tech and other interesting stuff
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 the ffmpeg-user mailing list requires/strongly prefers/only supports current git head. I was doing this as I had some broken AVI files and wondered if they were salvageable: Since it’s been […]
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FoxCam not fully operational Over the last few weeks a family of foxes has been visiting my garden. A friend kindly lent me their Dohiker trail camera. You can see example output above (or here if embeds are disabled). I was interested to see what exactly they were doing in the garden- I’ve seen them […]
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Walking before I run I’m a relative beginner in Blender, having dabbled in the past with different things. I’ve used it to do bits and pieces, like stinger transitions. Having seen a decent simple ‘BRB’ screen on AliMackScot’s stream (Twitch link), so I figured I’d whip up one of my own. Blender is really powerful. […]
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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 I found it interesting that Android would produce another seemingly-unrecoverable video I recorded the grinding out of a tree stump on my phone over the course of half an hour […]
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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 […]
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