Finding specific multimedia samples
Thu 13 Aug 2020
When working in multimedia or image processing projects such as FFmpeg, we tend to accumulate a lot of samples over...
Story of debugging a crash in MPD
Wed 12 Aug 2020
Getting close to 3 years without posting. I haven't been peacefully enjoying a retired commoner life during all this time....
Self editing a (French) novel with free and open source software
Wed 25 Oct 2017
In 2013, my companion wrote a novel about medieval music and audio senses, *De Auditu*. Originally distributed exclusively on the...
Making development board cases with ShimonBox
Tue 17 Oct 2017
Collecting ARM development boards has become a disease I've been carrying for a while now. Welcoming a new board to...
Dealing with the ARM AArch64 SIMD documentation
Fri 26 May 2017
The ARMv8 instruction set documentation has always been garbage, and particularly the SIMD sections. In comparison, the Intel documentation provides...
Understanding selective coloring in Adobe Photoshop
Sat 07 Jan 2017
Photoshop has many interesting color filters, most of them being perfidiously documented such that you can understand how to use...
High quality GIF with FFmpeg
Mon 16 Mar 2015
About two years ago, I tried to improve the support of the GIF encoding in FFmpeg to make it at...
Templating in C
Sat 28 Feb 2015
The question of how to do templating in C is often raised, and I couldn't find a good overview of...
Butchering HQX scaling filters
Sat 21 Jun 2014
The [HQX filters][wphqx], namely hq2x, hq3x and hq4x, are well-known pixel art scalers. They are mainly used by old console...
Kanji 3D Mapping fun hack
Tue 14 May 2013
In my [previous post][learn-japanese], I tried to build a map of the Kanjis. The result was barely useful, and not...