[Coco] Colour Video playback on a CoCo 1 with Ed Snider's new player

[Glen Hewlett]

Hi All, 

I've spent the last few days working on a method to use Ed Snider's CoCo SDC media player to show colour movies with audio on the CoCo 1. It works using the artifact colours of the NTSC signal. If you are close to the TV while watching the video's then it looks really grainy. But if you stand back from the TV the videos are pretty cool. I think with a little more tweaking the video conversion can be improved. I'm working on a BASH script that will do the conversion for you (once it's all setup). I wrote a small C program to mux the audio and video together into the correct format for Ed's player. I'm using a Mac but it should work fine on Linux once the program is compiled same for windows using Cygwin. 

My CoCo 3 is my main machine but I wanted to show this working on a CoCo 1.  Please don't mind the mess of my room, I quickly hooked up the CoCo 1 to a monitor on the floor and took some video of it.  Here's a couple of example videos:
https://youtu.be/H8a-YWZ-IQs

And

https://youtu.be/oXDdftnnSgk

With any luck I'll have the script and the source code for the program and instructions on how to use it this weekend.

Cheers,
Glen