Andrew (Television Executive)Apr 14, 2022

I need to spend a little les time on "smallest possible video files" and a little more time on "smallest acceptable video file"

I should be able to get half an hour of perfectly enjoyable video down to 25 MB or so, maybe even down to 20.

14 hours of decent looking/sounding video on a single CD-R?

Show threadAndrew (Television Executive)Apr 14, 2022
I have been toying with running a BBS. If I spin up a BBS, it is *vital* that it is full of warez, and tiny weird video and audio files.
Show threadAndrew (Television Executive)
And like, transferring 50MB over xmodem or kermit or whatever doesn't seem like the most convenient thing in the world, if you even have a terminal client that supports it anymore, but I'll deal with that problem whats I have the BBS installed.
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Show threadAndrew (Television Executive)Apr 14, 2022
If I do a BBS though, I'm going to want to revive the #dreadfulDocs
Show threadtebicat, tautographerApr 14, 2022
@ajroach42 9front has an xmodem program, which is neat.
Show threadMike [SEC=OFFICIAL]Apr 14, 2022
@ajroach42 Kermit still works. Source: span up a BBS recently. 😁
Show threadAndrew (Television Executive)Apr 14, 2022

@mike Of course it still works, it's still under development on dozens of platforms.

I believe zmodem is still in the debian repos too.

Show threadMike [SEC=OFFICIAL]Apr 14, 2022

@ajroach42 oh yeah, those are all in good working order.

Main thing I realised getting back into this stuff is how much I used to lean on terminal support in things like Telix and Minicom to manage the protocols and stuff which is what's lacking most in modern environments.

Show threadAndrew (Television Executive)Apr 14, 2022

@mike Yep!

And there are a couple of libraries that implement zmodem and kermit in python that could be used to build a great little python based telnet BBS client, but as far as I'm aware, it hasn't been done.

Show threadMike [SEC=OFFICIAL]Apr 14, 2022
@ajroach42 ooh yeah that would be a great little project for someone.