But is this problem a problem just at the personal level? The big problem lies at a societal level. And does it then help that a few computer hackers are informed enough to make an important (and crippling) technical decision?
The problem at the societal level is that people prefer convenience to security. The number of people that would forget their password, lose their entire message history, and blame Apple for it is huge. If you have everything end-to-end encrypted, that's the support burden you're looking at, and it's absolutely nontrivial.
Alright, I've heard you and everyone else (many people) on this thread asking about a Ff version. I will make an issue now and seriously consider it. Investigations begin!
Also, an update on the binaries. I just pushed a new set of binaries, and tested the linux and windows ones worked. Hopefully that should resolve the binary issues people were having, but I'm pretty scared some people will still have issues. If you do, please report them, ideally as an issue.
One big issue with DaVinci Resolve on Linux, is the fact that it doesn't support h264, and you need to transcode all your files to a supported format, before using them.
2. This requires ~2x time and disk space, given that most end-user cameras record H.264/H.265
By the way, they chose to cripple it by making these codecs premium-only features on Linux only: https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/SupportNotes/DaVinci_... Their excuse for not having H.264 is an outright lie, because Cisco has already paid the royalties for all binary users of OpenH264 on any OS. Furthermore, even if you buy their premium version, the only option to encode to H.264/H.265 on Linux is NVENC, which is inferior to CPU encoders and requires you to own an Nvidia card.
Only the free version doesn't support h264. If you get the paid version, you get h264 support. My understanding is that this is not BM's fault, simply the way license agreements for that codec work.
Vivaldi browser also doesnt ship codecs. They simply use whatever is available in the system. Means they might be the only browser that crashes when trying to play video in Windows N. But even they are able to use ffmpeg codecs installed in Linux.
I venture a guess DaVinci Resolve not using already installed codecs is either one of the ways to generate sales, or result of strong arming by MPEG LA.
That's totally on them and is plainly wrong. They can simply use OpenH264 to load H.264 videos, but they choose not to.
Cisco paid for all H.264 royalties on any platform (under the condition that you use their binaries) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenH264 And this was back in 2013.
Just as a warning, there are a myriad of issues on linux. I took the time to dissect an entire video some fellow did on the topic, because he framed it as being linux's fault and not his or Blackmagics. (him for lack of troubleshooting and blackmagics for some dev mistakes on the linux version)
Bottom line is be willing to play around with your DE/WM to get Resolve working well in linux. If you do that it can be a much nicer experience.
I just stick to shotcut myself, as a gpl-type person.
> I just stick to shotcut myself, as a gpl-type person.
There is just no comparison, feature-richness-wise. Shotcut is a toy compared to Resolve.
> there are a myriad of issues on linux
YMMV. I had installations that had 0 problems installing or running Resolve on Linux (with NVIDIA card, that's probably the most supported form of hardware for Resolve.)
I take that you've never actually tried using it on Linux. The free version is pretty much the worst free video editor on Linux.
Both the free and premium versions are heavily crippled with virtually all common encoders and decoders either restricted or totally unavailable.
It also doesn't even start unless you have an Nvidia card and use closed source proprietary drivers. Despite all the users (paid or unpaid) reporting the issues on Intel and AMD, they just ignore them. And even if they fix those issues, H.264/H.265 encoding (premium-only) is only possible with NVENC with no CPU encoding alternative.
Well, is it any better than Adobe's bs h264 encoder which is visibly worse at the same bitrate than any open source solution? What good does it do to include an encoder if it can only do bad quality? (Where does all that subscription money even going, Adobe? Adding more bugs and bad quality code?) We'll have to re-encode everything after the Adobe step anyway... (Also Adobe doesn't support Linux at all of course, so it's hard to compare there already...)
I mentioned two things: (1) the bigger issue, h264 decoder, Cisco already paid royalties for OpenH264 (when linked to their binary) so they simply have no real excuse for not having H264 decoding on Linux (2) lack of CPU encoder on Linux (it's not clear to me why you're bringing up Adobe since it has nothing to do with encoding on Linux), x264 is the gold standard for encoding H.264. NVENC isn't. The x264 binary can be shipped with proprietary products and they also offer a licensing option for linked usage. Similar comparison (NVENC vs x265) goes for H.265.
You are right, I guess they could make a better product. My point was that BM is still the company (maybe even the only one?) that gives most to Linux world, of all the big media software companies. A free version of an editor of the top tier that is Resolve, supported (!) on some version of Linux, is just unheard of.
My other point was to show that other comparable companies are also having issues with encoding output, that this aspect is not always taken seriously for some reason.
And yes, NVENC sucks and AFAIK it is impossible to configure it to produce the same resulting quality (per Mbps) of encoding than what is possible x264/x265, regardless of whether one wants to sacrifice encoding time or not.
Hai there, ¬unicornporn (forgive the dad joke, por favor). Indeed, life is, nomad. ^‿^
Perhaps it is one of your names? Well, whoever you are, it's my honor. And, for the record, maybe you already have spoken with me, for all I know.
I am, sadly, absurdly slow in my letter-writing (it's downright shameful), and I don't want to disappoint any further than I probably already have. I will continue to work on that front. But, I am also happy to piece together a faster channel. I think we have an enormous amount in common.
As to this account, I have run into it a few times (this is my second time through your account), but I've been too shy to say anything. You are quite a beacon on this forum.
It is very rare for me to speak with my voice to anyone who isn't basically family or in my physical proximity (and even then, I'm often quiet). However, for an irrational reason I can't quite put my finger on, I have a good feeling about you. If you are ever up for it, I would gladly speak in voicechat with you.
I wish I could make one of those blushing emojis. We live in unicode times after all?
Voice sounds great, but English is not my native tongue and you'll probably be disappointed if you expect me to be well articulated in audio. I write English every day, but I speak English about twice a year. Hence, my English mind moves slower than my fingers dance across my mechanical keyboard.
End of disclaimer. I will contact you by other means and many years from now, when someone asks how we me met, we'll just give them this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25006561
As a bonus, enabling Timestretch [1], then adjusting playback speed [2] gets you up to 2.5x playback without affecting the pitch of the speakers' voices (i.e. no Alvin and the Chipmunks).
I'm still using the original Clip I got back in 2008. It's not supported by Rockbox, but I'm perfectly happy with the last official firmware. The OLED has deteriorated, but it's still fine indoors (it was almost impossible to read outdoors from the get-go).
The battery lasted around 14 hours when it was new, now I'm getting roughly half of that. I seem to remember someone on the now defunct anythingbutipod.com replacing the battery, although they had to break the player apart to get inside.
Even the damn plastic clip on the back still works!
They must've made the headphone jacks sturdier on the original model. Both the Zip and Plus had the same loose jack issue for me after a while.
On my third one now which is beginning to show the same issues but the prices have gone up to the point I'll try and repair the jack on an old one instead of buy a new one. Doesn't look too hard beyond the prising open part, which from what I gather is a bit tricky given the size and how well bound it is
Battery has basically never died on me, the amount of charge it gets whenever I remember to connect it to add some new podcasts seems to just make it last forever.
Be careful - currently available Sansa Clip Jam and Sansa Clip Sport are not supported by Rockbox firmware. Supported versions are Sansa Clip+ and Sansa Clip Zip (and some even older models).
Killer feature of Rockbox for me is possibility to change playback speed while maintaining original pitch. As most audiobooks and podcasts I prefer to listen on 120-130% speed.
Automatic bookmarks, which is very useful for podcasts. The file automatically continues where you left off last time. Oh, and you can also play DOOM on it of course!
The original firmware also supports resuming from the last played position in podcasts and audiobooks. Whenever you select a partially listened item, you get a prompt to continue from the last point or start from the beginning. It's really handy and honestly I couldn't live without it.
There's a simple binary database in the root folder that keeps this information, but it gets reset whenever you add/remove files. Now that I think about it, it might even be possible to backup that info and restore it afterwards, although I never really needed to do that. I don't usually have more than a couple books/podcasts in progress, so it's easy to remember where I left off, if needed.
I can vouch for the Sansa clip. I used one heavily, years ago for this exact purpose. Mostly only podcast listening. Very small & lightweight, long battery life.
Was unaware of the Rockbox firmware, looks interesting.
Finnish belongs to a language group[1] that consists of just two other languages (Estonian and Hungarian). It's quite literally like nothing else.
Living in a neighboring country I understand nothing of Finnish. Spanish, Italian, French — I can make some sense out of it without knowing the languages.
I must however add that I've witnessed, more than a handful of times, English speaking knowledge workers moving to Sweden who continue speaking English and only English for years and years.
It comes with a social price though. You will never quite understand all the social codes or become a part of the social fabric. At many parties and dinners I've seen the whole group having to switch to English because there's someone in the group who has lived here for five or ten years and still haven't gotten around even attempting to speak Swedish. Everyone will switch but but it will be a different night, without all the nuances we usually enjoy. In the end everyone loses.
If you plan to stay, do everything to learn the language. You will be happier person in your new country.
That is slightly incorrect.
There are a bunch of languages in the Russian Federation/Scandinavian Peninsula that are very close to Finnish. Much closer than Hungarian itself:
But is this problem a problem just at the personal level? The big problem lies at a societal level. And does it then help that a few computer hackers are informed enough to make an important (and crippling) technical decision?