Articles tagged media

• 26.2.2026 sailfish os, linux, media

  Sailfish OS - Install yt-dlp

  This article has a parent article. It contains some preliminaries to the topics here. Also this article might be helpful.yt-dlp1 is an extremely vesatile utility that can download …
• 22.3.2024 10.2.2022 linux, media, ffmpeg

  FFmpeg Tips and Tricks

  FFmpeg can use the vid.stab library to stabilize (i.e. remove shakiness) video. Some guides say it needs to be installed explicitly (vid.stab on Arch Linux, libvidstab* on …
• 11.3.2021 linux, media

  Record system audio output with ALSA

  This was written & tested on an Archlinux system, but I believe it applies to most Linux/ALSA systems.We assume a single run-of-the-mill Intel sound card, mapped as card 0 …
• 12.9.2020 30.7.2020 linux, media

  Video Streaming without a Browser

  The advice is twofold but simple:Additionally one can use a GUI mpv frontend; I believe celluloid (formerly known as Gnome-mpv) and smplayer are good choices.It is important to …
• 12.3.2018 media

  Where is the VLC log?

  The VLC media player sometimes errors out with the message “Check the log for details”:But where is the log?
• 22.1.2018 linux, media

  Play Youtube (and many other) Media Links from your Browser with One Click

  Make sure mpv is working with local files. Regardless of this article, mpv is about the best media (video) player available for Linux. It will automatically detect if youtube-dl is …
• 7.9.2017 android, media

  Android: Internet Radio App: Transistor

  I’m not the one to promote android apps usually, but here is a nice one that does exactly what I desire, and follows some sort of Unix philosophy.Internet …
• 23.4.2017 linux, media, ffmpeg

  Make a screencast with ffmpeg

  Several applications to record your desktop exist, but ffmpeg can do it all by itself, via its x11grab format specifier. But there were some challenges:What ffmpeg does when recording …