Show HN: Vintage Cartoons [video]

[dittes]

Here's what we hacked at the 4hourventure.com event today: http://vintagecartoons.tv

[Bjoern]

Fun! Thank you for this.

I just wanted to watch this fullscreen so, here is a simple oneliner to do that with mplayer from the CLI.

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/5841739

[dittes]

Haha! Awesome! We actually will try to implement full screen aswell. But you're faster... :)

[dittes]

This is what we hacked the last 4 hours at the 4hourventure.com event today. Feedback welcome! :)

[denzil_correa]

This is wonderful! One of the best hacks I have seen in a long time. I guess you may want to improve video response time though.

[dittes]

Thanks a lot! These comments make it worth hacking that stuff together! :) We will continue improving the site, but the actually stream the videos from archive.org, so maybe we have to host them on a faster server.

[callmeed]

This is cool. Now, make this into a universal iOS app and allow me to IAP videos so they're stored locally in the app.

You will make money on parents who need a way to keep a kid/toddler occupied in a place that doesn't have wifi.

(I'm assuming these are in the public domain)

[hecht]

They are and perhaps there will be a phone version in two weeks. We still need a project for our next 4 hour venture...

[ajstarks]

contains offensive and racist "vintage" content -- "Confederate Honey"

[hecht]

oh, that one slipped through the vetting process. It is removed now

[ctdonath]

Sounds great, doesn't render on iOS Safari: fragment of border, video unsupported.

ETA: whole frame in portrait orientation, half in landscape (doesn't show on scrolling). Still no video.

Eager to use!

[dittes]

we are working on that as we speak. reload, it should work better now. the formats are different, but we try to filter them for ios...

[hecht]

should work much better now.

[scrapcode]

Cool shit! You're missing a '>' on your </footer tag.

[hecht]

oh my... fixed.

[mparramon]

I'm only getting Felix the Cat and Popeye, is that all there is here?

[Bjoern]

BettyBoopM.d/BettyBoop-1932-BettyBoopM.d.

PopeyeTheSailor-PopeyesPappy/PopeyesPappy1951

popeye_patriotic_popeye/popeye_patriotic_popeye

FelixTheCatTheater/Felix-theCat-1925Pb-MonkeysWithMagicrelquiaDoCinemaMudo

FelixTheCatInComicalamities/FelixTheCat-Comicalamities1928-03-18

FelixTheCat-FelixGetsBroadcasted1923/FelixTheCat-1923-FelixGetsBroadcasted

Felix_AprilMaze_NoAudio/Felix_AprilMaze_NoAudio

Felix_NeptuneNonsense/Felix_NeptuneNonsense

Felix_BoldKingCole/Felix_BoldKingCole

Felix_TwoLipTime_NoAudio/Felix_TwoLipTime_NoAudio

bb_and_grampy/bb_and_grampy

SurpriseCartoon/1923.04.01Surprise1923ShortDaveFleischerOutOfTheInkwellFilms

40sSupermanCartoonCopiedInskyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow/Superman

BettyBoopInKittyFromKansasCity/MaxFleischer-1931-BettyBoop-KittyFromKansasCity

Popeye_Out_of_the_Punch_1956/Popeye_Out_To_Punch_1956

MarysLittleLamb/MarysLittleLamb1936

InMyMerr1932/InMyMerr1932

MuchAdoAboutMutton/MuchAdoAboutMutton1947

HeckleAndJeckleInSteepleJacks/HeckleJeckle-29-SteepleJacks1951

BalloonLandrestored/SavedFromTheFlames212-BalloonLandubIwerks1935

OswaldTheLuckyRabbitInOhTeacher/Winkler-OswaldTheLuckyRabbit-02-OhTeacher1927disneysoundEffectsAddedIn1932

RaggedyAnnAndAndy/cartoonFleischer-RaggedyAnnRaggedyAndy1940

TheTantalizingFly/1919-10-04BrayProductions-OutOfTheInkwell-TheTantalizingFly-MaxFleischer

OswaldTheLuckyRabbitInAMerryOldSoul/oswald_the_lucky_rabbit_80_merry_old_soul_DVDRip.XviD-moonsong.sharethefiles.com

[dittes]

Actually we just have a bunch of videos right now, but it should be more than just those. You can use the chrome knob on the TV to switch to the next...

[furyofantares]

You just added a good bit of fun to my day, thank you.

I don't remember receiving that many channels on a TV like that, though!