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Re: I made a cell phone [video]

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Post by StavrosK »

ploxiln wrote: post #72
jsprogrammer wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably pulls the h264 version instead of VP8/9.

That's probably not why. h264 would indeed use less cpu time than vp8 if there was hardware acceleration from the graphics driver available and being used for h264 but not vp8 (which is plausible). But software decoding can be pretty efficient in dedicated video players, and browsers and flash can be pretty damn slow at just getting decoded frames to display. Back in 2010 I was using a computer I built in 2004, which…

Are you sure overlay doesn't support subtitles? IIRC, they had a special color value that the graphics card replaced with the decoded video, and they just didn't use that color wherever they wanted to display subtitles. This is just from memory and from what I deduced, so take it with a grain of salt.

Re: I made a cell phone [video]

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Post by jedanbik »

lynaghk wrote: post #58
lynaghk wrote: post #23

I gave this talk. Slides are here: https://keminglabs.com/talks/#bangbangcon2015 I'll post some photos of the current version and more details on my twitter (@lynaghk) tomorrow (in 10 hours). Software is all on an 8-bit Atmel microcontroller, written in C in the style of Harel Statecharts ( http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/seoc/2005_2006/reso... ).

Photos of two current phone designs and PCBs are here: https://twitter.com/lynaghk/status/632937349458956288

Awesome! Now you need to make that wireless charger out of concrete to match the aesthetic. :)

Re: I made a cell phone [video]

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Post by aws_ls »

byuu wrote: post #25
UnoriginalGuy wrote: post #4

I wish the audience's audio wasn't much MUCH louder than the speaker. I had to turn the audio up to hear him, but the laughing was so loud I had to turn it down every few seconds. Also a fun video to watch, but he kind of skips over some of the most interesting technical details (like writing the software).

The worst part was that the jokes weren't even funny. It sounded more forced than a '90s sitcom laugh track. "As you can see, I got a G-" , "that's like ... a good grade" , "of course, an E is for excellent" ... why am I so cynical? ;_; Agreed though, the actual concept was really cool! Maybe to the author, try subtitling the video given the bad audio? Then we could just watch the video muted, and the (minor) problem…

I am not the one to complain often. But I really was very irritated, by the hysterical laughs, at regular frequency.
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