My long-time goal of saving 24-hour video captures of the street outside my apartment has finally come to fruition. Originally I intended to use archive.org for this but upload speeds got throttled so bad it was like uploading through a dialup modem. I’ve not found any explanation for why this throttling occurred or who is responsible for it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sunswick.com has nothing to do with the bar by that name, which used to be my every day regular. It refers to the historic Sunswick Creek which is now buried. I bought the domain name a long time ago with some intention of making it Astoria-centric in some way but I mostly just filled it with poetry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I like watching the videos. They are calming. I’m also a fan of NY511’s traffic cams, and traffic cams in general. I guess it’s in the same spirit as being someone who likes to read the phone book. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
After failing to get peertube to do anything I settled on a more modest platform. Piwigo is not designed for videos but the VideoJS plugin is perfectly adequate for this task. At least for now. I would like to get a more robust platform for video sharing going but I ran out of gas trying to get peertube to cooperate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The goal of hosting all these gigabytes of video was made possible by finding a dedicated server concern that offered more credible quanties of storage than most other ISPs. This machine has over 20 terabytes available. My previous dedserv, which I leased for something like 9 or 10 years, was constantly experiencing disk space issues on the root partition. I never had the nerve to try and expand the root partition. It seemed like too many things could go wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But I like amassing this type of collection. I like to think I am documenting the world passing by while I’m not looking, and when I cannot possibly be looking. I do not intend for the collection to be complete and comprehensive of every 24 hour period that passes. But it will have a lot of days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Originally I pieced the 24-hour videos together with a batch script on Windows. Now I save 10-minute chunks of video to the 20TB server and intend to automate the process of stitching them all together.I think I’vew collected about a month of days, with occasional interruptions for server reboots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My other long-time goal, in the same spirit, was to have the live stream run 24\/7 without use of a PC at home. That’s been happening but results are mixed. I don’t bother streaming to YouTube because it’s too fussy. I thought I had it going steady with twitch.tv\/sorabji but now I can’t get the stream to start on Twitch even though I am certain the camera is working the same as ever. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am sitting here at my dead-end low-paying job. I don’t usually write personal stuff from here but no one seems to care. I remember one person here said that when they saw me with this setup, a bluetooth keyboard and mouse used to type into a cell phone, they knew I was different. I thought that was funny. It’s true you don’t see this seteup too often, at least I don’t remember ever seeing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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