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Speed Up Screen Recordings While Keeping the Original Clock
How to make a timelapse from a screen recording by speeding up idle sections more than active sections, using split, trim, and setpts, then joining them with concat. The main trap is that drawtext must come before setpts for the clock to follow the original timeline instead of the accelerated one.
Auditing CCTV Directly with ISAPI and ffprobe RTSP, Bypassing the NVR
The NVR screen only tells you a camera is online. It does not tell you its model, how old its firmware is, or the actual stream resolution. In this article, I write a script to query ISAPI deviceInfo on each camera directly, then use ffprobe to read values from the actual RTSP stream to build an inventory and check the health of the camera system I maintain.
Edit Videos with Claude Using Thai Prompts, No Video Editor Needed
How I actually use Claude in VS Code to trim, resize, join, and add background music to videos by typing in Thai, without memorizing ffmpeg commands or opening a video editor. Includes getting AI to compose music, NVIDIA GPU acceleration, and Mac and Linux instructions for people who have never used Claude.