Frogger is slow on my MMU '030 playing VCD

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I always thought Frogger was much slower than RiVA-GUI. Why not give
that a try?

Even though Frogger demands FBlit be running it is still slow even
when put onto it's own custom screen.

I'm not sure if the latest RiVA allows VideoCD but you could give it a
whirl.

That MAS-Player doesn't do MPEG video does it? I know it handles MP3
but I'm not sure if there's anything on Amiga for aiding a low-spec
machine with MPG decoding.

Once upon a time the Phase5 CyberVision 64/3D was planned to fully
support MPEG decoding, and I'm sure I've heard someone mention that
the Permedia 2 in the BlizzardVision PPC has provision for it.

Try these:
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http://de5.aminet.net/pub/aminet/gfx/show/RiVA.lha
http://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/pub/aminet/gfx/show/RivaAudio.lha

[Hyperspeed]

You could always hunt down the elusive CD32 FMV cartridge for playing
VideoCDs...  it worked with the SX-1 too (but not with the SX32 as far
as I know).

:-)

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Okay, you've all lost the plot!

The original question was VideoCD on an '030... classic chipset too
by the look of it!

As a percentage of the 6 million Amigas out there, how many have a
Cyberstorm PowerPC or a PCI interface!?

Desktop Amiga users were pitifully neglected when it came to graphics
cards. Everyone made every sort of gizmo available but the next most
important thing of all (after hard disk and accelerator/RAM) was never
provided for!

The only real option for desktop A1200 owners was to cram in the
useless AteoBus Pixel64 or win the lottery and buy a PPC/BVision
combo.

Why was the Amiga's integrated image so savaged in the recent years?
Everyone loves the classic `wedge' design and to put your A1200 in a
tower basically does away with it's unique product design.

What happens then is that slowly PC owners will wear you down by
comparing your machine (now in a PC case) to their super-machine. All
the time Apple sneaks through the back door with an integrated machine
called `iMac'...

See where I'm getting?
Hold your guns Amiga owners, oh and throw out your WinUAE!

Anyway, did you download and try the 2x RiVA links I posted? It was
updated about a month ago so it may well support fast VCD playing on
AGA.

:-D :-D :-D :-D

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All those poor wedge cases going to the bin, it's enough to make you
cry!

And at the same time Apple are hailing the revolution of the
integrated computer design!

:-D

I'd be happy to settle for non-upgradable, surface mounted memory if
it meant having an accelerator with integrated GFX chipset and maybe
SCSI for my A1200 desktop.

Like the Blizzard PPC + BVision but integrated as opposed to
expansions with bulky connectors. Price was always a problem for this
sort of luxury goods though...

One thing I have thought though, if you have an A1200 in a
tower,wouldn't it be cool for it's keyboard to be an A1200 desktop!
That way you could still have a towered A1200 and your lovely desktop
wedge design!

The A1200 wouldn't take up much more space than a keyboard and you'd
have a ready-made network machine for Stunt Car Racer.

:-) :-) :-)

Simple video/mouse/keyboard switching and you could have 2x machines
printing and playing MP3 simultaneously!

;-)

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Can't you use VCDGear to dump the VCD onto a file then burn a
filesystem disc, so rather than play the stream you can just play a
disc with a file.mpg on it for RiVA.

Alternatively, burn 10x CDXL discs...

:-D :-D :-D