The stupidest way you used to watch a movie

[JustABadger]

Sometimes we can’t watch movies on things that weren’t designed for that, but we still do it. What’s your story?


in middle school I had a cheap digital camera without a speaker. I also had a cheap mp3 player. I recorded a movie off the TV and then ripped the audio off the video I made, to put it in my mp3 and sync the two devices. All for a 4 hours car trip. I didn’t consider the fact that looking at small screens in a car SUCKS.

 

[qqq1]

I made my own videonow disc once just because it clearly make me a leet haxor

 

[Lostbhoy]

I had 2 hours to kill on a job so I watched finding nemo in a store front. It was on like 50 flat tvs and was quite the immersive experience until the sales guy would bring customers in the way of the best view!

 

[tech3475]

Going per the 'not designed for that', it would be the DS via Moonshell.

Although I did use to watch heavily compressed TV shows on those old MP4 players and compressed a Red Dwarf episode down enough to fit onto a 32mb mSD card for an old phone then later my iPod classic 6g.

I did once try to get a video encoder for the Mega CD working, but it wouldn't compile.

Now that I think about it though, I wonder how badly a rooted ereader could play Tenet?

Edit:

Just realised we're probably going to make ourselves all look old and weird to the tablet/smartphone generations.

 

[Veho]

The GBA I guess. Many would consider it a stupid way to watch movies.

But to be honest, I've watched stuff on TVs that were so old and broken and crappy, they were way worse than the GBA.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Sometimes we can’t watch movies on things that weren’t designed for that, but we still do it. What’s your story?


in middle school I had a cheap digital camera without a speaker. I also had a cheap mp3 player. I recorded a movie off the TV and then ripped the audio off the video I made, to put it in my mp3 and sync the two devices. All for a 4 hours car trip. I didn’t consider the fact that looking at small screens in a car SUCKS.

I watched a couple full movies on a 1st gen iPod Nano. The screen on that thing wasn't much bigger than an average postage stamp. Had to use Rockbox since it had no video playback support out of the box. It was more for the novelty since it was such an impractical way to watch movies.

However, I legitimately watched (and enjoyed) like half of Naruto on my original DS with Moonshell. The subtitles were so low resolution they were barely readable, but it was good enough. Every morning on the bus to school, I would watch an episode. Every afternoon on the way back, same thing. Smartphones weren't a thing yet so it was actually a not bad way to watch videos on the go when the only other option was a laptop which is not very practical to use on the bus. I might've been able to encode videos to 3gp and watch them on my phone but it would've been both lower quality, and lower resolution, and on a smaller screen to boot. 3gp was 144p vs. the DS' 192p.

 

[whopooted]

I had one of those 2003 era Video Now players with a handful of episodes of spongebob on it. Would watch that on repeat whenever I was grounded as a kid.

 

[Deleted member 719522]

The Formula 1 racing footage on the GameBoy Color.

 

[Jayro]

I used to use Nero Recode 2 (for it's GPU-accelerated encoding speed, there was nothing else like it at the time) to re-encode videos for my Play-Yan Micro and watch Anime on my Gameboy Advance that way in really good quality. METEO player ain't SHIT. Nintendo made a great little H.263 MP4 player for the GBA. I regret selling mine.

 

[The Catboy]

Watched all of Code Monkeys on my DS Lite because my iPod broke

 

[djnate27]

I used to watch upside down like Mork from Ork.

 

[Ettino]

I used to go to the cinema and paid for a movie ticket like a chump.

 

[SylverReZ]

I made my own videonow disc once just because it clearly make me a leet haxorView attachment 458259

I didn't have this specific model, only the VideoNow XP which looks like a large GBA SP. The black and white model can only fit up to 25 minutes of video, this is a limitation of the hardware, so it has to be mastered onto three discs to fill up the 75 minutes mark which roughly is around 1hr 15mins (plus intro header and dummy data for end).

 

[paulttt]

The Formula 1 racing footage on the GameBoy Color.

Could you expand on this? Legit sounds interesting.

 

[Robert Newbie]

Oooh, I got something for this one.

In college, converting VOB files to MP4 for iPod Video's was the big thing. I forget the tool, but I remember the program: Only free one of its kind, big window, slow converting, would desync audio of really long clips. Anyway, we would try to watch MP4's on a tiny iPod Video at inappropriate times, and I did end up watching all of Cowboy Bebop: The Movie that way.

 

[Deleted member 719522]

Could you expand on this? Legit sounds interesting.

An officially released GameBoy Color game which includes real F1 racing footage. Skip to 0:42 to see it.

 

[DaFixer]

I remember that I watch all first Robotech (Macross) show episodes on a GBA, using a Xflash256mbit flashcard.
Got those video's as gba rom file from an p2p site, 256mbit was enough for 1/2 episodes.
That means I must reflash that flashcard many times....

 

[kijetesantakalu042]

On a 3ds

 

[SeventhSon7]

Sometimes we can’t watch movies on things that weren’t designed for that, but we still do it. What’s your story?


in middle school I had a cheap digital camera without a speaker. I also had a cheap mp3 player. I recorded a movie off the TV and then ripped the audio off the video I made, to put it in my mp3 and sync the two devices. All for a 4 hours car trip. I didn’t consider the fact that looking at small screens in a car SUCKS.

ghetto-MacGyver

 

[Adamsann]

That's a pretty creative workaround! I don't have personal experience with it, but I'd say it's amazing how people find ways to make things work even when the devices aren't designed to. Sounds like a complicated but inventive solution for car travel!