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Use ffmpeg to stream video from a dahua 4300s to a file or files

You can use ffmpeg to directly pull frames off of a dahua 4300s at full resolution. May be a good alternative to pricey dvrs which likely cannot record at full resolution, may not work with the camera, or are prohibitevly expensive

Simple Stream to file

Simple stream to file. Full resolution

ffmpeg -loglevel debug -rtsp_transport tcp -i "rtsp://admin:[email protected]:554/live" \

-c copy -map 0 foo.mp4

Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.

Configuring AWS ECS to have access to AWS EFS

If you would like to persist data from your ECS containers, i.e. hosting databases like MySQL or MongoDB with Docker, you need to ensure that you can mount the data directory of the database in the container to volume that's not going to dissappear when your container or worse yet, the EC2 instance that hosts your containers, is restarted or scaled up or down for any reason.

Don't know how to create your own AWS ECS Cluster? Go here!

New Cluster

Sadly the EC2 provisioning process doesn't allow you to configure EFS during the initial config. After your create your cluster, follow the guide below.

New Task Definition for Web App

If you're using an Alpine-based Node server like duluca/minimal-node-web-server follow this guide:

Moved to Shopify/graphql-design-tutorial

	#!/bin/bash
	# A bash script to setup GIT like deployment on your server
	echo "Enter your server address e.g 25.32.132.1 or yourserver.com"
	read serverAddress
	echo "Enter Username which you use to login to your server e.g ubuntu"
	read username
	echo "Enter path of the private key (optional)"
	read privateKeyPath
	echo "Path of your server directory where code should reside: e.g ~/code or /var/www (required)"
	read tempPath

	###
	###
	### UPDATE: For Win 11, I recommend using this tool in place of this script:
	### https://christitus.com/windows-tool/
	### https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil
	### https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UQZ5oQg8XA
	### iwr -useb https://christitus.com/win \| iex
	###
	### OR take a look at
	### https://github.com/HotCakeX/Harden-Windows-Security

	# import config.
	# You can change the default config with `make cnf="config_special.env" build`
	cnf ?= config.env
	include $(cnf)
	export $(shell sed 's/=.*//' $(cnf))

	# import deploy config
	# You can change the default deploy config with `make cnf="deploy_special.env" release`
	dpl ?= deploy.env
	include $(dpl)

	# -- coding: utf-8 --

	#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	#
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	#
	# * Use at your own risk! *
	# * I am not responsible for damages to your Plex server or libraries. *
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	<?php

	namespace Src\Csv;

	use Illuminate\Http\Response;
	use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\StreamedResponse;

	/**
	* Class DownloadLargeCsv
	*

	version: '2'
	services:
	api:
	volumes:
	- "nfsmount:${CONTAINER_DIR}"

	volumes:
	nfsmount:
	driver: local
	driver_opts: