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Calculator Community => Other Calc-Related Projects and Ideas => TI Z80 => Topic started by: SirCmpwn on June 29, 2010, 06:04:40 pm

Title: TIMP
Post by: SirCmpwn on June 29, 2010, 06:04:40 pm

Hi there,
Jim E was working on a version of msd8x that would play wav files and videoes from a flash drive before he abandoned the community.  I picked up the source code, fixed it, and it now works.  I will be creating a program I call TIMP - TI Media Player - that will allow you to use your calculator like a portable media player.  This will be much easier considering it is already almost done, I just have to touch it up and get a nice interface.
I think this would be nice to bring portable media to those who cannot afford a nice mp3 player or iPod.

Title: Re: TIMP
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on June 29, 2010, 06:09:32 pm

Oh I remember that. Wasn't there a vid on Ticalc too? Now we could finally rickroll... er... play clips on our calc ;D

Title: Re: TIMP
Post by: FinaleTI on June 29, 2010, 06:10:26 pm

Sounds awesome! Now I actually have a reason to use my adapter again!

Title: Re: TIMP
Post by: TIfanx1999 on June 29, 2010, 08:20:54 pm

When I initially saw this thread, i thought it might be a gimp program. This is pretty cool tho. For video playback, do the videos support audio too? Is grayscale playback supported or is it black and white only? Lastly, do you have any idea what type of frame rate you get on video playback?

Title: Re: TIMP
Post by: Galandros on June 30, 2010, 03:28:31 am

That is awesome. You should record a video of it working and put on Youtube. ;D

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on June 29, 2010, 06:09:32 pm

Oh I remember that. Wasn't there a vid on Ticalc too? Now we could finally rickroll... er... play clips on our calc ;D

The video was in a Revsoft group by James Montelongo (Jim e), I think.

Title: Re: TIMP
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on June 30, 2010, 04:28:53 am

ActuallY I found it now:

http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/13/130/130297.html

The video is hosted on ticalc and linked in the news.

Title: Re: TIMP
Post by: TIfanx1999 on June 30, 2010, 05:34:57 am

I do remember that. It looks surprisingly good for being in black and white.

Title: Re: TIMP
Post by: Deep Toaster on June 30, 2010, 06:06:00 am

Quote from: Art_of_camelot on June 29, 2010, 08:20:54 pm

When I initially saw this thread, i thought it might be a gimp program.

Me too. Maybe try a different name (like QuickTIme ;D)?

Anyway, this seems like a really useful project. (Does it happen to have anything to do with your promise to make a YouTube video viewer when (and if) a WiFi driver is created, by the way?)

It seems like USB8X is suddenly getting a huge community revival recently :)

Title: Re: TIMP
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on June 30, 2010, 01:01:40 pm

What the acronym reminded me was more of TIMM, which is a video player for calcs from 2002 (that reads from RAM). The name seems fine to me, though. TI Media Player, right?

And I agree with Deep, about the USB8x community. For a while it seemed like it was almost dead.

Title: Re: TIMP
Post by: SirCmpwn on June 30, 2010, 01:05:17 pm

Yeah, I like TIMP, TI Media Player.  Also, it would be a good basis to build YouTube videos from, yes ;)

Title: Re: TIMP
Post by: ztrumpet on July 01, 2010, 01:11:33 pm

This sounds really cool!  I can't wait to use it.  Good luck Sir! ;D