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

[John W. Linville]

On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 11:05:54PM -0600, Joel Ewy wrote:
> 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.

Yep!  In fact, I got his permission before posting it publicly.
Now his gears are turning on doing some even cooler things with it,
so we might collaborate on an extended demo... :-)

John
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