I wish there was a good looping software that good take any song and cut the perfect infinite loop of it automatically.
An app that can fix audio in movies to make dialog easier to hear and understand.
It’s called subtitles 😅
Media server software that lets me program my own television station.
5:00 PM - Play the next file from folder X.
6:00 PM - Play the next file from folder Y.
7:00 PM - Play the next file from folder Z.
8:00 PM - Play random movie.That is like a 10 line bash script? Well a little more but not much.
Setting up something like a cron job is trivial, getting it to stream files from a particular folder, on a channel I can access on demand, is the trick.
Ideally I want to be able to change the input on my television, any time I want, to my personal streaming channel which is constantly running the schedule I’ve defined.
Seems like it would be pretty easy to set up some cron job that would change a symlink to a folder every hour and just run programs from that symlink.
That would likely work if the intent was to watch files locally, and that’s not the goal. The goal is to stream them out to something viewable on a television.
A DLNA server can do the streaming, but not the scheduling and it won’t run continuously.
Seems like youre shooting these down without considering what the author meant by “program”.
- Create a folder called “My Channel”
- Make a bash script that does the symlinks
- Add folder to Jellyfin
- Profit
The one time I tried streaming I just piped ffmpeg output through icecast and that worked, but it took some reading of the ffmpeg wiki to find the right options. You might even be able to point icecast to the folder directly without ffmpeg. I needed ffmpeg because it was transcoding from a webcam. On the playback side you’d again use ffmpeg to stream the icecast channel to your computer’s hdmi output, and wire that to your TV. I’m still going with 10 line shell script, but maybe I’d use python to avoid too much shell cleverness.
Added: maybe you don’t even need icecast. Its purpose is to fan out a single input to multiple clients. You can even cascade them across a bunch of cheap VPS into a do-it-yourself youtube with 1000s of simultaneous viewers.
VLC (Video LAN Client) probably has a plugin for this. It was designed to stream video across networks.
Ersatz is this brilliant self hosted IPTV server that can do this. Any client (even a browser or your smart tv) can run it. Setting up the channels are a bit clunky but it’s well documented
https://ersatztv.org/ Your Personal IPTV Server | ErsatzTV
There’s tons of these? I’ve been using DizqueTV for like five years without issue.
Not linking to reddit, but this DisqueTV?
0.o appreciate you bringing that to my attention.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7m7OW2xrJE
This guy actually rolled his own internal home cableTV broadcast, which does exactly what you’re asking.
Have you tried ErsatzTV? It’s selfhostable, pretty extensible, can be integrated into on-demand solutions like Jellyfin…
This software probably already exits but I have been trying to make 3D panoramas. My current workflow is to take the 3D left-right images and separate them into left images and right images using a bash script. Then use Hugin to make two panoramas and combine them with gimp. It’s kind of a pain. It would be nice hugin cloud just the 3D images and do it all for me.
Kind of reminds me of Goblin Valley. I don’t think it is. Too green and rocks are the wrong color. But first thing that came to mind.
I wish there’d be a proper family tree generator, I’ve been searching for one for so long. All the things existing now seem to be old and made to create actual existing family trees with lots of limitations, but I’d really need a tool to use for world building and that kind of stuff. To allow you create profiles with a lot of data for the characters in the tree, so you could view the info in some easy way, maybe by clicking to open an info window, or something like that. To be able to easily link them to each other with other things than just family relations (like friends, lovers, enemies…). Being able to properly put a picture on the profiles so it would show there in the tree, not just a name. Just being able to properly view the whole family tree at once by zooming in and out would be so nice, and to link it with other family trees etc…
There are games that have some family tree functions, but I don’t need nor want a gaming experience. I want to do these things freely, not with having to play some shit to be able to unlock something, or to have family trees generated around just played characters. I’ve tried using mind map generating stuff as well, but they have limited features, and it’s difficult to just create branches with them since everything is supposed to link back to one single thing.
If anyone knows about something like this existing somewhere, please do tell me!
MS Vizio can do what you’re talking about. It’s a flow chart designer on crack. I’d bet there’s quite a few modules designed for family tree building you can get for it.
Instead of a family tree planner, maybe start looking at flow chart builders? Or workflow planners or project management schedulers. They all can do something like what you’re talking about, even if they’re not directly designed for purpose of family tree diagrams.
Thank you, I’ll look into those!
Yeah I’m trying to avoid MS if possible, especially since I probably have to try to make the jump to linux eventually with how things are going. I probably need to at least try Visio though, to see is it able to do what I want, so far I’ve had no luck with alternatives for it.
For example draw.io doesn’t seem to work for this (I’ve tried before as well), since I really need easy auto arranging for the nodes for it to be usable enough - and I haven’t been able to do that with it. So far the only thing that I’ve found to work even relatively well for what I want to do has been this even with it’s many limitations, since it allows to just pulling the lines wherever and it will auto arrange everything. When the trees grow to crazy sizes (over a hundred etc.), it’s almost impossible to make things work without the auto arranging, otherwise I wouldn’t even need the tools I’m looking for…
Music software that shuffles entire albums and plays them end to end before switching to another random album.
Winamp used to do this.
Quodlibet has a Random Album Playback plugin
That is like a
105 line bash script? Well a little more but not much.Ok 6 lines (untested):
while true; do album=$(ls albums | shuf -n 1) for song in $(ls albums/$album/*.mp3 | shuf); do mplayer $song done doneMinus that second pipe to shuf, it seems exactly what the person wanted.
The first pipe to shuf chooses a random album and the second randomizes the order of the songs on that album. I thought that is what OP had asked for.
I read it as play a random album straight through, first song to last song, but re-reading what they wrote, you may be right.
Recommendation algorithm/engine for self hosted media server. If someone knows where I can get a large amount of watch data for a large amount of people I could write such a thing.
I have 2 years tautulli logs for a plex server of 10 users. Only has 3-4 users regularly watch stuff and 90% is my kids watching that same thing over and over, hahhaha. Maybe one day I’ll find good use of the data.
I would probably try implement Netflix’s algorithm which is essentially finding what u haven’t seen that has been seen by people who watch things similar to what u watch. Essentially just heigh dimensional embedding and some clustering. So u would want at least 1000 (absolute bare minimum) users.
Data is only really usefull in the context of all other users. So 3-4 users of data on their own don’t really give any useful insights.
Totally agree my data has no value here :) I have considered charting genre viewing preferences and how it’s changed over the years but that’s years away.
Slightly related, I have a service that’s been tracking my music history for about 10 years. It’s fun to see how my tastes have changed!
The place u might find some interesting insights are the timestamps of when things get watched. If u got a health tracker I recon u might find interesting correlations between that and watch data.
How will u classify a taste? U can always eyeball it but perhaps embedding it within a vector dB might work. If u also dump in a large catalogue of just general population music sample u can get a full genre landscape and see how u fit into it.
Ohh that’s really smart! I’ve been tracking my workouts for almost 2 years. I really like the idea classifying my taste in music. Will definitely my it on my list of projects!
If u do pls publish the code under a foss licence and send me a link.
Digimon.
I have to carry my phone with me everywhere I go, I want a little guy that is personal and unique to me, it gets points for stuff I do, and them I can battle with other people who have their own little guys.
Pokémon go doesn’t cut it for me, the battle isn’t Pokemon. The games are great but it’s me playing the guy not me being the guy.
I have the whole thing on paper but learning the programming to make it is discouraging and I’m already in college and writing full time
Sort of reminds me of Habbie
Yeah, but with a unique leveling system and PvP.
So, kinda like Pou, but with PvP?
Yeah. I even wanted to include an account based scanner for loot. You’d be able to scan barcodes and qr to get loot, battles, and stuff, but after the first scan it would remember and lock that reward so you could reclaim it daily.
I imagined players keeping little collections of barcodes so you could easily reclaim useful loot and when players meet in the wild they could scan up each others collections to get codes they may hot have found in the wild.
GPS app that gave more control over routing. You can use waypoints, but the ETA is based on the waypoint instead of destination, and you have to manually continue navigation once you reach the waypoint.
Have you tried Magic Earth, i seem to remember it being quite robus for that but ymmv
I have not. May need to take a look.
One that will tell you how far to the next rest stop
Or gas station or fast food or pizza place. With a “within 2 miles of route” and in the next 30 mins of travel. Would be great for family trips.
Some of them do it now. The problem is they are terrible at it. I just assume it’s because they are putting the paid ads first and so you end up getting routed 70 miles off route.
Navigation app the prioritizes things important to me. I’ll got an extra distance if I turn less or I right turn only or I have no speed bumps.
Brouter used to be capable of this, but it was configured with JSON.
I wish for something for summer months, I don’t care if the route is longer if I walk in the shade.
Edit: it’s a full blown programming language https://brouter.de/brouter/index.html
- Something to use in place of Microsoft Active Directory, but FOSS
- A program that automagically removes any DRM from an executable, whether it’s a simple CD check or fucking denuvo
- Anything that makes playing fullscreen games in low resolutions NOT mess up your desktop - if you ever played something in like 1024x768 on a 1920x1080 default resolution, you should know what I’m talking about
https://github.com/fmstrat/samba-domain
Works with all AD tools. I’ve been using it for years.
How well do you suppose that scales to enterprise levels?
It’s Samba4, so really well.
LDAP? It what AD is based on, at least originally. I haven’t looked at either in 10+ years.
I would be ecstatic if someone ported AutoHotkey to Linux. AutoKey doesn’t come close to cutting it for me.
Interesting. I use Autokey daily. By the minute even. I’ll have to research what I’m missing.
I used to be in this camp.
xdotoolwas the solution for me.Check out pyautogui, it’s probably what you’re looking for. You can manipulate the mouse and keyboard and even look for images contained on the screen.
I have long wanted a weather forecast along route in navigation apps for long trips. Ideally you could add in stops and estimate how long you would need to wait for storms to pass over.
That exists. Weather on the way.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/weather-on-the-way/id1471394318
iOS only.
For the rest of us, best you can do with them is pick your interstate: https://weatherontheway.app/us-interstate-weather/
I did search for “weather on the way” in google play store. While they don’t have an android app, I found two similar apps that do a lot of what I wanted: “drive weather” and “highway weather.” Thank you for the search term that yielded results. I like that the"highway weather" app allows adding in rest stops and propagates the change into the forecast.
I will note that neither of these options seem to offer turn by turn navigation. So there is still room for some of the navigation apps to integrate this functionality.
Just coming back from a trip and adding to this, I wish Organic Maps / CoMaps had a function to automatically add rest stops and fuel stops.
For example, for a 7 hour road trip it would prompt:
- Frequency of rest stops:
120 minutes - Time spent at rest stop:
20 minutes - Approx remaining range:
150km - Approx car range overall:
500km
Obviously I’ve just been pulling into service stations and rest stops on my own accord, but I like having small goals and not having the navigation lose it’s shit at me because I decided to pull into a small town halfway through. Would just make planning a day of driving much easier.
- Frequency of rest stops:
Drop-in cloud/API replacement for YouTube front-ends. It would keep track of watch history and return recommended videos from an algorithm that’s user configurable
I want MoviesFad back… Greatest movie-app ever!
There’s been a lot that I’ve been looking for but I’ve never been able to find. Here are the one’s that I can remember off the top of my head.
The first, which doesn’t need to be an app/program, is something that would allow me to get more use out of Flathub. I’ve been wanting to get more use out of Flathub but the biggest problem I have with Flathub, is that there is no reliable way to discover new apps. The reason for this is because of how the website sorts its apps. They seem to be sorted either randomly or by popularity, as the order changes occasionally, and it mixes new apps in with the old apps. What I’ve been doing is using a chart to keep track of what apps I’ve seen but I have no idea of how reliable this actually is.
The second, I’ve mentioned before on another post, is a companion app for GameFAQs that’s similar to Anime Plus. If you’re not familiar with Anime Plus, it’s a website that works as companion app for MyAnimeList. It looks at your MAL profile and generates a temporary profile that offers a few useful features like a list of anime/manga that you’ve missed and recommendations for other anime/manga.
The last one that I can remember, is a reliable gamepad mapper app for android devices that doesn’t require root. I’ve tried multiple gamepad mapper apps but none of them worked properly and I’m pretty sure that some of them contained malware, especially given the fact that they’ve been removed from the Google Play Store.
