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…
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The ideal file and directory naming convention
Ideal practises and methods to have an organized folder and file structure whether it be on a local system or over a network. Firstly some seriously basic principles to follow,…
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…
Creating custom spawn locations for DayZ Standalone server
Creating new custom locations for DayZ player spawns is a simple task, so simple you don’t even need to go in-game to get positions. The DayZ Standalone player spawn system…
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…
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…
FFmpeg encode percentage progress bar with PHP
Using an HTML progress bar to view FFmpeg video encode progress percentage, With the usage of Ajax and PHP to parse the FFMpeg output file. This method enables a web-based…
Using Find in Linux
A method to find files on a Linux system is with the well named find command, find allows for certain parameters to be passed allowing for a more specialized and…