POKITTO is a do-it-yourself gaming gadget you assemble and program yourself. With Pokitto, you can learn programming & building electronics in a fun way.
Over on spinalcode.co.uk, they recently managed to get full screen video streaming on the Pokitto!
Just streaming a 20fps animation on my @Pokittocom handheld! #Homebrew #8bit #pixelart
— Spinal (@Spinal_Cord) June 25, 2018
They extracted the individual frames from a movie file using ffmpeg. A windows batch file first evaluates the video and creates a 256 colour table, this is part of the secret. Only 256 colours are used for the whole video which helps get it playing on the device.
To see the whole process, read the whole blog post.
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