{"id":17912,"date":"2025-08-07T15:20:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T19:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=17912"},"modified":"2025-08-07T15:20:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T19:20:46","slug":"local-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/07\/local-wildlife\/","title":{"rendered":"local wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"763\" src=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/browsing_beaver-1024x763.jpg\" alt=\"in a bank of tangled green plants, a large dark brown beaver sits on its haunches and nibbles on greenery with its front paws to its mouth. Its fur is damp and slicked back, forming stripes as the long guard hairs curve past its tiny ears down its back. It is aware of the photographer but unbothered, even if they are only three metres away\" class=\"wp-image-17911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/browsing_beaver-1024x763.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/browsing_beaver-320x238.jpg 320w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/browsing_beaver-160x119.jpg 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/browsing_beaver-768x572.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/browsing_beaver.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">its wee hands &#8230;! <em>squee!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Beavers are usually quite wary of me down at Bluffer&#8217;s Park, but I was about three metres away from this one and I didn&#8217;t seem to be interrupting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"360\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 640 \/ 360;\" width=\"640\" controls src=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/1754\/92\/browsing_beaver-smaller.webm\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A beaver in Bluffer&#8217;s Park gathers an unhurried snack of tasty green fronds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The original video is nearly half a gigabyte. I don&#8217;t really want to use YouTube, so you&#8217;re getting it at 360p, courtesy of ffmpeg and lots of swearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to turn this post into a rant about ffmpeg and its very special options, so here, for posterity, are the command lines I used to generate this from a Pixel 8 phone video:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">ffmpeg -i PXL_20250807_103015312.mp4 -c:v libvpx-vp9 -b:v 0 -crf 32 -pass 1 -an -f null \/dev\/null<br>ffmpeg -i PXL_20250807_103015312.mp4 -c:v libvpx-vp9 -b:v 0 -crf 42 -pass 2 -r 30 -vf \"scale=trunc(iw\/6)*2:trunc(ih\/6)*2\" -c:a libopus -filter:a \"volume=1.5\" browsing_beaver-smaller.webm<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beavers are usually quite wary of me down at Bluffer&#8217;s Park, but I was about three metres away from this one and I didn&#8217;t seem to be interrupting. The original video is nearly half a gigabyte. I don&#8217;t really want to use YouTube, so you&#8217;re getting it at 360p, courtesy of ffmpeg and lots of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Beavers are usually quite wary of me down at Bluffer's Park, but I was about three metres away from this one and I didn't seem to be interrupting.\n\n#beaver #toronto #BluffersPark #canada #video","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[1799,1200,2352,43],"class_list":["post-17912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-o-canada","category-photo","tag-beaver","tag-canada","tag-ffmpeg","tag-toronto"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-4EU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17912"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17914,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17912\/revisions\/17914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}