It's here! It's here! my Vampire2 has arrived!!!!

[UberFreak]

Am I the only one who's really puzzled by all this effort and excitement, of being able to play a low-res clip encoded in a long obsolete format?

When was the last time any of you saw MPEG1 encoded video, anywhere?
For me, it was the very early 2000s.

[UberFreak]

Its one of the ways of evaluating progress in the core development. As the core gets more features, speed and software is tweaked to utilize the core spesifically, its nice for users to see those developments thru other means than benchmarks like Sysinfo.

I agree, but from all I've read, this video playback effort is specifically targeting (A)MMX instructions, which I dont consider as advancements in the core, as nothing uses them (well, except the updated Riva player).

Don't get me wrong, I'll be getting an A1200 Vampire the second they come out, but I'm absolutely positive I will not start watching low-res MPEG1 videos on my A1200 any time soon

[UberFreak]

Maybe if you had actually tried doing that on a stock Amiga, you might be be a little impressed. Especially an A600. :laugh1:

Pretty sure what I saw 20 years ago was MPG-1, not MPG-2. Big difference in screen resoluition.

I don't find it impressive as I've seen it done in the 90's with a Peggy+ card, on an A4000.
Even then, it was the end of useful life for MPEG1, as MPEG2 started taking over when the DVD format was released in 1997.

As for me, I've been watching MPEG2 encoded 720P and 1080i video since around 2001, then moved to MPEG4/AVC a few years later, around the time HD-DVD and Blu-ray came out.