Frogger is slow on my MMU '030 playing VCD

[gizz72]

Greetings,

My MMU on my GVP accelerator '030 is only 30Mhz with 8 Megs FastRam. My second accelerator a viper '030 without MMU does not play VCD but has 16 Megs Fast. I don't have a graphics card on My A1200. For the meantime, Is/Are there anyway to speed up my viewing pleasure without the need to expand the hardware? Are there alternative software downloadable besides it? Quick fix or configurations I need to do?

I don't mind viewing it in B/W or in a very small window 150 x 150 pxl, as long it's decent enough to view, not 1 frame every 5 secs or any sound delay. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated here. Thanks all.

Regards,

Gizz

[gizz72]

Greetings Zadoc,

An '030 isn't going to cut it for MPEG software decoding. I'd suggest getting an 060, but even then MPEG video decoding is still a tad slow.

Even on a '060 it's still not decent??? Bugger!
Should there be some configuration problem there?
ATM I can't afford a '060. :-( That's why I need to deal with this via software. I just about to give up here.... *sigh*..

Regards,

Gizz

[gizz72]

Greetings Ilwrath,
Oh my I tried conversion, I have a fairly large HD capacity ATM. I'll give it a spin. Try to check that under winuae for now.

Really, your BEST best choice is to find a cheap DVD player that supports VCD. My $45 Samsung does it....

Hmmm a DVD drive? Does it run fairly well even on a '030 without MMU while using frogger? If so then I'll save up and buy one for Xmas(figers crossed). I was thinking a DVDWriter(too expensive for now). :-D Thanks all

Regards,

Gizz

[gizz72]

Greetings Matt_H,

DOH!! Silly bugger I am!! Thanks for the correction. :oops: Didn't notice it was a Player. hehe... :lol:

Anyway, the DVDPlayer, I have a PioneerDVD player but, it's in the other room. I just want to view VCD so I don't need to go from room to room.

Regards,

Gizz

[gizz72]

DOH!! Silly bugger I am!! Double Post!!! :oops: I hate mondays!!
Gizz

[gizz72]

Greetings whabang,

My old 486 @ 66 MHz could do it with halved quality, so it should do fine on an overclocked 040, or a 060.

Yes I agree. The old 486 does play video better. Thanks to VGA cards. :-)

Regards,

Gizz

[gizz72]

Greeting whabang,

Gizz:
I just came to think of something:
Which IDE/SCSI-comtroller are you using? Transfers can eat a lot of CPU-power, if you don't use DMA.

Well I'm using my IDEFix'97 for my CDRW sony. :-D
Is there any way I could use DMA method here?
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@all
I find riva unable to read VCD straight. As said, I can only extract the format from VCD to MPEG file using Frogger(eats a lot of HD space too). Then I can view it using Riva(with a few modification on it's configs).

Regards,

Gizz

[gizz72]

Greetings Hyperspeed,

Thanks for the tip. :-) I have not tried VCDGear yet. I'll download a copy then try it out. Thanks again.

Regards,

Gizz