Changing screen refresh rate with a keyboard shortcut

I have a little movie and tv-show collection and use the popular open-source mediacenter software Kodi to organize it. But as some tv-shows/movies have other image frequencies/fps than others, it necessary to change the screen refresh rate accordingly. Kodi already delivers an integrated functionality to automatically change the refresh rate as required.

Personally, I like to have some control over this, so I decided to develope a small windows application in C++ (with some C in order to work with the Win32 API) to accomplish this. Doing so a is definitely not a big task. Continue reading Changing screen refresh rate with a keyboard shortcut

Replacing contents of a text file with batch

I personally do not like always creating applications for basic tasks. This is even the case when writing an application is probably easier than doing the same with batches, but I like these challenges. In my case, I had a few videos I wanted to process with AviSynth. Rather than creating multiple copies of the AviSynth script, I wanted to create a template where all other derive from. Continue reading Replacing contents of a text file with batch

Fat jar with embedded fonts

Creating fat jars using maven is pretty simple. But it won’t simply work if you’re using jasper reports and embed fonts into your PDF reports. You’ll probably end up with an exception like the following:

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