Show HN: Vintage Cartoons [video]

#1

Post by dittes » Sat, Jun 22, 2013, 3:36 PM UTC

Here's what we hacked at the 4hourventure.com event today: http://vintagecartoons.tv

Show HN: Vintage Cartoons [video]
vintagecartoons.tv

Re: Show HN: Vintage Cartoons [video]

#2

Post by mparramon » Sat, Jun 22, 2013, 3:39 PM UTC

I'm only getting Felix the Cat and Popeye, is that all there is here?

Re: Show HN: Vintage Cartoons [video]

#3

Post by dittes » Sat, Jun 22, 2013, 3:40 PM UTC

This is what we hacked the last 4 hours at the 4hourventure.com event today. Feedback welcome! :)

Re: Show HN: Vintage Cartoons [video]

#4

Post by dittes » Sat, Jun 22, 2013, 3:41 PM UTC

mparramon wrote: post #2

I'm only getting Felix the Cat and Popeye, is that all there is here?

Actually we just have a bunch of videos right now, but it should be more than just those. You can use the chrome knob on the TV to switch to the next...

Re: Show HN: Vintage Cartoons [video]

#5

Post by ctdonath » Sat, Jun 22, 2013, 4:48 PM UTC

Sounds great, doesn't render on iOS Safari: fragment of border, video unsupported.

ETA: whole frame in portrait orientation, half in landscape (doesn't show on scrolling). Still no video.

Eager to use!

Re: Show HN: Vintage Cartoons [video]

#6

Post by dittes » Sat, Jun 22, 2013, 5:15 PM UTC

ctdonath wrote: post #5

Sounds great, doesn't render on iOS Safari: fragment of border, video unsupported. ETA: whole frame in portrait orientation, half in landscape (doesn't show on scrolling). Still no video. Eager to use!

we are working on that as we speak. reload, it should work better now. the formats are different, but we try to filter them for ios...

Re: Show HN: Vintage Cartoons [video]

#7

Post by denzil_correa » Sat, Jun 22, 2013, 5:19 PM UTC

This is wonderful! One of the best hacks I have seen in a long time. I guess you may want to improve video response time though.

Re: Show HN: Vintage Cartoons [video]

#8

Post by dittes » Sat, Jun 22, 2013, 5:23 PM UTC

denzil_correa wrote: post #7

This is wonderful! One of the best hacks I have seen in a long time. I guess you may want to improve video response time though.

Thanks a lot! These comments make it worth hacking that stuff together! :) We will continue improving the site, but the actually stream the videos from archive.org, so maybe we have to host them on a faster server.

Re: Show HN: Vintage Cartoons [video]

#9

Post by Bjoern » Sat, Jun 22, 2013, 5:37 PM UTC

Fun! Thank you for this.

I just wanted to watch this fullscreen so, here is a simple oneliner to do that with mplayer from the CLI.

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/5841739

Re: Show HN: Vintage Cartoons [video]

#10

Post by hecht » Sat, Jun 22, 2013, 5:39 PM UTC

ctdonath wrote: post #5

Sounds great, doesn't render on iOS Safari: fragment of border, video unsupported. ETA: whole frame in portrait orientation, half in landscape (doesn't show on scrolling). Still no video. Eager to use!

should work much better now.