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technology. Nicholas Serra’s dev blog Posts about programming and technology. The How do I digitize/transfer/capture video tapes” quick info thread (reddit backup) FYI this post is a backup of my reddit post. Now that reddit is pulling a tumblr I figured self hosting is in order. Why a How do I digitize/transfer/capture video tapes” thread? I see this question asked on DataHoarder a couple times a week, mostly with the same good and bad answers. Hopefully this thread will serve the purpose of providing basic and in depth info and options for digitizing common video tapes. Will be asking mods to sticky this. I’ll be making updates if anyone has strong opinions or things to add. Who are you? I frequent this sub and spend a lot of time transferring tapes for various communities, here’s my setup: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/g2l5ow/video_archival_rack_build_one_year_update_more/ Basics The way in which you digitize your tapes is going to depend on the tape format and the quality you wish to achieve. As with most things, you get what you pay for, and the higher the quality you desire the more you’re going to go down a rabbit hole of information. This post will cover the common formats you’re likely to deal with: VHS, VHSC, HI8, Video8, Digital8, and miniDV. Continue reading The How do I digitize/transfer/capture video tapes” quick info thread (reddit backup)” Author nick Posted on July 2, 2023 July 2, 2023 Categories Uncategorized Leave a comment on The How do I digitize/transfer/capture video tapes” quick info thread (reddit backup) ECS cloudwatch task error: The specified log group does not exist” This quick one is just for the googlers. Saw an error bringing up tasks on a fresh ECS cluster and task run. The task definition included configuration to send logs to a cloudwatch log group. "logConfiguration": { "logDriver": "awslogs", "options": { "awslogs-group": "web", "awslogs-region": "us-west-2", "awslogs-stream-prefix": "ecs" } } Unfortunately this is missing a not well documented flag: "awslogs-create-group": "true", Adding this argument, along with the correct permissions to create log groups, allows the task to create the group and send logs. The following permission is needed on the task execution role: logs:CreateLogGroup Full docs here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/using_awslogs.html Author nick Posted on July 18, 2022 July 18, 2022 Categories Uncategorized Tags aws , ecs Leave a comment on ECS cloudwatch task error: The specified log group does not exist” Boxee Box Can’t connect to internet” fix, cloned Boxee services The Boxee Box was a short lived but powerful set top box by D-link that was released 2010 and discontinued 2012. All Boxee Boxes relied on an application server hosted by D-link at boxee.tv for periodic phone-home calls and service endpoints. In June 2019 these application servers went down, resulting in all Boxee Boxes still in operation throwing Can’t connect to internet” errors and all user profiles and apps going offline. In August 2019 I released a small python Flask app, boxee-server-light , to replace the downed boxee.tv servers. This code was created by referencing an existing project by Jimmy Conner ( cigamit , boxeed.in forums). To use it, you’ll need to add DNS entries for all boxee application urls, pointing to the boxee-server-light application. For example: 18.211.111.89 app.boxee.tv 18.211.111.89 api.boxee.tv 18.211.111.89 dir.boxee.tv 18.211.111.89 s3.boxee.tv 18.211.111.89 t.boxee.tv 18.211.111.89 res.boxee.tv 18.211.111.89 0.ping.boxee.tv 18.211.111.89 1.ping.boxee.tv 18.211.111.89 2.ping.boxee.tv 18.211.111.89 3.ping.boxee.tv 18.211.111.89 4.ping.boxee.tv 18.211.111.89 5.ping.boxee.tv 18.211.111.89 6.ping.boxee.tv 18.211.111.89 7.ping.boxee.tv 18.211.111.89 8.ping.boxee.tv 18.211.111.89 9.ping.boxee.tv 18.211.111.89 dl.boxee.tv … where the IP is the address of the Flask application. For those who are unable to run their own DNS or this application, I am hosting a public version of this code. You can add my public DNS server to your router config, or set it as custom DNS on your Boxee Box in network settings. You can also point directly to my public application server using your own DNS. My public DNS server is by whitelist only, so please email me (I don’t check comments often) if you would like access. Public DNS server address: 18.211.111.89 Public application server address: 18.213.38.199 18.211.111.89 (also) For more up to date info and discussion, check out my Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/boxee/comments/ci4ugj/boxee_cloned_server_updates_working_server/ FAQ: Do I need a static IP address from my ISP to use the public DNS? Yes. I’ll need to whitelist your IP address. If you get a new one every day this won’t work. I run my own local DNS. Do I need to be whitelisted to use your application server? No. Map the boxee domains to my public app server as shown above. No whitelist required. I’m logged out of my boxee box. How do I log back in while using this app? Any username and password combo will work to log you back in. I reset my boxee box. What firmware do I need to be using to use your public servers? 1.5.1 (latest) seems to work best. If you can’t find this firmware, email me. Do apps work with this project? I don’t have any apps connected yet. PRs welcome. I’m not 100% sure if app downloading will work without some additional code. Author nick Posted on December 16, 2019 February 12, 2024 Categories Uncategorized Tags boxee , boxee box , flask , python 457 Comments on Boxee Box Can’t connect to internet” fix, cloned Boxee services HAProxy dynamic backend selection with Lua script HAProxy is a popular load balancer with extensive configuration options, including the ability to influence balancing and other options via Lua scripts. In this post i’ll show how it’s possible to influence HAProxy backend selection via a Lua script. The use case for this situation was the necessity to choose a backend server based off of the responses from each possible backend. First, Lua needs to be installed and HAProxy needs to be installed with Lua support. This involves building HAProxy with USE_LUA=1 environment var set during make . Here’s a stripped down config example, with relevant lines commented. Not all required config attributes are included for brevity. global # Load custom lua script. I usually put this alongside the haproxy.conf. lua-load /etc/haproxy/pick_backend.lua # Frontend config, rtmp traffic. frontend frontendrtmp bind *:1935 mode tcp # inspect-delay was required or else was seeing timeouts during lua script run tcp-request inspect-delay 1m # This line intercepts the incoming tcp request and pipes it through lua function, called "pick backend" tcp-request content lua.pick_backend # use_backend based off of the "streambackend" response variable we inject via lua script use_backend %[var(req.streambackend)] # Example backends. One server per backend. The Lua script will iterate through all backends # with "backendrtmp" prefix. # HAProxy use_server attribute does not yet support lua scripts, so backends necessary. backend backendrtmp1 mode tcp server rtmp 123.456.789.0:1935 check Requests to the frontendrtmp” frontend are routed through the Lua script, which checks each listed backend and chooses one based off its response. Here’s the Lua script: local function pick_backend(txn) winner_name = ’backendrtmp1’Needs to match available backend. winner_count = -1 -initial count flag for backend_name ,v in pairs(core.backends) do if (backend_name ~= ’MASTER’) thenFilter out built in backend nameiterate backend servers dict, assuming one server per backend. for server_name, server in pairs(v.servers) do Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Next page Search for: Search Follow Me: Recent Posts The How do I digitize/transfer/capture video tapes” quick info thread (reddit backup) ECS cloudwatch task error: The specified log group does not exist” Boxee Box Can’t connect...