Fixing offset cursor in OBS
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
troubleshooting
xpra compile issue: ‘error: ‘AV_PIX_FMT_VAAPI_MOCO’ undeclared’ (etc)
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)
PSA: apt / gpg issue – The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available
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
“Unsupported sample-rate”: Logitech Media Server Won’t Play Some Files with SB Player
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… Read More »“Unsupported sample-rate”: Logitech Media Server Won’t Play Some Files with SB Player
Transcribing A Video’s Audio Using Google Cloud Text-to-Speech
Navigating a series of pitfalls Background: I created a highlights video recently for the monthly subscriber crown that I run. I figured the highlights video… Read More »Transcribing A Video’s Audio Using Google Cloud Text-to-Speech
vim flake8/pylint: ‘bad-indentation (found 4 tabs, expected 1)’
check your whitespace Update: For reasons that I forget, I had indent-string=\t in the [FORMAT] section of my user ~/.pylintrc. Since commenting it out seems… Read More »vim flake8/pylint: ‘bad-indentation (found 4 tabs, expected 1)’
ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libavdevice.so.59: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
tl;dr: read the compile guide, and set a PREFIX and / or LD_LIBRARY_PATH I did something I don’t normally do and compiled ffmpeg today, since… Read More »ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libavdevice.so.59: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Samsung S10 phones produce broken MP4s without MOOV atoms
Update 2021-04: There was some discussion of a similar issue over at ffmpeg-user (full thread at nabble). It may not be the same problem, but… Read More »Samsung S10 phones produce broken MP4s without MOOV atoms
[Resolved] Stackable + Reusable Blocks gives “This block has encountered an error and cannot be previewed”
Blocks in blocks in blocks I recently installed Stackable’s “Ultimate Gutenberg Blocks” plugin for WordPress as I wanted a block that could be expanded for… Read More »[Resolved] Stackable + Reusable Blocks gives “This block has encountered an error and cannot be previewed”
Proxmox snapshots: “The current guest configuration does not support taking new snapshots”
Let me snapshot tl;dr: This can happen if you use a storage mechanism that doesn’t support snapshots (see here for more information). However, it seems… Read More »Proxmox snapshots: “The current guest configuration does not support taking new snapshots”