Creator: Yihui Xiong The red szenario – Using ALSA without any sound server – Just one source per sink is
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What is a shell?
The shell provides the user a way to interact with the OS. It’s called shell, because it’s the outermost layer
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Windows You always have to create a totally new process via a CreateProcess(…) call. Linux You can either just copy
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Since C++11 we can now use move semantics (move constructor, move assignment operator). They provide a perfomance boost over copy
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Video compressing normally happens directly by the codec itself. It is realized based on two main strategies. They are called
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Sorry, but that is (nearly always) bullshit! It’s only possible if you remove unused parts like audio channels or subtitles
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Full Tunnel All your traffic get send to the VPN server and if you aren’t requesting a server in its
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Baseline – Gets loaded from the top to the bottom – The default setting Loading process (Illustration) 33% 66% 100%
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That problem occurs if the moov atom is at the end of the MP4 container. It contains necessary metadata for
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Depending on the value of the following registry key Windows caches the last X numbers of logins. This makes it
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