[Coco] Cocovid player LIVES!

[Zippster]

That’s excellent Ron.  :)

I really hope this does get adapted to the SDC.  A lot more people would be able to try it out.

- Ed


> On Jun 2, 2016, at 10:32 AM, Ron Klein <ron at kdomain.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Sean,
> 
> I'm really trying to make this project usable for others.  I think the new
> documentation I'm putting together will really be helpful.  There is a
> Linux component that will be required, mainly because of the scripts and
> tools used to re-encode videos.  I've already started porting this part to
> Windows and getting closer to completion for that.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -Ron
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Sean <badfrog at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Your video is marked as private on youtube.
>> 
>> Very cool news, I've been wanting to try that out for quite awhile.  I
>> asked about it a couple of years ago and it sounded like it wasn't ready
>> for anyone else to set it up as it took a lot of work.
>> 
>> On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Ron Klein <ron at kdomain.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Everyone,
>>> 
>>> As some of you may know, John Linville developed a video player for the
>>> Color Computer 3 and demo'd it some years back at CocoFEST 2011.  I never
>>> saw it when it was originally released, but stumbled across it a few
>> months
>>> ago when looking at videos of previous CocoFESTs.  I was so impressed
>> with
>>> John's video player and wanted to try it for myself.  I had reached out
>> to
>>> John looking for some information as I didn't know if it was available to
>>> the community.  As it turns out it absolutely is, however, the
>>> documentation is a bit lacking and some components of the project require
>>> special utilities/tools as well as compiling source code.  In other
>> words,
>>> some assembly required...
>>> 
>>> A few emails back and forth with John answered some of the questions I
>>> had.  From there, I started documenting the entire process making note of
>>> each step along the way.  I will be providing this documentation soon for
>>> others who may wish to try John's Cocovid player for themselves.
>>> 
>>> In the meantime, I posted a Youtube video of me demo'ing the Cocovid
>>> player:
>>> 
>>> https://youtu.be/iSjNHcmmkN0
>>> 
>>> My hope is to renew interest in the Cocovid player and get others to use
>>> it.  It's a great way to show off the color capabilities of our "Color
>>> Computers."  Who needs the 256 color mode of the GIME when it's been
>>> showcased so well with this project in software!  Perhaps John will port
>>> his player over the CoCoSDC if there's enough interest...  ahem.
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> 
>>> -Ron
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