Hey there!
Bit of a cheeky first post sorry. I was really into the Amiga a long time ago in the 80s and my prized possession was a 9mb A2000 as a gift for passing my college courses with honors.
I used to spend hours and hours just doing sequenced animations from my realtime frame grabber and also messing about with Digi-view. Using 3 minute sequences of Vipers from Battlestar Galactica battle scenes as animbrushes in Dpaint 3 was great.
I recently got an Amiga again and learned of the IFF ANIM+SLA format, it allows sound (8bit mono or stereo sample) to be integrated with ANIM7/5 video. What I would like to know is this.....
Is there a program that supports the sequenced/split synchronised 8SVX sample playback mode.
Is there a program that will let me generate ANIM+SLA files in a form where the sound isn't loaded as a chunk at the start but played in realtime with the video in a synchronised fashion via synchronised packets interleaving the video delta frame from an ANIM5 or ANIM7 file...ie just like a normal movie clip today.
I know there is a player that only supports the other kind of audio playback (sample held in memory loaded at animation file header) called BigANIM 4.0
There is also a conversion utility from Moviesetter to ANIM+SLA format but again this is not doing proper interleaved audio playback in a method suitable for a traditional movie clip to be played back.
Hope someone knowledgeable can offer me some advice and point me to a program that can generate the files automatically from separate large ANIM files and 8SVX IFF audio samples. Also a program for playback of streaming video animation frame and audio frames via the hard drive not just loading all the sound in memory at once etc.
PS I already know there is a browser based Java player for PC/Mac which supports both types of audio playback within the animation, I think anyway, but this is about using an Amiga. It's pretty much a script to play with rather than an actual application to double click, and again it's only a player.
