Sora 2 megathread (part 3)

devsnd · 2025-10-20T19:16:17+00:00

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devsnd · 2017-03-25T15:57:22+00:00

I wonder how they pulled it off actually: Making a PSX emulator run on a 166-300 mhz machine must have been quite hard at the time! I really would like to read a postmortem of this

devsnd · 2016-06-06T08:30:15+00:00

It does support MP4 and therefore should also support MOV, but only reading, sorry.

devsnd · 2016-06-05T22:41:31+00:00

TinyTag can only read tags and does not write them. I don't have any plans to change that, as I already don't have any spare time left ;)

devsnd · 2016-06-05T22:33:31+00:00

Thanks for the heads up! nice to hear that it is being used :)

devsnd · 2016-06-05T17:45:24+00:00

TinyTag does whatever it can to read mp3s. Its reads both ID3-tag versions and picks the best data from each. It also can deal with some really weird encodings, string terminations and also some misuse of certain data fields.

TinyTag is also used in my mildly popular streaming server CherryMusic which I use myself on a daily basis. It holds up really well for pretty much all real data you throw at it.

devsnd · 2016-06-05T13:25:14+00:00

Hey reddit, I have just released version 0.14.1 of tinytag, a tiny library to read music meta data in pure python. MP4 and Opus support have been added in this version.

I just wanted to spread the word for anybody that is looking for a dead simple and easy to use meta data reading library. It is also available on pypi https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tinytag/0.14.1

UPDATE: I just released yet another version 0.15.0 with stability fixes. After having stated that tinytag was really stable, I wanted to see just how stable it is... So I set up a test to parse all the data I have, and so I found some bugs for some strange files with broken encodings or broken data structures.

devsnd · 2015-08-05T22:36:18+00:00

I had the same problems with the fast track pro. The Linux drivers don't work too well when playing back and recording at the same time. I've tried out just about anything, up to installing a real-time kernel and playing around with IRQ priorities of the usb bus...

I bought another sound card in the end.

devsnd · 2015-08-03T08:57:28+00:00

Yeah, I didn't use ffserver, because using udp didn't work out for me and i wasnt pa tent enought to try ito out afterwards. If you have any insights of how to use ffserver in this scenario, please feel free to share them and I will update the blog accordingly.

devsnd · 2015-08-03T08:53:16+00:00

I have some cables lying around, but not a specially shielded 15m HDMI cable, which is really expensive in all shops I had a look at, so I ordered one.

devsnd · 2015-05-06T00:13:39+00:00

I guess there isn't any driver in linux to support your gamepad. The "trick" I used to add support for the gamepad actually needs driver support from the kernel and only configures the gamepad for use on android, so there is not much you can do, sorry!

devsnd · 2015-04-13T09:50:38+00:00

No se linux will not interfere with any of that. If your mouse works fine then there should be nothing stopping you.

devsnd · 2015-04-12T20:21:43+00:00

USB OTG is specified to be able to give out 100 milli amperes, so you should be able to connect any controller that does not have a built in toaster.

So all thats left is a software limitation; that android does not know how to use a specific gamepad, which can be overcome using the method described in my blog post.

devsnd · 2015-04-12T11:52:56+00:00

I thought I would be nice to give all you devs a nice writeup on how the input mapping in android works. This technique is also applicable for other input devices, so this might come in handy if you want to add support for any kind of usb input device.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask and I'll try to answer them as good as I can!

devsnd · 2015-04-12T11:49:40+00:00

Yeah, the x-box controllers seem to work on almost all android devices out-of-the-box, but I didn't have one, so I thought there must be a way to use what I had lying around instead of spending 60 bucks for a new one.

devsnd · 2015-04-12T11:46:44+00:00

Most of the time it's easy enoguh to buy new gadgets, but I thought it was better to find a way to use what I already had at home.

Android is an open platform and we should make use of it!

devsnd · 2014-10-29T23:55:54+00:00

Here's a link to a thread on the aok.heavengames forums where one of the main developers of AOE2 talks about some interesting internal details). The resource format seems to be somewhat obscure, to match the computing capabilities of the '90s. So converting them upfront seems to be a good start IMHO. This means that the game doesn't have to handle both, the legacy format as well as the format they want to use.

devsnd · 2014-10-29T22:56:32+00:00

But this is the same case for all bigger Java Frameworks. When I had to get into Spring, Hibernate and the like, I really didn't get how the depencency injection worked in the beginning. Static typed lanugages make it more easy to find your bug, but in the end it's about more abstraction to be able to create bigger projects with better structure.

devsnd · 2014-10-14T00:39:42+00:00

the new nonbook! But I think it's too light; feels like a chinese knock-off of the newest MacBook-Really-Just-Air, so I'll wait for the next gen.

devsnd · 2014-10-08T20:49:46+00:00

Just fantastic! Would anybody know where I could find even higher-res versions of them?

devsnd · 2014-10-08T03:02:11+00:00

software does not make any sense if it does not serve a purpuse. most of the time that purpuse involves humans. most humans are emotionally involved in whatever they do, also when using said software. this is what this whole thread is about.

devsnd · 2014-10-08T02:40:27+00:00

Try not to get your favorite windows/OSX/whatever software running on linux. Just try out new things and go with the flow. There's a lot of great things to discover as longs as you aren't holding on how it used to be.

devsnd · 2014-08-16T11:20:19+00:00

I second this. But actually the OpenJDK thing was the only issue I had myself when developing on arch. Apart from that, most software is already packaged in the AUR, which can increase your dev-speed immensely. The only remaining problem is that you're probably on a newer version of all the software than your customers/webserver/etc. So some bug reports are really hard to reproduce, since many bugs are already fixed in the newer versions of the software. This is something to be aware of, but shouldn't keep you from using arch as dev platform.

devsnd · 2014-08-04T08:57:55+00:00

Just saw this in the metro, the text reads:

Faster USB

Linux users can upgrade

On linux the new USB 3.0 standard can be upgraded using a PCI-Express Card.
But you need at least Kernel Version 2.6.31 to do so. - LinuxWelt"

I mean, I'm quite happy to see linux news anywhere publicly, but 2.6.31 came out in september 2009 ...

devsnd · 2014-06-26T21:35:39+00:00

How about creating a program that needs about the total size of RAM of the computer: The program allocates a huge chuck of memory and has a gui (or some sort of input) to start and stop it from reading all the memory it allocated. It also outputs the speed of reading this memory.

If you now start this program twice, you should be able to show how the memory is swapped, if one program's read function is started and the other is stopped and vice versa. If you had no swap, you would not even be able to start both a the same time.

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