Choppy playback easy fix with FFmpeg and DNxHD/DNxHR in Material Exchange Format (MXF). Adobe Premiere, Avid Media Composer, and Davinci Resolve can experience choppiness, stuttering, and even crashes. Fix poor performance in H.264, H.265 codecs found in MKV, MP4, FLV, F4V, EVO, ASF, 3GP, 3G2, MOV, and AVI containers. Proxies and optimized media formats are
Ever need to track the performance of your internet connection in a pinch? I did the other day when a customer we installed DIA services for complained of poor performance. I’ve tried many schemes in the past to do this kind of testing and this time I wanted to do something new. I also wanted
I’ve been going nuts with my new Lenovo Yoga 920 latop due to the touch pad zoom sensitivity. I love the laptop but every time I’m scrolling a page the page zooms in and out like crazy. I kept reading online that there is a Device Settings tab in the additional mouse settings panel, but
Ever wonder how people get those cool blow off turbo noises or crackle of their exhaust? How about clear audio from inside the cabin? Today I’m going to teach you how to build your own sound studio in a bag. We’re going to mic up my exhaust, intake/turbo and myself while I drive around. After
I use Autodesk Fusion 360 software for general 3D modeling work such as 3D printing, welding and other fabrication. I was trying to use Fusion 360 to design some new welding projects, primarily a new welding cart and another secret that I’ll reveal later :). However I couldn’t get the software to work today.
I just finished building a really nice Windows 10 home workstation to replace my aging and sluggish 2013 Mac Pro system. I store most of my data on CentOS 7 server with over 40TB of RAID backed storage volumes.
As I knock down the list of stuff to fix around the house I occasionally find more stuff to add to that list. It never seems to go away completely! I found that I had a missing under cabinet light and the wiring was just hanging down exposed. I also didn’t like that the working
I’ve been house shopping for a few months now and recently set my sights on a house in the Bridgeland neighborhood of Cypress, TX. It’s about 10-15 minutes farther away from work, but the best part of this house is the massive garage. The house itself isn’t too bad either!
I’ve decided to stop using the previous template system based on Smarty and Bootstrap. Instead I just went back to WordPress as it’s a lot easier to use. I’m playing around with the theme now and will re-populate the original content from the custom site. I am also exploring some of the caching and content plugins.
Today I ran a workshop with our newest network administrators; Our topic was denial of service mitigation. We currently utilize Arbor Peakflow Threat Management System to detect and scrub inbound attacks. Arbor is a phenomenal system capable of amazing performance. With the right tuning, templates and bandwidth it’s virtually handsfree. However some motivated attackers manage to
