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arch1t3cht / video_noob_guide.md
Last active January 4, 2026 23:56
What you NEED to know before touching a video file

What you NEED to Know Before Touching a Video File

Hanging out in subtitling and video re-editing communities, I see my fair share of novice video editors and video encoders, and see plenty of them make the classic beginner mistakes when it comes to working with videos. A man can only read "Use Handbrake to convert your mkv to an mp4 :)" so many times before losing it, so I am writing this article to channel the resulting psychic damage into something productive.

If you are new to working with videos (or, let's face it, even if you aren't), please read through this guide to avoid making mistakes that can cost you lots of computing power, storage space, or video quality.

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pklaus / dnsupdate.py
Last active November 14, 2023 23:50
dnsupdate is meant to replace nsupdate, the standard DDNS update tool created by BIND authors ISC. While nsupdate does the job it is awkward to wrap in scripts and its usage in general is just not very intuitive. dnsupdate is meant to work well from the command line or from scripts and easy to use. It also does some nice things like automaticall…
#!/usr/bin/env python2.7
# Matt's DNS management tool
# Manage DNS using DDNS features
#
# See http://planetfoo.org/blog/archive/2012/01/24/a-better-nsupdate/
#
# Usage: dnsupdate -s server -k key -t ttl add _minecraft._tcp.mc.example.com SRV 0 0 25566 mc.example.com.
# -h HELP!
# -s the server
# -k the key