Hi everyone,

Yesterday, I began working on writing code to encode video files to AV1 in a distributed computing fashion using my private BOINC server. I wrote some PHP code and developed a Windows Forms software that will submit the video files to the distributed computing server so that it can send jobs to connected machines.

Hi everyone,

Today, I'll show you the steps to download ffmpeg for the rav1e_gui encoding tool, which requires this to pre-process and post-process video files when encoding them to the new AV1 video format.

Below are the steps:

1. Navigate to https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/
   

Hi everyone,

Today, I'll show you the steps to download ffmpeg in your Windows machine. This is needed for tools like rav1e_gui, which uses ffmpeg to pre-process and post-process video files when encoding them to the new AV1 video format.

Below are the steps:

1. Navigate to https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/
   

Hi everyone,

Today, I've been performing some AV1 encoding tests using the rav1e encoder.

You need an AV1-compatible web browser to see the videos below.

Hi everyone,

Today, I'll show you how to install Rust on Windows. The steps are very easy!

1. First, navigate to https://rustup.rs/:
   

2. Click the "rustup-init.exe" link and save the installer:
   

3. Click "Run":
   

Hi everyone,

Today, I want to tell you how to enable Gridcoin's RPC protocol to use apps like Gridcoin Remote on Android phones. This allows you to check stuff like your Gridcoin balance, magnitude, CPID, and more!

Here's how you can enable it. There are 2 options:

Hi everyone,

Today, I'm sharing a picture of a failed Seagate 5TB Hard Disk Drive. This model is ST5000DM000. This is how it looks internally:

The drive failed prematurely. It looks good. The heads are parked correctly, and it spins up. The problem seems to be in the firmware are of the disk, as it seems to seek but after that, it does a 5 soft clicks before the SATA to USB adapter begins to blink. This HDD was taken out of the external enclosure and was from the Seagate Expansion series.

Hi everyone,

In today's post, I'll be sharing some pictures of my shucked Western Digital 8TB My Book External Hard Disk Drive.

I got this hard drive as I've already had 2 other Seagate Hard Drives fail and needed another drive. I changed brands to Western Digital as I've been having a bad luck with Seagate lately.

Here's the drive's box:

The drive outside of the box:

Hi everyone,

Today, I bring you a new version of opusenc.exe, using libopus 1.3-rc2-2-ga8e2a2b1-dirty:

This version brings the changes performed up to today's commit, but I also upped the Speex Resampler quality from 5 to 10, as you can see in the following image:

As usual, I'm encoding my files using the latest commit.