tech and other interesting stuff
check your whitespace A while back I beefed up vim with some plugins, mostly around python programming and one for ledger, or my case the excellent hledger entry. This is all great until something starts conflicting or stops working. For some reason — system update, plugin update, phase of moon changed — I started seeing […]
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Pick a team for me I’ve been known to stream on Twitch, and one of the things I do is a wee informal monthly ‘competition’ to give subscribers something to root for and cheer on. For November’s outing I wanted to assign everyone a team, which is simple enough for me to do using random.org […]
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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 ReadingFrom the Department of Wordy Titles I have a set of tools that I have written to make interacting YouTube simpler, more straightforward, simplifying my workflow. In the state it’s in it roughly looks like: record a bunch of videos upload the files and leave them in place run genjson on them to create a […]
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 ReadingI love it when a plan comes together We’ve been finding a way to automate YouTube uploads using tesseract to OCR frames from Deep Rock Galactic videos to extract metadata used in the video on YouTube. We got to the stage where we have good, useful JSON output that our automated upload tool can work […]
Continue ReadingNearly a working tool! We’ve been using python and tesseract to OCR frames from a video footage of Deep Rock Galactic to extract metadata which we can use for putting the videos on YouTube. Mutators Nearly all of the elements are captured, there’s just the mutators left to capture: warnings and anomalies. These appear in […]
Continue ReadingIn which things aren’t quite as smooth as they seem We’ve been using OCR to extract metadata from Deep Rock Galactic loading and end screens, and we’re at the stage of doing most of that automatically. I was quite pleased with the progress we’ve made. But as so often is the case, I went to […]
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