ffmpeg and x264 under cygwin

x264

$ ./configure --enable-shared
$ make && make install && make install-lib-shared && make install-lib-dev

ffmpeg

$ ./configure --enable-gpl --enable-libx264 --extra-cflags="-I/usr/local/include" --extra-ldflags="-L/usr/local/lib" --enable-static --disable-shared
$ make && make install

A bash prompt with a visual indicator of the previous command exit code

Inspired by Lars Strand's blog post on the subject, I have taken the time to craft a solution for my .bashrc.

Feel free to check out the details which I shared on an existing thread on unix.stackexchange.

HOWTO KiTTY portable - cygwin support and import settings from PuTTY

SuperUser: Any simple way to add PuTTY settings to kitty?

PuTTYcyg FAQ: https://web.archive.org/web/20120619050045/http://code.google.com/p/puttycyg/wiki/FAQ

GTAIV command line arguments

One can use the commandline.txt with ths single line -help to get a pop up with the list of available options for launching GTAIV. I used SnagIt to capture the pop ups output.

This output is from GTAIV steam version 1.0.7.0 (the latest version as of writing).

LaunchGTAIV.exe [options]
Where [options] are one or more of:

==== [ Global ] ====
-adapter: Use the specified screen adapter number ?zero-based?
-disableimposters: Turn of the imposter rendering for vehicles
-noBlockOnLostFocus: Don't block the window update when it loses focus.

==== [AUDIO] ====
-fullspecaudio: Force high-end CPU audio footprint
-minspecaudio: Force low-end CPU audio footprint

==== [GLOBAL] ====
-benchmark: Determines if we run the benchmark immediately
-safemode: Sets graphics setting to lowest setting

==== [GRAPHICS] ====
-forcehighqualitymirrors: Enable 64 bit mirrors
-forcer2vb: force r2vb
-frameLimit: number of frames to limit game to
-framelockinwindow: Force framelock to work even in a window ?works best with
 60Hz monitor refresh?
-fullscreen: Force fullscreen mode
-gpucount: Lets you manually set the GPU count if query fails
-height:  Set height of main render window ?default is 480?
-managed: Use D3D runtime managed resources
-nominimize: Disables the ability to restore the game from minimize and
 changing resolutions - Reduces System Memory Footprint
-norestrictions: Do not limit graphics settings
-noswapdelay: Disable sleep delay before Present ?disable fix for hard Present
 stalls?
-novblank: Disable wait for vblank
-refreshrate: Set refresh rate of main render window
-stereo:  Set game to support stereo rendering mode
-unmanaged: Use application managed resources
-width:   Set width of main render window ?default is 640?
-windowed: Force windowed mode

==== [INPUT] ====
-usedirectinput: Allow DirectInput alongside XInput support.

==== [MEMORY] ====
-availablevidmem: Percentage of available video memory
-memrestrict: Set the restriction the amount of available memory for managed
 resources
-no_3GB:  Disable 32bit OS with /3GB
-nomemrestrict: Do not restrict the amount of available memory for managed
 resources
-noprecache: Do not precache resources
-percentvidmem: Percentage of video memory to make available to GTA
-reserve: Amount of memory to set aside for other applications
-reservedApp: Amount of memory to leave available within application space

==== [QUALITY SETTINGS] ====
-autoconfig: Automatically adjust quality setting to maintain desired frame
 rate ?15-120?
-detailquality: Set detail distance ?0-99?
-renderquality: Set anisotropic filtering ?0-4?
-shadowdensity: Set the number of lights that cast shadows
-shadowquality: Set the shadow quality ?0-4?
-texturequality: Set texture quality ?0-2?
-viewdistance: Set LOD view distance ?0-99?

==== [TIME] ====
-notimefix: Disable Time Fix

Props to:
mkey82 @ GTA Forums for publishing some great related info

Debian-Linux: start / stop / restart / status mingle init script

I have created and shared the following init script for Mingle 3.x

http://community.thoughtworks.com/posts/4c5c087474

Hope it helps :)

HOWTO: SSL your Mingle 3.5.x instance (including free SSL)

Following on from my self.documentation post on Java and its keytool, I shared a HOWTO on the mingle community for SSL'ing a Mingle instance.

HOWTO: SSL your Mingle 3.5.x instance (including free SSL)

Hope it helps someone and saves a little time!

Java Key and Certificate Management - Using an existing private key

problem: You want to use your existing private key and cert

It is not immediately obvious how to do this with Java's keytool. It took me a good while to figure out, so I'm documenting here.

solution: Java 6 can treat a PKCS12 file as a keystore

With Java 6 keytool, one can import a PKCS12 file as a keystore, here are the steps I used.

First, convert PEM format key/cert to a PKCS12 format cert

$ openssl pkcs12 -export -in thedomain.com.crt -inkey thedomain.com.key -out thedomain.com.p12

Then use keytool to import the PKCS12 cert

$ keytool -importkeystore -destkeystore thedomain.com.keystore -srckeystore thedomain.com.p12 -srcstoretype PKCS12 -alias 1

My understanding is, that if you have access to a version 6 keytool, then one can use the generated file keystore from 6 on older Java versions, but don't quote me on that.

Related: Generating a 2048 bit RSA private key and CSR

It worth mentioning that, if your just looking to generate a 2048 bit key/cert with keytool, to get a CSR for an SSL certificate authority, then you'd want to use something like this:

$ keytool -genkey -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -keystore thedomain.com.keystore -alias thealias

Then to get the CSR:

$ keytool -keyalg RSA -keystore thedomain.com.keystore -alias thealias -certreq -file thedomain.com.csr

Then when you get the cert back from the CA, import with keytool:

$ keytool -importcert -trustcacerts -keystore thedomain.com.keystore -alias thealias -file thedomain.com.crt

Free class 1 SSL

I have used these methods to get free SSL class 1 protection from http://www.startssl.com.

citation:

Props to:
NCSA CyberSecurity @ University of Illinois
Graham Leggett @ Cunning blog
Knowledge Base @ Comdo