So I made a thing

[Romlok]

After seeing Venn’s virtual webcam how-to late last year, I thought I could make a nice little project out of it. Since then, I lost my job and lost my home, but I made a thing anyway:

x112v4l2
https://github.com/romlok/x112v4l2

It works on my machine, so maybe it’ll also work on someone else’s. Preferably someone who might find it useful, but I’ll take anything.

Get your complaints in now, before I get bored and leave it to bit rot.

Also, Glade is great, but GTK3 sucks scrotal flakes. I should’ve made it an Electron app.

[Venn Stone]

Right on. I will give it a mention on the Wed show.

[neocron]

Hope you’ll find a new home and a better job, never give up!

[Romlok]

LWDW wrote:

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Cheers for the plug guys.

Y’all were right; I did this project partially to learn me some GTK. I think I was coming at it from a web mindset, where I was treating Glade + Python in much the same way that I treat HTML + Javascript. It worked out pretty similar in the end, but I found GTK lacks some of the niceties for that workflow, compared to that which are available from web browser runtimes.

I actually checked out how Lutris did some things, to make sure I wasn’t going totally off the rails with my usage of GTK. However, I only tend to contribute to projects I actively use, and I haven’t personally had any need for Lutris yet – just about all my gaming is done through Steam, sadly.

neocron wrote:

Hope you’ll find a new home and a better job, never give up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8NyviD3PR8
I actually took the opportunity to move out of the sticks, and to the big city. I’m not in desperate straits just yet, so am just casually applying for interesting jobs around Oslo.

[strider]

Romlok wrote:

LWDW wrote:

blah blah blah

Cheers for the plug guys.

Y’all were right; I did this project partially to learn me some GTK. I think I was coming at it from a web mindset, where I was treating Glade + Python in much the same way that I treat HTML + Javascript. It worked out pretty similar in the end, but I found GTK lacks some of the niceties for that workflow, compared to that which are available from web browser runtimes.

I did pretty much the opposite
I started doing web stuff a long time ago but I started modern and professional web development a bit after learning the GTK basics, I’d say that knowing GTK has helped me quite a bit with Javascript since there are some similarities in the asynchronous nature of both languages.

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I actually checked out how Lutris did some things, to make sure I wasn’t going totally off the rails with my usage of GTK. However, I only tend to contribute to projects I actively use, and I haven’t personally had any need for Lutris yet – just about all my gaming is done through Steam, sadly.

No problem, that’s the way it should be. Only contribute to stuff you care about and use.

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