In other news

October 11, 2016 tkolsto
newsvideosideproject

I’ve been investing some of my spare time creating this news channel aggregator, recorder and (re-)mixer -thing lately, something that had been bubbling in the back of my mind since at least 2008.

Serduno

I also had to brush up on my ffmpeg-fu for some actual work related stuff, so this project ended up serving as a playground for doing both.

The start was an idea that it might be interesting to see how the different news outlets prioritises and covers (or not) the events that unfolds around the world. Then I figured it would also be nice to archive this for some period of time, so that if world war 3 were to break out while I’m walking the dogs, I can just check the instant replay (… or not.)

Way too many hours was spent looking into how to interpret the output of running encoders, and restarting them when needed; I’m relying on some rather unreliable/poorly connected sources for some of the channels. If anyone has any suggestions to how to improve this or have some private feeds to share I’m all ears.

There is a (limited) mechanism for “private” channels in which I’ve added a couple of commercial ones that I pay for just myself. I should probably do a writeup some day on how I ended up with OBS running in x11vnc doing screen-grabbing of firefox. It is nothing else than a hack, but as hacks go this one seems to work rather well.

Try it out over at https://ser.du.no and please let me know what you think.

Features:

Todo: