Adding audio to a video file with FFmpeg
Adding an audio file to a video with FFmpeg, this is achieved with mapping. The key to this is mapping. Video files can contain more than just a video and…
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MySQL SELECT before or after a datetime
Filtering a MySQL SELECT query based on a DateTime being before, after, within or older than is a common need. It can be done a few ways with plenty of…
Adding metadata to a video or audio file with FFmpeg
Depending on a video or audio container it can store various metadata or information like title, description, year, author, episode, album, track etc. Using FFmpeg to add this metadata to…
Truncate a string in PHP
Occasionally you will get a string that is longer than what you designed for, this gets fixed by printing a set amount from the string and affixing … onto the…
Checking and changing system time in Ubuntu
Most of the time a freshly installed server will automatically set its timezone to be locally orientated, this can be easily changed for user preference. Finding your Ubuntu systems time…
Creating an automated blog link Reddit submitter
Creating an automated system to submit my blog posts to my subreddit using PHP and the Reddit API. The idea is every couple of hours a check will be made…
PHP OOP class inheritance
A class that has inheritance in PHP OOP is one that obtains or gets all the properties and methods from its parent class. This is useful when you need to…
Getting video resolution, bitrate, fps, size and more with ffprobe
FFmpeg can do a massive amount of things, getting video details can be done with FFmpeg however there is a special offspring from FFmpeg called ffprobe that is dedicated to…
Save image using cURL with PHP
Often cURL in PHP is used to download whole webpages, another great use is downloading and saving images. Using cURL to save images is used over the file_put_content(file_get_contents()) because you…
How to install and run Geekbench on Ubuntu
Geekbench is a well-established multi-platform benchmarking tool that is designed to be easily comparable from processor to processor, test to test. Geekbench tests CPU power, speed and capabilities however it…