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   4                 <title>Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries from November 2018</title>
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  10                 <title>New and improved Frikanalen Kodi addon version 0.0.3</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Thu, 8 Nov 2018 10:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;If you read my blog regularly, you probably know I am involved in
  15 running and developing the &lt;a href=&quot;https://frikanalen.no/&quot;&gt;Norwegian
  16 TV channel Frikanalen&lt;/a&gt;.  It is an open channel, allowing everyone
  17 in Norway to publish videos on a TV channel with national coverage.
  18 You can think of it as Youtube for national television.
  19 In addition to distribution on RiksTV and Uninett, Frikanalen is also
  20 available as a Kodi addon.  The last few days I have updated the code
  21 to add more features.  A
  22 &lt;a href=&quot;https://kodi.tv/addon/plugins-video-add-ons/frikanalen-nett-tv&quot;&gt;new
  23 and improved version 0.0.3 Frikanalen addon&lt;/a&gt; was just made
  24 available via the Kodi repositories.  This new version include a
  25 option to browse videos by category, as well as free text search
  26 in the video archive.  It will now also show the video duration in the
  27 video lists, which were missing earlier.  A new and experimental
  28 link to the HD video stream currently being worked on is provided, for
  29 those that want to see what the &lt;a href=&quot;https://casparcg.com/&quot;&gt;CasparCG&lt;/a&gt;
  30 output look like.  The alternative is the SD video stream, generated
  31 using MLT.  CasparCG is controlled by our
  32 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/Frikanalen/mltplayout/&quot;&gt;mltplayout
  33 server&lt;/a&gt; which instead of talking to mlt is giving PLAY instructions
  34 to the CasparCG server when it is time to start a new program.&lt;/p&gt;
  35
  36 &lt;p&gt;By now, you are probably wondering what kind of content is being
  37 played on the channel.  These days, it is filled with technical
  38 presentations like those from &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;NUUG&lt;/a&gt;,
  39 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.debconf.org/&quot;&gt;Debconf&lt;/a&gt;, Makercon, and TED,
  40 but there are also some periods with
  41 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.empo.no/&quot;&gt;EMPT TV&lt;/a&gt; and
  42 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.p7.no/&quot;&gt;P7&lt;/a&gt;.
  43
  44 &lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
  45 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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  51                 <title>Time for an official MIME type for patches?</title>
  52                 <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Time_for_an_official_MIME_type_for_patches_.html</link>
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  54                 <pubDate>Thu, 1 Nov 2018 08:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
  55                 <description>&lt;p&gt;As part of my involvement in
  56 &lt;a href=&quot;https://gitlab.com/OsloMet-ABI/nikita-noark5-core&quot;&gt;the Nikita
  57 archive API project&lt;/a&gt;, I&#39;ve been importing a fairly large lump of
  58 emails into a test instance of the archive to see how well this would
  59 go.  I picked a subset of &lt;a href=&quot;https://notmuchmail.org/&quot;&gt;my
  60 notmuch email database&lt;/a&gt;, all public emails sent to me via
  61 @lists.debian.org, giving me a set of around 216 000 emails to import.
  62 In the process, I had a look at the various attachments included in
  63 these emails, to figure out what to do with attachments, and noticed
  64 that one of the most common attachment formats do not have
  65 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml&quot;&gt;an
  66 official MIME type&lt;/a&gt; registered with IANA/IETF.  The output from
  67 diff, ie the input for patch, is on the top 10 list of formats
  68 included in these emails.  At the moment people seem to use either
  69 text/x-patch or text/x-diff, but neither is officially registered.  It
  70 would be better if one official MIME type were registered and used
  71 everywhere.&lt;/p&gt;
  72
  73 &lt;p&gt;To try to get one official MIME type for these files, I&#39;ve brought
  74 up the topic on
  75 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/media-types&quot;&gt;the
  76 media-types mailing list&lt;/a&gt;.  If you are interested in discussion
  77 which MIME type to use as the official for patch files, or involved in
  78 making software using a MIME type for patches, perhaps you would like
  79 to join the discussion?&lt;/p&gt;
  80
  81 &lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
  82 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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