[LAU] Render and animate OctaMed songs in batch processing

Henning Thielemann lemming at henning-thielemann.de
Sat Jul 15 15:40:14 UTC 2017


Using old Haskell code by Claude Heiland-Allen I was able to generate 
videos for my MED and OctaMED songs from the Amiga:
   https://hackage.haskell.org/package/med-module

The package provides two executables:
   unmed2: convert MMD files to text representation
   animed: convert MMD files to tracker animations in PostScript
     See the Makefile for how to turn this into a video.
     Perfectly timed, no frame drop-out.
     No video compression artifacts thanks to FlashScreenVideo codec.
     No need for a screengrabber.
     No need for a fast machine for screengrabbing -
        although rendering with ghostscript needs unexpectedly much time.
     However, animation is pretty simplistic.

I have no binary package, so far. You have to build it using a Haskell 
compiler, like so:

   $ sudo apt-get install ghc cabal-install
   $ mkdir med
   $ cd med
   $ cabal sandbox init
   $ cabal update
   $ cabal install med-module -fbuildExamples
   $ sudo install .cabal-sandbox/bin/* /usr/local/bin/

You can watch and listen to the songs here:
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkiGi6Y-Lso&list=PL724571620EC414BC&index=73


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