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Software defined LaserDisc decoder

12 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 2 stories, 10 comments · first 2016-09-24 · latest 2025-07-21

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  1. …the idea of pulling an analog RF signal from a laser and then doing software ADC interesting. [0]: https://github.com/happycube/ld-decode/wiki/ld-analyse#under...
    comment by sgarland · 2025-07-21 · in FFmpeg devs boast of another 100x leap thanks to handwritten assembly code
  2. …https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KueSbYs7yMU https://github.com/simoninns/DomesdayDuplicator https://github.com/happycube/ld-decode https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode https://www.domesday86.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Domesday…
    comment by aspenmayer · 2025-06-30 · in Sony DTC-700 audio DAT player/recorder
  3. To save folks the search query: ld-decode - https://github.com/happycube/ld-decode Also worth mentioning the fork, vhs-decode - https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode which was discussed here previously. VHS-Decode – Software defined VHS…
    comment by metadat · 2024-05-01 · in The LaserDisc
  4. https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode Fork of https://github.com/happycube/ld-decode
    comment by toomuchtodo · 2023-12-18 · in VHS-decode project could help archival efforts (2022)
  5. …and use ffmpeg as part of that chain – I still barely scratch the surface of what it can do. [0]: https://github.com/happycube/ld-decode
    comment by sgarland · 2023-11-19 · in HandBrake 1.7.0 – The open source video transcoder
  6. …"building" far longer than I have and yet none of his "building" has led to a business AFAICT. [1] https://github.com/happycube/ld-decode [2] https://www.rationalqm.us/mine.html
    comment by acuozzo · 2023-01-24 · in How to get new ideas
  7. …decoder > A fork of LD-Decode, the decoding software powering the Domesday86 Project Which links to https://github.com/happycube/ld-decode and https://www.domesday86.com/ > Software defined LaserDisc decoder and > Domesday86 is a project…
    comment by capableweb · 2022-12-11 · in VHS-Decode – Software defined VHS decoder
  8. …ps://github.com/simoninns/DomesdayDuplicator/wiki [2]: https://github.com/happycube/cxadc-linux3 [3]: https://github.com/happycube/ld-decode
    comment by sgarland · 2022-09-05 · in Writing an app is like coding for LaserDisc
  9. …better tracking, etc...). And of course many of the high-end decks have a built in TBC. [1] https://github.com/happycube/ld-decode/issues/16 [2] https://www.domesday86.com/?page_id=978
    comment by betamaxthetape · 2020-10-20 · in My Eight-Year Quest to Digitize 45 Videotapes
  10. …higher without a good PCB supplier. The article's Airspy R2 SDR is $169. There's a PAL decoder in https://github.com/happycube/ld-decode/blob/3d5cdeddbaf4515b... , I'm guessing it could be adapted to the article's purposes with some work.…
    comment by Mathnerd314 · 2019-08-25 · in Capturing PAL video with an SDR, and a few dead ends