Helpful Posts ¶

- pthree.org post

• Datko's book has this same kinda stuff.

Restart bitlbee without restarting Weechat ¶

sudo service bitlbee stop
/disconnect localhost
sudo service bitlbee start
/connect localhost/6667
/msg &bitlbee identify [password]

Setup OTR ¶

First had to install the bitlbee-plugin-otr plugin:

sudo apt-get install bitlbee-plugin-otr

In the &bitlebee window

account list
> @root 0 (gtalk): jabber, thcipriani@gmail.com (connected)
> @root 1 (twitter): twitter, thcipriani (connected)

Will return a list of accounts that are currently setup in bitlbee.

To generate a key for the 0th account—gmail in my case:

otr keygen 0

Hardware ¶

I managed to grab an EasyCap D60 Recording device from Amazon.

This device is supported inside the linux kernel (from version 3.18 forward…maybe?)

Once I plugged in this device, it was working:

lsusb

This bad boy:

I checked out:

ls /dev | grep -i video

And I noticed a new video device video1. Easy.

Capture Software ¶

I used VLC to caputre raw input.

1. Media → Open Caputre Device
2. Video Device Name → /dev/video1
3. Audio Device Name → hw:2,0
4. Play pulldown menu → Convert
5. Dump Raw Input
6. Destination File → /home/tyler/Videos
7. Start
8. Hit play on the VCR
9. Hit the Rec. button in VLC

The auto-named avi file in ~/Videos was FUCKING HUGE.

ls -lh ~/Videos | grep -i avi

Conversion ¶

I found a blog where a person does this. I have a vauge memory about doing this at UpSync, so I'll give it a shot: 2-pass mp4 conversion.

Let's see what happens!

ffmpeg -i ~/Videos/vlc-record-2016-04-22-14h47m57s-Streaming-.avi -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -preset slow -threads 0 -b:v 825k -strict -2 -c:a aac -b:a 96k -pass 1 -f mp4 -y /dev/null

ffmpeg -i ~/Videos/vlc-record-2016-04-22-14h47m57s-Streaming-.avi -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p \
  -preset slow -threads 0 -b:v 825k -strict -2 -c:a aac -b:a 96k -pass 2 ~/Videos/out.mp4

The settings above created an mp4 that could be played via x264 on a RaspberryPi 3.