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  Re: Speccy video player in C?!! spike1@freenet.co.uk - 2011-02-08 18:24 +0000

#2506 — Re: Speccy video player in C?!!

And verily, didst BitNaughty <bit-naughty@hotmail.com> hastily babble thusly:
> On Feb 4, 5:29 pm, Matthew Westcott <gas...@raww.org> wrote:
> 
>> It's all explained at the bottom ofhttp://divideo.zxdemo.org/- it's
>> hard to break down the explanation any further than that, because of how
>> it all fits together (the file format is designed around the player and
>> vice versa) - but the main gist is that you have a series of 'packets'
>> each consisting of one audio sample and a sequence of bytes to copy to
>> the screen, all carefully arranged so that the audio sample is the right
>> one to be played at the specific moment that you get to it.
> 
> OK, had a read but..... how do you do the *video* compression?
> The page says you need FFMPEG to build the converter - are you coding
> the video into something MPEG related or something?!!

I think it's more likely he's using ffmpeg to decompress the video so the
speccy can play it, I doubt there's enough ooomph in a speccy to handle
compressed video codecs.
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