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Hah! Who needs PPAs? I have my own multimedia+ repo!

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Re: Hah! Who needs PPAs? I have my own multimedia+ repo!

#281 Post by stevepusser »

Lollypop updated to 1.2.29 for Buster

Deadbeef music player updated to 1.8.3 for Jessie through Sid.
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Mypaint 2.0.0 added for Buster
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#283 Post by stevepusser »

Krita-4.2.9, celluloid-0.18 (formerly known as gnome-mpv), and gmic-2.8.4 filter packages added for Buster.
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#284 Post by stevepusser »

Added the Mystiq multimedia transcoder, GUI front-end for ffmpeg. I've mostly used its MP4 h265 "no resizing" preset to shrink already highly compressed h.264 movie rips by 20-50% with no loss in quality, using twelve threads provided by my laptop CPU. If your machine doesn't have the horsepower, the h.264 presets won't shrink the file size as much, but are much faster.

I know Handbrake or ffmpeg on the command line can do the same thing, but I really never figured out how to get them to shrink the files so nicely. Mystiq makes it pretty easy--I just load up a batch of movies and let it run overnight.
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#285 Post by stevepusser »

Updated Mystiq with a patch to add a new MKV preset. Basically the same as the MP4 No resizing, but converting to mkv preserves the embedded subtitle streams that are in most of my movie and TV show rips. :D

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#286 Post by sunrat »

Installed DeadBeef, working nicely.

Installed MystiQ and I'm very impressed. I never quite got a handle on Handbrake and don't do video recoding often enough to usefully learn ffmpeg cli.
I have a Blueray rip of Breaking Bad which took up over 120GB on HD. I tried out several sets of parameters; your new preset was good but had noticeably reduced high frequency in the audio so I ended up being happy with

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-c:v libx265 -preset medium -crf 25 -c:a aac -b:a 192k
which is also a slight increase in video quality from your

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-c:v libx265 -preset medium -crf 28 -c:a aac -b:a 128k -strict -2
. File size is a bit larger - recode from the 2.4GB AVC BR rip ended up at 360MB compared to ~300MB using the Stevo preset.
Note that -strict is not necessary now - https://twitter.com/ffmpeg/status/94326 ... 89?lang=en

@Stevo is it possible (and not exceedingly difficult) to add custom presets?

Looking forward to reclaiming ~100GB on my video HDD. At about 1hr to recode each episode on my i5 6500, it will take several overnight sessions. 8)
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#287 Post by stevepusser »

As far as I know, you have to patch them into the presets.xml file before compiling the program, which I did for the new MKV preset, but maybe it can also load external presets files--I'll have to research that, and perhaps request it on github. There's also a spot to change some audio settings in a preset, but I think that's broken at the moment--but the setting to copy the original audio does work, so you don't lose anything and it saves a bit of encoding time. I haven't tried tweaking any of the video settings otherwise.
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#288 Post by stevepusser »

Just updated Mystiq with a new preset as suggested by sunrat above: "MKV H265 No Resizing Higher Quality". Packages should be ready in a few minutes.

Also added VLC 3.0.9.2 backports for Stretch and Buster.
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Nice work, Steve. I will upgrade when the current batch of recodes finishes. 8)
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sunrat wrote:Nice work, Steve. I will upgrade when the current batch of recodes finishes. 8)
They are ready to go now.
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mpd-0.21.22 and Lollypop music player 1.2.35, both the current releases, now backported for Buster.
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MystiQ is working nicely in Buster, thank you. I just put in a feature request on their GitHub asking to be able to save custom presets.
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Strawberry updated to 0.6.9 for Stretch thru Sid.

OBS-Studio 25.0.3 backported to Buster.
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Strawberry installed in both Buster and siduction. All good! 8)
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Thanks for the report!

SMPlayer updated to 20.04.2 for Jessie through Sid.
OBS-studio updated to 25.0.8 for Buster through Sid.
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What's the difference between your VLC and the Buster one, Steve? The Buster version has just leapfrogged yours with a security update - 3.0.10-0+deb10u1
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What's the difference between your VLC and the Buster one, Steve? The Buster version has just leapfrogged yours with a security update - 3.0.10-0+deb10u1
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What's the difference between your VLC and the Buster one, Steve? The Buster version has just leapfrogged yours with a security update - 3.0.10-0+deb10u1
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#299 Post by stevepusser »

Buster's 3.10 works fine on my MX 19 "AHS" system, even the va-api acceleration, so I'd say go with that. I'll see about backporting it to MX 17 and Stretch in the OBS repo, though.
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stevepusser wrote:Buster's 3.10 works fine on my MX 19 "AHS" system, even the va-api acceleration, so I'd say go with that. I'll see about backporting it to MX 17 and Stretch in the OBS repo, though.
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