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Raspberry Pi / Re: Rpi 3 Model B hardware acceleration for transposing video?

« Last post by Rich on January 18, 2026, 01:30:33 AM »

Hi Cheembus
Googling for:
linux rotate video 90 degrees
returned a lot of answers, including for ffmpeg, vlc, ...
There were answers for 90 degrees clockwise and counter-clockwise.

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Raspberry Pi / Re: Rpi 3 Model B hardware acceleration for transposing video?

« Last post by Cheembus on January 18, 2026, 12:05:43 AM »

An update: so I am able to stream via ffmpeg encoding the raw video into mpegts and then piping it into netcat in listen mode:

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ffmpeg -f v4l2 -framerate 15 -video_size 640x480 -i /dev/video0 -c:v h264_v4l2m2m -b:v 2M -f mpegts - | nc -l -p 6789
I can view the stream on vlc. The issue is, v4l2 doesnt seem to have transpose/rotate support, which was the purpose of this project. Does anyone know of another hardware way to perform the transposing, whether with ffmpeg or with gstreamer?

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Raspberry Pi / Re: Rpi 3 Model B hardware acceleration for transposing video?

« Last post by Cheembus on January 17, 2026, 11:22:07 PM »

Hello all,

Finally have time to respond. I have the following video devices:

video0   video1   video13  video14  video15  video16  video20  video21  video22  video23

due to some research (research being chatgpt - sorry) it seems I am missing bcm2835_codec and/or bcm2835_v4l2 kernel modules. I do recall many years ago disabling one of those because of weird kernel panics I was having on a previous version of TC, so let me check my bootargs and see if I need to remove it's blacklisting

Edit: I do in fact have blacklist=bcm2835-codec blacklist=bcm2835_v4l2 blacklist=bcm2835-ispi in my cmdline.txt. removing those lines and rebooting.

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TCB Talk / Re: how to apps mirror support https?

« Last post by linic on January 17, 2026, 02:16:54 PM »

I made a custom tcz called mirror-enable-https.tcz. It can switch /opt/tcemirror to https when the checks pass. It has a .tcz.dep.
It adds the following commands:

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which-mirror: show the current mirror, supports verbose
is-mirror-https: checks if the mirror supports https downloads
mirror-enable-https: run at install time to automatically switch
  the mirror URL in /opt/tcemirror to https when is-mirror-https
  returns 0. 0 means https, any other code means that it is not.

The source code is available at https://gitlab.com/linichotmailca/mirror-enable-https.git.

You can build it from the gitlab code with a simple make command (as long as you have make installed (there's an install-prerequisites.sh script in the repo about that)) and it's hosted on a special partial mirror (which only works in http for now fixed https) at http://tcz.facedebouc.sbs/ and https://tcz.facedebouc.sbs/
and you need to

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tce-load -w tce-load-github-lfs
first to be able to download it. For more details about tce-laod-github-lfs see https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,27964.msg180945.html

I thought it would be fun/useful to have something like this after reading

Could we have a https set of mirrors added to mirrors.tcz to go along with my added support for them please?
I just went through the ones below on 17.x and all the http mirrors support https apart from repo.tinycorelinux.net .

https://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/
https://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/
https://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/sunsite.unc.edu/distributions/tinycorelinux/
https://sunsite2.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/sunsite.unc.edu/distributions/tinycorelinux/
https://mirror.cedia.org.ec/tinycorelinux/
https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/tinycorelinux/
https://mirrors.163.com/tinycorelinux/

and

Could we have a https set of mirrors added to mirrors.tcz to go along with my added support for them please?
I just went through the ones below on 17.x and all the http mirrors support https apart from repo.tinycorelinux.net .

https://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/
https://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/
https://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/sunsite.unc.edu/distributions/tinycorelinux/
https://sunsite2.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/sunsite.unc.edu/distributions/tinycorelinux/
https://mirror.cedia.org.ec/tinycorelinux/
https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/tinycorelinux/
https://mirrors.163.com/tinycorelinux/

https require ca-certificates.tcz and probably openssl.tcz. It also require buying certificates for repo.tinycorelinux.net. I would like to propose option to set mirror address in control panel, just like in TC 1.x

Also, I think certificates for repo.tinycorelinux.net could be free (in terms of money, but maybe not in terms of time). I used to run https://facedebouc.sbs on a RPI (until I moved it to github pages) and I would use certbot from Let's Encrypt. This was my reference https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-ssl-lets-encrypt/ at the time. In any case, I'm fine with http or https. http helps to keep tiny core tiny since https adds the need for ca-certificates and maybe more.

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Tiny Core Netbooks / Re: Can I get wifi support for TinyCorePure64-16.2.iso?

« Last post by MaxFury on January 17, 2026, 01:19:07 PM »

thank you

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Tiny Core Netbooks / Re: Can I get wifi support for TinyCorePure64-16.2.iso?

« Last post by Rich on January 17, 2026, 01:18:59 PM »

Hi MaxFury

What should I do?

wifi.sh creates a file in your home directory called wifi.db.
If you run:

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sudo wifi.sh -ait automatically connects to the first entry in that file
instead of scanning.

The format of the file is:

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Linksys00216 Password WPA
NETGEAR53 Password WPASo if you know the name of the access point, you can
create that file. The gaps between access point,Password. and
WPA are tabs, not blank spaces. Replace Password with your
password.

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Tiny Core Netbooks / Re: Can I get wifi support for TinyCorePure64-16.2.iso?

« Last post by Rich on January 17, 2026, 01:18:05 PM »

Hi MaxFury
The install posts have been moved here:
https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,27972.0.html

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Tiny Core Netbooks / MOVED: Installing Tinycore to a hard drive

« Last post by Rich on January 17, 2026, 01:03:10 PM »

This topic has been moved to TCB Q&A Forum.

https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=27972.0

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Tiny Core Netbooks / Re: Can I get wifi support for TinyCorePure64-16.2.iso?

« Last post by MaxFury on January 17, 2026, 12:59:33 PM »

What should I do?

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Tiny Core Netbooks / Re: Can I get wifi support for TinyCorePure64-16.2.iso?

« Last post by Rich on January 17, 2026, 12:56:05 PM »

Hi MaxFury
The error message:

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print_scanning_info: Allocation failedis occurring when wifi.sh runs:

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iwlist "$WIFI" scanning
It looks like it's a bug in iwlist:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15363

wireless_tools might need to be updated.