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Blog: https://alexdelorenzo.dev

GitHub: https://github.com/alexdelorenzo

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    Comment #39912522

    LGPL only stipulates that users have the freedom to link against their own version of the LGPL library you're using. You don't have to open source anything if you don't want to.

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    Comment #39912477

    > QT needs a commercial license which is pretty expensive Are you sure about that? Most of Qt for desktop is licensed under LGPL or similarly permissive licenses that don't require…

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    Comment #38622475

    Not necessarily. A while ago, I found the need to stream directly from yt-dlp instead of downloading full videos[1]. You can have yt-dlp write to stdout and pipe that stream into y…

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    > (not certain if grep is reading the pipe as it is output or waits for execution to complete first) Commands to the left of the pipe block upon writing to the pipe, and commands t…

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    Comment #24902569

    I use youtube-dl to improve YouTube video playback on older Chromecasts[1]. [1] https://alexdelorenzo.dev/linux/2020/03/14/pipes

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    Comment #24538429

    > How would this work on macOS? Theoretically it should work if you're able to get D-Bus working on macOS. D-Bus is usually a Linux thing, but it's been ported to other platforms. …

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    Comment #24538400

    While you have chromecast_mpris running, you can use an MPRIS client to issue the OpenUri method[1]. Here's an example: $ export URL="http://ccmixter.org/content/gmz/gmz_-_Parameta…

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    Comment #24538254

    I do something similar with chromecast_mpris. I have my media keys mapped to Plasma's Media Controller, which uses MPRIS in the background. Works well for me, and you don't have to…

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    Comment #24538184

    I opened a bug report[1] regarding this issue a few days ago if you'd like to leave a comment. [1] https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/25116

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    Comment #24538146

    Thanks for your work on pychromecast, I've looked and it's the best supported library for working with Chromecasts out there. It was also pleasant to integrate into this project. D…

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    Comment #24528842

    I liked this idea so I packaged 'ding' into something you can install[1]. [1] https://github.com/alexdelorenzo/onhold

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    Comment #24505156

    I've been wanting to run something like OpenFaaS on some low-powered machines of mine, so this looks pretty cool.

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