Solution for audio-video delay

Today I watched a movie with VideoLAN but towards the end I encountered a problem I had several times before. The video and audio became asynchronous really badly. Knowing that VLC has functions to do almost anything, I decided to dig into the deep of the VLC preferences and I discovered what I searched.

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New ucplib for Python

As part of my work refactoring PySMS I decided to abstract some parts into separate libraries. The first victim of this is the UCP message parser and creator.

Until now it was a bit of a bricolage. The functionality it had was very specific to the SMS Server and it was not easy to [...]

Use SSH as SOCKSv5 Proxy to securely surf the web

Many know that SSH offers the possibility to forward single ports over a secure connection. What many people don't know is that SSH can work as SOCKSv5 proxy. This way you can securely surf the web from any public WLAN.

ssh -D8080 username@my-server.ch

This way you have a SOCKSv5 proxy on localhost:8080. You now [...]

How to use VLC 0.8.x NetSync

Update: The NetSync module seems not to be included in VLC 0.9.x!

VLC the VideoLan Media Player has the ability to play sound synchronously on different machines. This module is called NetSync Unfortunately the documentation about this functionality is not very useful. I had to search several sources until I finally managed to get [...]

Use Django ORM as standalone

Recently I had to write a tools which acts on data stored in a database managed by Django. As I didn't want to implement the whole logic around the database I opted to use the Django ORM in my external tool. [...]

How to get WPA with a Flybook A33i

The Dialogue Flybook A33i is a nice device but one problem I had until now was the missing WPA support of the internal WM168 network device. But now I finally found a solution, it is based on informations if found here. A quick overview of what I did:

You need Windows XP Service Pack [...]