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Pi-hole and WireGuard on LXC for Phone Ad-Blocking

Posted on Tuesday, November 17th, 2020Saturday, November 21st, 2020 by Rob Hallam

Ads-B-Gone I’ve been getting some quite obnoxious ads on my phone of late. In the past, I used Pi-hole, which blocks ads on the network level via DNS. By combining this with OpenVPN I had ad-blocking on my OnePlus 3. Things have moved on since then; the machine – a laptop ‘server’ – serving Pi-hole […]

Samsung S10 phones produce broken MP4s without MOOV atoms

Posted on Thursday, October 29th, 2020Thursday, April 15th, 2021 by Rob Hallam

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 […]

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 […]