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Living Room / Re: server 2008r2 x64 VPN to Windows 8.1 Home Premium x64 for remote access

« Last post by 4wd on February 01, 2015, 06:35 PM »

If you only want to use Windows native VPN to allow access from remote places, an SSTP based VPN is possibly the way to go for maximum availability since it uses port 443, (HTTPS), which almost all internet access points are going to allow.

Third party: OpenVPN you can set for port 80 or 443 to also bypass overly restrictive internet access.  I'm currently using SoftEther VPN on all my VPSs since it is simple to setup, multi-protocol (PPTP, L2TP, SSTP, OpenVPN, SoftEther), can remote manage the VPNs, provide configs for the clients, even bypass some Captive Portal setups via VPN over DNS/Ping requests.

BTW, what about your router hardware - a lot of them these days usually have some form of VPN server - it would save screwing around with the Windows server.

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Living Room / Re: Share your photos! Travel shots, photoblogs, etc.

« Last post by 4wd on January 28, 2015, 10:40 PM »

An old slate mine from my recent weekend away:

~3.96MB

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Quick list of 7 FOSS Cloud Storage Products for Self-hosting

« Last post by 4wd on January 26, 2015, 09:45 PM »

Ooooo! This looks pretty good. Looking through, the ownCloud software looks like what I'd want to run. I'll need to check it out when I get home.

-Renegade (January 25, 2015, 05:48 AM)

If you want to try it in Windows without installing anything, see my post here.  (Recommend it's extracted to a fast HDD/SSD rather than a flash drive.)

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Living Room / Re: wireless networking and wifi printer help

« Last post by 4wd on January 23, 2015, 03:34 AM »

Shame I don't have any black ones left. Both printers did take the same #45 Black.

-app103 (January 23, 2015, 12:12 AM)

AU$13 for a pair of #45s from China, (including postage), isn't going to break the bank.

A store has just advertised new HP MFPs for $18.  I could buy one to use and another dozen for spare cartridges, the whole printer is cheaper than a single compatible cartridge

Happy to help you out with this (reducing clutter is clearly one of your new years revolutions)

-Target (January 23, 2015, 12:28 AM)

More like, maximising space available for the acquiring of more worthy "junque".

BTW, don't expect a reply to a PM before Tuesday - I'm going bush. 

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Living Room / Re: wireless networking and wifi printer help

« Last post by 4wd on January 22, 2015, 09:14 PM »

In the interest of getting the thread back on Target

@Target:

Yours if you want it:



Brand new in box, (for the last 2 years), got it cheap as a spare for 'justin' but it's highly unlikely I'd ever go back to a 100Mb switch.

Let me know what the ethernet MAC of the printer is and what IP you'd like it to have and I'll set up the static DHCP as well as WLAN+WPA2.

It'll give you a WiFI AP with a printer hanging off that phones/laptops/PCs/PVR/dogs*/etc should be able to access.


* Sony Aibo only.

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Living Room / Re: wireless networking and wifi printer help

« Last post by 4wd on January 22, 2015, 08:23 PM »

I know you are not in the US but I would consider shipping it to you if you can use it, rather than throwing it in the trash.

-app103 (January 22, 2015, 07:03 PM)

Thanks for the offer but mine uses a #78 tri-colour. 

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Living Room / Re: chrome browser is so nasty

« Last post by 4wd on January 22, 2015, 06:10 PM »

It's running fine here; installed in portable mode, did not select SecureDNS, and then ran it, (typing in it now) - Win8.1Pro x86

Just copied the entire folder to WHS2011 (x64) and it ran fine also.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Urgent request for informatioon regarding time stamp in Windows 8

« Last post by 4wd on January 22, 2015, 04:37 PM »

This I have located in the PHP.ini but cannot find a  corresponding in MY.ini and the program looks to me as though it is looking to MySql for these timestamps, not to the php software.

-questorfla (January 22, 2015, 03:30 PM)

Apache/website would be using PHP to access MySQL for both reading/writing information would it not?

May be useful (or not): How To Synchronize Your PHP and MySQL Timezones

That's from 2011 but since you're using an old version of MySQL it may still be relevant.

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Living Room / Re: wireless networking and wifi printer help

« Last post by 4wd on January 22, 2015, 03:08 PM »

Then HP (of necessity) got into home/consumer-grade products...and the results are what we live with today.

-40hz (January 22, 2015, 02:21 PM)

Still got a Deskjet 932C that churns out mono prints, (colour cartridges too expensive to replace, otherwise it would be printing in colour), after ~12 years.

Occasionally eats a sheet of paper but apart from that it doesn't seem to want to die ... which is annoying as it's getting a bit harder to find black cartridges now, (thank the stars for China and ebay ).

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Post New Requests Here / Re: sort a directory listing of full paths by the value in the 3rd subdirectory

« Last post by 4wd on January 21, 2015, 09:08 PM »

Import into a spreadsheet with \ as the delimiter, sort on the requisite column, then export as text with \ as the separator.

So goes the theory, (which works here).

You'll probably get a few lines with trailing multiple \ which can be easily removed by loading into an editor, (eg. Notepad2-mod), and doing a RegEx Search/Replace:

Search: ^(.*?)(\\+)$
Replace: \1

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Living Room / Re: chrome browser is so nasty

« Last post by 4wd on January 19, 2015, 10:27 PM »

If Chrome works for you, by all means be happy with it. It isn't a bad browser at all.

-Shades (January 19, 2015, 07:54 PM)

I don't use it because of all the "We're watching you" stuff it comes with, just pointing out anything associated with Google, (Picasa, Google Earth, etc), is going to install that updater service.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Create a list of duplicate files in a group of folders but not remove anything

« Last post by 4wd on January 19, 2015, 10:16 PM »

Duplicate File Finder by Rashid Hoda - a bit old now but still works fine.





It's also portable if you copy the files somewhere after installation, and then uninstall it.

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Living Room / Re: chrome browser is so nasty

« Last post by 4wd on January 19, 2015, 07:25 PM »

Sure you can disable or delete it with 'autoruns' (outstanding systinternals tool), but after Windows reboots you have a second google update entry that is active. Rinse and repeat...

-Shades (January 19, 2015, 03:09 PM)

Perhaps try:

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1. sc stop gupdate
2. sc stop gupdatem
3. sc delete gupdate
4. sc delete gupdatem

Seemed to do the trick here, (was installed by Google Earth plugin).

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Living Room / Re: "Secure Email As a Potential Terrorist Indicator" ??!

« Last post by 4wd on January 19, 2015, 05:07 PM »

What about kiddie pr0n?

-CWuestefeld (January 19, 2015, 10:48 AM)

But does that actually fall under the umbrella of "free speech" ?

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Living Room / Re: chrome browser is so nasty

« Last post by 4wd on January 19, 2015, 04:25 PM »

There's also Comodo Chromium Secure and Dragon, both based on Chrome - and IceDragon based on Firefox.

Dragon and IceDragon don't require third-party packaging for a portable installation, just select the option using the normal installer.  With (Ice)Dragon you also have the option to use Comodo's SecureDNS servers, (either for the application, the whole computer, or not at all).

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Found Deals and Discounts / Syncfusion Essential Studio Suite *FREE*

« Last post by 4wd on January 19, 2015, 12:14 AM »

Via OzBargain:

One for the developers

v That's a direct link. v

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The Essential Studio Enterprise Edition Community License provides free access to our entire product offering for individual developers and small businesses.

What's included?

All products available in Essential Studio Enterprise Edition and Syncfusion Plus are included. This comprehensive offering includes over 650 components across 12 platforms, an easy-to-use big data platform, and much more. Support and updates are also included.

FAQ

Who is eligible?

Individual developers or up to five users at companies with annual gross revenue below $1 million USD.

Can the products be used to build commercial applications?

Yes.

How long are the licenses valid ?

The community licenses do not expire. You will continue to receive support and updates for new versions.

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General Software Discussion / Re: flashplayer fix - is this safe?

« Last post by 4wd on January 18, 2015, 11:07 PM »

Wow, actually, the flashplayer for all my other browsers works okay, but not on this one browser, which is a separate, special use copy of Seamonkey Portable.
I'm really hesitant to uninstall flashplayer for the entire OS when it might just be a gliche in the one browser.

-bit (January 18, 2015, 09:57 PM)

It'd really help if you put this sort of information in your first post.

Does the Flash plugin show up if you go to the about:plugins page in the browser?

If it doesn't, then try reinstalling the browser.



BTW, are we talking about an x86 system or x64?

If reinstalling the browser doesn't work, then try the following:

Search for NPSWF32*.dll on your system - it will either be in C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash (x86 OS), or C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash (x64 OS).

Copy the NPSWF32*.dll and FlashPlayerPlugin*.exe to <path to>\SeaMonkeyPortable\Data\plugins.

Restart the browser.

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General Software Discussion / Re: flashplayer fix - is this safe?

« Last post by 4wd on January 18, 2015, 07:29 PM »

Registry errors are often a leading cause of Flash Player problems. It is highly recommended that you scan your PC using PC Cleaner. It will fix problematic registry entries that can cause Flash Player to malfunction and will prevent new errors from occurring.

Automatically tells me it isn't.

Why don't you just uninstall and then reinstall Flash Player ?

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Living Room / Re: No Purpose

« Last post by 4wd on January 17, 2015, 05:42 PM »

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Living Room / Re: No Purpose

« Last post by 4wd on January 17, 2015, 04:42 AM »

I don't. 

-4wd (January 17, 2015, 12:49 AM)

Contrarian!

-Renegade (January 17, 2015, 03:23 AM)

No I'm not! 

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Living Room / Re: No Purpose

« Last post by 4wd on January 17, 2015, 12:49 AM »

I don't. 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Convert sequence of images to video (with ffmpeg?)

« Last post by 4wd on January 16, 2015, 04:14 PM »

Also, I'm still not convinced there's a difference between input rate and output fps. It looks like you transposed the numbers (60/1 = 60) but the output still looks as it should with a different image each frame, running at 60 frames per second.

-Deozaan (January 16, 2015, 11:15 AM)

Since you've only just mentioned the input/output you wanted in your previous post, then in your case there is no difference - the number of images to copy as frames equals the number of frames in the frame rate.

Consider though if you'd said you wanted 30 images per second and the output video to be 24 frames per second - 6 frames, (each one being an image), would be dropped.

Or that you'd said that you wanted 16 images per second at 30 frames per second - 15 frames would be duplicated, 2 would be dropped or maybe 13 would be duplicated and 4 wouldn't be (thus only appearing for half the time as the others).

In case you were wondering, I hadn't looked at the videos you imbedded because no Youtube videos show up in DC when viewing the site via HTTPS - and I try to avoid Youtube anyway - so I didn't know what format your videos were ... sorry 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Convert sequence of images to video (with ffmpeg?)

« Last post by 4wd on January 16, 2015, 04:07 AM »

Try these, you might run into some problems with such a high input frame rate so check the output.

Use the preset under IMAGES Native Res as this won't do any scaling of the images and might avoid any frame drops, it'll pay to source the images from an SSD, RAM drive, or something similarly as fast.

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Living Room / Re: Laboratory-Grown Penises Ready To Be Tested In Humans

« Last post by 4wd on January 14, 2015, 07:03 PM »

Did you really mean 'In' or should it have been 'On' ?

After all, it is an external appendage - or maybe your referring to the final 'Size Does/Doesn't Matter' test ?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Convert sequence of images to video (with ffmpeg?)

« Last post by 4wd on January 14, 2015, 06:27 PM »

Thanks! I'll look into this.

Download the preset I attached to this post and extract it somewhere, (it'll create a 10fps video that's 1280x720 and displays each image for 1 second).

-4wd (January 14, 2015, 05:21 AM)

Wouldn't that be a 1fps video if it only shows one frame (image) per second?  

-Deozaan (January 14, 2015, 02:11 PM)

No, video frame rate and image persistence are two different things.

Some video players, (I'm referring to software not a hardware media player, they're probably even more restricted), can't handle very low video frame rates, (I saw mentioned somewhere that VLC doesn't handle below around 10fps - I know MPC-BE doesn't like low rates).

To get an image to display for x seconds, ffmpeg creates x * fps copies of the image to display, so for the above preset: 1 (second) x 10 (fps) = 10 copies

10 fps means each frame is displayed for 100ms, so each of the 10 copies of the image is displayed for 100ms - appended together gives you each image being displayed in the video for 1 second.

Here's a page regarding ffmpeg, frame rates, and image sequences: Create a video slideshow from images

I've also added the -pix_fmt yuv420p mentioned on that page, (ensures maximum compatibility in final video with players/online sites).

In your original command:

ffmpeg -r [framerate] -i [images] -s [resolution] -vcodec libx264 [videofilename].mp4

Because you haven't specified a frame rate for the output video, the input image frame rate would be used - if this is too low, the video won't display correctly (ie. some images may appear for longer - I was getting the first image being displayed for 5 seconds and the following for 1 second) - if it's too high, the images might just flash up on screen or possibly they'll be dropped altogether from the final video.

BTW, if the folder you drop onto the interface button contains more than one image sequence, in theory it should create a job for each ... but I haven't tested that.

If you let me know what fps/dimensions/codecs you're interested in, I'll try knocking up some presets so you can look at them - specify image persistence in seconds and video output frame rate.

EDIT: I incorrectly made the description on the preset, (shows up under preset), as 1fps - forgot to change it after I'd finished playing around.  I've corrected and re-attached to the above post.


Addendum: I've attached some more presets you can import, (remember to restart program after importing), it should give you an idea of what to do:

Output video presets, (all MPEG4-AVC, MP4 format):
720x400, 2 images/s, 24fps  (2 images every second)
720x400, 5 images/s, 30fps  (5 images every second)
1280x720, 1image/s, 10fps  (1 image every second)
1280x720, 1image/s, 24fps  (1 image every second)
1280x720, 1image/5s, 24fps  (1 image every 5 seconds)
1280x720, 2images/s, 24fps  (2 images every second)
1980x1080, 2images/s, 24fps  (2 images every second)

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1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
2. <AnotherGUI_Presets_ver.03>
3.         <Preset>
4.                 <UUID>66a5159b-4405-499f-9b56-0439ae54978a</UUID>
5.                 <Executable>ffmpeg.exe</Executable>
6.                 <Name>Image sequence to video 1280x720, 1ips, 10fps</Name>
7.                 <Description><![CDATA[Convert sequence of images to video (1280x720, 1 image/s, 10fps)]]></Description>
8.                 <Category><![CDATA[IMAGES 1280]]></Category>
9.                 <Arguments><![CDATA[-r 1
10. -i "<FullSourceFileName>"
11. -s 1280x720
12. -r 10
13. -vcodec libx264
14. -pix_fmt yuv420p
15. "<OutputPath><OutputFileName>.mp4"]]></Arguments>
16.                 <Arguments2><![CDATA[]]></Arguments2>
17.                 <Postprocess><![CDATA[]]></Postprocess>
18.         </Preset>
19.         <Preset>
20.                 <UUID>808b659a-5bcf-4d87-8e17-789e995e167e</UUID>
21.                 <Executable>ffmpeg.exe</Executable>
22.                 <Name>Image sequence to video 1280x720, 1ips, 24fps</Name>
23.                 <Description><![CDATA[Convert sequence of images to video (1280x720, 1 image/s, 24fps)]]></Description>
24.                 <Category><![CDATA[IMAGES 1280]]></Category>
25.                 <Arguments><![CDATA[-r 1
26. -i "<FullSourceFileName>"
27. -s 1280x720
28. -r 24
29. -vcodec libx264
30. -pix_fmt yuv420p
31. "<OutputPath><OutputFileName>.mp4"]]></Arguments>
32.                 <Arguments2><![CDATA[]]></Arguments2>
33.                 <Postprocess><![CDATA[]]></Postprocess>
34.         </Preset>
35.         <Preset>
36.                 <UUID>90f8f618-766b-4a16-91e9-04eb67e7ba45</UUID>
37.                 <Executable>ffmpeg.exe</Executable>
38.                 <Name>Image sequence to video 1280x720, 2ips, 24fps</Name>
39.                 <Description><![CDATA[Convert sequence of images to video (1280x720, 2 image/s, 24fps)]]></Description>
40.                 <Category><![CDATA[IMAGES 1280]]></Category>
41.                 <Arguments><![CDATA[-r 2/1
42. -i "<FullSourceFileName>"
43. -s 1280x720
44. -r 24
45. -vcodec libx264
46. -pix_fmt yuv420p
47. "<OutputPath><OutputFileName>.mp4"]]></Arguments>
48.                 <Arguments2><![CDATA[]]></Arguments2>
49.                 <Postprocess><![CDATA[]]></Postprocess>
50.         </Preset>
51.         <Preset>
52.                 <UUID>d1bf7e3a-3ca2-4b73-b12a-300c4fe90393</UUID>
53.                 <Executable>ffmpeg.exe</Executable>
54.                 <Name>Image sequence to video 1280x720, 1i/5s, 24fps</Name>
55.                 <Description><![CDATA[Convert sequence of images to video (1280x720, 1 image/5s, 24fps)]]></Description>
56.                 <Category><![CDATA[IMAGES 1280]]></Category>
57.                 <Arguments><![CDATA[-r 1/5
58. -i "<FullSourceFileName>"
59. -s 1280x720
60. -r 24
61. -vcodec libx264
62. -pix_fmt yuv420p
63. "<OutputPath><OutputFileName>.mp4"]]></Arguments>
64.                 <Arguments2><![CDATA[]]></Arguments2>
65.                 <Postprocess><![CDATA[]]></Postprocess>
66.         </Preset>
67.         <Preset>
68.                 <UUID>5107fcff-6305-4317-9dd9-3863f99c599f</UUID>
69.                 <Executable>ffmpeg.exe</Executable>
70.                 <Name>Image sequence to video 1920x1080, 2ips, 24fps</Name>
71.                 <Description><![CDATA[Convert sequence of images to video (1920x1080, 2 image/s, 24fps)]]></Description>
72.                 <Category><![CDATA[IMAGES 1920]]></Category>
73.                 <Arguments><![CDATA[-r 2/1
74. -i "<FullSourceFileName>"
75. -s 1920x1080
76. -r 24
77. -vcodec libx264
78. -pix_fmt yuv420p
79. "<OutputPath><OutputFileName>.mp4"]]></Arguments>
80.                 <Arguments2><![CDATA[]]></Arguments2>
81.                 <Postprocess><![CDATA[]]></Postprocess>
82.         </Preset>
83.         <Preset>
84.                 <UUID>1cf678cb-07ce-42c1-bca3-bade905d49a8</UUID>
85.                 <Executable>ffmpeg.exe</Executable>
86.                 <Name>Image sequence to video 720x400, 2ips, 24fps</Name>
87.                 <Description><![CDATA[Convert sequence of images to video (720x400, 2 image/s, 24fps)]]></Description>
88.                 <Category><![CDATA[IMAGES 720]]></Category>
89.                 <Arguments><![CDATA[-r 2/1
90. -i "<FullSourceFileName>"
91. -s 720x400
92. -r 24
93. -vcodec libx264
94. -pix_fmt yuv420p
95. "<OutputPath><OutputFileName>.mp4"]]></Arguments>
96.                 <Arguments2><![CDATA[]]></Arguments2>
97.                 <Postprocess><![CDATA[]]></Postprocess>
98.         </Preset>
99.         <Preset>
100.                 <UUID>91fe525a-abdc-4858-8e51-41e61d848754</UUID>
101.                 <Executable>ffmpeg.exe</Executable>
102.                 <Name>Image sequence to video 720x400, 5ips, 30fps</Name>
103.                 <Description><![CDATA[Convert sequence of images to video (720x400, 5 image/s, 30fps)]]></Description>
104.                 <Category><![CDATA[IMAGES 720]]></Category>
105.                 <Arguments><![CDATA[-r 5/1
106. -i "<FullSourceFileName>"
107. -s 720x400
108. -r 30
109. -vcodec libx264
110. -pix_fmt yuv420p
111. "<OutputPath><OutputFileName>.mp4"]]></Arguments>
112.                 <Arguments2><![CDATA[]]></Arguments2>
113.                 <Postprocess><![CDATA[]]></Postprocess>
114.         </Preset>
115. </AnotherGUI_Presets_ver.03>

Addendum2: Forgot to mention, if it can't find ffmpeg.exe then go Preferences and click the Reset executable paths button, you can then select the paths to various executables, (AnotherGUI can handle more than just ffmpeg), or click the Cancel button in the dialog if you don't have that executable.