I wondered to myself how long it’d take to send a gif via sound over the telephone. Turns out, about twenty minutes. Minor glitches are mostly from me eating crisps too close to the receiver.
@whereDaMaresAt
Yes, the SSTV software I use autosaves a received image on completion and it was only a matter of using a custom script to place them into a gif container every time a new png was written to the directory.
@IceKitsune
I kept expecting Loony Luna to show up in the gif considering it’s on the moon (I expected there to be a frame of her face covering the screen).
@Nittany Discord
Nope. Just an old tech enthusiast. I screwing with this stuff in the 90s when I got a sound card. Decided to revisit it seeing as software has entirely automated the decoding process.
@Background Pony #9B36
Early PCs used cassette tapes to play games and stuff so it’s not out of the ordinary for computers to decode sound like that. Heck they used to send games over the radio for you to record on special radio shows some time.
Truly, though, it’s just electronic data sent over telephone that can be played as sound but also decoded into this. Pretty much the same as the early days of the internet.
Yes, the SSTV software I use autosaves a received image on completion and it was only a matter of using a custom script to place them into a gif container every time a new png was written to the directory.
I didn’t know one could get animations into SSTV, that’s pretty ingenious however you did it
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That butter icon tho
I kept expecting Loony Luna to show up in the gif considering it’s on the moon (I expected there to be a frame of her face covering the screen).
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Ahh. Still really interesting.
Nope. Just an old tech enthusiast. I screwing with this stuff in the 90s when I got a sound card. Decided to revisit it seeing as software has entirely automated the decoding process.
Nice. You an amateur radio operator?
It was indeed SSTV. Made a script to save each frame into a gif container on the fly.
Early PCs used cassette tapes to play games and stuff so it’s not out of the ordinary for computers to decode sound like that. Heck they used to send games over the radio for you to record on special radio shows some time.
SSTV signal maybe? SSTV doesn’t really move though.
Truly, though, it’s just electronic data sent over telephone that can be played as sound but also decoded into this. Pretty much the same as the early days of the internet.
Same here