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FraKtus

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About FraKtus

Software architect, fascinated by music visualization. http://blog.fraktus.com

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    Tetrik is a great track and the visualisations are great. For me having visuals nicely synchronised to the music is adding a lot. Now that you have a nice custom tools to produce v…

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    Comment #25969794

    From very far. Quartz Composer is a graph of filers that you can interconnect in a graphical interface. You use it to create visual filters or generators. iTunes was using Quartz c…

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    Comment #25658846

    I tried several things but what got the interest of my daughter(10) is code.org She also uses it at school, and she regularly enjoys working with it on her own. Because she seems t…

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    Comment #25456242

    Does not seems to work with Safari 13, had no problems with Chrome on macOS. Really great, did show this to my daughter that is into comics!

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    Comment #25414082

    It does not work for me with Safari 13, no sound. Works fine with Chrome. This is nice! Can you explain how you implemented the interface?

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    Comment #25286751

    Editing the code is weird with Safari 13, the pointer was a few char off. Exporting PNG does not work.

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    Comment #25138384

    There is no need of homebrew to install ffmpeg on Apple Silicon. I could just ./configure and make on the DTK. ffmpeg has so many configure options, I always avoid building it with…

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    Comment #24989422

    Maybe it is still VBL related, in the DX11 sample you will see this when presenting the final frame: g_pSwapChain->Present(1, 0); // Present with vsync //g_pSwapChain->Present(0, 0…

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    Comment #24908946

    Do you have an idea why they are doing that? Why would you maintain 2 targets doing the same thing for an OS?

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    Comment #24886995

    It's difficult because it depends on the player you will use and the destination codec. I keep a document with arguments I use for each of my use case.

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    Comment #24884990

    I use FFmpeg for many years, and I did wonder many times why isn't there a CLI that would be simpler to use but still useful for most tasks. To my knowledge, no project succeeded i…

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    Comment #24879411

    Congratulations! As a developer of VJ applications for more than 25 years, it deeply resonates with me. I will wait to be able to create an account with my email rather than using …

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    Comment #24866538

    It's true that if you simply use it on it's simple form such as "ffmpeg -i in.mp4 out.mov" the default bitrate will favour creating small files that will have artefacts, as soon as…

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    Comment #24828619

    Not sure, because the Apple II was easy to copy and it was very popular to buy a Pear computer without roms and just insert the copy of the EPROMs to have a full functional Apple I…

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    Comment #24826821

    It did stutter a little bit but I could enjoy it with Chrome on my MacBook Pro 2012.

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    Comment #24718395

    I wonder how would Gould react after listening to the Goldberg recording made by Lang Lang...

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    Comment #24605133

    There are many more examples on the shader toy web site. https://www.shadertoy.com/results?query=webcam It's running fine on my MacBook Pro with Chrome.

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    Comment #24590830

    I am not knowledgeable with WASM, can it enable threading in FFmpeg? That’s where FFmpeg shine...

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    Comment #24290390

    One example is Parallels Desktop, they constantly mail me to upgrade but there is no information what system version they run on. So I downloaded the installer and just launched it…

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    Comment #24047820

    Godot has only OpenGL renderers. Do they plan to add DirectX and Metal?

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    Comment #24021364

    Thanks! penetrum has this nice white paper: Penetrum_TikTok_Security_Analysis_whitepaper.pdf This is their conclusion: "After extensive research, we have found that not only is Tik…

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    Comment #24020125

    We are on HN here, right? Does anybody was able to do a man in the middle inspection to prove that the app is spying on Users? Does anybody did inspect the binary and found a back …