We are about to venture into a heated and abnormal world. Hardware encoders, designed for real-time encoding, may be reaching the point they can also be considered for video archival. The three common consumers options available that we will look at are: AMD’s VCN encoder (using...
Continue reading...Raspberry Pi Hardware Encoding Speed Test
The GPU hardware encoder in the Raspberry Pi can greatly speed up encoding for H.264 videos. It is perfect to use for transcoding live streams as well. It can be accessed in FFmpeg with the h264_omx encoder. But is it fast enough for live stream a...
Continue reading...AMD Hardware Encoding in 2021 (VCE / VCN)
It’s 2021 and there still isn’t a lot of good info about AMD’s VCN hardware encoder for consumers. To that end, I will present my own take on the current “war” between software and hardware encoders, then go into quick details of how to best use...
Continue reading...pre-commit – Check yourself before you wreck yourself
pre-commit checks are like prenups. They run before you commit, get the dirty stuff out of the way, and may even save your relationship(s) in the long run. The difference is that pre-commit checks are written by programmers and not lawyers, so they are a lot...
Continue reading...Python’s New Structural Pattern Matching!
It’s finally happened, after years of complaining and told “it will never happen”, I got my darn switch statement! And honestly, calling it only a “switch” statement is really underselling it. It’s much more powerful than most people will ever use! You might have already heard...
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