[Coco] CoCo3 Video Player Version 2 Demo

[Brian Blake]

Very good progress on this, John. Quite impressive.

I could watch a movie on that just for the fun of it. Reminds me of the
video from the old PC's when CD-ROM's first came out with video on them,
only clearer and more fluid.



Brian



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
>
> (Above text copied from description of video on YouTube...)
>
> Enjoy!
>
> John
> --
> John W. Linville                Someday the world will need a hero, and you
> linville at tuxdriver.com                  might be all we have.  Be ready.
>
> --
> Coco mailing list
> Coco at maltedmedia.com
> http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco
>



-- 
Ohioan by birth, Floridian by the grace of U-Haul and a bad economy...