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Posted: **Thu Jan 15, 2009 7:24 am**

You almost had me look up all the possible yoga moves and try to get a hidden message from that until I noticed that little flicker at the edge of the screen

Posted: **Thu Jan 15, 2009 7:33 am**

=) how did you get the bits?

Posted: **Thu Jan 15, 2009 7:43 am**

Code: Select all

mplayer ../a.mp4 -vf crop=30:50:5:15 -vo png

After that I used imagemagick to beef the contrast of the frames up a bit and had them shown to me in 8-column rows (to confirm they could be ascii). Then I just typed them all in by hand, it wasn't really worth figuring out how to automate that.

Posted: **Thu Jan 15, 2009 7:48 am**

adum wrote:=) how did you get the bits?

I used ImageMagick:
convert a.mp4 c.png
mogrify -crop 50x70+0+0 -colorspace gray c.png

Then looked at a 3x3 square and alternated the bit if there was a difference in brightness.

Luckily my first decoded message was:

the answer t?ߋhis chaS?????ߖ??'asana'?ou????????%

Now I should try to optimize my code

EDIT: PNG not JPEG

Posted: **Thu Jan 15, 2009 9:20 am**

Hi,
after transforming the vid to jpegs it took me around 8 mins to type the bits ... so doing that by hand is probably the fastest way ... unless you have a nice pattern-recognition software already installed.

Micha

Posted: **Thu Jan 15, 2009 9:53 pm**

I did it by hand... just stepping frame by frame in the browser.

Posted: **Thu Jan 15, 2009 10:05 pm**

Is that you, adum? Wow, you do everything really well!

Posted: **Thu Jan 15, 2009 10:35 pm**

yeah, that's me. a painful moment in my past =)

Posted: **Thu Jan 15, 2009 10:41 pm**

MerickOWA wrote:I did it by hand... just stepping frame by frame in the browser.

Yep, its just left/right-arrows in Quicktime. I did it simultaneously with laptop and PC to prevent switching apps.

Posted: **Fri Jan 16, 2009 8:24 am**

adum wrote:yeah, that's me. a painful moment in my past =)

Ouch, must have hurt in the knees. You're just too tall!

Btw: is this supposed to be a kind of advanced version of Mayurasana? I myself don't even come into the starting position of this... tried Kakasana several times but find it quite difficult.

Posted: **Tue Jan 20, 2009 6:39 pm**

hey tog -- it's just a transitional move to plank, nothing too fancy. next time, i will look behind me first =)

Posted: **Sun Apr 19, 2009 8:32 pm**

I also did it with Quicktime... and especially liked the unfinished "ommmmmmmm" at the end

Posted: **Sun May 31, 2009 3:48 pm**

ommmmmmmmmmmmm

hahaha, I got 414 frames, which is not divisible by 8... luckily, the answer was in the middle of the sentence.

Posted: **Tue Aug 04, 2009 11:58 am**

good one adum. Very nice indeed.

sabre

Posted: **Thu Jul 14, 2011 7:58 pm**

Obviously, there should have been some hot chick in the video, then nobody would have noticed the data

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