youtube-dl download progress bar with PHP
Displaying a progress bar for a youtube-dl download by using PHP and some AJAX setinterval. I have covered AJAX setinterval before with an FFmpeg progress bar and a general continuous…
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Getting PHP value with AJAX every 1 second
Calling a PHP page and showing its output every second with AJAX. For ease of use, this requires Jquery. This example will show the current datetime as per the PHP…
Understanding FFmpeg map with examples
Map in FFmpeg can be best understood as selecting streams within a file you want to encode, keep or remove when creating an output. -map is the command. Streams means…
PHP check if current date time has passed a set date time
Checking if the current date and time is past a certain date time in PHP can be done easily with the built-in PHP DateTime class. This ensures that a date…
Downloading and installing game server with SteamCMD
Downloading and installing a game server with SteamCMD on an Ubuntu based linux server. This is following on from this post about installing and setting up SteamCMD on Ubuntu 18….
Installing and setting up SteamCMD on Ubuntu
SteamCMD is the official command-line version of the Steam client. Through the command line of SteamCMD you can install, update and run Steam game servers, making it ideal for Linux…
Changing or setting hostname on Ubuntu 18
How to easily change the hostname on your Ubuntu VPS server, this will work with Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, 19.10 and 20.04. Use hostnamectl to view the system hostname and id…
Ultimate PHP cURL function example
The ultimate all in one PHP cURL function that saves the hassle of building a requester/setter/getter script that is cURL. The idea behind the function was to cater for a…
FFmpeg saving stream in intervals with date time as filename
This is how to save a video stream in 60 second intervals with the current date and time as the filename using FFmpeg. Putting the saved stream into segments means…
SolusVM PHP API Class wrapper
SolusVM API PHP class is an uncomplicated API wrapper coded in PHP for the SolusVM API. SolusVM is a virtualization manager, that is very popular amongst hosting providers. You can…