The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

[Wu Wei]

Tomorrow it will be June.
I won't be as ready for the big engine show as I'd planned.
That's OK. Things are looking for picking up my Fitchburg
steam engine in NJ. And I've got 2 new forklift operators
to get oriented. Woohoo!

 

[Revoltingest]

That's cuz you have no forklift.

 

[Brickjectivity]

I still need to clean it up and finish parametizing it. But it was a test of my congnitive ability to write something in powershell which I don't really know but which is actually simple outside of the incredible complexity of ffmpeg.
Set-Location "\\srwc-files\Video Work\ds-jc-VIDEO THUMBNAIL Work\ffmpeg" $ffmpeg = "ffmpeg" $pathtomp4 = "..\mp4\" $outputDir = "..\IMG\" $videos = Get-ChildItem -Path $pathtomp4 -Recurse -Filter *.mp4 $startTime = "00:00:03" $interval = "00:02:00" $imageCount = 4 $imageWidth = 100 Write-Output "Extracting jpeg from mp4" # Command to skip the first 3 seconds of the video $skipCommand = "-ss $startTime" # Command to extract images from every 2 minutes #$extractCommand = "-vf fps=1/$interval,scale=$imageWidth:-1" Write-Output "Working on:" foreach ($video in $videos) { $inputfile = $pathtomp4 + "\" + $video Write-Output $video $outputfile = $OutputDir + "\" + $video # Construct the full FFmpeg command $ffmpegCommand = .\ffmpeg.exe -loglevel error -i $inputfile -ss $startTime -vf fps=0.00833333333,scale=100:-1 -q:v 2 -frames:v 5 ${outputfile}_%04d.jpg

Nice one! I remember making some powershell stuff and using Get-ChildItem. I like how clear and well described your code is.

 

[Brickjectivity]

Was there a forklift in The Shining or was there a steer skid?

 

[Revoltingest]

Was there a forklift in The Shining or was there a steer skid?

I don't recall either.
But there was a snow cat.
Dick Hallorann (Scatman Crothers) drove it.

 

[Revoltingest]

Oh....

 

[Wu Wei]

That's cuz you have no forklift.

you may be right....makes me think back to when I was a wee bear and drove one of these.

Wonder if I can figure out a way to justify buying one for my IT job

 

[Revoltingest]

Ugh!

The Hottest New Home Amenity? ‘It’s Brutal.’

Homeowners are spending tens of thousands of dollars to outfit their properties with cold plunges.

www.wsj.com

 

[sun rise]

you may be right....makes me think back to when I was a wee bear and drove one of these.

Wonder if I can figure out a way to justify buying one for my IT job

I'd get a "Illudium Q-36 Space Modulator" instead.

 

[Wu Wei]

I'd get a "Illudium Q-36 Space Modulator" instead.

Shows what you know...you haven't LIVED until you're 3 stories up and driving a picker

 

[Wu Wei]

You have to know, at some point, one of these guys said...Hey, I got a great idea.....

 

[Revoltingest]

I'd get a "Illudium Q-36 Space Modulator" instead.

 

[Wu Wei]

n

 

[Wu Wei]

huh...that's weird..... all of a sudden I'm in a mood to watch the movie Commando

 

[Shadow Wolf]

'how about' ought to be contracted to one word instead of two.

We also need to acknowledge that verbally we can contract three words into one.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Duhhhh....it was made obsolete and replaced by the Infinite Improbability Drive.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Shows what you know...you haven't LIVED until you're 3 stories up and driving a picker

Looked as "please kill me now" boring as everybody elses job when I was at Dollar General.

 

[sun rise]

Duhhhh....it was made obsolete and replaced by the Infinite Improbability Drive.

I'm going to bang the rocks together for a bit.

 

[Brickjectivity]

Duhhhh....it was made obsolete and replaced by the Infinite Improbability Drive.

You obviously haven't heard of the Infamous Improbability Drive (so named because most people never heard of it).

 

[sun rise]

You obviously haven't heard of the Infamous Improbability Drive (so named because most people never heard of it).

What about the infamous impossibility drive?