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Comment by qq66 | Hacker News Reader

Is this sped up?

Yes. I couldn't see it at first, because of the advertising overlay, but there is a time readout in the lower-left of the video.

It looks like it's sped up about 60x.

you mean 3600x. It looks to me like it's ticking the hours past at about one a second.

Is anyone able to slow this down? I realize they wanted an explosion effect but it goes too fast for me.

  youtube-dl -o sun Hyi4hjG6kDM # [1]
  mplayer -speed 0.25 sun

[1] http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/. It's available in the Arch Linux and Ubuntu repositories, as well.

get_flash_videos[1] covers more sites and has a plugin infrastructure, though I haven't personally written a plugin.

According to one of the comments on the blog, the video frames come from Helioviewer: http://helioviewer.org/?date=2011-06-07T07:20:00.000Z&im...

The whole explosion takes around three hours.