BentiGorlich

I recently switched to an AMD GPU and VA-API is the only option for hardware acceleration on linux that is viable. But Handbrake does not support it and it doesn't seem like it will in the foreseeable future, so I am looking for an alternative. Ideally it is just an ffmpeg GUI, but I did not find any that are:

• actually compatible with linux
• updated in the last 5 years
• have an option vor h264_vaapi or hevc_vaapi video codecs

Another workflow I thought about that is not working is transcoding the video, but copy all audio and subtitles and let handbrake handle that, however Handbrake has no option to just copy the video stream...

So far I have tried:

• ffmpeg_batch: wouldn't use my local version of ffmpeg, because of some path error, only works through wine
• qwinff: got it building, but no VA-API codec, and no mkv output support (over 10 years old)
• Shutter Encoder: only works through wine, font problems, no va-api support
• Avidemux: takes forever to open a video clip, more of a video editor, no va-api support
• Hybrid: know it from my windows days, clunky UI, no va-api support, but best candidate for me right now as I could use it to just copy video and handle audio and subtitles in here
• StaxRip: the .7z file could not be extracted, I just got an error

Any ideas or suggestions?

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I have been using the "Teams For Linux" flathub app for a few days and at first I celebrated, because I could finally use teams without major workarounds and so that it just works. However today it decided to crash my audio device after about 20 minutes and it did so consistently... It crashes it so hard, that I need to restart my system every time it occurrs...

Things that do not work to get my audio back up and running:

• restarting pipewire service with systemctl --user restart pipewire.service
• restarting pipewire-pulse with systemctl --user restart pipewire-pulse.service
• restarting alsa with sudo alsactl -F restore
• relogging
• unplugging USB

I am using Fedora 41 and my audio interface is the Motu M2

As far as I can tell the audio is just broken beyond repair and I have no idea why. I've always had audio problems on linux, but never to this degree. Maybe I have to try another distro, but I actually don't really want to. It is just super annoying and if anyone has an idea how to fix this mess I will try it and hope that it works :D

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Does anyone know whether Fennec should support push notifications?

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I am running Fedora 39 right now and the last time I did a distro upgrade my graphics drivers were a huge PITA. Did your upgrade to 40 went smooth?

Hello everyone, I have a weird problem with my mouse: when I switch the window focus, e.g. by alt tabbing to another window, or by closing a window, and the newly focused window is on my other monitor my mouse will jump to that monitor without me doing anything. It is not a deal breaker or something, but it is very annoying...

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I looked in my control center for mouse options, but they are very much limited

Mozilla Firefox should gear up as an excellent option for power users and productivity enthusiasts with this feature.

I would be so happy if this feature makes it into Firefox this year

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