<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Idea_for_finding_all_public_domain_movies_in_the_USA.html">Idea for finding all public domain movies in the USA</a></div>
- <div class="date">13th December 2017</div>
- <div class="body"><p>While looking at
-<a href="http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/cce/">the scanned copies
-for the copyright renewal entries for movies published in the USA</a>,
-an idea occurred to me. The number of renewals are so few per year, it
-should be fairly quick to transcribe them all and add references to
-the corresponding IMDB title ID. This would give the (presumably)
-complete list of movies published 28 years earlier that did _not_
-enter the public domain for the transcribed year. By fetching the
-list of USA movies published 28 years earlier and subtract the movies
-with renewals, we should be left with movies registered in IMDB that
-are now in the public domain. For the year 1955 (which is the one I
-have looked at the most), the total number of pages to transcribe is
-21. For the 28 years from 1950 to 1978, it should be in the range
-500-600 pages. It is just a few days of work, and spread among a
-small group of people it should be doable in a few weeks of spare
-time.</p>
-
-<p>A typical copyright renewal entry look like this (the first one
-listed for 1955):</p>
-
-<p><blockquote>
- ADAM AND EVIL, a photoplay in seven reels by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Distribution Corp. (c) 17Aug27; L24293. Loew's Incorporated (PWH);
- 10Jun55; R151558.
-</blockquote></p>
-
-<p>The movie title as well as registration and renewal dates are easy
-enough to locate by a program (split on first command and look for
-DDmmmYY). The rest of the text is not required to find the movie in
-IMDB, but is useful to confirm the correct movie is found. I am not
-quite sure what the L and R numbers mean, but suspect they are
-reference numbers into the archive of the US Copyright Office.</p>
-
-<p>Tracking down the equivalent IMDB title ID is probably going to be
-a manual task, but given the year it is fairly easy to search for the
-movie title using for example
-<a href="http://www.imdb.com/find?q=adam+and+evil+1927&s=all">http://www.imdb.com/find?q=adam+and+evil+1927&s=all</a>
-Using this search, I find that the equivalent IMDB title ID for the
-first renewal entry from 1955 is
-<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017588/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017588/</a>.</p>
-
-<p>I suspect the best way to do this would be to make a specialised
-web service to make it easy for contributors to transcribe and track
-down IMDB title IDs. In the web service, once a entry is transcribed,
-the title and year could be extracted from the text, a search in IMDB
-conducted for the user to pick the equivalent IMDB title ID right
-away. By spreading out the work among volunteers, it would also be
-possible to make at least two persons transcribe the same entries to
-be able to discover any typos introduced. But I will need help to
-make this happen, as I lack the spare time to do all of this on my
-own. If you would like to help, please get in touch. Perhaps you can
-draft a web service for crowd sourcing the task?</p>
-
-<p>Note, Project Gutenberg already have some
-<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=copyright+office+renewals">transcribed
-copies of the US Copyright Office renewal protocols</a>, but I have
-not been able to find any film renewals there, so I suspect they only
-have copies of renewal for written works. I have not been able to find
-any transcribed versions of movie renewals so far. Perhaps they exist
-somewhere?</p>
-
-<p>I would love to figure out methods for finding all the public
-domain works in other countries too, but it is a lot harder. At least
-for Norway and Great Britain, such work involve tracking down the
-people involved in making the movie and figuring out when they died.
-It is hard enough to figure out who was part of making a movie, but I
-do not know how to automate such procedure without a registry of every
-person involved in making movies and their death year.</p>
-
-<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
-activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
-<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Software_created_using_taxpayers__money_should_be_Free_Software.html">Software created using taxpayers’ money should be Free Software</a></div>
+ <div class="date">30th August 2018</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>It might seem obvious that software created using tax money should
+be available for everyone to use and improve. Free Software
+Foundation Europe recentlystarted a campaign to help get more people
+to understand this, and I just signed the petition on
+<a href="https://publiccode.eu/">Public Money, Public Code</a> to help
+them. I hope you too will do the same.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/verkidetfri">verkidetfri</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>.
</div>
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<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Is_the_short_movie__Empty_Socks__from_1927_in_the_public_domain_or_not_.html">Is the short movie «Empty Socks» from 1927 in the public domain or not?</a></div>
- <div class="date"> 5th December 2017</div>
- <div class="body"><p>Three years ago, a presumed lost animation film,
-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_Socks">Empty Socks from
-1927</a>, was discovered in the Norwegian National Library. At the
-time it was discovered, it was generally assumed to be copyrighted by
-The Walt Disney Company, and I blogged about
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Opphavsretts_status_for__Empty_Socks__fra_1927_.html">my
-reasoning to conclude</a> that it would would enter the Norwegian
-equivalent of the public domain in 2053, based on my understanding of
-Norwegian Copyright Law. But a few days ago, I came across
-<a href="http://www.toonzone.net/forums/threads/exposed-disneys-repurchase-of-oswald-the-rabbit-a-sham.4792291/">a
-blog post claiming the movie was already in the public domain</a>, at
-least in USA. The reasoning is as follows: The film was released in
-November or Desember 1927 (sources disagree), and presumably
-registered its copyright that year. At that time, right holders of
-movies registered by the copyright office received government
-protection for there work for 28 years. After 28 years, the copyright
-had to be renewed if the wanted the government to protect it further.
-The blog post I found claim such renewal did not happen for this
-movie, and thus it entered the public domain in 1956. Yet someone
-claim the copyright was renewed and the movie is still copyright
-protected. Can anyone help me to figure out which claim is correct?
-I have not been able to find Empty Socks in Catalog of copyright
-entries. Ser.3 pt.12-13 v.9-12 1955-1958 Motion Pictures
-<a href="http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/cce/1955r.html#film">available
-from the University of Pennsylvania</a>, neither in
-<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015084451130;page=root;view=image;size=100;seq=83;num=45">page
-45 for the first half of 1955</a>, nor in
-<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015084451130;page=root;view=image;size=100;seq=175;num=119">page
-119 for the second half of 1955</a>. It is of course possible that
-the renewal entry was left out of the printed catalog by mistake. Is
-there some way to rule out this possibility? Please help, and update
-the wikipedia page with your findings.
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_bit_more_on_privacy_respecting_health_monitor___fitness_tracker.html">A bit more on privacy respecting health monitor / fitness tracker</a></div>
+ <div class="date">13th August 2018</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>A few days ago, I wondered if there are any privacy respecting
+health monitors and/or fitness trackers available for sale these days.
+I would like to buy one, but do not want to share my personal data
+with strangers, nor be forced to have a mobile phone to get data out
+of the unit. I've received some ideas, and would like to share them
+with you.
+
+One interesting data point was a pointer to a Free Software app for
+Android named
+<a href="https://github.com/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/">Gadgetbridge</a>.
+It provide cloudless collection and storing of data from a variety of
+trackers. Its
+<a href="https://github.com/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/#supported-devices">list
+of supported devices</a> is a good indicator for units where the
+protocol is fairly open, as it is obviously being handled by Free
+Software. Other units are reportedly encrypting the collected
+information with their own public key, making sure only the vendor
+cloud service is able to extract data from the unit. The people
+contacting me about Gadgetbirde said they were using
+<a href="https://us.amazfit.com/shop/bip?variant=336750">Amazfit
+Bip</a> and
+<a href="http://www.xiaomimi6phone.com/xiaomi-mi-band-3-features-release-date-rumors/">Xiaomi
+Band 3</a>.</p>
+
+<p>I also got a suggestion to look at some of the units from Garmin.
+I was told their GPS watches can be connected via USB and show up as a
+USB storage device with
+<a href="https://www.gpsbabel.org/htmldoc-development/fmt_garmin_fit.html">Garmin
+FIT files</a> containing the collected measurements. While
+proprietary, FIT files apparently can be read at least by
+<a href="https://www.gpsbabel.org">GPSBabel</a> and the
+<a href="https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/gpxpod">GpxPod</a> Nextcloud
+app. It is unclear to me if they can read step count and heart rate
+data. The person I talked to was using a
+<a href="https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/564291">Garmin Forerunner
+935</a>, which is a fairly expensive unit. I doubt it is worth it for
+a unit where the vendor clearly is trying its best to move from open
+to closed systems. I still remember when Garmin dropped NMEA support
+in its GPSes.</p>
+
+<p>A final idea was to build ones own unit, perhaps by basing it on a
+wearable hardware platforms like
+<a href="https://learn.adafruit.com/flora-geo-watch">the Flora Geo
+Watch</a>. Sound like fun, but I had more money than time to spend on
+the topic, so I suspect it will have to wait for another time.</p>
+
+<p>While I was working on tracking down links, I came across an
+inspiring TED talk by Dave Debronkart about
+<a href="https://archive.org/details/DavedeBronkart_2010X">being a
+e-patient</a>, and discovered the web site
+<a href="https://participatorymedicine.org/epatients/">Participatory
+Medicine</a>. If you too want to track your own health and fitness
+without having information about your private life floating around on
+computers owned by others, I recommend checking it out.</p>
<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freeculture">freeculture</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/verkidetfri">verkidetfri</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Metadata_proposal_for_movies_on_the_Internet_Archive.html">Metadata proposal for movies on the Internet Archive</a></div>
- <div class="date">28th November 2017</div>
- <div class="body"><p>It would be easier to locate the movie you want to watch in
-<a href="https://www.archive.org/">the Internet Archive</a>, if the
-metadata about each movie was more complete and accurate. In the
-archiving community, a well known saying state that good metadata is a
-love letter to the future. The metadata in the Internet Archive could
-use a face lift for the future to love us back. Here is a proposal
-for a small improvement that would make the metadata more useful
-today. I've been unable to find any document describing the various
-standard fields available when uploading videos to the archive, so
-this proposal is based on my best quess and searching through several
-of the existing movies.</p>
-
-<p>I have a few use cases in mind. First of all, I would like to be
-able to count the number of distinct movies in the Internet Archive,
-without duplicates. I would further like to identify the IMDB title
-ID of the movies in the Internet Archive, to be able to look up a IMDB
-title ID and know if I can fetch the video from there and share it
-with my friends.</p>
-
-<p>Second, I would like the Butter data provider for The Internet
-archive
-(<a href="https://github.com/butterproviders/butter-provider-archive">available
-from github</a>), to list as many of the good movies as possible. The
-plugin currently do a search in the archive with the following
-parameters:</p>
-
-<p><pre>
-collection:moviesandfilms
-AND NOT collection:movie_trailers
-AND -mediatype:collection
-AND format:"Archive BitTorrent"
-AND year
-</pre></p>
-
-<p>Most of the cool movies that fail to show up in Butter do so
-because the 'year' field is missing. The 'year' field is populated by
-the year part from the 'date' field, and should be when the movie was
-released (date or year). Two such examples are
-<a href="https://archive.org/details/SidneyOlcottsBen-hur1905">Ben Hur
-from 1905</a> and
-<a href="https://archive.org/details/Caminandes2GranDillama">Caminandes
-2: Gran Dillama from 2013</a>, where the year metadata field is
-missing.</p>
-
-So, my proposal is simply, for every movie in The Internet Archive
-where an IMDB title ID exist, please fill in these metadata fields
-(note, they can be updated also long after the video was uploaded, but
-as far as I can tell, only by the uploader):
-
-<dl>
-
-<dt>mediatype</dt>
-<dd>Should be 'movie' for movies.</dd>
-
-<dt>collection</dt>
-<dd>Should contain 'moviesandfilms'.</dd>
-
-<dt>title</dt>
-<dd>The title of the movie, without the publication year.</dd>
-
-<dt>date</dt>
-<dd>The data or year the movie was released. This make the movie show
-up in Butter, as well as make it possible to know the age of the
-movie and is useful to figure out copyright status.</dd>
-
-<dt>director</dt>
-<dd>The director of the movie. This make it easier to know if the
-correct movie is found in movie databases.</dd>
-
-<dt>publisher</dt>
-<dd>The production company making the movie. Also useful for
-identifying the correct movie.</dd>
-
-<dt>links</dt>
-
-<dd>Add a link to the IMDB title page, for example like this: <a
-href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028496/">Movie in
-IMDB</a>. This make it easier to find duplicates and allow for
-counting of number of unique movies in the Archive. Other external
-references, like to TMDB, could be added like this too.</dd>
-
-</dl>
-
-<p>I did consider proposing a Custom field for the IMDB title ID (for
-example 'imdb_title_url', 'imdb_code' or simply 'imdb', but suspect it
-will be easier to simply place it in the links free text field.</p>
-
-<p>I created
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/public-domain-free-imdb">a
-list of IMDB title IDs for several thousand movies in the Internet
-Archive</a>, but I also got a list of several thousand movies without
-such IMDB title ID (and quite a few duplicates). It would be great if
-this data set could be integrated into the Internet Archive metadata
-to be available for everyone in the future, but with the current
-policy of leaving metadata editing to the uploaders, it will take a
-while before this happen. If you have uploaded movies into the
-Internet Archive, you can help. Please consider following my proposal
-above for your movies, to ensure that movie is properly
-counted. :)</p>
-
-<p>The list is mostly generated using wikidata, which based on
-Wikipedia articles make it possible to link between IMDB and movies in
-the Internet Archive. But there are lots of movies without a
-Wikipedia article, and some movies where only a collection page exist
-(like for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caminandes">the
-Caminandes example above</a>, where there are three movies but only
-one Wikidata entry).</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Privacy_respecting_health_monitor___fitness_tracker_.html">Privacy respecting health monitor / fitness tracker?</a></div>
+ <div class="date"> 7th August 2018</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>Dear lazyweb,</p>
+
+<p>I wonder, is there a fitness tracker / health monitor available for
+sale today that respect the users privacy? With this I mean a
+watch/bracelet capable of measuring pulse rate and other
+fitness/health related values (and by all means, also the correct time
+and location if possible), which is <strong>only</strong> provided for
+me to extract/read from the unit with computer without a radio beacon
+and Internet connection. In other words, it do not depend on a cell
+phone app, and do make the measurements available via other peoples
+computer (aka "the cloud"). The collected data should be available
+using only free software. I'm not interested in depending on some
+non-free software that will leave me high and dry some time in the
+future. I've been unable to find any such unit. I would like to buy
+it. The ones I have seen for sale here in Norway are proud to report
+that they share my health data with strangers (aka "cloud enabled").
+Is there an alternative? I'm not interested in giving money to people
+requiring me to accept "privacy terms" to allow myself to measure my
+own health.</p>
<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/verkidetfri">verkidetfri</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Legal_to_share_more_than_3000_movies_listed_on_IMDB_.html">Legal to share more than 3000 movies listed on IMDB?</a></div>
- <div class="date">18th November 2017</div>
- <div class="body"><p>A month ago, I blogged about my work to
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Locating_IMDB_IDs_of_movies_in_the_Internet_Archive_using_Wikidata.html">automatically
-check the copyright status of IMDB entries</a>, and try to count the
-number of movies listed in IMDB that is legal to distribute on the
-Internet. I have continued to look for good data sources, and
-identified a few more. The code used to extract information from
-various data sources is available in
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/public-domain-free-imdb">a
-git repository</a>, currently available from github.</p>
-
-<p>So far I have identified 3186 unique IMDB title IDs. To gain
-better understanding of the structure of the data set, I created a
-histogram of the year associated with each movie (typically release
-year). It is interesting to notice where the peaks and dips in the
-graph are located. I wonder why they are placed there. I suspect
-World War II caused the dip around 1940, but what caused the peak
-around 2010?</p>
-
-<p align="center"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-11-18-verk-i-det-fri-filmer.png" /></p>
-
-<p>I've so far identified ten sources for IMDB title IDs for movies in
-the public domain or with a free license. This is the statistics
-reported when running 'make stats' in the git repository:</p>
-
-<pre>
- 249 entries ( 6 unique) with and 288 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-archive-org-butter.json
- 2301 entries ( 540 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-archive-org-wikidata.json
- 830 entries ( 29 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-icheckmovies-archive-mochard.json
- 2109 entries ( 377 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-imdb-pd.json
- 291 entries ( 122 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-letterboxd-pd.json
- 144 entries ( 135 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-manual.json
- 350 entries ( 1 unique) with and 801 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-publicdomainmovies.json
- 4 entries ( 0 unique) with and 124 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-publicdomainreview.json
- 698 entries ( 119 unique) with and 118 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-publicdomaintorrents.json
- 8 entries ( 8 unique) with and 196 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-vodo.json
- 3186 unique IMDB title IDs in total
-</pre>
-
-<p>The entries without IMDB title ID are candidates to increase the
-data set, but might equally well be duplicates of entries already
-listed with IMDB title ID in one of the other sources, or represent
-movies that lack a IMDB title ID. I've seen examples of all these
-situations when peeking at the entries without IMDB title ID. Based
-on these data sources, the lower bound for movies listed in IMDB that
-are legal to distribute on the Internet is between 3186 and 4713.
-
-<p>It would be great for improving the accuracy of this measurement,
-if the various sources added IMDB title ID to their metadata. I have
-tried to reach the people behind the various sources to ask if they
-are interested in doing this, without any replies so far. Perhaps you
-can help me get in touch with the people behind VODO, Public Domain
-Torrents, Public Domain Movies and Public Domain Review to try to
-convince them to add more metadata to their movie entries?</p>
-
-<p>Another way you could help is by adding pages to Wikipedia about
-movies that are legal to distribute on the Internet. If such page
-exist and include a link to both IMDB and The Internet Archive, the
-script used to generate free-movies-archive-org-wikidata.json should
-pick up the mapping as soon as wikidata is updates.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sharing_images_with_friends_and_family_using_RSS_and_EXIF_XMP_metadata.html">Sharing images with friends and family using RSS and EXIF/XMP metadata</a></div>
+ <div class="date">31st July 2018</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>For a while now, I have looked for a sensible way to share images
+with my family using a self hosted solution, as it is unacceptable to
+place images from my personal life under the control of strangers
+working for data hoarders like Google or Dropbox. The last few days I
+have drafted an approach that might work out, and I would like to
+share it with you. I would like to publish images on a server under
+my control, and point some Internet connected display units using some
+free and open standard to the images I published. As my primary
+language is not limited to ASCII, I need to store metadata using
+UTF-8. Many years ago, I hoped to find a digital photo frame capable
+of reading a RSS feed with image references (aka using the
+<enclosure> RSS tag), but was unable to find a current supplier
+of such frames. In the end I gave up that approach.</p>
+
+<p>Some months ago, I discovered that
+<a href="https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/">XScreensaver</a> is able to
+read images from a RSS feed, and used it to set up a screen saver on
+my home info screen, showing images from the Daily images feed from
+NASA. This proved to work well. More recently I discovered that
+<a href="https://kodi.tv">Kodi</a> (both using
+<a href="https://www.openelec.tv/">OpenELEC</a> and
+<a href="https://libreelec.tv">LibreELEC</a>) provide the
+<a href="https://github.com/grinsted/script.screensaver.feedreader">Feedreader</a>
+screen saver capable of reading a RSS feed with images and news. For
+fun, I used it this summer to test Kodi on my parents TV by hooking up
+a Raspberry PI unit with LibreELEC, and wanted to provide them with a
+screen saver showing selected pictures from my selection.</p>
+
+<p>Armed with motivation and a test photo frame, I set out to generate
+a RSS feed for the Kodi instance. I adjusted my <a
+href="https://freedombox.org/">Freedombox</a> instance, created
+/var/www/html/privatepictures/, wrote a small Perl script to extract
+title and description metadata from the photo files and generate the
+RSS file. I ended up using Perl instead of python, as the
+libimage-exiftool-perl Debian package seemed to handle the EXIF/XMP
+tags I ended up using, while python3-exif did not. The relevant EXIF
+tags only support ASCII, so I had to find better alternatives. XMP
+seem to have the support I need.</p>
+
+<p>I am a bit unsure which EXIF/XMP tags to use, as I would like to
+use tags that can be easily added/updated using normal free software
+photo managing software. I ended up using the tags set using this
+exiftool command, as these tags can also be set using digiKam:</p>
+
+<blockquote><pre>
+exiftool -headline='The RSS image title' \
+ -description='The RSS image description.' \
+ -subject+=for-family photo.jpeg
+</pre></blockquote>
+
+<p>I initially tried the "-title" and "keyword" tags, but they were
+invisible in digiKam, so I changed to "-headline" and "-subject". I
+use the keyword/subject 'for-family' to flag that the photo should be
+shared with my family. Images with this keyword set are located and
+copied into my Freedombox for the RSS generating script to find.</p>
+
+<p>Are there better ways to do this? Get in touch if you have better
+suggestions.</p>
<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/verkidetfri">verkidetfri</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_notes_on_fault_tolerant_storage_systems.html">Some notes on fault tolerant storage systems</a></div>
- <div class="date"> 1st November 2017</div>
- <div class="body"><p>If you care about how fault tolerant your storage is, you might
-find these articles and papers interesting. They have formed how I
-think of when designing a storage system.</p>
-
-<ul>
-
-<li>USENIX :login; <a
-href="https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/summer2017/ganesan">Redundancy
-Does Not Imply Fault Tolerance. Analysis of Distributed Storage
-Reactions to Single Errors and Corruptions</a> by Aishwarya Ganesan,
-Ramnatthan Alagappan, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi
-H. Arpaci-Dusseau</li>
-
-<li>ZDNet
-<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-raid-5-stops-working-in-2009/">Why
-RAID 5 stops working in 2009</a> by Robin Harris</li>
-
-<li>ZDNet
-<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-raid-6-stops-working-in-2019/">Why
-RAID 6 stops working in 2019</a> by Robin Harris</li>
-
-<li>USENIX FAST'07
-<a href="http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf">Failure
-Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population</a> by Eduardo Pinheiro,
-Wolf-Dietrich Weber and Luiz André Barroso</li>
-
-<li>USENIX ;login: <a
-href="https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/hughes12-04.pdf">Data
-Integrity. Finding Truth in a World of Guesses and Lies</a> by Doug
-Hughes</li>
-
-<li>USENIX FAST'08
-<a href="https://www.usenix.org/events/fast08/tech/full_papers/bairavasundaram/bairavasundaram_html/">An
-Analysis of Data Corruption in the Storage Stack</a> by
-L. N. Bairavasundaram, G. R. Goodson, B. Schroeder, A. C.
-Arpaci-Dusseau, and R. H. Arpaci-Dusseau</li>
-
-<li>USENIX FAST'07 <a
-href="https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/fast07/tech/schroeder/schroeder_html/">Disk
-failures in the real world: what does an MTTF of 1,000,000 hours mean
-to you?</a> by B. Schroeder and G. A. Gibson.</li>
-
-<li>USENIX ;login: <a
-href="https://www.usenix.org/events/fast08/tech/full_papers/jiang/jiang_html/">Are
-Disks the Dominant Contributor for Storage Failures? A Comprehensive
-Study of Storage Subsystem Failure Characteristics</a> by Weihang
-Jiang, Chongfeng Hu, Yuanyuan Zhou, and Arkady Kanevsky</li>
-
-<li>SIGMETRICS 2007
-<a href="http://research.cs.wisc.edu/adsl/Publications/latent-sigmetrics07.pdf">An
-analysis of latent sector errors in disk drives</a> by
-L. N. Bairavasundaram, G. R. Goodson, S. Pasupathy, and J. Schindler</li>
-
-</ul>
-
-<p>Several of these research papers are based on data collected from
-hundred thousands or millions of disk, and their findings are eye
-opening. The short story is simply do not implicitly trust RAID or
-redundant storage systems. Details matter. And unfortunately there
-are few options on Linux addressing all the identified issues. Both
-ZFS and Btrfs are doing a fairly good job, but have legal and
-practical issues on their own. I wonder how cluster file systems like
-Ceph do in this regard. After all, there is an old saying, you know
-you have a distributed system when the crash of a computer you have
-never heard of stops you from getting any work done. The same holds
-true if fault tolerance do not work.</p>
-
-<p>Just remember, in the end, it do not matter how redundant, or how
-fault tolerant your storage is, if you do not continuously monitor its
-status to detect and replace failed disks.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Simple_streaming_the_Linux_desktop_to_Kodi_using_GStreamer_and_RTP.html">Simple streaming the Linux desktop to Kodi using GStreamer and RTP</a></div>
+ <div class="date">12th July 2018</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>Last night, I wrote
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Streaming_the_Linux_desktop_to_Kodi_using_VLC_and_RTSP.html">a
+recipe to stream a Linux desktop using VLC to a instance of Kodi</a>.
+During the day I received valuable feedback, and thanks to the
+suggestions I have been able to rewrite the recipe into a much simpler
+approach requiring no setup at all. It is a single script that take
+care of it all.</p>
+
+<p>This new script uses GStreamer instead of VLC to capture the
+desktop and stream it to Kodi. This fixed the video quality issue I
+saw initially. It further removes the need to add a m3u file on the
+Kodi machine, as it instead connects to
+<a href="https://kodi.wiki/view/JSON-RPC_API/v8">the JSON-RPC API in
+Kodi</a> and simply ask Kodi to play from the stream created using
+GStreamer. Streaming the desktop to Kodi now become trivial. Copy
+the script below, run it with the DNS name or IP address of the kodi
+server to stream to as the only argument, and watch your screen show
+up on the Kodi screen. Note, it depend on multicast on the local
+network, so if you need to stream outside the local network, the
+script must be modified. Also note, I have no idea if audio work, as
+I only care about the picture part.</p>
+
+<blockquote><pre>
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Stream the Linux desktop view to Kodi. See
+# http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Streaming_the_Linux_desktop_to_Kodi_using_VLC_and_RTSP.html
+# for backgorund information.
+
+# Make sure the stream is stopped in Kodi and the gstreamer process is
+# killed if something go wrong (for example if curl is unable to find the
+# kodi server). Do the same when interrupting this script.
+kodicmd() {
+ host="$1"
+ cmd="$2"
+ params="$3"
+ curl --silent --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
+ --data-binary "{ \"id\": 1, \"jsonrpc\": \"2.0\", \"method\": \"$cmd\", \"params\": $params }" \
+ "http://$host/jsonrpc"
+}
+cleanup() {
+ if [ -n "$kodihost" ] ; then
+ # Stop the playing when we end
+ playerid=$(kodicmd "$kodihost" Player.GetActivePlayers "{}" |
+ jq .result[].playerid)
+ kodicmd "$kodihost" Player.Stop "{ \"playerid\" : $playerid }" > /dev/null
+ fi
+ if [ "$gstpid" ] && kill -0 "$gstpid" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+ kill "$gstpid"
+ fi
+}
+trap cleanup EXIT INT
+
+if [ -n "$1" ]; then
+ kodihost=$1
+ shift
+else
+ kodihost=kodi.local
+fi
+
+mcast=239.255.0.1
+mcastport=1234
+mcastttl=1
+
+pasrc=$(pactl list | grep -A2 'Source #' | grep 'Name: .*\.monitor$' | \
+ cut -d" " -f2|head -1)
+gst-launch-1.0 ximagesrc use-damage=0 ! video/x-raw,framerate=30/1 ! \
+ videoconvert ! queue2 ! \
+ x264enc bitrate=8000 speed-preset=superfast tune=zerolatency qp-min=30 \
+ key-int-max=15 bframes=2 ! video/x-h264,profile=high ! queue2 ! \
+ mpegtsmux alignment=7 name=mux ! rndbuffersize max=1316 min=1316 ! \
+ udpsink host=$mcast port=$mcastport ttl-mc=$mcastttl auto-multicast=1 sync=0 \
+ pulsesrc device=$pasrc ! audioconvert ! queue2 ! avenc_aac ! queue2 ! mux. \
+ > /dev/null 2>&1 &
+gstpid=$!
+
+# Give stream a second to get going
+sleep 1
+
+# Ask kodi to start streaming using its JSON-RPC API
+kodicmd "$kodihost" Player.Open \
+ "{\"item\": { \"file\": \"udp://@$mcast:$mcastport\" } }" > /dev/null
+
+# wait for gst to end
+wait "$gstpid"
+</pre></blockquote>
+
+<p>I hope you find the approach useful. I know I do.</p>
<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/raid">raid</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sysadmin">sysadmin</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>.
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_services_for_writing_academic_LaTeX_papers_as_a_team.html">Web services for writing academic LaTeX papers as a team</a></div>
- <div class="date">31st October 2017</div>
- <div class="body"><p>I was surprised today to learn that a friend in academia did not
-know there are easily available web services available for writing
-LaTeX documents as a team. I thought it was common knowledge, but to
-make sure at least my readers are aware of it, I would like to mention
-these useful services for writing LaTeX documents. Some of them even
-provide a WYSIWYG editor to ease writing even further.</p>
-
-<p>There are two commercial services available,
-<a href="https://sharelatex.com">ShareLaTeX</a> and
-<a href="https://overleaf.com">Overleaf</a>. They are very easy to
-use. Just start a new document, select which publisher to write for
-(ie which LaTeX style to use), and start writing. Note, these two
-have announced their intention to join forces, so soon it will only be
-one joint service. I've used both for different documents, and they
-work just fine. While
-<a href="https://github.com/sharelatex/sharelatex">ShareLaTeX is free
-software</a>, while the latter is not. According to <a
-href="https://www.overleaf.com/help/17-is-overleaf-open-source">a
-announcement from Overleaf</a>, they plan to keep the ShareLaTeX code
-base maintained as free software.</p>
-
-But these two are not the only alternatives.
-<a href="https://app.fiduswriter.org/">Fidus Writer</a> is another free
-software solution with <a href="https://github.com/fiduswriter">the
-source available on github</a>. I have not used it myself. Several
-others can be found on the nice
-<a href="https://alternativeto.net/software/sharelatex/">alterntiveTo
-web service</a>.
-
-<p>If you like Google Docs or Etherpad, but would like to write
-documents in LaTeX, you should check out these services. You can even
-host your own, if you want to. :)</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Streaming_the_Linux_desktop_to_Kodi_using_VLC_and_RTSP.html">Streaming the Linux desktop to Kodi using VLC and RTSP</a></div>
+ <div class="date">12th July 2018</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>PS: See
+<ahref="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Simple_streaming_the_Linux_desktop_to_Kodi_using_GStreamer_and_RTP.html">the
+followup post</a> for a even better approach.</p>
+
+<p>A while back, I was asked by a friend how to stream the desktop to
+my projector connected to Kodi. I sadly had to admit that I had no
+idea, as it was a task I never had tried. Since then, I have been
+looking for a way to do so, preferable without much extra software to
+install on either side. Today I found a way that seem to kind of
+work. Not great, but it is a start.</p>
+
+<p>I had a look at several approaches, for example
+<a href="https://github.com/mfoetsch/dlna_live_streaming">using uPnP
+DLNA as described in 2011</a>, but it required a uPnP server, fuse and
+local storage enough to store the stream locally. This is not going
+to work well for me, lacking enough free space, and it would
+impossible for my friend to get working.</p>
+
+<p>Next, it occurred to me that perhaps I could use VLC to create a
+video stream that Kodi could play. Preferably using
+broadcast/multicast, to avoid having to change any setup on the Kodi
+side when starting such stream. Unfortunately, the only recipe I
+could find using multicast used the rtp protocol, and this protocol
+seem to not be supported by Kodi.</p>
+
+<p>On the other hand, the rtsp protocol is working! Unfortunately I
+have to specify the IP address of the streaming machine in both the
+sending command and the file on the Kodi server. But it is showing my
+desktop, and thus allow us to have a shared look on the big screen at
+the programs I work on.</p>
+
+<p>I did not spend much time investigating codeces. I combined the
+rtp and rtsp recipes from
+<a href="https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Streaming_HowTo/Command_Line_Examples/">the
+VLC Streaming HowTo/Command Line Examples</a>, and was able to get
+this working on the desktop/streaming end.</p>
+
+<blockquote><pre>
+vlc screen:// --sout \
+ '#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,acodec=mpga,vb=800,ab=128}:rtp{dst=projector.local,port=1234,sdp=rtsp://192.168.11.4:8080/test.sdp}'
+</pre></blockquote>
+
+<p>I ssh-ed into my Kodi box and created a file like this with the
+same IP address:</p>
+
+<blockquote><pre>
+echo rtsp://192.168.11.4:8080/test.sdp \
+ > /storage/videos/screenstream.m3u
+</pre></blockquote>
+
+<p>Note the 192.168.11.4 IP address is my desktops IP address. As far
+as I can tell the IP must be hardcoded for this to work. In other
+words, if someone elses machine is going to do the steaming, you have
+to update screenstream.m3u on the Kodi machine and adjust the vlc
+recipe. To get started, locate the file in Kodi and select the m3u
+file while the VLC stream is running. The desktop then show up in my
+big screen. :)</p>
+
+<p>When using the same technique to stream a video file with audio,
+the audio quality is really bad. No idea if the problem is package
+loss or bad parameters for the transcode. I do not know VLC nor Kodi
+enough to tell.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Update 2018-07-12</strong>: Johannes Schauer send me a few
+succestions and reminded me about an important step. The "screen:"
+input source is only available once the vlc-plugin-access-extra
+package is installed on Debian. Without it, you will see this error
+message: "VLC is unable to open the MRL 'screen://'. Check the log
+for details." He further found that it is possible to drop some parts
+of the VLC command line to reduce the amount of hardcoded information.
+It is also useful to consider using cvlc to avoid having the VLC
+window in the desktop view. In sum, this give us this command line on
+the source end
+
+<blockquote><pre>
+cvlc screen:// --sout \
+ '#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,acodec=mpga,vb=800,ab=128}:rtp{sdp=rtsp://:8080/}'
+</pre></blockquote>
+
+<p>and this on the Kodi end<p>
+
+<blockquote><pre>
+echo rtsp://192.168.11.4:8080/ \
+ > /storage/videos/screenstream.m3u
+</pre></blockquote>
+
+<p>Still bad image quality, though. But I did discover that streaming
+a DVD using dvdsimple:///dev/dvd as the source had excellent video and
+audio quality, so I guess the issue is in the input or transcoding
+parts, not the rtsp part. I've tried to change the vb and ab
+parameters to use more bandwidth, but it did not make a
+difference.</p>
+
+<p>I further received a suggestion from Einar Haraldseid to try using
+gstreamer instead of VLC, and this proved to work great! He also
+provided me with the trick to get Kodi to use a multicast stream as
+its source. By using this monstrous oneliner, I can stream my desktop
+with good video quality in reasonable framerate to the 239.255.0.1
+multicast address on port 1234:
+
+<blockquote><pre>
+gst-launch-1.0 ximagesrc use-damage=0 ! video/x-raw,framerate=30/1 ! \
+ videoconvert ! queue2 ! \
+ x264enc bitrate=8000 speed-preset=superfast tune=zerolatency qp-min=30 \
+ key-int-max=15 bframes=2 ! video/x-h264,profile=high ! queue2 ! \
+ mpegtsmux alignment=7 name=mux ! rndbuffersize max=1316 min=1316 ! \
+ udpsink host=239.255.0.1 port=1234 ttl-mc=1 auto-multicast=1 sync=0 \
+ pulsesrc device=$(pactl list | grep -A2 'Source #' | \
+ grep 'Name: .*\.monitor$' | cut -d" " -f2|head -1) ! \
+ audioconvert ! queue2 ! avenc_aac ! queue2 ! mux.
+</pre></blockquote>
+
+<p>and this on the Kodi end<p>
+
+<blockquote><pre>
+echo udp://@239.255.0.1:1234 \
+ > /storage/videos/screenstream.m3u
+</pre></blockquote>
+
+<p>Note the trick to pick a valid pulseaudio source. It might not
+pick the one you need. This approach will of course lead to trouble
+if more than one source uses the same multicast port and address.
+Note the ttl-mc=1 setting, which limit the multicast packages to the
+local network. If the value is increased, your screen will be
+broadcasted further, one network "hop" for each increase (read up on
+multicast to learn more. :)!</p>
+
+<p>Having cracked how to get Kodi to receive multicast streams, I
+could use this VLC command to stream to the same multicast address.
+The image quality is way better than the rtsp approach, but gstreamer
+seem to be doing a better job.</p>
+
+<blockquote><pre>
+cvlc screen:// --sout '#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,acodec=mpga,vb=800,ab=128}:rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.0.1,port=1234,sdp=sap}'
+</pre></blockquote>
<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>.
</div>
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<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Locating_IMDB_IDs_of_movies_in_the_Internet_Archive_using_Wikidata.html">Locating IMDB IDs of movies in the Internet Archive using Wikidata</a></div>
- <div class="date">25th October 2017</div>
- <div class="body"><p>Recently, I needed to automatically check the copyright status of a
-set of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/">The Internet Movie database
-(IMDB)</a> entries, to figure out which one of the movies they refer
-to can be freely distributed on the Internet. This proved to be
-harder than it sounds. IMDB for sure list movies without any
-copyright protection, where the copyright protection has expired or
-where the movie is lisenced using a permissive license like one from
-Creative Commons. These are mixed with copyright protected movies,
-and there seem to be no way to separate these classes of movies using
-the information in IMDB.</p>
-
-<p>First I tried to look up entries manually in IMDB,
-<a href="https://www.wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia</a> and
-<a href="https://www.archive.org/">The Internet Archive</a>, to get a
-feel how to do this. It is hard to know for sure using these sources,
-but it should be possible to be reasonable confident a movie is "out
-of copyright" with a few hours work per movie. As I needed to check
-almost 20,000 entries, this approach was not sustainable. I simply
-can not work around the clock for about 6 years to check this data
-set.</p>
-
-<p>I asked the people behind The Internet Archive if they could
-introduce a new metadata field in their metadata XML for IMDB ID, but
-was told that they leave it completely to the uploaders to update the
-metadata. Some of the metadata entries had IMDB links in the
-description, but I found no way to download all metadata files in bulk
-to locate those ones and put that approach aside.</p>
-
-<p>In the process I noticed several Wikipedia articles about movies
-had links to both IMDB and The Internet Archive, and it occured to me
-that I could use the Wikipedia RDF data set to locate entries with
-both, to at least get a lower bound on the number of movies on The
-Internet Archive with a IMDB ID. This is useful based on the
-assumption that movies distributed by The Internet Archive can be
-legally distributed on the Internet. With some help from the RDF
-community (thank you DanC), I was able to come up with this query to
-pass to <a href="https://query.wikidata.org/">the SPARQL interface on
-Wikidata</a>:
-
-<p><pre>
-SELECT ?work ?imdb ?ia ?when ?label
-WHERE
-{
- ?work wdt:P31/wdt:P279* wd:Q11424.
- ?work wdt:P345 ?imdb.
- ?work wdt:P724 ?ia.
- OPTIONAL {
- ?work wdt:P577 ?when.
- ?work rdfs:label ?label.
- FILTER(LANG(?label) = "en").
- }
-}
-</pre></p>
-
-<p>If I understand the query right, for every film entry anywhere in
-Wikpedia, it will return the IMDB ID and The Internet Archive ID, and
-when the movie was released and its English title, if either or both
-of the latter two are available. At the moment the result set contain
-2338 entries. Of course, it depend on volunteers including both
-correct IMDB and The Internet Archive IDs in the wikipedia articles
-for the movie. It should be noted that the result will include
-duplicates if the movie have entries in several languages. There are
-some bogus entries, either because The Internet Archive ID contain a
-typo or because the movie is not available from The Internet Archive.
-I did not verify the IMDB IDs, as I am unsure how to do that
-automatically.</p>
-
-<p>I wrote a small python script to extract the data set from Wikidata
-and check if the XML metadata for the movie is available from The
-Internet Archive, and after around 1.5 hour it produced a list of 2097
-free movies and their IMDB ID. In total, 171 entries in Wikidata lack
-the refered Internet Archive entry. I assume the 70 "disappearing"
-entries (ie 2338-2097-171) are duplicate entries.</p>
-
-<p>This is not too bad, given that The Internet Archive report to
-contain <a href="https://archive.org/details/feature_films">5331
-feature films</a> at the moment, but it also mean more than 3000
-movies are missing on Wikipedia or are missing the pair of references
-on Wikipedia.</p>
-
-<p>I was curious about the distribution by release year, and made a
-little graph to show how the amount of free movies is spread over the
-years:<p>
-
-<p><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-10-25-verk-i-det-fri-filmer.png"></p>
-
-<p>I expect the relative distribution of the remaining 3000 movies to
-be similar.</p>
-
-<p>If you want to help, and want to ensure Wikipedia can be used to
-cross reference The Internet Archive and The Internet Movie Database,
-please make sure entries like this are listed under the "External
-links" heading on the Wikipedia article for the movie:</p>
-
-<p><pre>
-* {{Internet Archive film|id=FightingLady}}
-* {{IMDb title|id=0036823|title=The Fighting Lady}}
-</pre></p>
-
-<p>Please verify the links on the final page, to make sure you did not
-introduce a typo.</p>
-
-<p>Here is the complete list, if you want to correct the 171
-identified Wikipedia entries with broken links to The Internet
-Archive: <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1140317">Q1140317</a>,
-<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q458656">Q458656</a>,
-<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q458656">Q458656</a>,
-<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q470560">Q470560</a>,
-<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q743340">Q743340</a>,
-<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q822580">Q822580</a>,
-<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q480696">Q480696</a>,
-<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q128761">Q128761</a>,
-<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1307059">Q1307059</a>,
-<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1335091">Q1335091</a>,
-<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1537166">Q1537166</a>,
-<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1438334">Q1438334</a>,
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+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_most_supported_MIME_type_in_Debian_in_2018_.html">What is the most supported MIME type in Debian in 2018?</a></div>
+ <div class="date"> 9th July 2018</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>Five years ago,
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_most_supported_MIME_type_in_Debian_.html">I
+measured what the most supported MIME type in Debian was</a>, by
+analysing the desktop files in all packages in the archive. Since
+then, the DEP-11 AppStream system has been put into production, making
+the task a lot easier. This made me want to repeat the measurement,
+to see how much things changed. Here are the new numbers, for
+unstable only this time:
+
+<p><strong>Debian Unstable:</strong></p>
+
+<pre>
+ count MIME type
+ ----- -----------------------
+ 56 image/jpeg
+ 55 image/png
+ 49 image/tiff
+ 48 image/gif
+ 39 image/bmp
+ 38 text/plain
+ 37 audio/mpeg
+ 34 application/ogg
+ 33 audio/x-flac
+ 32 audio/x-mp3
+ 30 audio/x-wav
+ 30 audio/x-vorbis+ogg
+ 29 image/x-portable-pixmap
+ 27 inode/directory
+ 27 image/x-portable-bitmap
+ 27 audio/x-mpeg
+ 26 application/x-ogg
+ 25 audio/x-mpegurl
+ 25 audio/ogg
+ 24 text/html
+</pre>
+
+<p>The list was created like this using a sid chroot: "cat
+/var/lib/apt/lists/*sid*_dep11_Components-amd64.yml.gz| zcat | awk '/^
+- \S+\/\S+$/ {print $2 }' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -20"</p>
+
+<p>It is interesting to see how image formats have passed text/plain
+as the most announced supported MIME type. These days, thanks to the
+AppStream system, if you run into a file format you do not know, and
+want to figure out which packages support the format, you can find the
+MIME type of the file using "file --mime <filename>", and then
+look up all packages announcing support for this format in their
+AppStream metadata (XML or .desktop file) using "appstreamcli
+what-provides mimetype <mime-type>. For example if you, like
+me, want to know which packages support inode/directory, you can get a
+list like this:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote><pre>
+% appstreamcli what-provides mimetype inode/directory | grep Package: | sort
+Package: anjuta
+Package: audacious
+Package: baobab
+Package: cervisia
+Package: chirp
+Package: dolphin
+Package: doublecmd-common
+Package: easytag
+Package: enlightenment
+Package: ephoto
+Package: filelight
+Package: gwenview
+Package: k4dirstat
+Package: kaffeine
+Package: kdesvn
+Package: kid3
+Package: kid3-qt
+Package: nautilus
+Package: nemo
+Package: pcmanfm
+Package: pcmanfm-qt
+Package: qweborf
+Package: ranger
+Package: sirikali
+Package: spacefm
+Package: spacefm
+Package: vifm
+%
+</pre></blockquote></p>
+
+<p>Using the same method, I can quickly discover that the Sketchup file
+format is not yet supported by any package in Debian:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote><pre>
+% appstreamcli what-provides mimetype application/vnd.sketchup.skp
+Could not find component providing 'mimetype::application/vnd.sketchup.skp'.
+%
+</pre></blockquote></p>
+
+<p>Yesterday I used it to figure out which packages support the STL 3D
+format:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote><pre>
+% appstreamcli what-provides mimetype application/sla|grep Package
+Package: cura
+Package: meshlab
+Package: printrun
+%
+</pre></blockquote></p>
+
+<p>PS: A new version of Cura was uploaded to Debian yesterday.</p>
<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/verkidetfri">verkidetfri</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram">isenkram</a>.
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<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_one_way_wall_on_the_border_.html">A one-way wall on the border?</a></div>
- <div class="date">14th October 2017</div>
- <div class="body"><p>I find it fascinating how many of the people being locked inside
-the proposed border wall between USA and Mexico support the idea. The
-proposal to keep Mexicans out reminds me of
-<a href="http://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-berlin-wall">the
-propaganda twist from the East Germany government</a> calling the wall
-the “Antifascist Bulwark” after erecting the Berlin Wall, claiming
-that the wall was erected to keep enemies from creeping into East
-Germany, while it was obvious to the people locked inside it that it
-was erected to keep the people from escaping.</p>
-
-<p>Do the people in USA supporting this wall really believe it is a
-one way wall, only keeping people on the outside from getting in,
-while not keeping people in the inside from getting out?</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_APT_upgrade_without_enough_free_space_on_the_disk___.html">Debian APT upgrade without enough free space on the disk...</a></div>
+ <div class="date"> 8th July 2018</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>Quite regularly, I let my Debian Sid/Unstable chroot stay untouch
+for a while, and when I need to update it there is not enough free
+space on the disk for apt to do a normal 'apt upgrade'. I normally
+would resolve the issue by doing 'apt install <somepackages>' to
+upgrade only some of the packages in one batch, until the amount of
+packages to download fall below the amount of free space available.
+Today, I had about 500 packages to upgrade, and after a while I got
+tired of trying to install chunks of packages manually. I concluded
+that I did not have the spare hours required to complete the task, and
+decided to see if I could automate it. I came up with this small
+script which I call 'apt-in-chunks':</p>
+
+<p><blockquote><pre>
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Upgrade packages when the disk is too full to upgrade every
+# upgradable package in one lump. Fetching packages to upgrade using
+# apt, and then installing using dpkg, to avoid changing the package
+# flag for manual/automatic.
+
+set -e
+
+ignore() {
+ if [ "$1" ]; then
+ grep -v "$1"
+ else
+ cat
+ fi
+}
+
+for p in $(apt list --upgradable | ignore "$@" |cut -d/ -f1 | grep -v '^Listing...'); do
+ echo "Upgrading $p"
+ apt clean
+ apt install --download-only -y $p
+ for f in /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb; do
+ if [ -e "$f" ]; then
+ dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb
+ break
+ fi
+ done
+done
+</pre></blockquote></p>
+
+<p>The script will extract the list of packages to upgrade, try to
+download the packages needed to upgrade one package, install the
+downloaded packages using dpkg. The idea is to upgrade packages
+without changing the APT mark for the package (ie the one recording of
+the package was manually requested or pulled in as a dependency). To
+use it, simply run it as root from the command line. If it fail, try
+'apt install -f' to clean up the mess and run the script again. This
+might happen if the new packages conflict with one of the old
+packages. dpkg is unable to remove, while apt can do this.</p>
+
+<p>It take one option, a package to ignore in the list of packages to
+upgrade. The option to ignore a package is there to be able to skip
+the packages that are simply too large to unpack. Today this was
+'ghc', but I have run into other large packages causing similar
+problems earlier (like TeX).</p>
+
+<p>Update 2018-07-08: Thanks to Paul Wise, I am aware of two
+alternative ways to handle this. The "unattended-upgrades
+--minimal-upgrade-steps" option will try to calculate upgrade sets for
+each package to upgrade, and then upgrade them in order, smallest set
+first. It might be a better option than my above mentioned script.
+Also, "aptutude upgrade" can upgrade single packages, thus avoiding
+the need for using "dpkg -i" in the script above.</p>
<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
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<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Generating_3D_prints_in_Debian_using_Cura_and_Slic3r__prusa_.html">Generating 3D prints in Debian using Cura and Slic3r(-prusa)</a></div>
- <div class="date"> 9th October 2017</div>
- <div class="body"><p>At my nearby maker space,
-<a href="http://sonen.ifi.uio.no/">Sonen</a>, I heard the story that it
-was easier to generate gcode files for theyr 3D printers (Ultimake 2+)
-on Windows and MacOS X than Linux, because the software involved had
-to be manually compiled and set up on Linux while premade packages
-worked out of the box on Windows and MacOS X. I found this annoying,
-as the software involved,
-<a href="https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura">Cura</a>, is free software
-and should be trivial to get up and running on Linux if someone took
-the time to package it for the relevant distributions. I even found
-<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/706656">a request for adding into
-Debian</a> from 2013, which had seem some activity over the years but
-never resulted in the software showing up in Debian. So a few days
-ago I offered my help to try to improve the situation.</p>
-
-<p>Now I am very happy to see that all the packages required by a
-working Cura in Debian are uploaded into Debian and waiting in the NEW
-queue for the ftpmasters to have a look. You can track the progress
-on
-<a href="https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=3dprinter-general%40lists.alioth.debian.org">the
-status page for the 3D printer team</a>.</p>
-
-<p>The uploaded packages are a bit behind upstream, and was uploaded
-now to get slots in <a href="https://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html">the NEW
-queue</a> while we work up updating the packages to the latest
-upstream version.</p>
-
-<p>On a related note, two competitors for Cura, which I found harder
-to use and was unable to configure correctly for Ultimaker 2+ in the
-short time I spent on it, are already in Debian. If you are looking
-for 3D printer "slicers" and want something already available in
-Debian, check out
-<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/slic3r">slic3r</a> and
-<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/slic3r-prusa">slic3r-prusa</a>.
-The latter is a fork of the former.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_worlds_only_stone_power_plant_.html">The worlds only stone power plant?</a></div>
+ <div class="date">30th June 2018</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>So far, at least hydro-electric power, coal power, wind power,
+solar power, and wood power are well known. Until a few days ago, I
+had never heard of stone power. Then I learn about a quarry in a
+mountain in
+<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremanger">Bremanger</a> i
+Norway, where
+<a href="https://www.bontrup.com/en/activities/raw-materials/bremanger-quarry/">the
+Bremanger Quarry</a> company is extracting stone and dumping the stone
+into a shaft leading to its shipping harbour. This downward movement
+in this shaft is used to produce electricity. In short, it is using
+falling rocks instead of falling water to produce electricity, and
+according to its own statements it is producing more power than it is
+using, and selling the surplus electricity to the Norwegian power
+grid. I find the concept truly amazing. Is this the worlds only
+stone power plant?</p>
<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/3d-printer">3d-printer</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Mangler_du_en_skrue__eller_har_du_en_skrue_l_s_.html">Mangler du en skrue, eller har du en skrue løs?</a></div>
- <div class="date"> 4th October 2017</div>
- <div class="body">Når jeg holder på med ulike prosjekter, så trenger jeg stadig ulike
-skruer. Det siste prosjektet jeg holder på med er å lage
-<a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:676916">en boks til en
-HDMI-touch-skjerm</a> som skal brukes med Raspberry Pi. Boksen settes
-sammen med skruer og bolter, og jeg har vært i tvil om hvor jeg kan
-få tak i de riktige skruene. Clas Ohlson og Jernia i nærheten har
-sjelden hatt det jeg trenger. Men her om dagen fikk jeg et fantastisk
-tips for oss som bor i Oslo.
-<a href="http://www.zachskruer.no/">Zachariassen Jernvare AS</a> i
-<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=59.93421&mlon=10.76795#map=19/59.93421/10.76795">Hegermannsgate
-23A på Torshov</a> har et fantastisk utvalg, og åpent mellom 09:00 og
-17:00. De selger skruer, muttere, bolter, skiver etc i løs vekt, og
-så langt har jeg fått alt jeg har lett etter. De har i tillegg det
-meste av annen jernvare, som verktøy, lamper, ledninger, etc. Jeg
-håper de har nok kunder til å holde det gående lenge, da dette er en
-butikk jeg kommer til å besøke ofte. Butikken er et funn å ha i
-nabolaget for oss som liker å bygge litt selv. :)</p>
-
-<p>Som vanlig, hvis du bruker Bitcoin og ønsker å vise din støtte til
-det jeg driver med, setter jeg pris på om du sender Bitcoin-donasjoner
-til min adresse
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Add_on_to_control_the_projector_from_within_Kodi.html">Add-on to control the projector from within Kodi</a></div>
+ <div class="date">26th June 2018</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>My movie playing setup involve <a href="https://kodi.tv/">Kodi</a>,
+<a href="https://openelec.tv">OpenELEC</a> (probably soon to be
+replaced with <a href="https://libreelec.tv/">LibreELEC</a>) and an
+Infocus IN76 video projector. My projector can be controlled via both
+a infrared remote controller, and a RS-232 serial line. The vendor of
+my projector, <a href="https://www.infocus.com/">InFocus</a>, had been
+sensible enough to document the serial protocol in its user manual, so
+it is easily available, and I used it some years ago to write
+<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/infocus-projector-control">a
+small script to control the projector</a>. For a while now, I longed
+for a setup where the projector was controlled by Kodi, for example in
+such a way that when the screen saver went on, the projector was
+turned off, and when the screen saver exited, the projector was turned
+on again.</p>
+
+<p>A few days ago, with very good help from parts of my family, I
+managed to find a Kodi Add-on for controlling a Epson projector, and
+got in touch with its author to see if we could join forces and make a
+Add-on with support for several projectors. To my pleasure, he was
+positive to the idea, and we set out to add InFocus support to his
+add-on, and make the add-on suitable for the official Kodi add-on
+repository.</p>
+
+<p>The Add-on is now working (for me, at least), with a few minor
+adjustments. The most important change I do relative to the master
+branch in the github repository is embedding the
+<a href="https://github.com/pyserial/pyserial">pyserial module</a> in
+the add-on. The long term solution is to make a "script" type
+pyserial module for Kodi, that can be pulled in as a dependency in
+Kodi. But until that in place, I embed it.</p>
+
+<p>The add-on can be configured to turn on the projector when Kodi
+starts, off when Kodi stops as well as turn the projector off when the
+screensaver start and on when the screesaver stops. It can also be
+told to set the projector source when turning on the projector.
+
+<p>If this sound interesting to you, check out
+<a href="https://github.com/fredrik-eriksson/kodi_projcontrol">the
+project github repository</a>. Perhaps you can send patches to
+support your projector too? As soon as we find time to wrap up the
+latest changes, it should be available for easy installation using any
+Kodi instance.</p>
+
+<p>For future improvements, I would like to add projector model
+detection and the ability to adjust the brightness level of the
+projector from within Kodi. We also need to figure out how to handle
+the cooling period of the projector. My projector refuses to turn on
+for 60 seconds after it was turned off. This is not handled well by
+the add-on at the moment.</p>
+
+<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>.
</div>
<h2>Archive</h2>
<ul>
+<li>2018
+<ul>
+
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2018/01/">January (1)</a></li>
+
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2018/02/">February (5)</a></li>
+
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2018/03/">March (5)</a></li>
+
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2018/04/">April (3)</a></li>
+
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2018/06/">June (2)</a></li>
+
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2018/07/">July (5)</a></li>
+
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2018/08/">August (3)</a></li>
+
+</ul></li>
+
<li>2017
<ul>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2017/11/">November (3)</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2017/12/">December (2)</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2017/12/">December (4)</a></li>
</ul></li>
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- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/3d-printer">3d-printer (14)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/3d-printer">3d-printer (16)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/amiga">amiga (1)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bitcoin">bitcoin (9)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bootsystem">bootsystem (16)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bootsystem">bootsystem (17)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bsa">bsa (2)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/chrpath">chrpath (2)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian (154)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian (161)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu (158)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/dld">dld (17)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/docbook">docbook (24)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/docbook">docbook (25)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/drivstoffpriser">drivstoffpriser (4)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english (362)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english (382)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fiksgatami">fiksgatami (23)</a></li>
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+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fildeling">fildeling (13)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freeculture">freeculture (31)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freeculture">freeculture (32)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freedombox">freedombox (9)</a></li>
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- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram">isenkram (15)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram">isenkram (16)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/kart">kart (20)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/mesh network">mesh network (8)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia (39)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia (41)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nice free software">nice free software (9)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nice free software">nice free software (10)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk (293)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk (299)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug (189)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug (190)</a></li>
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+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett (72)</a></li>
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+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern (107)</a></li>
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+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet (54)</a></li>
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+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance (55)</a></li>
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+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video (66)</a></li>
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+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web (41)</a></li>
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