translating things, building chill software for my friends, playing ttrpgs, making procedural vector art, learning piano, writing unhinged Utena fanfics, and just vibing



  • "how do i programmatically get the duration of a video file, and the list of subtitle tracks and their metadata? ok, looks like the ffmpeg-next crate can do that, i'll stare at the examples and cobble together some method calls"
  • "how do i programmatically take a screenshot of a video file at a specific timestamp, with a specific subtitle track overlaid? i cannot figure out how the fuck to set up the filter chain to get overlaid subtitles with synced timestamps using ffmpeg-next's API, uhhh... fuck it, i'm just gonna have my code run the ffmpeg CLI program with the right flags, this is fine"
  • "so we just need to specify a directory path for a TV series, and then the code can automatically figure out the numbering for the episodes inside that directory, by testing each possible string prefix that could come before the episode number and finding the one that produces the most consecutive numbers, and if there are multiple seasons we can apply the same test with prefixes of our candidate prefixes to—" infodumping continues

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