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An update on the Lenovo Ideapad 3 Slim 3 & other general things

I'm quite happy with the new laptop. I have been using it for creating videos, using as TV, also as current general purpose computer. Overall battery life is good. The dim display does not bother a lot as most of my work has been in-house these days. I have left the OS as it is. With SSD, the startup and shutdown is quite fast. The updates are rolling in and it looks quite stable. But it does conks off once in a while when updates kick off when browser is hogging the system and I have ended up force-powering it off a handful of times. Sucks, but that's windows for you. Anyway so far rest all has worked fine so I'm not tempted to install Linux. Also I don't know if the Radeon Linux drivers will work with whatever video-editing software I can find - maybe OpenShot. Anyway that's for future if Windows croaks on me. Last couple of months I was busy getting the scooter repaired. Ended spending almost about 10K INR. Lots of 25-30K km maintenance, new tyres, some new body ...

gstreamer debugging - gstreamer-debug-viewer

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When debugging gstreamer applications, we have this great tool available. Basically, you can generate gstreamer logs & then view them in visual format using the gstreamer-debug-viewer. The debug-viewer is not available in any package as of now - at least as much as I searched. So you need to build it manually. The process is mentioned at https://developer.ridgerun.com/wiki/index.php?title=How_to_Use_Gstreamer_Debug_Viewer . We will of course copy - paste the important part as links on internet vanish/break all the time. ################################################# How to Use Gstreamer Debug Viewer Contents 1 What is the GStreamer Debug Viewer 2 Installation 2.1 Dependencies 2.1.1 Mac OSX 2.1.2 Ubuntu / Debian Based 2.2 Install 3 Basic Usage 4 Functionality 4.1 Main View 4.2 Filters 4.3 Searching What is the GStreamer Debug Viewer GStreamer Debug Viewer, or gst-debug-viewer, is a GUI tool to ease the process of inspectin...