stankmut

10.9.0 is the latest. It just launched a day or two ago.

It’s supposed to be hardware transcoding with on an Intel cpu (using vaapi) . No idea if it’s actually working.

I have this issue whenever I have to deal with transcoding. The stream will usually die after a few minutes of watching. I haven’t seen anything out of the ordinary in the logs. I’ve just resigned myself to lugging around the device I have that can direct stream the files.

When looking for media online, you pretty much just need a good adblocker and the sense not to run any random executables.

The media files themselves are very unlikely to have malware attached. They would need to exploit a bug in the specific video player you are using and then exploit another bug in your OS to get admin privileges before doing any real damage. It’s pretty much just theoretical. Keep your stuff up to date and don’t worry about it.

Newer generations have decoders/encoders for more codecs. 8th gen Intel Core cpus have good HEVC support while you need the more recent gens for good AV1 support.