Georgie Casey

How to record Youtube live streams on a Linux server?

Coachella streams a load of their sets every year on Youtube and nobody seems to record them all. So I had to volunteer starting in 2015. Some rips you find are one-off screen recordings using some software like Camtasia, which nearly always drop frames and are kinda shit. You have to record directly from the Youtube source for the best quality.

How to serve files with a simple and quick PHP BitTorrent tracker?

I needed to share some raw video files with a friend lately so I uploaded 17GB of data to my webserver and sent them the HTTP link. Problem was the video files were scattered over several directories and the directory structure was important so the end user would have had to download each one individually if they didn’t have some sort of download manager to download all.

How to use Overplay and other VPNs as a cURL proxy?

UPDATE May 2015 When I posted this tutorial two years ago, I gradually got comments that the OpenVPN interface was setup successfully but curl traffic through the interface timed out. I tried to help but responded with the cliched ‘works on my machine’, with my machine being Debian Squeeze and kernel version 2.6.