Fancy meeting you here brother. Ready for our next battle?

-- VIM, in a snowy field, dressed in medieval knight armour, clutching a sword and a half broken shield, with the bodies of both Emacs' and VIM's comrades in arms strewn about

Yea, I was absolutely expecting the reply to be "yea ok well send it to our team" or "well consider it", but they actually listened and implemented it which is great.

Oh i didnt know about this. Where did you read this, id like to see if theres more info?

Ive been learning video editing with Shotcut recently. Its FOSS

Not sure what the MacOS one is, but i use flameshot and im happy with it

Oh, Im sorry. If I'm honest I completely forgot. Here it is:

You will need ffmpeg installed, and I did write it for Linux, so I'm not sure if there are differences for windows. Worst case you need to slightly modify it to work on windows.

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import requests
import os
import subprocess
from urllib.parse import urljoin
import sys

def download_video_chunks(base_url, output_file):
    """
    Downloads video chunks from the given base URL and merges them into a single file.

    :param base_url: The URL to the playlist or base directory containing the video chunks.
    :param output_file: The name of the output video file (e.g., "output.mp4").
    """
    try:
        # Get the playlist file (e.g., .m3u8 or .ts index file)
        print(f"Fetching playlist or video chunk URLs from: {base_url}", flush=True)
        response = requests.get(base_url, timeout=10)
        response.raise_for_status()
        
        # Parse the playlist to get the chunk URLs
        lines = response.text.splitlines()
        chunk_urls = [urljoin(base_url, line) for line in lines if line and not line.startswith("#")]

        if not chunk_urls:
            print("No video chunks found in the provided URL.", flush=True)
            return

        # Create a directory for storing chunks
        os.makedirs("video_chunks", exist_ok=True)

        # Download each chunk
        chunk_files = []
        for idx, chunk_url in enumerate(chunk_urls):
            chunk_file = os.path.join("video_chunks", f"chunk_{idx:04d}.ts")
            print(f"Downloading {chunk_url}...", flush=True)

            with requests.get(chunk_url, stream=True) as chunk_response:
                chunk_response.raise_for_status()
                with open(chunk_file, "wb") as f:
                    for chunk in chunk_response.iter_content(chunk_size=1024):
                        f.write(chunk)

            chunk_files.append(chunk_file)

        # Merge the chunks into a single file using ffmpeg
        print("Merging chunks...", flush=True)
        with open("file_list.txt", "w") as f:
            for chunk_file in chunk_files:
                f.write(f"file '{chunk_file}'\n")

        subprocess.run(["ffmpeg", "-f", "concat", "-safe", "0", "-i", "file_list.txt", "-c", "copy", output_file], check=True)

        print(f"Video saved as {output_file}", flush=True)

    except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
        print(f"An error occurred while downloading: {e}", flush=True)
    except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
        print(f"An error occurred while merging: {e}", flush=True)
    finally:
        # Clean up temporary files
        if os.path.exists("file_list.txt"):
            os.remove("file_list.txt")
        for chunk_file in chunk_files:
            os.remove(chunk_file)
        # if os.path.exists("video_chunks"):
            # os.rmdir("video_chunks")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    base_url = input("Enter the URL of the video playlist or base directory: ")
    output_file = input("Enter the output video file name (e.g., output.mp4): ")
    print(f"Starting download process for playlist: {base_url}", flush=True)
    download_video_chunks(base_url, output_file)

If you guys can recommend a fair and open pastebin alternative for me I will upload it there as well and edit this with the link

I think i wrote a short python script to do this on another site. Let me get home and see if i can help you out

Yes exactly! Thank you

How can you look through/search through all current initiatives without needing someone to supply a link?

That worked, thanks!

Im not sure about the launcher with built-in mod support as I dont plan on using any other mods, so Im not sure if its worth it for what is essentially a single mod and a shader pack.

Eve online for me too. Ill be logging in in a few minutes 😃

As for the social aspect, even though im in one the big alliances, if i just dont feel like it on any particular night then theres no need to be social. I can do my own thing.

I'm almost done with my CS degree, I started learning programming at age 10, low-level software development like drivers and embedded really interests me and that's the direction I want to go in for a career, but I had to ask my friend who was studying with me to help me build my PC. Hardware just scares me. I'm worried ill bork something :3