@“TheFragranceOfDarkCoffee”#p108990 Ah thank you. I knew that FFMPEG can do all kind of stuff but I just want to avoid command lines hehhhh… I should learn this actually.
Edit: I just Binged "ffmpeg command for muxing jpg and mp3 into mp4 video" and got this:
"This command will create an mp4 video with the name output.mp4 by combining the input.jpg and input.mp3 files. The -loop 1 option will loop the image infinitely, and the -shortest option will make the output video the same duration as the shortest input stream (either the image or the audio). The -vf option is used to scale the image to 1920x1080, pad it with black bars if necessary, and set the pixel aspect ratio to 1. The -fflags +shortest option is used to stop the encoding process as soon as the shortest input stream ends"
Another request - now that Google has ruined Google translate by integrating Google lens, and won't let me use the old version I installed that worked fine for a while, is there a good translation app for phones that does camera translation? I feel like a really good business could be made out of re-making tools big software companies ruined. I guess it is kinda a good business already.
@“KennyL”#p109019 Consider grabbing Shutter Encoder, which is just a frontend wrapper around ffmpeg.
@"exodus"#p109073 if you have an apple device, they have their own Translate app. It doesn't do the live AR style translate google does (did?), but it has camera support in the app -- point at something, press a button, and it finds text in the image and translates.
@“rejj”#p109106 Hey thanks but it‘s a no go I must say. It looks simple but very unintuitive to use. I couldn’t figure out how to put a png and mp3 to together to make a mp4 hehh… Replacing audio option seems to be running but got nonworking output file. Also video editor is very choppy for me. Bing's ffmpeg command worked lololol.
If anyone is looking for a suite of design software that doesn't come with an exorbitant subscription I recommend Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher. Runs on both Windows and OSX (and iPad) and are a powerful set of tools that I used for the past few years as a freelance designer.
The audio one I use for straight up switching audio devices using hotkeys, and on the video one i have like 5 different combinations that I also have assigned to hotkeys. (eg. main monitor and second monitor, main monitor only, tv only, only tv and main monito, main monitor and crt etc,)
Apologies for a request rather than a recommendation: what has everyone been using as alternatives to Google services? I‘ve already been using Firefox instead of Google Chrome and Duck Duck Go instead of Google’s search engine for many years, but I‘m stilled tied up in the Gmail + Google Drive ecosystem. Here’s some reasons why:
- I'm aware of many other email services, but creating a new account and bringing all my associated accounts and subscriptions over seems horrendously tedious – plus, doing so manually as opposed to having the process be automated would surely lead to errors and forgetfulness.
- I've tried other file-sharing services like Dropbox but something about their sharing options always seems to go wrong, which is embarrassing when working with a professional client or collaborator. Google Drive's file-sharing options are intuitively simple and streamlined.
- Google Drive's legally distinct yet functionally identical Microsoft Office suite available entirely for free is ludicrously convenient, especially as a tie-in with their as-mentioned similarly convenient file-sharing system.
I'm not looking for one big, all-consuming single replacement for all of these problems at once – the _last_ thing I want is Google 2. But if there's an email provider that makes transitioning process as smooth as possible, a file-sharing system as streamlined as Google Drive's, and a similar fully-featured replacement to the Microsoft Office suite, I'd be able to leave all this Google trash behind forever. It'd be nice if the file-sharing service and the Microsoft Office replacement were still a single entity, but that's a want and not a need. If anyone's got recommendations, I'd love to hear them.
@“Funbil”#p129528 Without a smidgen of a shadow of a suggestion of a doubt, the best Microsoft Office replacement is LibreOffice! It doesn‘t have browser editing or an app – to my knowledge, the only reasonable options for that are Google Workspace and Microsoft’s Office 365 – but as a drop-in replacement for Microsoft Office on PCs, it can't be beat.
@“Funbil”#p129528 for email, I always recommend Fastmail. I‘ve been using them for years and years and never had anything but a good experience. I’ve convinced a couple of friends to move to it too.
A while back I had to search a very large number of files for a specific string of hlsl code. The files were code generated, so the names were not human readable so I had no idea what file it was in.
I used [Agent Ransack](https://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/) and it changed my life. If you ever need to search for certain strings and the number of files is very large (like your whole computer or something) this tool is remarkable. It supports all kinds of text markup too, to find partial matches etc. I was just amazed at how fast it chewed through some 50 GB of files. Highly recommended.