protrolium

ffmpeg

Converting Audio into Different Formats / Sample Rates

Minimal example: transcode from MP3 to WMA:
ffmpeg -i input.mp3 output.wma

You can get the list of supported formats with:
ffmpeg -formats

You can get the list of installed codecs with:

jFransham

Achieving warp speed with Rust

Contents:

• Number one optimization tip: don't
• Never optimize blindly
• Don't bother optimizing one-time costs
• Improve your algorithms
• CPU architecture primer
• Keep as much as possible in cache
• Keep as much as possible in registers

natefoo

Distribution Detection

I am working on adding support for building and distributing (via PyPI) Python Wheels with C Extensions to the Python wheel and pip packages. The discussion on Distutils-SIG continues, but I believe it is fairly certain that some effort to correctly identify Linux distributions will need to be made. I've begun efforts to add this support to wheel.

How you can help

If you have a Linux distribution or version of a listed distribution not in this gist, or one of the ones I have not directly verified, I could use the following:

• The contents of /etc/os-release, if it exists

rajkosto

#!/usr/bin/env python3
#ODI DFP-34X-2C2 MAC_KEY key generator by rajkosto

import sys
import string
import hashlib

args = sys.argv
if len(args) != 2:
	sys.exit("Usage: odi_keygen.py YOURMACADDR")

AHaymond

1. Edit the mirror list located at /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist and uncomment a preferred mirror (preferrably closest to you)
2. Initialize Pacman GPG Keys
    - $> pacman-key --init
    - $> pacman-key --populate archlinux
    - $> pacman-key --refresh-keys -u --keyserver hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net
        *The use of the --keyserver flag is due to an error that currently occurs when using the default keyserver
3. Reinstall Arch keyring
    - $> pacman -S archlinux-keyring
4. Install Yay (if desired)
    - Create a user (you cannot run makepkg as root, you must be signed in as a user)

Brainiarc7

Deploying rEFInd on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with secure boot enabled

Hello guys,

For these dual-booting Ubuntu 16.04 with an alternate operating system in UEFI boot mode, it may often be necessary to use a third-party boot manager such as rEFInd, as it's significantly superior to grub2's on UEFI-capable systems.

This write-up assumes that:

(a). The user is running a current Ubuntu 16.04LTS operating system installation (preferably on a dual-boot system)

kconner

macOS Internals

Understand your Mac and iPhone more deeply by tracing the evolution of Mac OS X from prelease to Swift. John Siracusa delivers the details.

Starting Points

How to use this gist

You've got two main options:

brson

Edit: This list is now maintained in the rust-anthology repo.

• Introduction
  • Understanding Over Guesswork
  • An Alternative Introduction to Rust
  • Rust and CSV Parsing
• Ownership
  • Where Rust Really Shines
  • Rust Means Never Having to Close a Socket
• The Problem with Single-threaded Shared Mutability

silvesthu

GPU Optimization for GameDev

Graphics Pipeline / GPU Architecture Overview

• 2011 - A trip through the Graphics Pipeline 2011
• 2015 - Life of a triangle - NVIDIA's logical pipeline
• 2015 - Render Hell 2.0
• 2016 - How bad are small triangles on GPU and why?
• 2017 - GPU Performance for Game Artists
• 2019 - Understanding the anatomy of GPUs using Pokémon
• 2020 - GPU ARCHITECTURE RESOURCES

mjackson

/**
 * Converts an RGB color value to HSL. Conversion formula
 * adapted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_color_space.
 * Assumes r, g, and b are contained in the set [0, 255] and
 * returns h, s, and l in the set [0, 1].
 *
 * @param   Number  r       The red color value
 * @param   Number  g       The green color value
 * @param   Number  b       The blue color value
 * @return  Array           The HSL representation