I know this may sound like a weird statement coming from the author of FastFlix, but from the bottom of my heart, please stop the needless pixel loss! Every time you re-encode (aka transcode) a video it losses information, which lowers the quality and makes it...
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Upload large files fast with Dropzone.js
I have previously covered how to upload large files with dropzone.js, but it didn’t allow for parallel chunk uploads. In this article we will go over that new addition, as well as several other improvements. Download the final executable or view github to see all the...
Continue reading...Keep Windows from going to sleep, no power settings needed!
Say you have a long running process that you let go overnight, only to come back the next morning and realize “Oh no, only an hour into it, my computer went to sleep!”. Thanks to some Windows internals, it’s possible to make it realize there is...
Continue reading...Create an image in Task Manager from CPU Usage
A lot of people have pass around a internet video of someone using a crazy high core count computer to display a video via Task Manager’s CPU usage. The one problem with it: it’s probably fake. Task Manager displays the last 60 seconds of activity, not...
Continue reading...HDR, HDR10, HDR10+, HLG and Dolby Vision
I have read several articles on the differences between what all these different types of High Dynamic Range (HDR) video formats are, but few address it from a technical standpoint. So lets do a quick high level (not so technical) overview of each: WCG: Wide Color...
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