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Sun evening on the deck with a Maximus

Watched two different worship service streams from our church and gave feedback. We are really learning quickly and improving on all fronts. Not bad for amateurs. Continued to go through the boxes I pulled out of the garage (that will not go back in). Found a bunch of the Admiral’s German teaching books she decided could go away. Went through 50+ coffee mugs/cups from various places I worked. Most will go away. Found a box of “Kinects” and a box of “boys toys” consisting of tractors, disk plows, hay wagons, etc. Repackaged those for the first grandson.

Now on the deck with one of my favorites—a Diamond Crown Maximus. This one was put away in 9/18 and is wonderfully smooth. I lean toward the Sumatra wrapper and this one is done well. Paired with Jameson Irish whiskey (out of Tullamore D.E.W both at home an at my regular liquor store). Not bad, but not as good as Tullamore.

Mr. Punch supervised.

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    4 Gemini

    (5 years ago)

    Great cigar, pulled one of those out of the "Retirement Box Pass".

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    4 garGuyPaulie

    (5 years ago)

    Don't know what your streaming setup is, but we just started about a year ago with our church. I picked up an Elgato HD60 Pro video capture card to install in the A/V computer which has an HDMI line in and an HDMI line out. We have a couple of little handycam's which go into an old video mixer and then from the mixer out to the DVD recorder and the computer (Elgato HDMI IN). We use OBS software for the stream, which allows us to hook it up to any of the popular streaming services. I will say that our old computer was running a 2nd gen Intel-i7 and it couldn't keep up with the encoding, we had some pretty low-quality video going out to the stream with a lot of dropped frames and huge CPU usage. However, I recently put together a new system for the church with an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 processor and I was able to push the stream up to 60FPS at a 1920x1080 resolution and our overall CPU usage while streaming, running Media Shout and recording the stream to the local system tops out at about 28% and no more dropped frames! I am hoping over the course of the next year we can put together the money needed to upgrade the video mixer to the digital HDMI version so we can get rid of all the A/V to HDMI converters and have a clearer quality picture.