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ponderingfish

463 karma · joined July 17, 2020

Love video, technology, and music.
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ponderingfish··on Show HN: ScottFish – A simple GA4 analytics dashboard built out of frustration
yes - I seem to have a pagination issue that I am working through. I'll keep you updated. Thank you so much.
ponderingfish··on Show HN: ScottFish – A simple GA4 analytics dashboard built out of frustration
I reverted some of my CSS and I think I've solved the CSS issues for the KPI cards and the datepicker + filter. Hope this improves the experience and thanks for the feedback.
ponderingfish··on Show HN: ScottFish – A simple GA4 analytics dashboard built out of frustration
hi mspehton - thank you so much for logging in and giving it a shot.

1) I haven't tackled this use-case yet - added it to my roadmap. I'll give it a shot tonight itself and hopefully have some working code soon! 2) I'll look into the mobile-view CSS. I made some changes recently and I can see that this has messed up the KPIs and filters.

As a solo dev, I am not sure how to keep UI regressions in check. This is something I need to look into!

Thanks again for your feedback - means a lot!

ponderingfish··on Ask HN: Buy the M1 MacBook Pro or Wait for M2?
I have my eyes on a T490 - I've used ThinkPads in the past, and they are fabulous. I still do love Macs - their build quality is exceptional and the stability of the macOS is something I appreciate. I've never had a Win machine last 5+ years. YMMV
ponderingfish··on Ask HN: Buy the M1 MacBook Pro or Wait for M2?
It sure looks like that ... the lack of ports is a bummer though.
ponderingfish··on Ask HN: Buy the M1 MacBook Pro or Wait for M2?
Unfortunately, the screen has a bad case of staingate and it's very annoying. After all these years, the trackpad has died and some keys. I might just get it repaired to see if I can eek out a few more months/years from it.
ponderingfish··on [dead]
I am not sure if this actually works, but, I've always steered clear of "Learn x in y days" kind of learning.
ponderingfish··on FFmpeg is 20 years old today
THe best video processing and editing tool ever made!
ponderingfish··on Ubuntu Mate
I've tried it and it reminded me of the old Debian using Gnome 2 which I absolutely enjoyed. I ended up using the "MacOS" theme in Mate which comes with useful key-bindings and shortcuts. Plus, it isn't much of a resource hog.
ponderingfish··on Create Vintage Videos Using FFmpeg in 4 Simple Steps
You can reduce its impact by adjusting the opacity while doing the overlay.
ponderingfish··on Create Vintage Videos Using FFmpeg in 4 Simple Steps
Do you mean that they look cartoonish-ly fast or slow? It could come down the frame-rate of the camera used for video capture.
ponderingfish··on Create Vintage Videos Using FFmpeg in 4 Simple Steps
Next weekend's project :) Thanks for the tip!
ponderingfish··on Create Vintage Videos Using FFmpeg in 4 Simple Steps
The last step involves video compression which could take a bit of time depending on the size of the video. If someone can put it on the cloud, I'd love to take a look :)! Cheers!
ponderingfish··on Create Vintage Videos Using FFmpeg in 4 Simple Steps
Nice! I am actually just using my iPhone videos and converting them this way! The output is pretty good and when I shared them with family, they loved it. Thanks for the lens links.
ponderingfish··on Create Vintage Videos Using FFmpeg in 4 Simple Steps
Excellent point. Perhaps, a blurring filter would help with that.
ponderingfish··on Ask HN: Are you depressed?
We are not talking about control here (two toddlers - 1.5 and 4.5 here). We are talking about diaper changes, cooking, feeding, putting to bed, online classes, entertaining them because they can't be outside with kids their own age, tantrums, and usual baby stuff. Doing work full-time and taking care of babies full-time is leading to a lot of depression and loss of concentration on the work-front.
ponderingfish··on Ask HN: Are you depressed?
God - we are all in the same boat. I have a 4.5 and a 1.5 year old. I can work 2-3 hours in the morning and then I have to push all my work to late evening and I stay up till 1 am completing before waking up early to help with cleaning, cooking, and then caring for the kids.

Can't wait for daycare and montessori to re-open :(

ponderingfish··on Ask HN: Are you depressed?
Amen to that.
ponderingfish··on Stack Videos Horizontally, Vertically, in a Grid With FFmpeg
Cropping is the only way I can think of, because, it merges the 4 videos (or how many ever in the stack) into a new video frame.
ponderingfish··on We made our SaaS home page cookie-free
That's hard and I hope they can achieve this strategy!
ponderingfish··on DahliaOS operating system, combining the best of GNU/Linux and Fuchsia OS
Sorry I don't get the USP of this. Can someone explain what's the best of both worlds that is being offered here?

Thanks!

ponderingfish··on EME, CDM, AES, CENC, and Keys – Building Blocks of DRM
Super answer!
ponderingfish··on EME, CDM, AES, CENC, and Keys – Building Blocks of DRM
Exactly - which is why the CDM is a contentious topic because you have no way to see what's inside it. Also, technologies such as HDCP, Trusted Execution Environment prevent the decrypted and decoded frames from being leaked. At least, that's the intention.

And the CDM vendors are Google, MSFT, and Apple. There's no way they are going to leak their code :)

What's really strong is the rotation of decryption keys. Content providers rotate the keys often (at times, in the middle of a movie, and very often during a live stream) to deter people from cracking the key.

Cracking DRM can be done and the goal from the other side is to make it hard and expensive. Nothing is impossible :)

ponderingfish··on The misuse of colour in science communication
Why? [Trying to learn more about your train of thought]
ponderingfish··on FFmpeg Drawtext Filter for Overlays, Scrolling Text, Timestamps on Videos
I usually steer new-comers to Handbrake. That's a great starting point.
ponderingfish··on FFmpeg Drawtext Filter for Overlays, Scrolling Text, Timestamps on Videos
Ooo that's interesting. I am going to check it out. What resolution btw? 1080p60? Same codec before and after?
ponderingfish··on FFmpeg Drawtext Filter for Overlays, Scrolling Text, Timestamps on Videos
Very true. And, the parameters change over time, but, the stackoverflow answers using the old parameters remain on top. This IMO adds to the confusion :)
ponderingfish··on FFmpeg Drawtext Filter for Overlays, Scrolling Text, Timestamps on Videos
Burning subtitles into the video implies re-encoding. And if you want maintain video quality, you'll have to choose a pretty good quality setting like crf=24 and this will take a lot of time even on H.264/AVC.

You are looking at multiple hours (>2) for a 2-hour movie from my experience. One way to reduce this is to spin up a DigitalOcean droplet (a $80 per month droplet) that'll give you a lot of processing power, finish your encoding in 2-3 hours,and shut it down. It'll save you a lot of headache and time.

Not sure I answered your question, but, hope that helped!

ponderingfish··on FFmpeg Drawtext Filter for Overlays, Scrolling Text, Timestamps on Videos
It's actually super powerful and useful for simple one-off encodes or complex batch processes. I have worked for clients who required an end-to-end transcoding pipeline (ABR) with packaging, subtitles, multiple-audio, etc. and it took a 100 line shell script to get everything done.
ponderingfish··on LCEVC (mpeg5) gets 28% gain over H.264/AVC at 3x Encoding speed
Not in this article, but, they are coming up using H.265/HEVC. Not sure about AV1 support yet though. This is becoming an MPEG standard soon so AV1 support should come out soon.
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