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ASUS CU4K30 and OBS audio drift / sync FIX

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To help explain how this may help you, this is my setup. PlayStation 5 Sony XH90 TV ASUS CU4K30 PC Steelseries Arctis 7P+ Wireless USB headset The PlayStation 5 is connected to the ASUS CU4K30 capture device which is connected to my PC via a USB cable, and TV via a HDMI cable (PS5 passthrough etc). I then use OBS to record my game play to my PC. I do not stream my gameplay to a service such as twitch. My USB headset is connected to my PC. The problem with OBS With OBS typically after 1 hour of recording the audio in the recording will be out of sync with the video. It also seems the severity of the audio desync progressively gets worse over time. For example, in a 3 hour recording the audio is way more out of sync with the video towards the end of the recording. The only time I become aware of the audio sync issue is when playing back the video file. I have seen various ways of attempting to fix this on the internet and they all fail to work ranging from disabling buffering on the capt...

Latest Ubuntu AMD GPU drivers for Linux

Available at: https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/latest/ubuntu/

PlayStation 5 and Bandicam - Optimising GPU load when using ASUS CU4K30

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I posted this on the Bandicam forum, copying here as it is useful to know. Feedback / Suggestion - Optimise GPU load HDMI Capture Device window Quote Sat Jun 18, 2022 2:36 am Hello Team Bandicam! Thank you for Bandicam. I currently use Bandicam to record my PS5 gameplay along with an ASUS CU4K30 HDMI capture device, it works well without issue. I do not use the Bandicam HDMI capture window to view and play my PS5, I simply hide the window and switch over to my PS5 HDMI port on my screen. However, out of curiosity I was looking at GPU load when the HDMI capture window is hidden and I feel Bandicam could be better optimised to reduce GPU load when the HDMI capture window is hidden and recording. I will demonstrate my findings with screenshots. In the first screenshot, I have Bandicam open, and task manager shows the GPU load at 0%. In the seco...

Playing 4K videos in Windows 10 with NVIDIA hardware decoding and low CPU utilisation

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If the playback of 4K videos is causing your processor fans to spin themselves to bits or the quality of the playback is an annoyingly inconsistent frame skipping mess, this may help you. The default Windows movie player app and alternatives like VLC and smplayer can play videos with hardware decoding but I frequently have playback issues. In search of something that works and is simple, say hello to  mpv.io  a free, open source, and cross-platform media player. Using MPV to playback 4K videos has provided me with the smoothest viewing experience compared to anything I have ever used but there is one small catch. Out of the box it defaults to software decoding (using your CPU), so you need to configure it to take advantage of hardware decoding, i.e, nvidia NVENC. Go to the options and tick a few boxes? Unfortunately not, you have to configure it by way of a text file named mpv.conf. Realistically all this means is using notepad to type a few characters... or since you are here...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - How to improve the sound quality

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If you notice the sound quality when playing a youtube video sounds off and not as good as Windows, I recommend you modify some PulseAudio settings by editing a configuration file with a text editor of your choice, sudo powers required. The file in question is is /etc/pulse/daemon.conf Look for the setting below, ; resample-method = speex-float-1 Uncomment the line by deleting the ; and change the default value from speex-float-1 to sox-vhq. resample-method = soxr-vhq I would also recommend the following, default-sample-rate = 48000 alternate-sample-rate = 48000 Explaining it in more detail No doubt you have seen this recommendation all over the internet. By default Ubuntu 20.04 LTS will set your sound device to run with a sample rate of 48KHz. This is where the setting 'default-sample-rate = 48000' comes in. When you watch a video on youtube through your browser, the audio sample rate from youtube is 44.1KHz (because that is what youtube encodes audio at). Ideally the 'alt...

Playstation 5 - Certified Compatible NVMe SSD's with Heatsinks

For those who are not interested in messing about, your best NVME's for the PlayStation 5 are from Seagate and Western Digital with heatsinks attached. Seagate FireCuda 530 500GB ZP500GM30023  Seagate FireCuda 530 1TB ZP1000GM30023  Seagate FireCuda 530 2TB ZP2000GM30023  Seagate FireCuda 530 4TB ZP4000GM30023  Western Digital SN850 500GB WDS500G1XHE-00AFY0  Western Digital SN850 1TB WDS100T1XHE-00AFY0  Western Digital SN850 2TB WDS200T1XHE-00AFY0

BIOSTAR Z97Z7 Bios Update - Fix Windows 10 Intel Management Engine Driver Crash

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Its an issue many Intel Z97 motherboards are experiencing and my BIOSTAR Z97Z7 is no exception. I've been disappointed for a while that I was unable to update Windows 10 beyond version 1909 as this would cause a BSOD as soon as the Intel IEMI (Intel Engine Management Interface) driver was installed. Despite being released in 2014 my BIOSTAR Z97Z7 with an Intel 4790K is still working well, so the thought of upgrading just to have Windows 10 on the latest version does not appeal to me at all. However, out of luck I went to BIOSTAR's support page for my Z97Z7 and saw the following, A BIOS update Z97BFB05.BST, dated 2020-11-05 with the description Improved WIN10 compatibility (Beta). So I decided to update my old but still going strong Z97Z7 and I can now use Windows 10 20H2 without any BSOD after the Intel IEMI driver is installed. BIOSTAR have never been known to me as a company that supports their motherboards with BIOS updates when compared to MSI or ASUS, it is very nice to ...