Monthly Archives: June 2020

Cyprus Radio Frequencies for cars imported from Japan

30 June 2020 in Other tagged cyprus / frequency / japan / radio by Tux

If you are having trouble with the radio of your car that was imported from Japan and you cannot tune in to your favorite radio stations you might have to do a little math!

On many cars that were imported from Japan it seems that to tune in to the station you like you need to subtract from the frequency 16Mhz. For example, if the station you are interested in is broadcasting at 97.2Mhz you will have to set your car radio to 81.2Mhz to listen to it.

A list of frequencies will follow soon.

Apply low pass and high pass frequency filter using ffmpeg

21 June 2020 in GNU/Linux tagged ffmpeg / filter / frequency / high pass / highpass / low pass / lowpass by Tux

Just a quick example that applies both a high pass and a low pass frequency filter to a video file using ffmpeg

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -filter:a "highpass=f=200, lowpass=f=3000" output.mp4;

The frequency is set in Hz so in this example we are filtering out all frequencies that are out of [200, 3000].

Increase volume in video using ffmpeg 2

20 June 2020 in Uncategorized tagged audio / boost / ffmpeg / loud / video / volume by Tux

A quick note on how to boost the audio stream in a video using the volume filter in ffmpeg

#;For newer versions of ffmpeg
ffmpeg -i input.mkv -filter:a "volume=4.0" output.mkv;
#For older versions of ffmpeg (we use multiples of 256)
ffmpeg -i input.mkv -vol 1024 -vcodec copy output.mkv;

Using the above command we were able to make the audio LOUDER!

Ubuntu 18.04 and VOSK Speech Recognition API

17 June 2020 in GNU/Linux tagged ubuntu / VOSK by Tux

Just some quick notes on how to install and use VOSK on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Install using: pip3 install vosk
Get samples from https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api/tree/master/python/example
Using ffmpeg create input audio files ffmpeg -i video.mkv -c:a pcm_s16le -ac 1 output.wav
It will create a file of the following type output.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, mono 48000 Hz
Export text to JSON python3 ./test_simple.py output.wav

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