01:52 PM
Things to watch.
Prison School.
One Punch Man. Ok. I watched the first season.

Childhood Memories

2023-01-27 - Friday - 03:16 PM - My Life Log.

My mom was talking to my brother, Rick. So, I came over to ask him question about our childhood memories. According to him, it may be tough to say who got a NES first. Did Kyle Vanderzaden have a regular Nintendo before we got one? I was thinking Kyle moved in around 1989, maybe Mike alluded to that. Rick was thinking 1990. They had an arcade game in Kyle's room. Kyle had a NES. I remember going there to play Mario 1, Duck Hunt, Paper Boy, like a Dr. Pepper game or something, a burger game maybe, etc. Rick mentioned other people who had a NES: Dusty (space 159) and also Amy at the house with the big tree. The biggest tree. I remember going there, they played World Runner on the NES. Possibly the first 3D like game I have ever seen at that time. I forget if Damien had a NES or not. I have memory of Damien at the double wide trailer house across the street from the big tree house (Amy). My memory was we were at the house. We went to the park for Easter of maybe 1992. I won the dancing contest. We have some photos of that. I asked Rick which came first our NES or the VCR car racing video Game Driver thing. Rick was thinking we got a NES first. I'm going to speculate to say perhaps NES was Christmas 1990. Perhaps the Game Driver was Christmas 1991. I have not confirmed these dates but Christmas is usually the time people get things. We probably got the SNES around the time Mario All-Stars came out in August 1993. With that said, maybe the Game Driver was Christmas of 1992. Maybe not. I don't know. Jesse had a Sega machine. Maybe it was Genesis. We played Sonic 1. This was as early as 1990 or whichever year it was. Maybe 1991. We also played with Katrina and Kathy. Rick doesn't remember the boys who lived at space 170 before Tiffany Cumbo or the boys at 161. Rick said Dusty was mean at times. They got in a fight because Rick was playing with a TMNT figure. A turtle head came off. Rick mentioned 2 snow forts. One was at Dusty and the other across the street at the one girl's house next to Tony. I played with Tony. Many of the houses at our trailer park had kids it seems. I remember kids at the house next to the mailboxes. We played games there. I liked Mexican Naomi or however you spell her name near the park.

I asked Rick if he thought dad got mom the dishwasher Christmas 1988 a month after she broke her arm but then I remembered the day she broke her arm I saw the dishwasher meaning maybe we got Christmas 1987 which I think I remember sort of. We would usually have a Christmas trees most years including that year I think in 1987 and maybe every year or whatever until like 1997 or whenever it was. In the Christmas 1996 video, you might see a large tree in the living room at 163. So, if so, then we had one that year. But we eventually just had a small foot tall artificial Christmas tree we kept maybe into the early 2000s and who knows what happened to it.

Fixed Broken Video
2023-01-09 - Monday - 12:27 PM - Project Videos Log.

Around 03:00 AM this morning while watching Chosen 305 on YouTube on Firefox on Ubuntu Mate 22.04, my 2021 ASUS Laptop froze as it has many times since at least October of 2022 as documented by me every month since several times in my daily blogs and other logs and videos and what have you. I hard restart by holding on the power button to turn off the computer and turn it back on. While watching, I was also recording my spoiler reaction MP4 (not MKV) video via OBS. When the computer froze or crashed, the recording stopped. That means an incomplete video. They called that truncated or corrupted. The video was not closed, finished, completed. The biggest keyword is truncated. My computer is using an Ubuntu OS which means like Linux and not Microsoft Windows or Apple. They say it is easier to fix broken MKV video files. But I was saving my video in Mp4. Some say you can't fix broken Mp4 video files when broken. But I was able to fix it using the untrunc-anthwlock program which I installed via the Software manager that came with this Ubuntu OS. I went into Software to find, search, download from the Internet, and install untrunc-anthwlock. But when I tried using it in Terminal (command-line like MS-DOS) using the "SUDO" option it failed. Like for some code or commands you type in sudo or su at the beginning because su means Super User or administration power. It lets you do things at a higher power, privilege, level. But in this case, it failed. So, I omitted it. Fixing the video requires 2 videos, the broken video and a working (reference) video. So working video means sample, example. It does not mean the same exact copy or mirror of the video. It means a video that was saved with similar settings, options, etc. Since I recorded other videos on OBS with the same exact details for the video and audio of the file, that works like a reference for the program to use to restore a broken video. The following code fixed my broken MP4 video I made on OBS which was not completed.

TERMINAL:
untrunc-anthwlock -s WORKING.mp4 BROKEN.mp4

I found that code from Snapcraft.io. Change the name of the WORKING.mp4 file to the name of a reference video that is similar to the broken video. Change the name of the BROKEN.mp4 file to the name of the broken video. You type all of that without sudo. You include spaces between the words. You type in the name of the program, a space, a command, a space, the name of a working reference video file, a space, and then the name of a broken but similar video file you want to fix and restore. I was researching for around two hours last night to almost 05:00 PM and again for an hour or less around noon today. I was unable to restore via VLC which is a video player I often use. I tried other programs but nothing worked until I tried this untrunc program as mentioned above. I may try this to restore other videos too. This method may not always work meaning you may need to try other commands, programs, etc. But for me, for now, I am happy I was able to restore this video. Next time my computer freezes, I know what to do. But the freezing PC issue is another thing on my list of things to resolve as well. But that is a harder challenge that I've mentioned in the past.

One option is ./untrunc / path/to/working-video.m4v /path/to/broken-video.m4v. Replace the two files with the exact names and perhaps paths of the working and broken files you want to use. I did not try this and it may require programs. 1.