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Downloading ffmpeg for Exhale GUI

Downloading ffmpeg for Exhale GUI

Note: This guide is obsolete. Please refer to the new guide to download ffmpeg by clicking here. Hi everyone, In this post, I’ll guide you through the steps to download ffmpeg and use it in Exhale GUI. This is needed if you want to encode files in formats other than WAV. To download ffmpeg, follow these easy steps: Go to https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/: We will leave everything as is and press the Download Build button: Once downloaded, click on the file:: Navigate…

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Installing Node.js 10.x on Ubuntu Focal (20.04) before the official release

Installing Node.js 10.x on Ubuntu Focal (20.04) before the official release

Hi everyone, Today, I’ll guide you through the steps of installing Node.js 10.x on Ubuntu Focal (20.04) which is stated to be officially released on April 23, 2020. Right now, installing Node.js using the NodeSource Node.js official repositories do not work because they do not support unreleased versions of Ubuntu. You may think of using a previous Ubuntu repository in order to install Node.js, but this will actually not work. This is because Ubuntu 20.04 renamed the Python 2 packages…

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Downloading ffmpeg for SVT-AV1 GUI

Downloading ffmpeg for SVT-AV1 GUI

Note: This guide is obsolete. Please refer to the new guide to download ffmpeg by clicking here. Hi everyone, In this post, I’ll show you how to download ffmpeg to use with SVT-AV1 GUI. FFmpeg is required to extract the video file to .y4m, encode the audio to Opus, and merge both files when the encode is finished. Here are the steps: 1. Navigate to https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/: 2. Select the nightly build which is the first one shown in “Version”. Select…

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Downloading ffmpeg for Audio MD5 Checker

Downloading ffmpeg for Audio MD5 Checker

Note: This guide is obsolete. Please refer to the new guide to download ffmpeg by clicking here. Hi everyone, In this post, I’ll show you how to download ffmpeg to use with Audio MD5 Checker. FFmpeg is required to calculate MD5 audio hashes with Audio MD5 Checker. Here are the steps: 1. Navigate to https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/ 2. Select the nightly build which is the first one shown in “Version”. Select the 64-bit Windows version if you have a 64-bit machine, and…

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Downloading ffmpeg for rav1e GUI

Downloading ffmpeg for rav1e GUI

Note: This guide is obsolete. Please refer to the new guide to download ffmpeg by clicking here. 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/ 2. Select the nightly build which is the first one shown in “Version”. Select the 64-bit Windows version if you have…

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Downloading ffmpeg (General instructions)

Downloading ffmpeg (General instructions)

Note: This guide is obsolete. Please refer to the new guide to download ffmpeg by clicking here. 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/ 2. Select the nightly build which is the first one shown in “Version”. Select the…

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Installing Rust on Windows

Installing Rust on Windows

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”: 4. You’ll be presented a Command-Line window. Type “1” and press enter: 5. Installation will begin: 6. If everything runs as it should, you should see the following: That’s it! Rust is installed! Post Views: 11

How to enable RPC in your Gridcoin Wallet?

How to enable RPC in your Gridcoin Wallet?

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: Option 1: Gridcoin Remote Configuration Tool for Windows Download the Gridcoin Remote Configuration Tool for Windows available in Github. This tool will let you specify the IP Addresses allowed to connect, the Port…

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Rip your Audio CD to Opus using my latest opusenc.exe build with Exact Audio Copy

Rip your Audio CD to Opus using my latest opusenc.exe build with Exact Audio Copy

Hi everyone, Today, I’d like to show you the steps to rip your Audio CD to Opus using Exact Audio Copy and my latest opusenc.exe build. Why use my opusenc.exe build? First, it includes the newly added –tracknumber argument which enables you to easily pass the track number to the opus file. Second, it is not needed to specify the output filename, as it will use the same input name. For Exact Audio Copy, this means that you only need…

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New Gridcoin BOINC Challenge: Cosmology@Home – Installing VirtualBox and configuring the project

New Gridcoin BOINC Challenge: Cosmology@Home – Installing VirtualBox and configuring the project

Hi everyone, Today, a new BOINC challenge for the project Cosmology@Home started. This challenge was issued by Team Gridcoin: I went ahead and added my machines to this project, only to realize I need VirtualBox installed: So in order to crunch tasks for this project, I went to install VirtualBox as well as configure the project. Here I detail you the installation and optional configuration process, which is really simple: Installing VirtualBox 1. First, we go to the VirtualBox Website,…

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