This has to be the greatest implementation of this so far. Now we need to port it to source code for an IBM PC XT and run it on a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088. The GTA VI trailer is officially the next "Bad Apple!!"
The conversion for VideoNow was more complex and interesting than I anticipated. I'd love to make a technical deep dive into that tech eventually, since very few people have given it much thought for around 20 years. The VideoNow player is only a music CD player internally, and uses a stereo audio stream to transmit both the video and audio in interweaved bytes. The end result is mono audio via the right channel, and 4-bit (16 shade) video pixel data on the left.
Far more complex than I ever would had imagined 😆. If I had more time I would love to create a modern app or web interface where people could drag in videos and it would convert them to this format. But it's a really niche market of probably three people that would ever use it!
@@MattPilz I'd like an app that converts TO videonow and FROM VideoNow format into something that can be viewed on a PC. Like you put a VideoNow disc into your PC and it rips it like a DVD to an .mp4 file. You can even just play it back like your PC is a giant VideoNow player. Sort of like that San Andreas radio program someone made back in 2004-5 ish that extracts all the radio station audio from the game.
All possible! As part of this effort I was able to extract frame-by-frame and regenerate the pixel data so the result is pixel-perfect uncompressed data as what the original discs stored. It would not take much from that to spin up a player in all its pixelated glory. The "VideoNow" intro seen in this video as well as the end "STOP DISC" are direct lossless rips from an original disc. There were some old tools a few developers worked at back in 2004 for this, but the main one had a bug evidently nobody realized where the output would only be 40x80 so half the detail on the x-axis was lost in any export from that.
@@MattPilz The end of disc screens at the end of each disc seem to get jumbled up on many rips and are unreadable. They need to he extracted at exactly 80x80 and then stretched to 4:3. If that is what is jumbling up the end of disc screen then it possibly needs to stay 80x80 because each lcd pixel on the videonow screen is of 4:3 ratio. I'm going to suggest this project to another person who made a program to deal with the music files from the lego island game.
That was AWESOME. One of the best things that I've seen this trailer played on. Can you please do a video on making the disc and label? I'd like to see a video of someone playing Doom, played on a videonow player both color and black and white.
I have that same videonow player, light, disc case and some of those discs. Had the headphones too but they broke. I have the blue color and the light blue xp player and a bunch of discs.
Awesome! It was a short-lived media player since true portable DVD players became affordable within two years. But at the time it made sense to get a kid a $20-$30 VideoNow player, versus a $300 regular system.
@@MattPilz I think i payed $60 for the color player back in the day. Yeah it was expensive but I had to have it. The bittons on my xp player no longer work but I have a bunch of those tac switches. I suppose i could repair the buttons unless I could get the original membrane buttons to work again. Not even sure where my xp player is.
@@MattPilz Found my XP player and had to tinker with it to get it to work again but now the volume knob doesnt work. Wont turn down, audio still plays when at lowest volume. Put some spray that i use for volume controls and turned it up and down but was only able to get low audio or max. Gonna have to do a full repair operation on this one.
@@coondogtheman That's unfortunate, I was going to suggest contact cleaner (DeOxit Fader F5 is what I always use for potentiometers) but it sounds like it's some other failure. Would be interested in knowing if you can figure it out. Even for making this video I had to disassemble and clean/repair a few random things relating to the lens reader. These are pretty fragile gadgets.
@@MattPilz I'm going to take mine apart and get to where the pot is and try touching up solder joints. Also try to either get the original buttons working or figure out how they work and build my own circuit. I saw a guy on here do the same with a treadmill because it had membrane buttons and they failed and the cost to replace them was outrageous so he figured out how the buttons connected to the rest of the circuit and rebuilt it and it now works. Hopefully I can do the same with my VN XP player. It's pretty cool that they still worked after all these years.
It is a proprietary format, so no codec support. You essentially have to convert each frame of a video to 80x80 16 color monochrome, and then the audio to mono, then weave the bytes of each frame back together to burn as a specialized audio CD. It can be a tedious process and the few tools users developed for it back in 2004 all have their own limits and issues, I had to patch a few and do some custom stuff as well for modern times. I'll see if I can release a "making of" video eventually, or guide... For anyone who may possibly still be using this player these days.
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This has to be the greatest implementation of this so far.
Now we need to port it to source code for an IBM PC XT and run it on a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088.
The GTA VI trailer is officially the next "Bad Apple!!"
The conversion for VideoNow was more complex and interesting than I anticipated. I'd love to make a technical deep dive into that tech eventually, since very few people have given it much thought for around 20 years. The VideoNow player is only a music CD player internally, and uses a stereo audio stream to transmit both the video and audio in interweaved bytes. The end result is mono audio via the right channel, and 4-bit (16 shade) video pixel data on the left.
that would be really cool to see!
@@MattPilz
how bout we have it running on a macintosh SE
this is really neat. would love to see a technical breakdown on how you accomplished this. (the label you made for the disk is just icing on the cake)
Can we get gta 6 trailer in Space
Bruh this is crazy, the fact you were able to put this in a video now
Far more complex than I ever would had imagined 😆. If I had more time I would love to create a modern app or web interface where people could drag in videos and it would convert them to this format. But it's a really niche market of probably three people that would ever use it!
@@MattPilz I'd like an app that converts TO videonow and FROM VideoNow format into something that can be viewed on a PC. Like you put a VideoNow disc into your PC and it rips it like a DVD to an .mp4 file. You can even just play it back like your PC is a giant VideoNow player.
Sort of like that San Andreas radio program someone made back in 2004-5 ish that extracts all the radio station audio from the game.
All possible! As part of this effort I was able to extract frame-by-frame and regenerate the pixel data so the result is pixel-perfect uncompressed data as what the original discs stored. It would not take much from that to spin up a player in all its pixelated glory. The "VideoNow" intro seen in this video as well as the end "STOP DISC" are direct lossless rips from an original disc. There were some old tools a few developers worked at back in 2004 for this, but the main one had a bug evidently nobody realized where the output would only be 40x80 so half the detail on the x-axis was lost in any export from that.
@@MattPilz The end of disc screens at the end of each disc seem to get jumbled up on many rips and are unreadable. They need to he extracted at exactly 80x80 and then stretched to 4:3. If that is what is jumbling up the end of disc screen then it possibly needs to stay 80x80 because each lcd pixel on the videonow screen is of 4:3 ratio.
I'm going to suggest this project to another person who made a program to deal with the music files from the lego island game.
Now could you try putting Corpse Party: Tortured Souls on the videonow?
That was AWESOME. One of the best things that I've seen this trailer played on.
Can you please do a video on making the disc and label?
I'd like to see a video of someone playing Doom, played on a videonow player both color and black and white.
I have that same videonow player, light, disc case and some of those discs. Had the headphones too but they broke. I have the blue color and the light blue xp player and a bunch of discs.
Awesome! It was a short-lived media player since true portable DVD players became affordable within two years. But at the time it made sense to get a kid a $20-$30 VideoNow player, versus a $300 regular system.
@@MattPilz I think i payed $60 for the color player back in the day. Yeah it was expensive but I had to have it. The bittons on my xp player no longer work but I have a bunch of those tac switches. I suppose i could repair the buttons unless I could get the original membrane buttons to work again. Not even sure where my xp player is.
@@MattPilz Found my XP player and had to tinker with it to get it to work again but now the volume knob doesnt work. Wont turn down, audio still plays when at lowest volume. Put some spray that i use for volume controls and turned it up and down but was only able to get low audio or max. Gonna have to do a full repair operation on this one.
@@coondogtheman That's unfortunate, I was going to suggest contact cleaner (DeOxit Fader F5 is what I always use for potentiometers) but it sounds like it's some other failure. Would be interested in knowing if you can figure it out. Even for making this video I had to disassemble and clean/repair a few random things relating to the lens reader. These are pretty fragile gadgets.
@@MattPilz I'm going to take mine apart and get to where the pot is and try touching up solder joints. Also try to either get the original buttons working or figure out how they work and build my own circuit. I saw a guy on here do the same with a treadmill because it had membrane buttons and they failed and the cost to replace them was outrageous so he figured out how the buttons connected to the rest of the circuit and rebuilt it and it now works. Hopefully I can do the same with my VN XP player. It's pretty cool that they still worked after all these years.
So cool
So, how GTA 6 trailer will run on the Game Boy Advance via the Game Boy Advance Video.
Comment here if you came from a link in a FB reel comment.
Howdy
GTA 6 trailer on a DS!
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- Mum I wanna GTA VI for the Xmas
*GTA VI on the Xmas* ...
how did you write to the videonow disk, and what codecs does the videonow play?
It is a proprietary format, so no codec support. You essentially have to convert each frame of a video to 80x80 16 color monochrome, and then the audio to mono, then weave the bytes of each frame back together to burn as a specialized audio CD. It can be a tedious process and the few tools users developed for it back in 2004 all have their own limits and issues, I had to patch a few and do some custom stuff as well for modern times. I'll see if I can release a "making of" video eventually, or guide... For anyone who may possibly still be using this player these days.
@@MattPilz that sounds like a lot of effort but it'd be awesome to see a making of video!
Can u do it in it in minecraft
Do one in 1980 please
Do one from 1800
Okay now make this CZcams video into a video now disc lol
do 2004
looks worse than the tv from 1956