/posts/ Recent content in Posts on se1.eu Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us 🄯 ∞ sese Tue, 14 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 /2021/12/switch-from-youtube-dl-to-yt-dlp/ Tue, 14 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 /2021/12/switch-from-youtube-dl-to-yt-dlp/ After looking at the GitHub presence of youtube-dl and reading through the discussions on open issues, I concluded that the project is unmaintained at present. The last version was released on 2021-06-06. yt-dlp seems to be the way to go. I updated my little helpers for Windows and Mac to use it. Downloads links are on the original pages: Windows Mac Note to myself: it is time to move from tar and zip to a proper public repository soon. /2021/01/youtube-dl-wrapper-for-windows-users/ Tue, 26 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 /2021/01/youtube-dl-wrapper-for-windows-users/ Given that the average computer user is not familiar with the command line, and the fact that youtube-dl is an awesome command line tool, why not build something to help our friends on their Windows machines? Something similar to the solution put together for Mac users maybe... Here it is. (latest version) This little tool downloads and installs 7-Zip and a Microsoft runtime library needed by youtube-dl and then fetches ffmpeg (every two weeks) and youtube-dl (daily) itself, before asking for settings and firing up the downloader. /2021/01/youtube-dl-wrapper-for-mac-users/ Fri, 22 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 /2021/01/youtube-dl-wrapper-for-mac-users/ Many of you might already know the goodness of youtube-dl, at least since November 2020. While pasting a URL as a command line argument to a program might feel like the simplest thing to some, many non-geeks' enthusiasm evaporates once they understand that this nice program you told them about has no clickable button. There are GUIs for youtube-dl around the net, but they seemed rather old and unmaintained to me. /2020/09/sukoonbablani.com-goes-live/ Mon, 07 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /2020/09/sukoonbablani.com-goes-live/ sukoonbablani.com is a nice little exercise in web design with input from Sukoon. WordPress standard theme, a little extra CSS + HTML and fonts, and some command line magic involving ffmpeg and ImageMagick led to a result that is quite satisfying. The expectations for a design website required some fiddling with 4k images, videos and WordPress image quality and size plugins. /2020/04/website-inauguration-album/ Mon, 13 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /2020/04/website-inauguration-album/ Agfa APX100, Canon EOS 500N, Soligor AF Zoom 19-35mm 1:3.5-4.5, sometimes with 2x Tele Converter. Pics are from this year’s beginning of spring, even if they don’t look like it. Bird houses with german pop star names. View of an old gas reservoir in Stuttgart. Lonely bird house in times of quarantine. Mushrooms and old leaves. Spring is coming.