Tech Over Tea - #88.5 2 Hours Of Recordings Lost Forever

Starting point is 00:00:00 Good morning, good day, good evening. I am as always your host, Brodie Robertson, and today should have been episode 89, but it's not. And there's a very good reason why it's not, and that's because we had some severe technical difficulties that don't seem to be cleaning up as I would like. I thought they were related to the Zen kernel, but they don't seem to be. It seems like I'm having just general recording issues. It seems like they are exacerbated on the Zen kernel, but there's still being issues here. So before I go too long down that tangent, I'm going to just show you what the original audio actually sounds like. Let's actually go see. So that should be this one.

Starting point is 00:00:51 Good morning, good day, good evening. I am as always your host, Brodie Robertson, and today we are back for episode 89 of Tech of a T. And recently I have been heavily fueling my- Like, it's, you can listen to it. I fuck with Fantasy 14 addiction. You can listen to it. But for whatever reason, I'm pitched down. I don't understand why.

Starting point is 00:01:16 Uh, the audio is cutting for some reason, which doesn't make any sense. And all around, it's just not a good experience. I've also been having issues related to the Zen kernel and v402 loopback with my camera loopback where it sometimes just doesn't work but then other days it works like I will reboot my system and it's not working yet, but the next day it's working fine. I change literally nothing on my system and it just starts working and I don't know why. So

Starting point is 00:01:58 Yeah, this this week's episode is going to be missing. If people really want to listen to it, I guess I can upload it. But I'm going to upload it with like, you know, a very obvious title saying like, do not listen to this. The audio is busted. But as it stands, I'm just not going to at all. I don't want to sit down and record another two hours of the podcast. I just do not feel like it after losing the entire recording.

Starting point is 00:02:28 There are ways that I can avoid this in the future. And I'm going to be looking into some things as I go. One way I could try it is I could have a... As I'm recording, basically doing a private live stream. And then download the live stream after it's finished. that's an option, or an unlisted live stream, unlisted makes it easier to download through, uh, through, like, YT DLP, for example, but you can do it through private, it's just more of a pain in the ass, maybe I'll do that, uh, maybe, what I'm, I want to, thinking of doing, and what I'm probably going to do

Starting point is 00:03:06 at least for now is record the podcast in segments. So, I'll do like, you know, 30, probably 30 minute segments seems pretty sensible. And every time a segment is over, I will just cut them together, or

Starting point is 00:03:21 glue them together, whatever, at the end of, when I get into the editing process. That's probably what I'm going to do. That seems like the easiest thing to do. It sort of was only a matter of time before I finally got burned with something in my recording setup. I don't know why it happened now. As I said, I have my theories that it might be related to the Zen kernel, but I'm not certain, it's just that ever since I started using the Zen kernel, a lot of these OBS problems have sort of been cropping up, so I think that the Zen, like, it's not consistently bad, but I think that the Zen kernel might just have some issues when it comes to... I've read this before, some issues when it comes to high IO stuff and recording video, well that pretty much fits the bill for that.

Starting point is 00:04:18 So I'll do... I'm gonna be doing my video on the Zen kernel. I'm still gonna be doing that, but I'm probably gonna just run the standard kernel from now on, just to avoid any, any extra problems that may arise from Zen. And yeah, that's, that's, that's my goal at this point. I'll do my gaming benchmarks, all of that sort of stuff, but I don't think I'm going to be running Zen going forward. Maybe I'll try out one of the other kernels or something like that, but yeah,

Starting point is 00:04:52 I'm probably going to stick with the standard kernel. It seems like the only one that's consistently working well for what I'm doing. Maybe like the LTS kernel would be basically the same as well, but I don't think that like the benefits of Xen are really going to make sense. So like my idea is if I need to swap kernels to go in like get some extra performance from my game and then when I do videos I'm just gonna use the standard. At the end of the day, like you can argue all you want about oh you shouldn't be using it in like the first place. If I have to swap my kernels I might as well just go play the game on Windows because once it's

Starting point is 00:05:36 installed it's the exact same amount of effort to swap between a kernel and swap between an operating system. So like the game wasn't performing badly on the standard kernel anyway. I just wanted to see what it was going to be like running the Zen kernel. And from my experience, like, there's been a bit of a performance increase, but nothing where I can really justify sometimes videos just not getting recorded properly. Like, that's just not something I can really work with. So, yeah. If you like, like, okay.

Starting point is 00:06:14 I know someone's going to take that out of context. If you like the Zen kernel and you want to use the Zen kernel, go ahead. I don't care what you want to use. That's fine. But these are legitimate issues that I am having. That seem to be related to it. So I will be including them very prominently in my video. Because this is one of the reasons why I'm using the Zen kernel.

Starting point is 00:06:38 Because I want to use it on my system that I also play games on. But the plan going forward is episode I will probably read through episode 89 as like a I'll just call episode 89 again I that's what I'm probably gonna do maybe 89.2 or something I don't know point one whatever I'm gonna call it something then going forward we'll go we'll keep doing the the new plan and hopefully not have any more drastic issues going forward. Otherwise, I guess I'm going to have to make another one of these videos. But I don't want to do that.

Starting point is 00:07:17 Anyway, I ended up talking about some of the topics from the podcast on my gaming stream. So if you want to go watch those and get some of the stuff I want to on my gaming stream, so if you want to go watch those and get some of the stuff I would have talked about anyway, uh, feel free to go check that out, otherwise, you know, just wait until next week and there will be another episode then, hopefully another episode then, unless something else drastically breaks, but I hope not, uh, otherwise I'm gonna have to come up with some sort of solution around it, I hope not. Otherwise, I'm going to have to come up with some sort of solution around it.

Starting point is 00:07:48 But yeah, that's going to be pretty much it for me. If you... I don't know. There's no way you can like this. If you want to see the audio podcast, it's always going to be available as an audio release. Wherever you can find podcasts, like Google Podcasts, iTunes, whatever else you want to use.

Starting point is 00:08:03 There's a direct RSS feed as well. The video version is on YouTube and Odyssey. The main channel, Brodie Robertson, I do Linux videos where I may be trashing the Zen kernel. And then the gaming channel is Brodie Robertson Plays, where I livestream twice a week, upload about five of his YouTube shorts. So that's going to be pretty much it for me. I'm not going to drag this out any longer. So, yeah.

Starting point is 00:08:28 I'm going to get some lunch and enjoy your day. So, I'm out.

Tech Over Tea - #88.5 2 Hours Of Recordings Lost Forever

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