Use FFmpeg to find a possible loop in a video

As stated an multiple occasions, I am doing live visuals every now and then for various events. Most of my footage is based on shaders. In (very) short: These are programs that are executed on your graphics-card and create visuals in real-time instead of playing pre-made videos. Extremely interesting and extremely nerdy. You might want to check out https://glslsandbox.com/ to get an idea. However, trying to run shaders on, for example, a Raspberry Pi 4 instead of a top-tier Macbook pro has a huge amount of its very own quirks. Playing videos on an RPI4, however, doesn’t cause too many problems. 

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OSC to MIDI | Midi to OSC | Midi over Network

This tool acts as a helper between Midi and OSC. It allows you to receive OSC data and forward them to a Midi-device and/or (yes, simultaneously) vice versa. I somewhat accidentally discovered that you can use this tool to also transmit Midi data over network (over OSC). It’s based on openFrameworks. It works on Mac, Windows and probably on a Raspberry Pi. Source code and binaries for Mac and Windows are available on Github .

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Kneipenampel mit Fernsteuerung

Für meine Lieblingskneipe in der alten Heimat habe ich eine Ampel gebaut. Die hängt da jetzt und sobald es wieder losgeht, kann man den potenziellen Gästen von weitem schon signalisieren, ob noch Platz im Laden ist (der Post hier entstand Ende November 2020 … Mitten in “The great Shitshow” (Celeste Barber)).

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