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Turning a Dell Wyse 3040 into an HTPC (Part 4)

Posted on Monday, June 8th, 2020Saturday, November 28th, 2020 by Rob Hallam

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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Turning a Dell Wyse 3040 into an HTPC (Part 3)

Posted on Thursday, June 4th, 2020Saturday, November 28th, 2020 by Rob Hallam

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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Turning a Dell Wyse 3040 into an HTPC (Part 2)

Posted on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2020Saturday, November 28th, 2020 by Rob Hallam

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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Streaming a Phone (or IP) Camera to YouTube

Posted on Thursday, May 28th, 2020Thursday, May 28th, 2020 by Rob Hallam

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 […]

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ffmpeg can cut off the end of a transparent VP9

Posted on Saturday, May 2nd, 2020Saturday, May 2nd, 2020 by Rob Hallam

It’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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Generating Text Captions for Shotcut

Posted on Thursday, February 6th, 2020Thursday, May 21st, 2020 by Rob Hallam

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 […]

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Rescheduling YouTube Videos using Python

Posted on Thursday, January 23rd, 2020Thursday, January 23rd, 2020 by Rob Hallam

More ‘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 […]

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Renumbering Ordered Videos in a YouTube Playlist with Python

Posted on Saturday, January 11th, 2020Thursday, January 23rd, 2020 by Rob Hallam

Doing 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 […]

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Improving Generated JSON Template for YouTube Uploads

Posted on Thursday, December 19th, 2019Tuesday, January 28th, 2020 by Rob Hallam

Further 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 […]

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Quick Hacks: A Script to Extract a Single Image/Frame From Video

Posted on Monday, April 2nd, 2018 by Rob Hallam

Long 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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