Proxmox Useful Commands

Some useful commands for Proxmox container management: Mount the filesystem of a container that is not running (if you mess something up where booting the container will create problems in your network for example – not that I would have any experience with this 😉 )

Using hardware acceleration in a Proxmox Plex container

Finally got around to fixing hardware acceleration on the plex container running in my proxmox server. These instructions work for Proxmox 8 and plex running in an unprivileged lxc container on debian (distribution should not matter, but I’m using Debian in the container). To make hardware acceleration work, we need to accomplish two things: For…

Splitting and Joining MP3 files from the command line

A couple of great utilities to split and join MP3 files from the command-line in Linux that are quite handy when you want to split a recording into tracks. mp3splt – a great stand-alone utility that can split an MP3 file into multiple tracks. Some of the things you can do: sox – a great…

Linking Audio Input and Output from Applications with Pipewire pw-link

If you are recording audio output from an application, one challenge is that recording the default output can mean you record all the sounds that are produced by all applications. In Linux, you can use pipewire command-line utility pw-link to create a dedicated and isolated link between the application producing the audio output and the…