Oddonomy is based off the word Autonomy. Software that self governs itself. So I'll write all of the code up, it will create the videos being created in the background. I write the software to be autonomous, and Oddonomy software does its own videos. It's not automation it's autonomy, or Oddonomy.

I'd like to keep Oddonomy pure at it's true principles. It isn't just any videos recorded and if I ever started down that path I will be wasting my time. So I have to keep to the mission statement.

The oddonomy mission statement for Oddonomy is "To autonomously create videos that cover a range of audiences without any recording of media."

So some rules I have created for myself:

1. It is ALL software generated video and sound, nothing is to be recorded. Not even audio.
2. Chaos/Random is to be the exception to the rule, and using mathematics to generate variations is the preference.
3. Videos, where possible, should be considerd to be a series if not repetitive.
4. Quality is to be the highest achievable (UHD/5.1) or if size exceeds maxmium HD.
5. Have fun!

I'm a software developer with at least 30 years experience in all kinds of industries for commercial and corporations. Safe to say if there's a software need, I've done it.

My other passion is multi-media, Amiga demos, art and sound played a critical roll in my up bringing. I was doing 3D software one weekend, I wanted to do a bouncing ball fly around a room making noises. Then I started doing the hard, boring, task of manually mapping it all out. I thought, hey I'm a geek I could automate all of this even the sound effects. Oddonomy starts.

In regards to who I am, it doesn't matter. What matters is my insane but sometimes beautiful creations.

Magic! I actually have a video schedule that runs for all video channels except Oddonomous Sleep. The file goes through every single day sequentially, each channel has a video per day. Before it makes the video it will output the date it is up to and the video name. When it produces the video file I upload it to YouTube for the scheduled video day. As I try and limit the maximum to 1 hour per program, I can output a week in a day. So I schedule it well ahead, sometimes I can't run videos and loose days.

For DailyMotion I will download the video from YouTube the day it shows on YouTube and reupload to DailyMotion with new information. Unless it is a video that I won't put on YouTube then I will produce it manually, convert it for DailyMotion then upload it. DailyMotion has a lot of limits so I take my time.

For this website I have a tool built-in where I add videos from dailymotion and add extra information. This ensures the video is added to the right pages and playlists.

I do not earn money on this what-so-ever currently, I use my high paying job to keep the wages in. But one day I would like to dedicate all my time to doing this full time. So I've spread my wings a little bit in areas that can create revenue.

1. Patreon - The Oddonomy patreon page has many updates and is more for the people who want to stay up to date on everything. I have split this into rates: All updates but music, music updates and both. For music I will actually upload the music notes that I used.
2. Dailymotion - The Oddonomy dailymotion page is my dumping ground for web-site videos. As YouTube can be restrictive, I'll put videos on DailyMotion instead for cases of concern. Such as more modern tunes. YouTube has had a copyright claim for a song in 1680, their software is obviously a bit too aggressive.
   NOTE:DailyMotion has limits too so you'll find Videos on YouTube not seen anywhere else.
3. YouTube - I have 12 YouTube channels. I have multiple channels so I can target certain videos to the right audiences. Look at the other pages in the menu at the top to find a more specific channel link.
4. Not TikTok - Not for a lack of trying, I find their website doesn't work with my private browsers. If there's interest enough I'll have more energy on it.

You might be surprised I don't run on that much of a high tech system. I don't have a 3D Graphics card neither. It's overkill for what I do, simple mathematics formulas. Here's the details:

1. CPU: Intel Core i9-13900 32 threads
2. MEMORY: 2 16GiB 4800 Mhz DIMMs. I want more so I can do sleep videos at the same time.
3. OS: Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS (Jammy JellyFish) - Yes it is getting old, everything is backed up but I can't be bothered restoring so many things.
4. Monitors: Two Phillips 3840x1080 Monitors HDMI and DP. No 4K? Nope, don't need it as I'm not making videos, I'm making software to make videos.
5. Video Storage: Dedicated to videos only - Samsung SSD 980 PRO 500GB (5B2QGXA7)
6. System Storage: Dedicated to operating system only - CT480BX500SSD1 (M6CR022)
7. Main Storage: All other files - ST4000DM004-2CV104 (0001)
8. VPS Provider: Website and other online files - https://voyager.net

This web-site is optimised for wide-screen and computers. I do notice the analytics show 800 x 600, on a cell phone is the most common. As a result I have made it viewable on this kind of device.

Because I am a bit of a geek and nerd enthusiast I have also done websites, marketing and search engine optmisation. This site is just using HTML, CSS and PHP. There isn't any scripting by myself but obviously DailyMotion and Google Analytics have scripts on these pages. I've designed and built a framework in PHP to make my life easy and automate most content. In fact, this text wasn't written in HTML! I've entered text into my framework.

All of the software is written in c++ using a very old complicated way of doing things. Tools and libraries are minimal so I can ensure the videos are created as fast as possible. When you have 1 million star objects moving in all directions of a 3D world you need a lot of power, technique helps more than tools.

Ahh, but I have to use tools so what do I use?

1. GNU C++: I use the standard C++ libraries that come with Linux. Microsoft is too protective which slows code down with it's protection checks.
2. Visual Studio Code: I thought this would be a funny follow on to my criticism of Microsoft C++. To view the code I just can't get over how useful Visual Studio Code is, even at work I find it much more powerful than Visual Studio. I've tried the Linux alternatives, Code Blocks, Geany, Memacs etc. They just don't stand up to Visual Studio Code... The only Microsoft product I use though.
3. FFmpeg Libraries: The most time-saving tool for creating videos is the FFmpeg libraries. I stream the billions of pictures and trillions of bytes of sound data at this library, and FFmpeg will put this in the interchangable formats ready to upload to each media website. I could of done this by scratch, but my files would be gigantic and when YouTube went from stereo to surround sound I would of stopped working for months to change it.
4. Voice Syntheser: I don't yet use a speech synthesiser to speak. But I will. I might do it in house but likely I will use flite as it integrates with C++ and ffmpeg well. Any suggestions? Contact me using the sites on the left.

The videos, pages and playlists are being manually added over time. So this website will never stop growing. Keep an eye on the website if you're after something, otherwise maybe message me on one of the links and I can do something earlier for you.