• Dumping all frames from a video file with VideoLAN

    There are so many guides on the internet, and unfortunately, not a single one of them satiated my desire for what I wanted to do! So below is a nice one-liner to, you guessed it, dump just about every frame from a video, with VideoLAN via the PowerShell/command prompt. The TLDR: Go to where you have VideoLAN installed, for me it is C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC Ensure you have a dump/output folder created – probably best to have it in the same location that the video file is sourced at. For me, it is aptly named output in the Documents folder. Modify the command above to whatever you see fit for the output directory. The command arguments used above explained: –video-filter=scene – Forces VLC to use the Scene module. –scene-format=png – If you want

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  • CenturyLink & IPV6 with pfSense 2.4+

    Over the years, IPv6 has been on the up and up in terms of implementation and usage. pfSense has had native IPv6 support since the 2.x series, unfortunately, CenturyLink’s IPv6 implementation has been riddled with ‘fun road bumps’ along the way – be it downtime, slowness, among other fun routing issues observed. CenturyLink (as of early 2020) still does not provide static IPv6 allocations to Fiber or DSL customers – it still remains as DHCP (of sorts). Before you continue onward with this article, please keep in mind the following… Your DSL Modem is in ‘bridge mode’ and NOT ‘routing mode’. Your pfSense install is 2.4.x or newer. You are aware of the CenturyLink region that you’re in. As some regions do not require the VLAN 201 tag on WAN port! I’ll

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