TechnoTony Wiki - Tony Tascioglu's personal public knowledge-base! https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/ 2026-04-11T22:49:41+00:00 https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/ https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/_media/wiki/logo.png text/html 2026-01-26T19:41:50+00:00 Tony (technotony@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/scripts/media/apply_eq_directly_in_pipewire?rev=1769456510 Apply Headphone EQ Directly In Pipewire I have DT770m headphones that need EQ to be decent. I used to use easyeffects but it required a lot of extra load. Pipewire already has a native equalizer (or can use LV2/LADSPA plugins). So, it made sense to just do the EQ in pipewire. text/html 2025-12-31T06:06:29+00:00 Tony (tony@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/articles/amd_sunshine_moonlight_h264_vs_h265?rev=1767161189 Comparing AMD GPU Moonlight+Sunshine Streaming Using H264 AVC vs H265 HEVC To my eyes, in certain conditions, H.264 looks better than H.265 when running Sunshine and Moonlight from my desktop to laptop. Desktop is running a R9 7900X with RX 6700 XT. Laptop is a R5 5650U. text/html 2025-11-29T23:01:18+00:00 Tony (tony@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/reviews/agon_ag326ud?rev=1764457278 Tony's OLED and MiniLED review Note - this is going to be relatively unscientific, rather relying on my eyeball and pixel-peeping. If you want colorimeter results, this ain't it chief, So I recently purchased this QD-OLED monitor as I've been wanting to give another go at OLED displays. text/html 2025-09-29T19:06:39+00:00 Tony (technotony@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/scripts/files/setting_up_luks_hard_drive?rev=1759172799 Setting up an encrypted hard drive with LUKS and BTRFS Simple mode, adding to this site to serve as reference for friends. This guide assumes `sda` as the drive letter, and `sda1` as your partition Format the disk sudo cfdisk /dev/sda * choose GPT if you have a MBR vs GPT option text/html 2025-05-31T22:25:27+00:00 Tony (tony@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/scripts/ffmpeg/extract_closed_captions_to_subtitles?rev=1748730327 Extract line 21 / EIA 608 closed captions to subtitle files NOTE: If you are coming here from the Technology Connections video on DVD closed captions, this method will work! Once you convert closed captions to subtitles, it works much better in players! text/html 2025-05-31T09:06:16+00:00 Tony (tony@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/articles/playing_mod_tracker_music?rev=1748682376 Playing .mod tracker music The sound of 16 bit. When programmers made music. From the era when you had CPU power to just play PCM samples. Not enough CPU to decompress a full file, but not enough storage to store a full PCM track. Enter mod/xm3 files. text/html 2025-04-08T08:39:42+00:00 Tony (tony@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/scripts/ffmpeg/dither_video_reduce_colors?rev=1744101582 Dither Video and Reduce Colors Sometimes you need to reduce the number of colors you can use. Typically for gif, but sometimes other reasons. Step 1 - create the palette Example to batch process a bunch of Mp4 files for reducing to 14 colors parallel --ungroup -j16 -q ffmpeg -i "{}" -vf palettegen=max_colors=16 -y "{.}.png" ::: *.mp4 text/html 2025-03-28T02:30:36+00:00 Tony (technotony@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/scripts/media/stream_link_collection?rev=1743129036 Live Links So there are a few types of live links. 1) M3U HLS feeds These are most common these days. You send an m3u or m3u8 playlist file that keeps getting extended with chunks. Each chunk can be .ts or similar. Handles video and audio, useful since you go in chunks and can dynamically switch quality. text/html 2025-03-19T07:04:51+00:00 Tony (tony@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/scripts/useful_programs?rev=1742367891 Useful Programs Here are some sometimes-handy programs: There are many that I don't even need to shout-out, they're quite well known such as youtube-dl, mpv, ffmpeg, vlc, so on. zed it's like vscode but substantially faster at parsing everything. bonus has copilot support and remote sessions like vscode text/html 2025-03-19T06:41:38+00:00 Tony (tony@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/scripts/ffmpeg/av1_hdr_sdr?rev=1742366498 AV1 encoding with HDR to SDR tonemapping and 5.1 to stereo downmixing If you want real surround audio, use Sofa. But that only sounds good with headphones, and I want a 2.0 speaker mix. ffmpeg -i legit_file.mkv -c:v libsvtav1 -crf 34 -preset 2 -threads 4 -g 240 -svtav1-params tune=0:film-grain=10:mbr=3000k -vf 'zscale=t=linear:npl=100,format=gbrpf32le,zscale=p=bt709,tonemap=tonemap=hable:desat=0,zscale=t=bt709:m=bt709:r=tv,format=yuv420p,scale=if(gte(iw\,ih)\,min(1920\,iw)\,-2):if(lt(iw\,ih)\,m… text/html 2025-03-19T06:39:53+00:00 Tony (tony@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/scripts/media/transcribe_video_text_subtitle_speaker_color?rev=1742366393 Transcribe Multi-lingual Video Into Subtitles With Speaker Color Ok I want to do a few things. * I have videos that are english, turkish or mixed. * I want a text transcript and subtitle files * I want to have subtitles colored per speaker *