Category Archives: Technical

Brix Small Computer

Posted on January 12, 2019 by larry

Found this deal on Frys weekly ad (in hindsight it was a meh deal) It is a Gigabyte Brix Celeron 4105 barebone PC. The computer and the SSD was a good deal at $125.oo but you have to add RAM … Continue reading →

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Go All In on Apolonio.Tech

Posted on January 9, 2019 by larry

One of the domains I own is apolonio.tech. I am going to push a lot of stuff to it just to get going on it. One huge change from my other domains is that it will not be reliant on … Continue reading →

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Plex Pain

Posted on January 4, 2019 by larry

The Live TV recording is a pain with plex. Really the only reason I got it. I knew sometimes the EPG wouldn’t get updated so a show would be missing. But what is annoying is that there was no way … Continue reading →

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Little Optiplex Won

Posted on December 29, 2018 by larry

I got NVidia NVENC encoding working, and an optiplex with a lower end Quadro video card beat an 4 core Xeon. Trick is you need to compile your own Here are the details Here are the results of different versions  … Continue reading →

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FFMpeg Speed Testing

Posted on December 28, 2018 by larry

Got some information from the ffmpeg mailing list. It was an issue with the x265 package. I was able to make the change and compile. Now I have it installed on a physical box. Going to get some testing done … Continue reading →

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FFMpeg compile works

Posted on December 27, 2018 by larry

Well mostly, I could not get opus and x265 support. Will work on getting nvdia support as well. But I think I will need x265 support. I reached out to the ffmpeg devel mailing list. Hopefully someone can help me … Continue reading →

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Compiling FFMPEG and CentOS 7

Posted on December 26, 2018 by larry

Finally figured out how to compile ffmpeg on CentOS 7, most of my old instructions worked, but the normal version of gcc did not work for me, had to use a compat version. Another thing is that libfaac support was … Continue reading →

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Is There A Place For A Home Server

Posted on December 18, 2018 by larry

Been asking myself in this day and age of cloud, does it make sense to host a server at home for personal use? For me personally I am truly using it, zoneminder, file server, plex server. But if there are … Continue reading →

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New Keyboard

Posted on December 12, 2018 by larry

OK, so a keyboard is not that great of something to review, but I heard of das keyboard being a good one. I finally got a hold of one, and it seems durable. Its a a loud keyboard, but feels … Continue reading →

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Cleaning Up Some Wiring

Posted on December 11, 2018 by larry

One of the things that got out of hand was some wiring I had around my desktop. Before I can start making videos again I needed to clean it up. Also had to figure out how all this is going … Continue reading →

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