tech and other interesting stuff
A TV needs a remote We’ve been putting together an HTPC using a Dell Wyse 3040 thin client PC. The OS, Arch Linux, has been installed along with media applications Kodi and Chromium (to give us Netflix). We also installed Openbox to provide a window manager. Now we need to do a bit of polishing […]
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Make it work more gracefully We’ve been transforming a Dell Wyse 3040 thin client PC into an HTPC using Arch Linux. Last time in Part 2, we got hardware acceleration working so that Kodi and Netflix would play smoothly. Now we want to add a layer of user-friendliness. Switching Media Players In part 2 we […]
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Now make it do stuff In our quest for an HTPC, we previously talked about installing Arch Linux on the Wyse 3040 back in Part 1. Now that we have a functional system that we can boot, we can proceed with making it actually play media. Hardware Video Acceleration First, it’s worthwhile enabling hardware acceleration […]
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Yet another thing ffmpeg can do Streaming a camera to YouTube came up in chat the other day. It’s not something I’ve ever had cause to do, but it seemed interesting so I thought I’d try it out. Prerequisites Streaming to YouTube Live from a phone or tablet is possible from the YT app, but […]
Continue ReadingIt’s a current bug tl;dr: use -lag-in-frames 0 as a workaround for now I have been creating stinger transitions for my stream. These are animated transparent transitions that switch out scenes when at least one frame has no transparency. I’ve been using Blender to create the animations, and ffmpeg to encode the images into a […]
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Making the video editing workload much lighter Shotcut is a Free (GPLv3) cross-platform video editor. I’ve been using it a couple of times lately to put some simple clips together (like sorting the Take 2 copyright claim GTA Online video). I figured I’d use it to take a clip of my friends and I getting […]
Continue ReadingMore ‘exactly what it says on the tin’ A couple weeks ago, I had to renumber some Hunt: Showdown videos in a playlist: Well, now I have another issue. When we started playing Hunt: Showdown, I was publishing the videos a couple a day on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Putting them all out at once […]
Continue ReadingDoing exactly what it says on the tin I’ve been playing Hunt: Showdown with friends recently. With these kids of things I like to stream and record the footage of us playing so that others can share our enjoyment — highs and lows! — and so we can watch them back later. The videos are […]
Continue ReadingFurther automation automation On a few of my Europa Universalis series, I’ve used a quick little python script to do take care of some of the predictable elements of the series — tags, title and video number — and work out a schedule. Having gone through the process of uploading a lot of Dead by […]
Continue ReadingLong ago, I posted the simple way to get a frame of a video using ffmpeg. I’ve been using that technique for a long time. It can be a bit unwieldy for iteratively finding a specific frame, as when using a terminal you have to move the cursor to the time specification. So I wrote […]
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