[Coco] Colour Video playback on a CoCo 1 with Ed Snider's new player

[Steve Strowbridge]

Quite an honor to be part of a CoCo production, we'll show this off on CoCo
TALK tomorrow, amazing work from the entire community!



Steve Strowbridge, aka
The Original Gamer Stevie Strow
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On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 8:49 PM, Glen Hewlett <glen.hewlett at sympatico.ca>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I've spent the last few days working on a method to use Ed Snider's CoCo
> SDC media player to show colour movies with audio on the CoCo 1. It works
> using the artifact colours of the NTSC signal. If you are close to the TV
> while watching the video's then it looks really grainy. But if you stand
> back from the TV the videos are pretty cool. I think with a little more
> tweaking the video conversion can be improved. I'm working on a BASH script
> that will do the conversion for you (once it's all setup). I wrote a small
> C program to mux the audio and video together into the correct format for
> Ed's player. I'm using a Mac but it should work fine on Linux once the
> program is compiled same for windows using Cygwin.
>
> My CoCo 3 is my main machine but I wanted to show this working on a CoCo
> 1.  Please don't mind the mess of my room, I quickly hooked up the CoCo 1
> to a monitor on the floor and took some video of it.  Here's a couple of
> example videos:
> https://youtu.be/H8a-YWZ-IQs
>
> And
>
> https://youtu.be/oXDdftnnSgk
>
> With any luck I'll have the script and the source code for the program and
> instructions on how to use it this weekend.
>
> Cheers,
> Glen
>
>
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