Too advanced tl;dr: if you have issues and can’t update, you can install the libffi7 package as a temporary workaround After a recent Arch update,… Read More »[workaround] ImportError: libffi.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
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… Read More »Converting Vim Macros to Functions
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… Read More »Fixing OBS Offset Cursor Issue, Part 3 (investigating with Python-C++ interfaces!)
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… Read More »Fixing the OBS Cursor Offset Issue, Part 2
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… Read More »Fixing offset cursor in OBS
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,… Read More »xpra and pixel formats
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… Read More »Getting Aragon Videos Out
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… Read More »xpra compile issue: ‘error: ‘AV_PIX_FMT_VAAPI_MOCO’ undeclared’ (etc)
Not a key?! Context Bob from Root Access ran into this annoyance while installing pixiecore by Dave Anderson, a tool for making PXE (network) booting… Read More »PSA: apt / gpg issue – The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available
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… Read More »Quick Scripts: Summary of Video Directory