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Re: When I back-up .... Coping my Entire Internal HD to an external HD

From "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.os.linux
Subject Re: When I back-up .... Coping my Entire Internal HD to an external HD
Date 2025-03-22 20:34 +0100
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On 2025-03-22 19:00, Paul wrote:
> On Sat, 3/22/2025 10:20 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> On 2025-03-22 14:42, TJ wrote:
>>> On 2025-03-22 09:00, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>>> On 2025-03-22 07:57, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 11:55:34 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On the other hand, I find that TV sets support for playing media is
>>>>>> terrible.
>>>>>
>>>>> Get something like a Kodi box.
>>>>
>>>> Well, the laptop I already have, and would be gathering dust otherwise. Actually, sometimes I run kodi on it.
>>>>
>>>> It is funny, some videos barely run on the laptop using VLC; however, they run fine using kodi.
>>>>
>>>> Even if I recode those videos using ffmpeg, VLC can't play them. Sound is good, video stalls.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Have you tried recoding with Handbrake? It has worked for me in the past.
>>
>> I haven't, but most tools use the same codec libraries.
>>
>> I tried these:
>>
>> time ffmpeg -i Source\ x265\ .mkv \
>>      -map 0 -vf scale=1920:-1  -c:v libx264 -preset slow -crf 22 -tune fastdecode -profile:v baseline  -c:a copy -c:s copy \
>>      Dest\ baseline.mkv
>>
>> time ffmpeg -i Source\ x265\ .mkv \
>>      -map 0 -vf scale=1920:-1  -c:v libx264 -preset slow -crf 22 -tune fastdecode -profile:v main  -c:a copy -c:s copy \
>>      Dest\ -\ main.mkv
>>
>> time ffmpeg -i Source\ x265\ .mkv \
>>      -map 0 -vf scale=1920:-1  -c:v mpeg4 -vtag xvid -qscale:v 3  -c:a copy -c:s copy \
>>      Dest\ xvid.mkv
>>
>>
>> I have trouble when the video uses x265. x264 is fine, so I was trying to encode to x264. VLC on that laptop has trouble with those (I do the recoding in another machine that is powerful).
>>
>>
>> But if kodi can display the video, it is less effort and resources to watch the movies in kodi. It is just curious, as both vlc and kodi link the same libx265.so libraries.
>>
>>
> 
> Take it all the way back to RAW, then re-code it. Then you can
> do bidirectional encoding if you want (for better random seek
> behavior). Or for that matter, re-code with only keyframes,
> high bitrate, and (almost no) compression :-)
> 
> One way to go back to a RAW format, is to store the video frames
> as individual pictures in a folder. I've done that before, as
> part of experimenting with video.
> 
> But don't expect the sound track to stay synchronized. Sound
> only remains synced, if the video track and the audio track
> have the original timestamps. What you will find on practical
> videos, is the sound track speeds up or slows down at random.
> If you use a video editor and attempt to "slide" the
> sound track with respect to the video track, yes, you can
> align the sound at a selected point on the video, but other
> parts of the video are then improperly aligned.

Too much work... If kodi can play them, I'm happy.

Some movies have been encoded for 4K and are huge, though.

> 
> *******
> 
> You can tell the FFMPEG library to use the hardware decoder
> in the iGPU, like the Intel QuickSync encoder/decoder or
> the like. You don't always have to use the software decoder
> for this.
> 
> When you re-code using FFMPEG, you can spec hardware decoding
> on input of the video, then software re-encode with the rest
> of the FFMPEG command. You can even do the entire job
> in hardware (about 10x speedup over software method).
> But since NVENC and NVDEC are not switched on in the
> Linux FFMPEG, you can recompile from source and
> use ./configure to add back NVENC and NVDEC.

The CPU in the desktop machine is AMD, and so is the GPU as well.

If you are curious:

Telcontar:~ # inxi -C -GSaz --za --vs
inxi 3.3.31-00 (2023-11-02)
System:
   Kernel: 6.4.0-150600.23.42-default arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
     v: 7.5.0 clocksource: tsc available: hpet,acpi_pm
     parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-6.4.0-150600.23.42-default
     root=UUID=<filter> resume=/dev/disk/by-label/nvme-swap splash=verbose
     verbose
   Desktop: Xfce v: 4.20.0 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.43 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm
     v: 4.20.0 dm: 1: GDM v: 45.0.1 2: SDDM note: stopped
     Distro: openSUSE Leap 15.6
CPU:
   Info: model: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X socket: AM4 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2
     gen: 3 level: v3 note: check built: 2020-22 process: TSMC n7 (7nm)
     family: 0x17 (23) model-id: 0x71 (113) stepping: 0 microcode: 0x8701034
   Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 tpc: 2 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache:
     L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 3 MiB desc: 6x512 KiB
     L3: 32 MiB desc: 2x16 MiB
   Speed (MHz): avg: 2350 high: 2800 min/max: 2200/4409 boost: enabled
     base/boost: 3800/4400 scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: ondemand
     volts: 1.1 V ext-clock: 100 MHz cores: 1: 2800 2: 2800 3: 2200 4: 2800
     5: 2200 6: 2200 7: 2200 8: 2200 9: 2200 10: 2200 11: 2200 12: 2200
     bogomips: 91203
   Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
   Vulnerabilities: <filter>
Graphics:
   Device-1: AMD Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590]
     vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-4
     code: Arctic Islands process: GF 14nm built: 2016-20 pcie: gen: 3
     speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DVI-D-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2,
     HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 27:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:67df class-ID: 0300
     temp: 37.0 C
   Display: unspecified server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.1
     compositor: xfwm v: 4.20.0 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu
     unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu
     display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
   Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 509x286mm (20.04x11.26")
     s-diag: 584mm (22.99")
   Monitor-1: DVI-D-1 mapped: DVI-D-0 model: Acer H243HX serial: <filter>
     built: 2009 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 92 gamma: 1.2
     size: 531x298mm (20.91x11.73") diag: 604mm (23.8") ratio: 16:9 modes:
     max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
   API: OpenGL v: 4.6 vendor: amd mesa v: 23.3.4 glx-v: 1.4 es-v: 3.2
     direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon RX 580 Series (radeonsi polaris10
     LLVM 17.0.6 DRM 3.57 6.4.0-150600.23.42-default) device-ID: 1002:67df
     memory: 7.81 GiB unified: no
   API: Vulkan v: 1.3.275 layers: 1 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu name: AMD
     Radeon RX 580 Series (RADV POLARIS10) driver: N/A device-ID: 1002:67df
     surfaces: xcb,xlib
   API: EGL Message: EGL data requires eglinfo. Check --recommends.
Telcontar:~ #



> 
> Doing this stuff, is more of a "hobby" than a ten minute
> project :-) All I wanted to learn, is how long would it
> take me to fix a video. My answer to that is
> "book two weeks of your time for it".

Argh!

> 
>     Paul


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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