[Coco] CoCo3 plays YouTube video... (was Re: CoCo Video Player Project)

Joel Ewy jcewy at swbell.net
Thu Jan 7 00:05:54 EST 2010


John W. Linville wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 06:39:18AM +1000, Nick Marentes wrote:
>
>   
>> That is not to say that someone like Sock Master can't  amaze us with   
>> some form or video playback, I just think that apart from a moment of  
>> temporary amusement, watching an episode of "Heroes" on a CoCo video  
>> player may not be something many of us will be able to bare for too long  
>> in 16 colors at 15fps (and that would be the best it could do if it had  
>> to decode compressed video data).
>>
>> But please, don't let me stop anyone from trying...I'd be more than  
>> happy to eat my words if someone can prove me wrong.   :)
>>
>> (There, I've set the challenge, whose up to it?)   :)
>>     
>
> I gave-up on Heroes last season, but you be the judge...
>
> 	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVksKs8Y_XA
>
> For those interested, I expect to demo a wide range of videos live
> at the next "Last" CoCoFEST!
>
> 	http://www.glensideccc.com/
>
> I hope to see you all there! :-)
>
> John
>   
John, that is very cool!  Has Allen seen what you've done with his 
video?  He'll love it.  I remember he was very excited about motion 
video on the CoCo a while back after seeing a demo of a T/S 1000 doing a 
b/w animation.

JCE




More information about the Coco mailing list