Chino-anon, I've been using your software and I really enjoy it, especially the booru browser and the youtube client. I have a question about ikatube though, I know you can make custom themes for it, but how would one go and do such? I'm not seeing a json file for themeing inside of the folder directory. I was looking for the template for the other themes too but I couldn't find them.

>>122961
Where can I get Chino-anon's software?

>>111607 >>118027
Great work! Cute set of tools
ikachan is a great little booru browser. While it's nice that it lists tags alphabetically, as far as I could see it unfortunately omits the tag categories like Artist, Character, and Copyright (the first and most useful (imo) things I look for when browsing Danbooru, for example). Just a small thing, though, all the info is still there. That aside, it's quite a functional and convenient tool~

I got ikatube to browse, but somehow couldn't get it to play. It's probably because I didn't use ikafb+pwm-xft. I've ZERO confidence that I can use ikafb and not bork my system lol

ikamp is great! This is something I'll be keeping for sure. Played with the config a bit and it looks nice. The new borderless option looks good. I likely don't have whatever compositor (probably ikafb+pwm-xft) is needed to draw border around the window, but nothing wrong with rectangles! haha

Thanks for these, Chino-chan ^-^

>>122982
Linked in the replies of the comment I made just before seeing yours. For ease, it's https://chino-chan.gitlab.io/programs

>>122992
>ikafb+pwm-xft
It could be this, but make sure mpv (or vlc) is properly configured in your $PATH too. That's the problem I had on my machine when first configuring the program.

just released a new version of ikamp with spectrogram support!

>>122961
for ikatube you can use the same theme file included with the ikachan distribution (ikachan_colortheme_bocchi.json), you can use that as a template
i actually have worked on a gui theme editor for my programs, so you can use it once it is released, just need some polish
>>122992
>as far as I could see it unfortunately omits the tag categories like Artist, Character, and Copyright
this is unfortunately a limitation of some other boorus ikachan supports, like gelbooru, so they're not always available
>I got ikatube to browse, but somehow couldn't get it to play.
do you have mpv in your path? it should work with that
>I likely don't have whatever compositor (probably ikafb+pwm-xft) is needed to draw border around the window
are you using the native wayland version? window border is not supported on gnome in this case

>>122992
>>123011
>ikafb+pwm-xft
ikafb is a library that my programs use to draw ui and is already bundled in, and pwm-xft is an old window manager that i used previously
so they should'nt have any effect on the operation of the ika* programs

>>123012
Wonderful. Looks great, thanks for that ikamp update! I got the spectrogram working on my end and did some other small tweaks in the UI file to make it look pretty without being too cluttered. Took a while, but I finally understand how to use it properly now.

>>123011 >>123014
I actually figured out what my issue with ikatube was. It was in the .json file where I overlooked the default program was mpv! My $PATH was all correct, but ikatube was looking for a program that just wasn't there. I've used VLC exclusively for everything for the past 15+ years. I didn't even consider that it'd default to another program that I've never used haha
I usually use FreeTube on desktop and NewPipe on Android since they're privacy-focused YT front-ends, but this one works fine now. Nice to have some more fun tools~

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I also forgot to mention that I'm on GNOME yep. I got a new laptop recently and can't be arsed to do any ricing lol. Pop!_OS does exactly what I need for daily tasks and it's been good for many years ^^
Cheers!

added zoom mode and an image toolbar to my booru viewer

>>73454
I have been meaning to make a database of Scottish computer science exam questions tagged by topic to make my tutoring job easier, but I haven't found the energy.

>>126334
Thanks for the useful programs, I've been using ikatube+RSS as a youtube alternative for a long time. Is there any way to display all the site content when viewing gelbooru in ikachan?

>>126387
>all the site content
do you mean displaying contents from all booru sites at once or something else?

>>126390
displaying tags that are hidden by default like loli and some others

>>126392
ikachan already displays all contents on gelbooru by default

>>126393
you're right, i guess something wasn't working on my end. clearing the cache solved it

>>123012
just added scrolling text support

>>128867
You have very good taste in aesthetics!

Was doing some studying and went to do some practice exams, and I was struck by the lack of quality multiple choice printables. I ended up spending the afternoon making a bunch of scantron bootlegs... (´･ω･`)

I made them in 50, 100, 150, and 200 question variants, alongside side bordered and non-bordered versions (borders around every 10 questions to improve readability). There's also a few arrangement variants of the 50 question version.

Maybe some studious Kissu fren will find them useful.

I've been working on a modernized version of virtualdub. Basically, a front-end for ffmpeg and vapoursynth/avisynth scripts along with built-in capture card support and importing of various digital audio formats (BD rips, DVD rips, LD rips, digitized tape and so on). I started working on this because I've been incredibly frustrated by all the random tools I've needed to use over the years. Many of which are still Windows/NT-only. Capturing analog sources is very frustrating because they haven't made a proper capture card in 20+ years now and most of the tools to control the proper ones are Windows XP-era software. Most of this stuff doesn't work correctly in wine either.

ffmpeg along with the various codecs can do a lot of this stuff from a CLI. But it's a maze of options and the documentation for a lot of edge cases isn't that great. If you haven't been using these tools and scripts for 25+ years it's almost impossible to get started. You have to spend weeks crawling through old forums and mailing lists to learn anything and you have to stop mid-project often to spend hours reading the documentation.

There really isn't a proper GUI application for this stuff either. There are a lot of GUI options for editing video provided it's already in a format you want. But taking an old NTSC/PAL source from analog or digital and cleaning it up + producing a good encode (either lossless or lossy) for distro is a huge pain in the ass.

I thought it would be pretty simple to do this considering ffmpeg can do most of it by itself provided you know your way around. But the options for cross-platform GUI applications is still kind of awful. I've ended up using C++ and Qt to do the GUI stuff. I didn't really see another way if I wanted support for the 3 major platforms people use on workstations. While I'm primarily making this for Linux/UNIX I really wanted to retain Windows and Mac OS support because I know a lot of people still use those for video work.

Anyway, I'm calling this a "Video Mastering Application". Aside from the GUI itself the most important things about it boil down to;

- A package manager to manage all the various Vapoursynth/Avisynth filters along with the various codecs needed to do anything
- A new file format to store "projects" to store all the meta data and misc. stuff associated with each mastering project. Basically, a renamed .mkv file with an extra attachment that stores the meta data
- A list of presets/targets to export projects into different formats (e.g. Youtube, BluRay, DVD, lossless "master")

This has been taking away a lot of time from my own backlog of video projects. But in time I hope it will save me a lot of work in the future. Having a GUI for a lot of the things I do would be very helpful. Along with being able to do some tasks on Linux that still require wine/Windows box.

In time I hope to grow it into either multiple small applications (a proper suite) or integrate tasks that are spread over many small applications now into the main mastering application. One example is IVTC. I often have to manually reverse telecine a bad source into true progressive video. It's a huge pain in the ass and both of the applications that try to provide a GUI to *synth scripting for this task have terrible documentation and frankly terrible GUI interface. It would be nice to finally have a proper application for that.

In the long term I'm hopeful that if this catches on professional studios might start using it. Which would mean less kuso sources in the future. Since tons of stuff has been lost over the years and the only source for such things now is a badly done mastering decades ago on rotting discs or analog tapes. Pretty much all Japanese content is on such tapes _if you're lucky_. A lot of studios burned them long ago. So the only sources remaining are second-third generation copies of those tapes that were badly converted over to consumer VHS or DVD.

>>128987
I forgot to mention that one of the main things I'm hoping to eventually do is provide a seamless client to server interface. Basically, you can send off projects to a powerful encoding server that would spit out finished encodes in various formats. In other words; batch processing.

Right now the situation is you have to track down a bunch of stuff manually. The existing repos are a bit garbage. No one has properly collected all that stuff together and documented.

The core of this project is basically an IDE for video editing/scripting. In time I'll provide a GUI for common filters and an easy way for other people to do the same through python scripting. When I started this was basically a text editor with syntax highlighting + mpv to display the results in real time. Then I moved on to providing a GUI for ffmpeg and the codecs it supports.

So instead of loading a .VOB in one application. Splitting out chunks of it. Saving that as its own file. Importing it into my script. Editing it in another application. Saving the script. Opening that in ffmpeg and having it spit out an h.264/265/whatever encode. Which I open in yet another application for muxing. While doing a similar process separately for each audio track. Then another round of editing for subtitles in yet another application. Then muxing it all together. Then testing in mpv. I do most/all of it from one application.

As I said before ultimately my goal is to provide an all-in-one solution to mastering video and audio. With the recent changes in the Linux landscape like pipewire this is finally becoming possible without many hours of configuration to each individual system. Linux finally got something akin to Video for Windows in the last couple of years. So it's ready to take on the role Windows has been required to use for decades now. An application like this is badly needed for both sides of video before and after the editing step. Meaning it would be useful for making clean video to work with from traditional sources (IVTC/color correction/deblocking/lots of other common errors) and the final step before distro (encoding into different formats for distro/creating a true lossless master to store the video long term).

There are a lot of great applications for editing video already. But no one has really bothered to make an application for producing good sources to use within such applications. They all pale in comparison to the filtering you can do with the *synth scripting. I've noticed most "professionals" don't even bother with cleaning up video proper. Since the tools they use for editing are so badly lacking proper filtering.

I think if I work at this hard enough over the next year or so I might be able to turn it into a full time job. I plan to release it for free. But I feel like people would happily donate for something like this. I see so many people requesting fixes and features for applications like MeGUI, Staxrip, Vdub and things like DGIndex all of the time. Most of those haven't been touched in years now.

I'm kind of amazed that we're halfway through the 2020s and most of the serious video work is still being done in 20-35+ year old software. When I said "XP era" software before I was wrong. A lot of this stuff is Windows 98-era software. A lot of it is still 32-bit only!

It's a pipe dream. But if I had the money I'd love to make something like a modern Amiga system. Where my own Linux distro came pre-installed with a suite of video/audio editing software. It'd have some custom hardware to do stuff like rip raw data from Laserdiscs and a proper capture card to get at analog sources. It'd be powerful enough to do all the processing locally. But if the end user wanted they could also purchase a powerful server from us that they could offload the processing work to (or rent a server from us). It would be very useful for studios that process a lot of video and re-master old video for release on modern formats like BluRay or the web. If I could offer that I think I could turn it into a thriving business and compete with the existing players in the market. I'm not kidding when I say no one is offering this and hasn't since the late 80s-early 90s. Professional studios only very recently got away from analog formats and went all-digital. So the market is ripe for someone to swoop in and offering an all-in-one solution to these problems.

I plan to spend the next year or two working on this full time. I'm hopeful that my choice to use Qt won't come back to bite me in the ass. One of the reasons I picked it was the fact that I could build cross-platform GUI using python. Since python is what is used for modern *synth scripting. Similarly, I'm building it on Gentoo right now since python is used by portage. I've been building it on Gentoo and testing it on Arch, Fedora and Windows 10. I want to throw an Apple device into the mix but I can't afford one right now. I'm hoping one comes up on the used market for cheap soon.

Sorry to ramble.

I'm remaking the OPED videos that are there in the kissu threater to serve as intermission time and so on.
Basically I use ytp-dl to download NC OP/EDs from youtube and throw them all together. Unfortunately, Davinci Resolve has issues with the downloads from youtube so I have to convert them with Handbrake and THEN add that and encode it again or whatever. The resulting file is multiple gigabytes, but I split them out and again put them in handbrake to compress them.
I really don't know any of this video encoding stuff, but it seems to work so that's enough. This time I added about 5 Utawarerumono songs hehehe

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I have access to AnimeBytes and I downloaded the raw BD, but for the torrent https://nyaa.si/view/507347 it's still stuck at the metadata download so I can't actually consolidate the files. Surely my client's connectable... private trackers I'm on report a green light

you know I forgot that all you have to do is use the .torrent file instead of the magnet link and you get all that metadata
seeding it now, let's see if it does anything overnight

>>133337
Very leet.

wow... im finally seeding https://nyaa.si/view/507347 to someone... sorry my upload speed is so slow

>>121642
didn't know ikaanon posted here

It's not really a project. Out of sheer boredom I finally opened the tablet I purchased a year ago and started to draw. I usually have concentration issues but have found I can concentrate on this for longer than most things and I really appriciate just being able to start and stop whenever I feel like it. This is my first picture, I tried to draw an ear but it didn't look too good and I want to go to bed.

>>133727
looks good but if your really going to one day take it seriously, study anatomy and don't fall into the trap of "drawing everyday = progress"

study and observe the artists that you like and incorporate it in to your art

>>133727
better than I could ever imagine my first day turning out
looks like you really like 90s anime from it though

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Thank you. I don't want to treat it as something that I have to spend hours practising instead of just drawing for enjoyment - before I purchased my tablet I was drawing on paper and a friend linked me a website with drawing exercises that quickly sucked the fun out of it. I do intend to do some, although I'd rather learn by trying to emulate artists I like, and there are plenty of those.

For this picture I was just following some guides I found on Pixiv, although I do like his art style.
https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/56572916
https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/56546373
Getting used to the tablet is another factor and I've already damaged my pen nib while trying to draw clouds

>>133727
I'm using my tablet that sat for too long as well; still can't get into a regular habit of daily usage yet. I find that if I stop for any reason it's so hard to get back into the rythm. Been working on Pippa in my own style off and on for two weeks now.
I had a face I liked more and all her hair decorations done but somehow I hit something I don't quite understand that deleted or covered my page and I accidentally closed it without saving which was a huge demotivator.
Lets goooo self improvement!

>>133756
pippa the self-ripper

>>133737
if you open up the pen there are nibs inside

>>111607
just released my youtube client as a mpv plugin!
now i can search and play youtube videos in the player

Alright then, time to get back into 3D modeling. Blender is now on... 4.3. They're really going overboard with this versioning stuff. Which plugins are even valid now?

>>135228
That's flipping awesome, gonna install that now

>>137644
hope you will like it!
i also just added sponsorblock support to it

I've been working on my art fundamentals.

I've taken to using an approach inspired by the way Loomis draws heads, where I start with the axis of rotation and then extrude everything off of it. I'm not sure if it's actually making me a better artist, and I know that the only way to truly get everything accurate is to bite the bullet and use perspective lines for everything, but what I have so far seems to be working. Picrel is a box that's facing to the left and turned upward. If you have any feedback, I'd love to hear it!

>>140982
>If you have any feedback, I'd love to hear it!
dont do scratchy lines its a way of hiding the need to be precise
its like when people try to hide a characters hands and feet because theyre not confident in getting them right
dont do that

>>118027
added wav support for my music player with embedded tags and album art
will probably add a plugin system later

>>140983
I've been trying to get better at lines. It's frustrating, because it makes me a lot slower, but I get that it's an important skill.

Otherwise, though, would you say it looks good?

>>140982
Another box. They've been coming out less and less wonky, although they're still far from perfect.

I've gotten into collecting encyclopedias and reference sets. With how suggestible LLMs are, I'm wary of the truth of things becoming increasingly murky and want to have something I can rely on as being authoritative and truthful. I've gotten quite a few so far. The plan is to digitize all of them into searchable PDFs so that I can essentially have one big reference set, encompassing multiple viewpoints. Having one of those RAG LLMs that can only pull info from files might also be neat.

My collection currently consists of:
- Encyclopedia Britannica (1989)
- Collier's Encyclopedia (1965)
- Funk & Wagnall's Encyclopedia (1989)
- The Volume Library (1911)
- World Book Encyclopedia (1963)
- World Book Encyclopedia (1976)

I'd like to be able to get a few more. The one's I'm looking at adding to the collection are:
- The Volume Library (~1960 - 2010)
- The Young Students Encyclopedia (1985)
- World Book Encyclopedia (1940)
- World Book Encyclopedia (2017)

Anything post-2021 is suspect given the rise of ChatGPT. Unfortunately, there's a big gap from 1990 to today. As you might imagine, that's due to the internet. To my knowledge, the only English language encyclopedia still in print is the World Book.

Beyond the encyclopedia's themselves, I'm also collecting their yearbooks, which summarize the events of a given year.

I'm not sure what I'll do with the encyclopedias once I get them all digitized. Keep my favorite and donate the rest? My hoarder tendencies would rather keep them all, but that's not totally realistic.

>>141358
hmmm well one problem with this is that you'll have a lot of decades-old outdated information
in particular one topic i'm investigating was famously covered quite badly by encyclopedias in the past, and tons of books and papers from the last thirty years have had to argue against the popular conception that's come down from 18th-19th century myths which are still treated as fact outside of specialized literature
i think it's a solid idea but you should definitely watch out, especially with those that are more than 4-5 decades old

>>141360
>you'll have a lot of decades-old outdated information
That's certainly true, but it's also desirable in some circumstances. For example, an encyclopedia from 1989 is in theory going to have more information on the Soviet Union than an encyclopedia from the last 20 years simply by virtue of the Soviet Union being extant at the time of writing. I also think it's desirable to have viewpoints across time as a reference for how understandings may have changed.

>in particular one topic i'm investigating was famously covered quite badly by encyclopedias in the past
What topic is that?

>>141361
>I also think it's desirable to have viewpoints across time as a reference for how understandings may have changed.
valid point
>What topic is that?
16th-17th century astronomy

my youtube client can now load hdr video formats

>>142371
Good job! I still like to use it on both Linux and Windows.