Post B0HpoAzU4jN25T6soC by CursedSilicon@social.restless.systems
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(DIR) Post #B0HpUu8MWZQMIx4bEu by foone@digipres.club
2025-11-16T00:39:40Z
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ooh. I should build a portable floppy-video player! like, imagine you're a kid in foone's weird alternate 1997, and you've got a portable disk player for your family's aerostar minivan: you and your sibling, watching your favorite TV shows, loading every couple minutes off another 3.5" floppy disk.
(DIR) Post #B0HpoAzU4jN25T6soC by CursedSilicon@social.restless.systems
2025-11-16T00:43:10Z
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@foone Only if you slam them in one after the other like Yugioh duelists
(DIR) Post #B0HqgxT03gpA4R2PIW by haematophage@fabula.schizophreni.ca
2025-11-16T00:42:07.158992Z
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@foone what sort of dark arts would you need to use to get a couple minutes of video compressed enough to fit on a single floppy disk
(DIR) Post #B0Hqgz0ML96QqBeYvw by foone@digipres.club
2025-11-16T00:53:03Z
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@haematophage h264 (I think? I can't remember which codec I used) and a RECKLESS disregard for output quality. I'm aiming for "is it at least not actively painful to watch? then it's good enough. lower the framerate, resize it smaller, make the audio shittier"
(DIR) Post #B0HrBcSMDyqpswMEim by monotonehell@aus.social
2025-11-16T00:51:01Z
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@foone cursed. Back in 1990 I digitised Ratcat's That Ain't Bad over three Double Density 3.5" disks that auto played on an Amiga 500 you had to change floppies as it went.
(DIR) Post #B0HrBdEvJPhQJZ51Q8 by foone@digipres.club
2025-11-16T00:58:35Z
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@monotonehell neat! that's basically what I'm doing here: I compressed a video down small, and I'm working on a player that can play a video on multiple floppies with prompting you to switch disks as needed.
(DIR) Post #B0HtZo2qzPncgX5baC by foone@digipres.club
2025-11-16T01:25:20Z
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@scott @monotonehell good idea! might be tricky with how my system works but I'll definitely try
(DIR) Post #B0HuIaj1MKyoPCATiK by foone@digipres.club
2025-11-16T01:33:28Z
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@Spanishbeans I gotta go with the hard plastic containers for the 90s realism, tbh
(DIR) Post #B0INxLooaFCaiWfLpQ by argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-11-16T07:00:35Z
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@charlotte @foone @CursedSilicon Fun fact: VHS had ginormous storage capacity.Like, the digital variant D-VHS could store, on a modified Super VHS tape, 50GB.That's 4 hours of 4K video on a freaking *VHS tape* in freaking *1998*.But there were no 4K screens or video decoders in 1998, nor an algorithm that could compress 4K down to D-VHS' 28.2Mbps read rate, so its potential was never realized.It could hold an absurd amount of SD video, though.
(DIR) Post #B0INxNdBqR5kL3F5zE by CursedSilicon@social.restless.systems
2025-11-16T07:02:17Z
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@argv_minus_one @charlotte @foone Found it! https://jacobfilipp.com/arvid-vhs/Even had Linux and FreeBSD drivers!
(DIR) Post #B0INxPFro7cjNILUuW by foone@digipres.club
2025-11-16T07:05:42Z
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@CursedSilicon @argv_minus_one @charlotte I've always wanted to find one of thems
(DIR) Post #B0IaKmqPT3H8e8LyiG by gunstick@mastodon.opencloud.lu
2025-11-16T09:24:24Z
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@foone @haematophage I once put a full season of star trek on a single DVD.
(DIR) Post #B0Iae8Y8zXgRSz2KqO by gunstick@mastodon.opencloud.lu
2025-11-16T09:27:58Z
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@foone @monotonehell you could put the sound putput on a floppotron and use that at the same time to read all disks. 🤣Seriously: this wont work.
(DIR) Post #B0IaiNPjfUEAj47pke by gunstick@mastodon.opencloud.lu
2025-11-16T09:28:47Z
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@foone @Spanishbeans what were sco unix or windows packaged in? They came on 30 floppies.