Misty @dog@awoo.space

Uploaded a high-quality scan of a Laseractive brochure to the Internet Archive! It shows off a bunch of its features and selling points, along with some trippy mid-90s CG. https://archive.org/details/PioneerLaseractiveBrochure

This isn’t the only copy of this brochure on the internet, but it’s a much better scan than any previous copy and it’s unwatermarked. Also, the internet Archive's web-based book reader is really cool!

https://awoo.space/media/-AK3is_1taNKIDUWFU4 https://awoo.space/media/TkHoegv9o-3BbY1umow

Jun Fukumachi - Urusei Yatsura Digital Trip Synthesizer Fantasy (Animex, 1984) https://awoo.space/media/0UZdaI16eltiQ2ZBEi4

When Dick Vitale has a good baby
https://awoo.space/media/nROK7ayaZvRYa0ODOok

Thomas Wilbrandt - The Electric V. (Decca, 1990 - set to his 1984 electronic album) https://awoo.space/media/rdcZOPiv4lJ0xYTKlPM

Finally got around to uploading a collection of very high-quality laserdisc scans I made a few years ago! https://archive.org/details/laserdisc_scans https://awoo.space/media/YPkCZogUM563UflP1yo https://awoo.space/media/4S7iSuAHtvmbDmKfxV4 https://awoo.space/media/tBzk_rMC7502zn2PAoI https://awoo.space/media/ATG93uJMhyFZSM98Ylg

Buying a suit for my wedding online instead of in a store is probably a bad idea, but I'm seeing some stuff I really like on Theory's website.......

Hooray, I officially have a commit in FFmpeg now! http://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/commit/fde057dfb25e2b6917fc896a0b2dfec0f336b1ce

This works *way* too well. https://youtu.be/K_E3iuPn8iE?list=PLL0CQjrcN8D0deyUHz9r54qFljIGO-XYP

I *knew* backing SH-2 over i386 was going to pay off someday.

My least favourite bug to fix is GCC builds on 10+ year old hardware. Iterating is hard when success or failure takes ~18 hours.

Oh yeah, I'm definitely ready for the storm https://awoo.space/media/JKRAzKXwgToGxwGy4C4

FYI: macOS 10.13.2 has mitigations for the recently-revealed CPU exploits. Please upgrade now. http://appleinsider.com/articles/18/01/03/apple-has-already-partially-implemented-fix-in-macos-for-kpti-intel-cpu-security-flaw

Joe Hisaishi - Kissho Tennyo #codingmusic https://soundcloud.com/lagrecords/sets/joe-hisaishi-kissho-tennyo

Well, I gave it a try yesterday, and I guess the "Apple Grandia Data" bitstream is different enough from standard MPEG-1 that FFmpeg doesn't understand it. I wonder if it's actually MPEG-1 or if it's something else.

Why am I even doing this? Partly, I just want to understand the mystery, lol. And partly because I want to translate the Saturn version of Grandia, which may require me to understand the FMV format.

* I'm not entirely sure what the video codec is, but it appears to be a macroblock-based format that uses 8x8 macroblocks. This is very unusual for the hardware. It may be MPEG-1 meant to be used with a software decoder, or a very similar custom codec.
* The resolution is 320x144, encoding an image meant to be read at 16:9 using non-square pixels.

Also, spent some time today investigating Grandia's extremely weird video format. I think I actually made some progress, so if I'm lucky I'll be able to add full decode support to FFmpeg. What I know so far:

* The container is Quicktime, and mostly standard.
* The stsd atom reports the codec as `cvid` (Cinepak), but this is not correct.
* The audio track is not detected by FFmpeg, but is compressed using the ADX ADPCM format.