Streaming

Again from the stop-trying-to-use every-flag-available department. This makes me think about this Percona engineer who once told me and my team “people keep tuning MySQL with tons of configuration options when really 10 parameters define 90% of the performance”.

For some reason, I was somewhere where I needed to stream my webcam quickly to a remote machine on my home network through a VPN in order to record the current place. Again, I stumbled upon an infinite list of sites where people tried to use every possible ffmpeg flag. Seems like people love Fabrice Bellard so much they want to honor every bit of his creations.

I’m a bit of a stressed person, and when I’m not home, I like to have a webcam streaming what’s going on, mainly to see how my dog is doing. At my main house, I use the fabulous motion project, which has a ton of cool features like recording images and videos when there’s movement, playing a sound, handling many cameras and so on.

As I said before, I acquired an apartment destined for rental, and it has really poor Internet access, as it is located on the mountainside, only weak ADSL was possible to get.
Another point, I own a MacBook Pro for music purposes, and when I come crash here, this is the computer I take with me so I can compose if inspiration comes ;) So when I get out the apartment, this will be the machine streaming what’s happening in the house.