+Gemintronic Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Does the video player just continuously by hand blit entire screenfulls of characters or does it just do changed characters as needed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chjmartin2 Posted March 10, 2012 Author Share Posted March 10, 2012 Here is a capture of my Mattel Aquarius playing the Sponge Bob intro in its entirety. Very cool, but -- and forgive me if you've already answered this -- why is the audio going about 25% too fast? (I assume the video is too.) EDIT: Never mind, you address this in the OP, I think. Carry on! I cannot seem to work out the math on the appropriate delay to make the timing perfect. I have to use the same delay for each sample, so right now I have to use trial and error. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chjmartin2 Posted March 10, 2012 Author Share Posted March 10, 2012 Does the video player just continuously by hand blit entire screenfulls of characters or does it just do changed characters as needed? There is no compression in the audio or video stream. It actually plays an audio bit, loads a character, loads the color, plays an audio bit, loads a character, etc... until it loads a screen and then moves to the next frame. 4 frames per 8K bank. All of the data is interleaved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chjmartin2 Posted January 12, 2014 Author Share Posted January 12, 2014 Hi, I have learned a lot more about optimizing character selection for image fidelity. I plan to come back to the Aquarius some time in 2014 in order to refresh some of the tools and demos that I wrote. I really want to make a video player that makes use of the extender as well because I was never happy with the audio fidelity while playing back video at the same time. Also, I think I can improve on the flicker images, especially those with real photos instead of cartoons, and I can speed up the conversion. Stay tuned. (I was reminded of this with Mr. Bill's email to the yahoo group - thanks for the shout-outs!) Chris 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquaman Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 Hi Chris, thanks for the update and 2014 certainly looks a year to be watched regarding the Aquarius developments! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pset Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 Yeah! Great to see you around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybird3rd Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 Good to see you back, Chris! More tools are becoming available for the Aquarius, and I hope to introduce a few of my own which should make the work you're doing a bit easier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennybingo Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 Pretty cool! Can you do Spongebob NEXT? Spongebob???? What about The Golden Girls...HELLO????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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