022 in favour of the web app, which is what the unofficial one is.

I use Grocy for the shopping list feature. It has a lot more functionality tho.

By default?

Have you ever tried just using Markdown?

When I started studying IT at a Berufskolleg (German word, literal transaltion would be something like job college or job school), we started learning about databases by using Access. We were all so happy when we were done with that and just used SQL. I fucking hate Access.

I feel you on that first part, I always use Markdown nowadays when I don’t have to use Word (or LibreOffice Writer in my case), I even use Marp to make presentations with Markdown. Since there’s no dragging stuff around and eyeballing if it’s actually coherent, it’s much quicker, the layout is always perfect and changing the layout doesn’t fuck up the entire slide/document.

What did they do?