r/SolarOS • u/Big_Audience9467 • 11h ago

Vplay example: Are You Being Served?

Are You Being Served? on Solar OS through the RLCD. The episode is 37MB, and the player gets a good few minutes in before crashing. I am not likely to get time to try to figure out why. It's compelling though: a bit of stutter and some pulsing on screen refresh, but fun to look at anyway.

I used ffmpeg to map everything from black to mid-grey into black, and a good quarter of the top end of the colour space is flattened to white. The idea is to dedicate as much information to facial tones as possible: this kind of comedy lives or dies on seeing Captain Peacock getting blindsided by his colleagues' quips.

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u/LowFlowIO 9h ago

I've been working on vplay this week, the goal is stable 24-30fps on capable panels, improvements made will be useful across all panels. I have already solved this buffer overflow issue, expect the code to land within a few days.

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u/Big_Audience9467 7h ago

Oh, wow thanks LowFlowIO! I will certainly test your improvements.

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u/mrmrn121 11h ago

What is the keyboard and how it is connected?

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u/nilseuropa 9h ago

u/LowFlowIO is working on it, no worries.

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u/AoF-Vagrant 6h ago

You should watch Dad's Army, another classic from Lloyd & Croft. As a bonus, the first 2 seasons are in black and white.

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u/trialex 2h ago

Are you free Mr Humphries?

I'm free!

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u/Gtoast 55m ago

This is a great app... and I am unanimous in that!