Tutorial

To run a little project (that I’ll describe at some point in the future) I have to run a small web server from my home computer, one that happens to run macOS. More than anything else, this is just a reply of what I did to get it running in case: a) I have to do it again, or b) Someone else can find it useful.

Sign up for dynamic DNS service

I signed up for service with dynv6 because I saw it recommended elsewhere and it didn’t look creepy like some of the other options. I just signed up with email - through an email proxy anonymizer, because I’m paranoid. After verifying my email, I was able to create a new “zone”, basically a record of my public IP address linked to custom DNS.

I recently shot a recital with my Sony A7. While it’s a wonderful camera for stills and it produces some excellent video too, cameras like this are not meant for continuous video recording. There are limitations that are imposed by compression algorithm licensing requirements. And, it seems, there are limits that are imposed by thermal issues inside the camera.

To make a long story short, my A7 ended up giving me two video files instead of one for this event. What to do?