I've never seen the 1:a:0 as an arg to -map before, but maybe that's just me following old tutorials.
Does it work if you manually specify which tracks you want? For example: -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -map 1:1 should take the video and audio from the 1st input and just the audio from the 2nd input (assuming each input has video as the 1st track and audio as the 2nd).
Perhaps a paper hilt. It'll trick some people into thinking it's safer but as soon as you begin using it you realise it still has all the same problems as before.
Governments like the UK that insist prohition is a better alternative to harm reduction but continue to profit from poisons like alcohol.
How does one boycott the government? Would I cut up my ID and declare myself a sovereign citizen? As much as I agree with the sentiment, I don't think it's as easy as that haha
Just out of curiosity, I calculated that the article's (War and Peace * 875,000) claim would net you less than 1TB of storage space (~973GB), assuming it was GZipped (and ~3x that if not).
The most concrete number we have is from another article (also on an official Microsoft page) that claims it's upwards of 7TB.
Your question is worded a little strangely and I'm not quite sure what you're asking, so I'll give you some general information instead of directly answering.
HDR is High Dynamic Range, so by definition you will have more colour fidelity by having it enabled (as long as your monitor also supports it).
To my knowledge, the act of grading is to modify colours to appear properly on different screens. This sometimes means reducing the gamut (for example, grading HDR footage into 8bit Rec.709), which of course means less dynamic range.
Here is a screenshot I took when I played Cyberpunk 2077:
It looks a bit bland.
Now take a look at this screenshot I took a moment before, when I had raytracing turned on:
You can immediately see how the sunlight floods the room, making it feel warmer. A slightly less obvious difference is in the windows where you can see the reflections of the screens behind me. This becomes much more apparent when moving around in-game. Generally, the whole scene feels a lot more tied together because the light is bouncing more realistically.
I'll admit, this is a somewhat extreme example. There's a strong light and plenty of reflective surfaces, which is where raytracing really shines. But to imply that there's no difference at all is a bit of a stretch.
If it was listed as Used on eBay then you'll likely be able to get your money back because it's not fully working. If it was listed as Parts or you bought it from a less regulated platform, on your head be it.
As for repair, it depends what's wrong with it. It sounds like some of the switches might be dead, but if they are then you'll want to source replacements, but from where? Do you have any soldering equipment/skills?
It might be a fun repair project if you're into electronics, but if you weren't... then better luck next time.
I just genuinely do not see the difference except in my frame rate.
Perhaps whichever game you tried it in had poorly implemented RT, or maybe when you tried it there were simply not many reflective surfaces around (which is where the most drastic effects of RT are most visible).
In fairness, movies also insult the games industry by nearly constantly portraying gamers as shut-ins who play mindless killing games.
Never once have I seen a casual game like Slime Ranchers or Animal Crossing in a movie. Not that I'm not expecting to, I'm just tired of seeing Generic Shooter #3663749.
Yes, not everything needs to work. But everyone needs the things they want to work, if that makes sense. In other words: everyone has different requirements.
I require SteamVR to run acceptably in order to play VR games on my main computer. I have yet to find a distro that satisfies this requirement, so I must use Windows since it is the only thing that works for that use case.
Conversely, I do not require VR support on my laptop. Everything I want to do with my laptop can be done to an acceptable level with Linux, so I run Linux on my laptop. Simple.
I migrated from Plex to Jellyfin years ago and haven't looked back. It might play better with AMD hardware but I can't say for sure. All I can say is that I spun up a container and it Just Works™
You can get a Mini PC with a modern laptop chip inside it to get the power savings and save some space too. Not only that, but you get the advantage of a potentially more modern chip too. I tried my new setup (Ryzen 5 5560U) with 4K HDR decoding last night and it worked without a hitch.
For general use, Linux is fantastic. But as other people have said, some software only works on other systems. Also, some software does run on Linux, but not acceptably so (for example, SteamVR).
I've never seen the
1:a:0as an arg to-mapbefore, but maybe that's just me following old tutorials.Does it work if you manually specify which tracks you want? For example:
-map 0:0 -map 0:1 -map 1:1should take the video and audio from the 1st input and just the audio from the 2nd input (assuming each input has video as the 1st track and audio as the 2nd).