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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       REPLY: 1:153/7001 6071ae23       PID: OpenXP/5.0.49 (Win32)       CHRS: ASCII 1       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.              --        ../|ug              --- OpenXP 5.0.49        * Origin: Mobile? ASIAN_LINK https://preview.tinyurl.com/y6rwskq (2:221/1.58)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 18/200 90/1 105/81 120/340 123/131 124/5016 129/305       SEEN-BY: 154/10 203/0 221/1 6 360 226/30 227/114 229/101 424 426 452       SEEN-BY: 229/664 700 1016 1017 230/0 240/5832 249/110 206 317 400       SEEN-BY: 280/464 5003 282/1038 288/100 292/8125 301/1 310/31 317/3       SEEN-BY: 322/757 342/200 396/45 423/81 120 460/58 633/280 770/1       PATH: 221/1 280/464 229/101 426           |
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