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   August Abolins to Maurice Kinal   
   a dear deer visitor   
   10 Apr 21 18:15:00   
   
   MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet ef493de0   
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   PID: OpenXP/5.0.49 (Win32)   
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   TZUTC: -0400   
   Hello Maurice!   
      
    AA>> https://kolico.ca/mpg/a-deer-VID_20210410_075723.mp4   
      
    MK> 'mplayer -vo fbdev2' on the console works but was a bit choppy.  I tried   
    MK> playing with a cache in hopes to improve it but it didn't so then I   
    MK> downloaded it and played it locally.  Bingo!  Nice and smooth.   
    MK> Fullscreen too.  :-)   
      
   Yes.. testing it on a widescreen laptop, the result DOES look     
   pretty good.   
      
   Streaming directly from the link sucked for me too.  Even with     
   DSL, my top speed is usually 650Kbps, and the result was stop-n-    
   go.  Not nice.   
      
      
    MK> Too slow of a connection.  wget shows 706 KB/s.  An old   
    MK> fashioned mpeg2 probably would be better for streaming.   
    MK> Just saying ...   
      
   At about 15MB and 15sec, 1MB/sec is a pretty rich expectation     
   for a stream.  A down-conversion for this kind of stuff is     
   probably a good idea.   
      
   Funny note: having filmed the scene on my BB, I really had no     
   way to "send" the file to my server unless I were to email it to     
   myself first. But that would have consumed 15MB (+30% for mime     
   encoding) going up, and another 15MB coming down. So, no thanks.     
   Instead, I used Bluetooth to send it to a newer laptop that I     
   have. From there, I copied it onto a USB stick. Form there, I     
   was able to get it on the other laptop that I prefer!  From     
   there, it went up to the server via FTP.   
      
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     ../|ug   
      
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