tech and other interesting stuff
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 video clip: I’ve been looking into this as it was suggested that my proposed fix of letting the user specify an offset amount was more of a workaround of the […]
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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 seem likely that the PR will be accepted in its current form. Background & Part 1 There’s a general overview here: As you can see from what I previously wrote […]
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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 is not shown at the same place as in the input- it’s offset., further down and further right than it should be. This gets worse the further away from the […]
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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, based on the dive into the source code I’ve done over the last day or so. Explaining things makes you lay things out logically, and helps one’s own understanding. However, […]
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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 Mare Nostrum achievement (“Restore the Roman Empire and own the entire Mediterranean and Black Sea coast lines.“). It was good fun! I had uploaded some videos to the playlist but […]
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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 for ‘ease’ of watching- psychologically, I am to an extent put off by seeing a video that runs to multiple hours. I also think there’s an advantage to coming back, […]
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Pass me the yellow highlighter I have talked about how Blender’s Video Sequence Editor (VSE) is pretty useful for editing conference videos (for example) compared to how it used it to be. As an aside, I seem to remember audio desynchronisation was a particularly problematic issue, the workaround being, essentially, don’t make videos with audio […]
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blOenBdeSr Virtual conferences are popular, but many request a pre-prepared video to explain a paper or a poster. Many conferences suggest using Zoom as means of putting together a short video to explain research. This is acceptable, but with a little bit of setup OBS can produce videos which are better quality and give the […]
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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 itself was worth posting, but I like to have the speech captioned. I’ve previously written a small script to generate the appropriate transparent PNGs for overlaying, but that was for […]
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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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