tech and other interesting stuff
From ‘one-off’ to ‘actually I need to do this again…’ Context My often-talked-about video workflow has a bunch of useful features. For example, if I’ve uploaded a video to YouTube via the web interface (usually on a headless machine via xpra) I have a script which will grab the video id so that the metadata […]
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Poking and prodding at the Windows API Background There is an issue with cursors being rendered offset for DPI-scaled windows in OBS, illustrated in this video clip: I’ve been looking into this as it was suggested that my proposed fix of letting the user specify an offset amount was more of a workaround of the […]
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How do you spell ‘DPI’ ? Summary I was able to find a good place in OBS’ code to fix the issue, but it doesn’t seem likely that the PR will be accepted in its current form. Background & Part 1 There’s a general overview here: As you can see from what I previously wrote […]
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Capture, scaling and output, oh my! Background OBS, the excellent media recording/streaming software has a slightly annoying behaviour for me. The cursor in the output is not shown at the same place as in the input- it’s offset., further down and further right than it should be. This gets worse the further away from the […]
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Pixels all the way down Editor’s, who is also me, note: This was meant to be a somewhat organised overview of how xpra handles pixels, based on the dive into the source code I’ve done over the last day or so. Explaining things makes you lay things out logically, and helps one’s own understanding. However, […]
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Working on the backlog Background Back in the summer of 2019 I streamed a Europa Universalis IV campaign as Aragon, where I went for the Mare Nostrum achievement (“Restore the Roman Empire and own the entire Mediterranean and Black Sea coast lines.“). It was good fun! I had uploaded some videos to the playlist but […]
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Symbols, symbols everywhere Update: thanks to totaam for committing changes that solved the compile issue, this is sorted now! I have been using xpra for what feels like over a decade now, as a ‘screen for GUI applications’. I use still use it as part of my Youtube workflow (covered elsewhere!), so that I can […]
Continue ReadingNot a key?! Context Bob from Root Access ran into this annoyance while installing pixiecore by Dave Anderson, a tool for making PXE (network) booting a cinch. Problem He grabbed the pubkey via curl -L https://packagecloud.io/danderson/pixiecore/gpgkey, saved the output to a file at /usr/share/keyrings/pixiecore-archive-keyring.gpg, and told apt about both the repo and the pubkey: deb […]
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Information is power To process my Subscriber Crown videos for YouTube, I needed a little bit of information. I tend to split up longer videos for ‘ease’ of watching- psychologically, I am to an extent put off by seeing a video that runs to multiple hours. I also think there’s an advantage to coming back, […]
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Muh musics! tl;dr: If you’ve got a music file that you (say) downloaded from YouTube via youtube-dl (for example) and it won’t play in Logitech Media Server, check the sample rate- you may need to convert it to 44.1kHz. This only happens with some players! (eg SB Player) Background I use Logitech Media Server (aka […]
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