Journal dedazo's Journal: AC/DC releases video in Microsoft Excel format 2
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AC/DC releases video in Microsoft Excel format
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coolest thing I've seen in a while (Score:1)
But I'm not finding anything on how it was done. Here's [spreadsheetpage.com] a site that explains how to reveal it, if you can grok VBA and Excel macros (and don't mind opening Excel files downloaded from a public network!), but I'd love to know the executive summary of how it's done. Formulas? Text substitution? Lookup tables?
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I'm not a VBA expert by any means, though I used to write a lot of COM-based solutions with VB and C++ before .NET, so I can follow along. I downloaded the file (you don't have to enable macros to examine the VBA code), and it looks like there's a 45-second single-channel 16-bit PCM 22050Hz WAV embedded in the spreadsheet, which is extracted (by reading the XLS file and looking for the RIFF header...!) to the same directory where the spreadsheet is and played using the sndPlaySound API. As for the video, th