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 ## Creating Video Playback Executables
 The provided makefile allows building programs which will play the compressed text encoding of the video stored in the executable. The target video should be named `vid.mp4`, otherwise the path to the video can be changed in the header of convert.py.
 
-To build for Linux targets (using GCC) run 
+To build for Linux & MacOS targets (using GCC) run 
 
 `make playback`
 
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+python-opencv
+joblib
+numpy