encoder-benchmark VS pywal

The sunshine project also got me curious in video encoding. I wanted to learn more about how to benchmark encoder performance and I discovered the encoder-benchmark. I noticed a small issue on linux that prevented the calculation of VMAF scores. Fortunately it was a simple fix. The filetime method didnt work on Linux, so I replaced the method with a cross platform one. I wasn't familiar with rust, so the concept of ownership confused me at first. I also noticed ffmpeg would hang forever when it times out. I added retry logic and timeout detection to ensure the permutor-cli runs to completion. Since there was no official linux support, I decided to contribute to the Arch User Reposititory (AUR). I have published a git and non-git version. The git version pulls the latest from main at the time of building. The not-git version pulls the current git tag.

I have a tool I've developed to help make this research process a lot more automated: https://github.com/Proryanator/encoder-benchmark just added support for Intel AV1, with Nvidia on the way soon.

https://github.com/Proryanator/encoder-benchmark/releases/tag/v0.5.2-alpha this version has logic to catch whether your local networking stuff for collecting stats hangs and should fail now.

pywal is used to get the colorscheme from my wallpaper for my browser and terminal. left: neovim, top right: qutebrowser, bottom right: cava

I am on Arch Linux and I am using pywal to generate a colour palette from my wallpaper, which I then use throughout my system. In particular, i have a bash script which grabs these colours and uses them for polybar. The problem is that sometimes these colours do not have enough contrast, and the bar is hard to read. Is there any tool that would allow me to check the readability of my colours, and modify them accordingly, directly from my script? If not, how should I be approaching this issue?

pywal and a pretty desktop background. Just don't tell unixporn that you took the easy route.

Have you tested https://github.com/dylanaraps/pywal on its own?

There’s a program called pywal that has pretty decent instructions on getting the themes it generates to be used by various programs. pywal GitHub repo. Check out the wiki on that page.

I'd definitely look into pywal for that, it's like a colorscheme manager that fills in templates (some already implemented but it also supports user templates) from either a color scheme you define or by color picking an image

pywal also has its own themes. https://github.com/dylanaraps/pywal

pywal and wpgtk would be nice for desktop theming!