[Coco] Cocovid player LIVES!

[Michael Brant]

Exactly Ed.
On Jun 2, 2016 12:27 PM, "Zippster" <zippster278 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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