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Speed

• ffmpeg -i input.mkv -filter:v "setpts=0.5*PTS" output.mkv increases doubles playback speed, by dropping frames see

Playback

• ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -f opengl "window title" or use ffplay

Convertion

• ffmpeg -i video.flv video.mpeg

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To convert a video to 16x9 or 9x16 by adding black bars use ffmpeg as follows ffmpeg -i film1.mp4 -vf "scale=1920:1080:force_original_aspect_ratio=decrease,pad=1920:1080:(ow-iw)/2:(oh-ih)/2,setsar=1" film1_bars.mp4

This add bars to the top and bottom, flip both of the 1920:1080 to 1080:1920 for horizontal bars (better for computer monitors, TV etc)

Note IGTV also requires h.264 and a max of 30fps.

Thanks to https://stackoverflow.com/a/46693766/3361398

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It's actually fairly easy to control Home Assistant remotely using curl but I couldn't find a complete solution on how to do this, so here goes...

1. Activate the api in configuration.yaml by adding the line api:
2. Get an Authorization token from HA (It's a Long-Lived Access Tokens which can be created on your HA user profile page)
3. This list of exposed states can be found using curl -X GET -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://YOUR_IP:8123/api/states | prettyjson

• Note prettyjson is an alias for python -m json.tool, you don't need this it's just easier to read.

4. To get the state of a device append the entity.id to the URL, eg curl -X GET -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://YOUR_IP:8123/api/states/switch.mylight | prettyjson
5. The API documentation shows you how to change the states but this does not actually turn on the lights, etc. Instead, us

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This is running on Linux Mint 20

• Install docker.

  • sudo apt-get -y install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common

  • curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -

  • sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(. /etc/os-release; echo "$UBUNTU_CODENAME") stable"

  • sudo apt-get update

  • sudo apt install docker-ce docker-compose

  • sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

• and test with docker --version

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A simple example of code for testing a custom tensorflow Keras layer

    def my_init(shape, dtype=None):
        """This function is a custom kernel initialiser. It loads the weights from a matlab file. Adapt as need"""
        matlab = io.loadmat('../matlab/weights.mat')
        wfilter = matlab['wfilter']
        if shape != wfilter.shape:
            raise Exception('Shaped do not match')
        return tf.constant(wfilter, dtype=dtype)

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1. Start the v4l2loopback module:

sudo modprobe v4l2loopback \
      devices=1 exclusive_caps=1 video_nr=5 card_label="Dummy Camera"

• This creates one device with a label "Dummy Camera" as device `/dev/video5
• See https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback/ for more detailts

2. I have a short test video call Speed1.avi, this can be played streamed to /dev/video5 with ffmpeg -re -stream_loop -1 -i Speed1.avi -vcodec rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p -f v4l2 /dev/video5

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1. Make the spice mix:

• 1 Tbs ground allspice
• 1 Tbs ground cinnamon
• 1 Tbs ground nutmeg
• 1 tsp ground cloves
• 1 tsp ground coriander
• 1 tsp ground ginger

You can keep the leftovers in a jar.

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Batch convert heic files to jpg in fish shell

• First install sudo apt install libheif-examples
• Then run in correct directory for p in *.heic; heif-convert $p (basename $p .heic)".jpg"; end

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Dual Monitor Linux Mint Login Screen Fix

Linux mint has a few annoyances when using dual monitors. First fixing the log in screen. By default, it uses the same resolution as the primary monitor in the secondary screen. My secondary monitor is much larger so it doesn't display correctly. It's only cosmentic but it annoys me.

Create or append the file /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/70-linuxmint.conf so that it has the lines

[SeatDefaults]
user-session=cinnamon
display-setup-script=/usr/bin/lightdmxrandr.sh

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I have simple bash script that starts lots of processes. If one fails I want to stop everything. There maybe a better way to do this but I came up with this.

First create two scripts to test our main script. good_sleep that sleeps for 10 seconds and exits with no error.

#!/bin/bash
echo " good sleeping"
sleep 10
echo "done"