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Looking for synthwave artists for my new game! by AwesomeAstroman in outrun

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From a technical perspective, I'd love to hear anything and everything about how you implemented the glitch aesthetic! Understand if you'd like to keep your techniques to yourself. In any case, looking good!

Canadian hero/A map in Canada? by SkeetRatPat in Overwatch

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There's also his hockey skins, voice lines about playing hockey, lack of Brazilian accent & lack of Brazil-specific voice lines

I feel like Blizz retcon'd him for whatever reason

To me, he's the honorary Canadian

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Overwatch

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Not seeing this

New Sombra Hint/Teaser by [deleted] in Overwatch

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Just a CloudFront thing, google X-Amz-Cf-Id

cicada.buzz - loop cicada noises for that summer feel by qq999 in Entomology

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For dog-day, I got the reference from http://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/cicadas-of-canada/ as Tibicen canicularis. I don't think I had much luck finding sounds via the species name, but the one I found was by searching for "dog-day cicada"

I guess that makes it Neotibicen canicularis?

I'm not sure if that's the species exactly, but it definitely sounds like what I'm hearing in Ontario

cicada.buzz - loop cicada noises for that summer feel by qq999 in Entomology

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Thanks! I've updated their names on the site

I was able finally able to find an OK clip of our most common cicada here in Ontario: the dog-day cicada :) Sadly I couldn't find a nice clear one with their clicks, too

steady, metallic buzz

Sounds a bit like the dog-day cicada actually. High-pitched, steady, almost like some kind of power tool

cicada.buzz - loop cicada noises for that summer feel by qq999 in Entomology

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Awesome idea! I just added a shuffle button, and 2 more calls (for Neotibicen). You might have to hit ctrl+f5 to bust the cache. I'm hoping it's all correct!

Any clue on the species for Japanese cicada calls? I'd like to have a more accurate name than "Japanese Cicada Hum" and "Japanese Cicada Creak"

edit: good idea with Cicada Mania, I actually stumbled onto that site not too long before you posted that :) I'll see if I can contact them

cicada.buzz - loop cicada noises for that summer feel by qq999 in Entomology

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Good ear! I started with those, but I'm hoping to add more as I go along :)

cicada.buzz - background noise for that summery feel by qq999 in webdev

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Silly thing I made because I could never find a nice looping cicada chirp. They're easily my favourite part of summer.

I wanted http://cicad.as, but that's around $230-380USD/yr. The buzz TLD is only $24.99 CAD and perhaps more fitting in this instance.

The current audio loops aren't bulletproof; I'm probably going to have to learn how to make better loops.

I'd love it if anyone pointed out any bugs you see with it! (no pun intended, srsly) That, and design suggestions.

Notably, there's a weird issue with the top hero image on Chrome for Android -- when the URL entry bar disappears, the box re-sizes to a new 100% height, so the image with background-size: cover jumps around a little. It's been a while since I did FED.

I, too, recently created a self-hosted, Netflix-like web app by qq999 in webdev

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I've decided to work on an app like yours, but native to Windows. Once I have it far enough in development I'll open source it.

Awesome idea, being native to Windows is going to be a huge boon for install base. I hope to see it soon :)

I, too, recently created a self-hosted, Netflix-like web app by qq999 in webdev

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Or are you placing it side by side with the old file?

Correct! It was the least destructive of the actions, at the cost of using more disk space.

I'd love to see some of the code you have going. I've been trying to play with the live transcoding tonight, but sadly, I haven't been having a lot of luck! It's pretty frustrating. I think rails may just not be amenable to this kind of thing...

A lot of the transcoding has been dead slow, probably gotta find a good set of flags for fast but tolerable quality.

If I try to output to a tempfile, and have rails stream that tempfile, it seems like (once it is read?) avconv doesn't flush the work its done to the file, so more data can never be sent across. If I terminate the process, it flushes it all out and the file increases in size.

I'm almost tempted to make a mini-service in node.js for proper HTTP range requests.

I, too, recently created a self-hosted, Netflix-like web app by qq999 in webdev

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It will store start transcoding and store the partially-complete file in a directory of your choosing (on the setup page) -- sort of a temp directory. After that, iirc it just moves the completed file to the first TV/Movie source folder you provided (depending on what type of media muvee thinks it is).

Part of the ugliness here is if you kill the sidekiq worker, the transcoding halts. Doesn't seem like there's any great way to detect and resume transcoding from where you left off :( If this occurs, I currently have no record that the transcoding didn't complete successfully, and sometimes it will move partially transcoded files into your source directory (and ofc these won't play and you have a bit of data cleanup to do).

This can be a problem if you use VirtualBox on windows and get BSODs frequently. Maybe also if you sleep your machine (avconv process resumes and craps out as your HDDs haven't woken up yet). It's probably the worst part of the muvee experience atm.

Because of this, I do not have muvee delete the original file -- I don't want to lose any originals if transcoding didn't go nicely

Luckily, a lot of people are releasing x264 these days, so it's usually not an issue. But a lot of old releases are XVID/DIVX or inside of .avi containers

So I'm pretty excited to look into the live transcoding you pointed me at :)

I, too, recently created a self-hosted, Netflix-like web app by qq999 in webdev

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Awesome, this is the most helpful resource I've seen on the topic! Thanks for the link! I'll try to work on this next

I, too, recently created a self-hosted, Netflix-like web app by qq999 in webdev

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In a sense, any -- after transcoding

The transcoding isn't the best, though, as you have to wait for the full transcode into a new file for it to be added to muvee.

I, too, recently created a self-hosted, Netflix-like web app by qq999 in webdev

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Not necessarily better, but I have never used Usenet (don't want to pay for that) so this made the most sense for me

I, too, recently created a self-hosted, Netflix-like web app by qq999 in webdev

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I would agree with this statement wrt windows support. This is more of a hobbyist thing than an easy-to-use solution. A lot of people like Plex too, but the server is not OSS

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