[HN Gopher] Doom in the iPhone photos app (barely)
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       Doom in the iPhone photos app (barely)
        
       Author : colinprince
       Score  : 61 points
       Date   : 2024-09-30 01:48 UTC (21 hours ago)
        
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       | nyanpasu64 wrote:
       | I recall many years ago I was able to extend a video by multiple
       | minutes of a black screen, by extracting the timestamps (PTS?) of
       | frames to a text file, then increasing the timestamp of the final
       | frame (or end of video?) by a very large number. Sadly I'm unable
       | to find the files or program I used to do it.
        
       | userbinator wrote:
       | _They played fine on my laptop, but would not scan as gifs in
       | iOS. It was a nightmare of a problem to debug - what are your
       | search terms here?_
       | 
       | The GIF specification, GIFs that work and those that don't, and a
       | hex editor.
       | 
       | Given all the other impressive work in this article, I'm
       | surprised that wasn't an easy problem for them to debug --- the
       | latter seems almost trivial to me (find the differences) in
       | contrast to the amount of creative thinking required to figure
       | out how to run Doom in iPhone Photos.
        
       | teddyh wrote:
       | If I'm reading this right, this is _yet another_ example of
       | people claiming to run Doom somewhere, but is actually only
       | _displaying_ Doom, while Doom is running somewhere else, on
       | another system.
        
         | userbinator wrote:
         | Essentially a "VNC client in iPhone Photos App"
        
       | drooopy wrote:
       | I thought that this was going to be another article talking about
       | how apple _really_ messed up the photos app this time around.
        
       | captn3m0 wrote:
       | Now I am left wondering if you can do interesting things in the
       | Files.app with the WebDAV support, and quick previews.
        
       | DaoVeles wrote:
       | This is boarder line a 'choose your own adventure' style thing.
       | It is so stupid it had to be done!
        
         | qet wrote:
         | "border", not "boarder" Also it's "borderline" one word, not
         | "border line". It's a compound word. A boarder is someone who
         | boards at a boarding school. A border is an edge, a boundary.
        
       | quyleanh wrote:
       | A bit off topic but is there any good resources to get started
       | and learn about iOS shortcuts?
        
       | forgotlastlogin wrote:
       | So useless, so beautiful. Love stuff like this!
        
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