Monthly Archives: April 2021

Pinephone Megapixels vs cli ffmpeg

Posted on April 12, 2021 by twongkee

here is a comparison, a few seconds apart of the ffmpeg cli vs megapixels app. not identical framing, since I think I moved the phone a slight bit between shots, but close: just used the defaults for megapixels. to my … Continue reading →

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Pinephone Camera on CLI with ffmpeg and media-ctl

Posted on April 11, 2021 by twongkee

Still on postmarketOS. using bash, to call media-ctl and ffmpeg take pictures with the pinephone camera. need to setup the camera for the resolution and format required : media-ctl \ -d /dev/media1 \ –set-v4l2 ‘”ov5640 4-004c”:0[fmt:SBGGR8_1X8/2592×1944@1/15]’ then call ffmpeg to … Continue reading →

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Toronto, Blue Jay Action Shot!

Posted on April 4, 2021 by twongkee

Spring is here, but the birds still like our feeder: They do not sit at the feeder for very long, they swoop down, grab a seed and then fly off again.

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Old laptop: 32G ram!

Posted on April 4, 2021 by twongkee

This week, updated ram in a 5 year old lenovo gaming laptop to run some recent games. Is an i7, 4 core 8 thread system. The instructions for getting to the memory are on ifixit! One added twist: That laptop’s … Continue reading →