Category: NZTekonverse -> Linux

  • Raspberry Pi [4]: Raspberry Pi vs Chromecast

    I last wrote about my Raspberry Pi back in July, and since then it hasn’t been used. I decided against using it to play videos because it had some trouble playing some of the ones in my collection. At this point I went back to playback from a computer, and subsequently pc4 was used for…

  • OpenSong, Video editing, Computing resources optimisation [2E]

    OpenSong is a FOSS open source worship presentation package that is produced for Linux, Windows and macOS platforms. It was first released quite a few years ago, and is a bit out of date, with presumably no regular maintenance at present. Obviously my interest will stem from it being both FOSS and Linux capable. I…

  • Free Linux video editors [2]

    I have written a few times about video editing, in May this year I talked about a few free packages I had tried out that didn’t work. As mediapc now has more memory and a better hardware spec, I am planning to install Blender, Handbrake, Lightworks and ShotCut on it and see if those packages…

  • Computing resources optimisation [2D]

    I am going ahead with this so I have been busy over the last few days installing and removing things around the place. To date I have installed the old mediapc chassis with a new board, CPU and RAM, GA-B250M-D3H with Kaby Lake Pentium G4560, and moving all three disks across from serverpc. It was…

  • Linux video driver issues

    One of the challenges with Linux is that bug fixes can be slow to be developed and there can be issues when libraries are updated in a component of a distro in a different time cycle from other parts and therefore break software. For example, in Qgis there is a version of it that depends…