[Coco] CoCo3 Video Player Version 2 Demo

[gene heskett]

On Friday, April 15, 2011 10:24:42 PM Arthur Flexser did opine:

> I wonder what the cause is of all the vertically-aligned dots that mar
> the appearance of the picture, and if any algorithm could be developed
> to reduce their presence during the preprocessing of the individual
> frames?
> 
> Art
> 
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:54 PM, John W. Linville 
<linville at tuxdriver.com>wrote:
> > This is a demonstration of version 2 of my digital video player for
> > the Tandy Color Computer 3. Version 1 just never performed as well as
> > I liked, so I revised it in preparation for this year's CoCoFEST! on
> > May 21-22 2011 in Elgin, IL. See http://www.glensideccc.com/ for
> > event details -- I'll be there with a live demonstration for those
> > interested in seeing it in person. I hope you will be as pleased with
> > the revised performance as I am!
> > 
> > The video playback shown is 128x192 in 16-colors. The video is updated
> > 60 times per second, although obviously not every update covers an
> > entire frame. The audio playback is at 11040HZ. Audio samples are
> > 8-bits each, although the stock CoCo3 audio DAC is only 6-bits. Each
> > minute of video requires roughly 2-2.5MB of storage.
> > 
> >        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42jBBrqn70w
> > 
I hadn't looked at that till now, I had a drive upchuck and I'm still 
restoring things here at the Heskett mini-ranch.  Great stuff IMO.

> > (Above text copied from description of video on YouTube...)
> > 
> > Enjoy!
> > 
> > John
> > --
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> > and you linville at tuxdriver.com                  might be all we have.
> >  Be ready.
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