Hi everyone, In this post, I’ll detail the steps to download and use ffmpeg with my tools that supports it. Tools that makes use of it are the following: Audio MD5 Checker Exhale GUI MP3 GUI Opus GUI rav1e GUI SVT-AV1 GUI Ffmpeg allows these tools to work with a variety of formats. For example, on Exhale and Opus GUI, it allows a number of formats to be encoded into .opus and xHE-AAC formats. On rav1e and SVT-AV1 GUI, it…
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…
Note: This guide is obsolete.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…
Note: This guide is obsolete.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…
Note: This guide is obsolete.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…
Note: This guide is obsolete.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…
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: 12
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…
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…
Hi everyone, In this post, I’d like to show you how easy it is to connect your Windows software to linux commands and software. As you may know, Windows now includes the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), which allows you to run a bash terminal and execute linux utilites as well as install software from the repository. Now, this is not virtualized. Rather, it uses a compatibility layer which allows it to execute linux tools on Windows. This is not…