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Having trouble with my container, seems like it's using the incorrect version of the `SvtAv1EncApp` which is really annoying. Went ahead and just slammed the `psyex` version into `/usr/bin` and now everything is happy.
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So Intel have added a so-called On-Die Certifying Authority (ODCA) with ME gen 3 version 15 based platforms.
That is also explained in the recent CSME whitepaper.
I figured that the FTPR CPD manifest contains a new extension now for certificate revocation, including a URL to CRL data.
That extension's data itself is encoded as ASN.1 DER, so I need yet another parser. Uh-oh... which one should I choose, does anyone have recent experiences to share? 🙃
I am checking t…

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So, the last two days of ripping/encoding went well, very happy with the new encoder module and the overall results. The `svt-av1-psyex` encoder did awesome work, and there's nothing like seeing a 6.5GB file get reduced down to 190MB without a noticeable loss of quality.
The last show took about 1.5 to 2 hours to encode per episode, thankful that I had more than one encoder running at the same time. Gonna call everything a success.

One of the things that is interesting doing mass encodes is verifying all of the little things that can just mess everything up. If you're pulling in stuff like 3rd-party subtitles, then you have to verify the timing of the subtitles and adjust as necessary. Even better, if those are SubStation Alpha subtitles, you have to verify if the style fonts get added as attachments to the MKV file.
And if it's across something like a TV show, you definitely need to do this for every e…