Its been years since I have last updated Qwtly and I was given the opportunity to play around and modernize the database for my application. I wanted to try the cloud offering of MongoDB called Atlas being that its free for a small database. With this in mind and considering that Qwtly doesn't get traffic after I have disabled the add, edit and delete quote function along with the login, I don't see the application getting to that limit of 5GB anyway. Well, that is considering if I can even get this to work. The first order of business was to see if we can import the MySQL export painlessly to MongoDB Atlas. I have searched for MongoDB tools, external tools, scripts, only to find old abandoned projects which would not be ideal given my situation. I have considered writing a PHP script to do it but that too would cost time. I was looking for something that consists of using existing tools or features I am familiar with along with some manual eyballing and checking. Luckily, ...
Recently I went back to streaming and tried to improve my setup and use Streamlabs OBS (SLOBS), a variant of the popular Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) which includes a really nice app for iOS and Android which lets you control you broadcast. My only issue about SLOBS (and/or OBS) in general is when you stream some games, its a hit or miss experience. Most of the reported issues include a black screen (but with audio) or in my experience, frozen frames as I transition from one part of a game to another. I had the time to do some trial and error testing yesterday and listed below is the pre-requisites and some quick summary of my setup. Take note of the terminologies used throughout this post. Terminologies SLOBS/OBS - Streaming software, liberally used interchangeably in this post. Source - This is where an input of OBS is coming from. This can be a webcam, computer screen, full screen application, a webpage, an image, etc. Display Capture - Captures your whole ...