Joseph Dickson – Page 172

New Webcam

My new webcam from Think Penguin just arrived so I decided create this quick test video. I’m very impressed. It literally worked out of the box. I just plugged it into my Solus and installed Guvcview.

This video was recorded using Guvcview there was a slight amount of audio noise that I cleared up in Audacity then replaced using ffmpeg into an OGG Vorbis video.

If you’re curious the ffmpeg terminal commands used to replace the audio were as follows.

ffmpeg -i edited.ogg -i video.mkv -vcodec copy final.ogv

Screencast test

I recorded this screencast and to test the directional noise canceling using SimpleScreenRecorder then converted the file in ffmpeg to bring down the file size to a nice and manageable 4MB via ffmpeg

Solus GNOME vs POP_OS! installed packages

I’ve been on a GNOME kick for a couple months and noticed something about Solus’ spin that surprised me… It’s using far fewer packages than POP_OS!.

I know I’m comparing two completely different systems here; both with their own goals. However, both are relatively minimalist in their approach with included software. That Ubuntu core I’ve come to love is a wee bit hefty. Even Lubuntu which I lived in for awhile had more packages.

This is not a balanced comparison, both systems are not stock installations. Solus is sporting Steam while POP_OS! is my WordPress development rig. Still I was surprised how much Ubuntu’s core has grown over the years.