FFmpeg x264 encoding; More cores or faster cores?
Something different this time, testing with a faster CPU that has less cores. Is having more cores or faster cores an obvious difference for FFmpeg video encoding? Last time the…
Category: Development
Fixing underexposed video with FFmpeg
Turning potentially ruined video footage into something very much useable, like magic the dark video is back to normal, vibrant with a little bit of extra noise. I had underxposed…
Pass PDO MySQL connection into function without global
Passing a PDO MySQL connection into a PHP function can easily be done, simply by assigning global to the PDO connection variable unless you want to be repeating the connection…
JSON storage services
Storing JSON data with a service allowing the ability to simply retrieve upon need isn’t a scarce ability. There are many online services offering to store your JSON data with…
Change image based on screen size
Mobile based viewers of your website are going to be on smaller screens and (in theory) have slower internet, thus making a decent means for smaller sized and lower quality…
Get time taken to execute task in Ubuntu
To check and get a detailed response on how long a task took on your Ubuntu server you can use the time utility. Note that this is not the inbuilt…
How to do a ping test on Ubuntu
Thankfully pinging from an Ubuntu server is very similar to how its done on Windows systems. To ping a website or ip address 4 times use ping -c 4 hostname…
PHP upload video with a progress bar
Using PHP to upload a file through a HTML form is common, its completely normal in fact however expecting or trying to get a progress bar to track the upload…
Live time and date with JavaScript
Use cases are rare but displaying the live time on a webpage is a neat feature, perhaps for a dashboard or panel would it suit best. There is no need…
Load smaller image in first with Javascript
How to avoid images popping in after the page has loaded by loading in and displaying a much smaller one first. Credit to FThompson here at StackOverflow. I edited it…