ANandrewstuart·Oct 5, 2024
https://github.com/rossumur/espflix
Along similar lines very impressive
In ESP8266 Analog Broadcast Television Interfacerossumur
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rossumur / espflix
espflix
A free video streaming service that runs on a ESP32
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6 sourcesIf it used a TRRS jack instead of a TRS jack and an esp32 (not the S3, which does not have a DAC) then it could also output video from these projects:
https://github.com/rossumur/espflix
https://github.com/rossumur/esp_8_bit
https://github.com/bitluni/ESP32CompositeVideo
In Show HN: Sonatino – small audio dev board based on ESP32-S3I know its not exactly what you mean but here is video download, decoding, and video signal generation on a bare esp32 (no Graphical chip) : https://github.com/rossumur/espflix
In Reverse engineering ESP32 Wi-Fi driver: the road aheadmpeg1 seems possible https://github.com/rossumur/espflix
In Chrome Removing Theora SupportESPFlix – the tightest coding of 2020: MPEG streaming service in just 500K
You will not see tighter coding and more sophisticated understanding of computer technology than this.
This implements analog PAL/NTSC television in software.
Plus it implements MPEG video decoding with fast forward/rewind.
Plus it implements video streaming.
Plus remote control via a custom written bluetooth driver.
All on a $10 esp32 microcontroller with only 520K RAM.
The video:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPL8Pj6ATrg
The blog post:
https://rossumblog.com/2020/08/08/espflix-a-free-video-streaming-service-that-runs…
Source code:
GitHub: https://github.com/rossumur/espflix
Hackaday article:
https://hackaday.com/2020/08/11/espflix-brings-streaming-video-to-the-world-of-mic…
And an earlier project from the same person, software generated PAL/NTSC 8 bit Atari computer emulation: https://hackaday.com/202
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A free video streaming service that runs on a ESP32
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