shakna-israel

Let's Destroy C

I have a pet project I work on, every now and then. CNoEvil.

The concept is simple enough.

What if, for a moment, we forgot all the rules we know. That we ignore every good idea, and accept all the terrible ones. That nothing is off limits. Can we turn C into a new language? Can we do what Lisp and Forth let the over-eager programmer do, but in C?

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Disclaimer: Please follow this guide being aware of the fact that I'm not an expert regarding the things outlined below, however I made my best attempt. A few people in IRC confirmed it worked for them and the results looked acceptable.

Attention: After following all the steps run gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders --update-cache as root, this prevents various gdk-related bugs that have been reported in the last few hours. Symptoms are varied, and for Cinnamon the DE fails to start entirely while for XFCE the icon theme seemingly can't be changed anymore etc.

Check the gist's comments for any further tips and instructions, especially if you are running into problems!

Screenshots

Results after following the guide as of 11.01.2017 13:08:

protrolium

Install ImageMagick

brew install ImageMagick

Pull specific region of frames from video file w/ ffmpeg

ffmpeg -ss 14:55 -i video.mkv -t 5 -s 480x270 -f image2 %04d.png

• -ss 14:55 gives the timestamp where I want FFmpeg to start, as a duration string.
  
• -t 5 says how much I want FFmpeg to decode, using the same duration syntax as for -ss.
  
• -s 480x270 tells FFmpeg to resize the video output to 480 by 270 pixels.
  
• -f image2 selects the output format, a series of still images — make sure there are leading zeros in filename.