Brian McKee

I'd have loved if the handhelds were ranked so we could have seen the mental gymnastics to put the psp and the vita in s tier.

I mean come on guys, we're gonna hit the N64 because it uses cartridges but barely gloss over the ps1's horrendous load times and what could be best described as "graphics". But I mean I guess it DID have Bubsy 3d.

55 minutes ago, TheNuzziNuzz said:

What issues have you had with the elgato 4k pro?

I also have a PCIe 3.0 4x USB-C Enclosure, but obviously i'd prefer direct USB.

Issues with drivers, audio stuttering, etc... Any time I'd try to adjust brightness on the incoming video I'd get weird audio problems for some strange reason. Very limited options when it comes to aspect ratios and resolutions. Just not a fan, it's ok if you just want a plug and play option for recording some footage from your xbox I guess.

Just now, TheNuzziNuzz said:

Do you have any suggestions?

This looks like a good alternative to the Elgato Decklink Studio 4k: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1711536-REG/magewell_350600000_usb_fusion_multi_input_usb.html/specs?ap=y&ap=y&smp=y&smp=y&smpm=ba_f2_lar&lsft=BI%3A6879&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwztOwBhD7ARIsAPDKnkD4nYYnC-TXbr6WOr-DbUXz9v_AHB1hu4Z9erz5pMajO3Zx74dy8FgaAk1cEALw_wcB

I unfortunately don't have any recommendations for newer cards or USB ones. All of my equipment are older pcie cards like the E1s or Magewell x4. Only 4k card I own is the elgato 4k pro II and I'm gonna be selling it asap.

Bought my 5900x on ebay used for 150 usd a while back with a few bent pins. If you got AM4 hardware already I'd just look on the used market for CPUs, plenty of deals to be had. Otherwise I struggle to recommend any DDR4 platform since DDR5 is a pretty substantial upgrade moving forward.

Good thing about intel for a 99% web surfing computer is the fact that you can use the iGPU for all of that and be way better in terms of overall powerdraw. Intel's quicksync is truly amazing these days. Not to mention it can be used to stream record game footage to leave better headroom for the GPU, and in my opinion it looks better than AMD's and Nvidia's hardware encoding...

Cool clouds, cool godrays, not in love for the foreground. Seems to me you have some decent rocky outcrops on the right? I feel like perhaps if the composition was adjusted and you boost the shadows you could have a stunner of a photo. Or maybe lean into the clouds more with a longer lens/tighter crop.

I'd just stick with the Nikon 1 for now until you get a decent grasp of the basics and really get a feel for what you need without others telling you what you need. It's very rare that spending more money gets you the results you're expecting if you haven't even gotten a handle of what you already own.

5 minutes ago, TheNuzziNuzz said:

Never heard of datapath either, checking them out now. Thank you so much! So strange that none of these things come up in google searches.

Professional capture cards are a bit different from consumer ones. They tend to have a lot of features and settings the average gamer just doesn't care about.  But even from that standpoint I'd just buy older pro capture cards since they work far better than garbage like elgato's 4k capture pros.

I just want to mention that every keyboard made in the last 4 decades has "anti-ghosting". Anti-Ghosting refers to the design of the keyboard preventing "phantom" or "ghost" keys being pressed. In a keyboard matrix if you were to press the W and Z key for arguments sake, it could perhaps also register a phantom S key or A key. Due to how they gate the presses this doesn't happen. This is why however, without diodes or capacitive switches to tell the keyboard exactly what switches are down, you only get 2 key rollover.

Anti-Ghosting has been often misattributed to mean 6 Key or N-key rollover. And while technically true, is horribly misleading. Even a crappy rubberdome HP keyboard is "anti-ghosting" with its insane 2 key rollover.

It doesn't help that microsoft literally makes shit up on their website about it, perpetuating false information. Though their matrices diagrams are nice.

https://www.microsoft.com/applied-sciences/projects/anti-ghosting

Best analog capture card for the money is a used Datapath E1S. Personally though if you just want footage I'd just buy a game capture HD from ebay for 30-40 bucks and hook it up via composite. It also has the added bonus of having HDMI passthrough of analog sources, so you can use older analog hardware on modern tv sets assuming your TV doesn't mind 240p signals at times. The elgato also has an svideo connector but it's rare to find available.

Elgato is a steaming pile of trash. Magewell is great, extremely flexible software and the customer service is what I'd describe as "acceptable". Best capture cards I've used personally are from datapath, though they're a bit more pricey.

DDU is something you do when you're experiencing issues otherwise unexplainable. I've never really needed it but I've seen it be helpful for very strange problems or performance issues.

5 minutes ago, SImoHayha said:

"Torture" I use bluetooth as we speak for my Controller?  I'll admit you might need a USB extender cable like the ones that are included usually with a wireless mouse/keyboard combo.   No lag, no nothing, it works 100%

in-fact most of my gear is wireless, mouse and keyboard, headphones all work no lag, no issues.

Bluetooth might be wireless but not all wireless is bluetooth. Every bluetooth peripheral I have ever used has had noticeable latency.

1 minute ago, Blue4130 said:

The lowest power one still exceeds the slots power.

He can use the 16x slot with the a310, irrelevant. The a380s are all 2 slotters which is the point of contention here.

Well hardware acceleration is different from the main core obviously, so it's possible it's defective in some way. But the solution to me is the truly bizarre part, I can't think of any reason as to why that'd fix it.

Put it on display. It's what I do with my old GPUs. Either that or make a legacy gaming rig.

The PCIE lanes won't matter for the hardware encoding/transcoding I'm 99% sure.

However, why not consider the sparkle a310? It's single slot unlike the a380 and uses less power.

17 hours ago, SImoHayha said:

1: Literally any controller can be used on PC, PS3,PS4,XBOX1, A-series XBOX controllers are great 3rd party controllers that are cheap. And yes you can make them wireless with just using a bluetooth adapter which is literally 9$.

Haha, if you want to torture yourself, feel free to use bluetooth peripherals. Switching from bluetooth to the official dongle on the xbox controller for example is night and day.

Best video you guys have done in a while. Good job.

25 minutes ago, Middcore said:

 

The PS5 is unironically more of an eyesore to me than this. This is just a black box. It's big, yes, but your eyes slide ride over it. Sony designed the PS5 to draw attention and be difficult to hide in an entertainment center because they have always had this desire to be a "prestige" brand that people will want to show off to impress others.

 

I certainly don't like the PS5 either. I've got the XBreadBin.

1 minute ago, Middcore said:

I would rather have this in my living room than a PS5. 

Even if I were ok with a loud eyesore in my living room, I don't think the others in my house would be.

Giant ugly computer with used components barely matches brand new console in pricing and performance.

Great vid guys.

7 hours ago, OhYou_ said:

Say for example a very simple task of only allow blue circles to pass, how hard is that when you want it to locate the background, and anything that isnt a circle. Then ignore any overlapping blue circles, or ones falling at an angle too. That way you can throw anything else in with the blue circles and as they pass through the imaging zone, ML can pick out every object it determines isnt the background or a blue circle.

it's something I dont think normal computer vision can do

You could sort the pixels of the color you want then use a multi dimensional array to sort groupings of those pixels. You could then determine distance/angle by the amount of pixels and their movement relative to previous frames, or other context clues on environment such as luminosity.

This is a very basic solution to the problem, but your example would be (relatively) trivial to do.

Most of the art world is freelancing, and yes it is still relevant. A contractor is a more professional way of saying freelancer if we're being honest. It's actually very difficult to get on the payroll of any company these days...

For more menial/nonskilled work you're probably gonna have a much harder time. Work will be taken from people who are essentially being exploited.

1 hour ago, Shreyas1 said:

 

could this technology make security cameras obsolete? That would definitely be scary for some. 

 

The implication would be that AI image/video output doesn't have identifiers. We're a very longs way off of creating things indistinguishable from reality. Right now you can only fool people who don't really pay attention.