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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Software News => Topic started by: Kees on May 19, 2003, 12:47:38 AM
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A new version of Frogger has been released.
Check out http://frogger.rules.pl (http://frogger.rules.pl) for more info ...
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Working damn near perfect here on MorphOS!! good work! The only
complaint I have is it could use a better front end. Not really a
complaint but a wish:-)
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It still goes badly out of sync on my Pegasos, unfortunately.
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@KennyR
Really? How's that possible when it works perfect here? Well unless I
constantly tinker resizing in the windowsed mode.
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I don't have any problems with Frogger on Peggie either. Wonder whats the problem.
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@Kenny
Works like a champ here on my Peggy too. Did you remember to download and install the new codecs too? (Velly important!)
@redrumloa
I wrote a little shell script to play VCD's with ;-) If you want, I can send you a copy... (Well, it's better than having to type all of that junk in a CLI window!)
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Kudos to the elvish codin-d00d!
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@targhan
What junk in cli window? Magellan + filetypes :-P
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@Targan & Hooligan
Works like a champ here on my Peggy too. Did you remember to download and install the new codecs too? (Velly important!)
Yes, of course I did. I've done everything to get this damn thing to run properly. It never has.
I'm surprised most people haven't noticed this sync bug. You all must be watching videos a few minutes long. Watch a movie lasting an hour and a half and you'll soon see it. After 20 minutes, the sync is noticably off. After 40, it's off so badly it makes the rest of the file unwatchable. At the end of the file, the sync is off almost by a full three seconds.
And it still hangs sometimes when you use that scroller. If Frogger has rebuild the index of an AVI, that scroller will do bad things - like freeze Frogger or even the whole system. This, needless to say, is a complete pain.
Frogger IMHO is the player equivalent to Voyager 3 - everyone keeps saying the same bugs are fixed, but they never are.
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Hi,
Great news, I love Frogger! (Although Amp is great too)
You all must be watching videos a few minutes long. Watch a movie lasting an hour and a half and you'll soon see it.
I used it for playing videocd's and the only problem I had was that if you fast forward more than twice it crashed but that was a while ago (Use Amp for that now).
I had a bug with my old GVP Spectrum running Frogger in Window mode but then that was fixed (A while ago).
Now frogger is great, I use it for playing QT movies all the time..
Great news to see Frogger is still in development, when they had that open source problem I thought it was curtains for Frogger.
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I've just finished watching 3 half-hour Mpeg movies. The sync was perfect in all three. Scrolling halfway through and back to the beginning also didn't cause a lockup. I'm using a CSPPC 233, not Pegasos though, so this probably isn't much help.
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I'm surprised most people haven't noticed this sync bug. You all must be watching videos a few minutes long. Watch a movie lasting an hour and a half and you'll soon see it. After 20 minutes, the sync is noticably off. After 40, it's off so badly it makes the rest of the file unwatchable. At the end of the file, the sync is off almost by a full three seconds.
Perhaps this depends on which type of file you're watching? MorphOS doesn't detect too many of my VideoCDs, so I tried it out with a divx file I had around. It was pretty far out of sync by the end of it.
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VCD does not have to be recognized by system in order to play it. Frogger used his own routines to directly access CD, so all you have to do is use VCD as file name, and specify correct CDUNIT and CDDEVICE (and as those two are saved in prefs file, its not needed to type lot of crap in CLI Mr. Thargan ;) Do it once, insert VCD into drive, start frogger from an icon, and press V. voila.
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All big files go out of sync. AVI are worse than mpeg, and divx-AVI seem worst of all. I haven't tried VCD (I have a DVD player ;-))
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I've just finished watching 3 half-hour Mpeg movies. The sync was perfect in all three. Scrolling halfway through and back to the beginning also didn't cause a lockup. I'm using a CSPPC 233, not Pegasos though, so this probably isn't much help.
You won't see sync problems with 30 minute mpegs. Try 45 minute AVIs and 60 minute mpegs and you might.
I'm not the only one to see this sync problem, but I still wonder - why do so many people not see it?
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@KennyR
I havnt tried watching >30 minute vids on the Peggy yet. You may be right.
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What about other amiga players (like amp2). Do they not have this sync problem?
Because slow PCs have that Problem too.
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AMP has this problem, yes, but the problem is not speed. A G3 should be able to play a DVD-quality DIVX three times over.
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There are Divx-Files with high resolution (720 X 576) my notebook (P3M 600) can't play in sync.