New Adventures in 1-bit Video

Happening on news of a video player for the black-and-white “early Macs,” with the comment it ran best on the speedier SE/30, nudged me at last to bring up from my basement the moldering example of that particular computer I’d once been fortunate enough to have been given and sort out how to send its logic board away for repairs. Once I’d played some of “MacFlim’s” example videos on actual hardware, though, I was left pondering what more to do with the machine and the program. An encoder had been provided as source code; by looking up the show-stopping error produced when I tried to compile it in Terminal, I was even able to add one statement that got the command-line tool to encode. After stepping through the number of preprocessing tasks that had to be done with the more established command-line tool ffmpeg set out in the readme, however, I had files of my own that I could import into the emulator Mini vMac but which just sprayed 1-bit static onto the screen and locked up the whole virtual system.
( An animated example within )