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Re:Slow-Scan Television by anthk on Monday November 13, 2023 @01:34PM (#38253468)
If you are a Linux user get pavucontrol+papfrefs, set a loopback device and run QSSTV. Under OpenBSD, you can dump the file with sndiod in mon mode (OpenBSD FAQ, Multimedia section) but there's no easy SSTV decoder yet, you might find one in GitHub.
Re:Slow-Scan Television by bodqhrohro on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @07:02AM (#38262233)
I also used SSTV Encoder from F-Droid on Android.

It's much more interesting if ran via an analog loop (at least an AUX cable connecting microphone and headphone jacks, or better an external microphone), it gives interesting noise effects.

AFAIR, I also experimented with recording it and then playing via https://github.com/bodqhrohro/taporwave, but don't remember if it was decoded well as header tones could be corrupted.

I definitely have results of converting raw video to raw audio via ffmpeg and then back, this approach is not sensitive to header pulses (but colour images are borked regardless of the mode).

`ffmpeg -y -t 5 -i /downloads/video/webm/414827e0-9583-407f-9940-3840b7b1085f.webm -f rawvideo -s 176x144 /dev/stdout|ffmpeg -y -f u8 -ar 8000 -i /dev/stdin -f ogg /dev/stdout|ffmpeg -y -f ogg -i /dev/stdin -f u8 -ar 8000 /dev/stdout|ffmpeg -y -f rawvideo -s 176x144 -i /dev/stdin /tmp/swine.mp4` : https://0x0.st/HvAM.mp4

AUX: https://0x0.st/HvAu.mp4

Microphone: https://0x0.st/HvAS.mp4

Analog loop (low volume): https://0x0.st/HvAa.mp4

Analog loop (overload): https://0x0.st/HvA1.mp4

Taporwave: https://0x0.st/HvAj.mp4

Don't even remember what: https://0x0.st/HvAQ.mp4

No pigs were harmed during the experiments!