Registering RIVA and where I can get it!

[bbond007]

I want to register for RIVA. Where can I register for it and is it still registrable? If I convert a movie say that is 1 GB big in size into MPEG-1 would my Amiga 1200 at specs of 68060 @ 50 Mhz with 64 MB of RAM AGA be able to play it comfortably with no trouble? Thanks in advance.

you can purchase it here.

https://store6.esellerate.net/store/checkout/CustomLayout.aspx?s=STR8806182750&pc=&page=OnePageCart.htm

I go my non-demo copy about 2 months ago.

Let me know  what software you end up using do do the conversion to mpeg1. I have had some luck with AVS and Xilisoft, but neither is perfect..

[bbond007]

1) How long it toke you to receive the item?
2) Do you get some sort of tracking number?
3) If I order it from that source would I guarantee receiving the item or this source dead?
4) What media device did you receive the program?
5) Do they just email you a CD KEY or is it a complete program in some sort of media storage?
6) Would the movies run SMOOTHLY at  a rate of 24 fps if my Amiga 1200 is 68060 @ 50 Mhz with 64 MB OF RAM? Can the movies be equally smooth on Apollo 1240 or does it really need a 68060 @ 50 Mhz? Thanks in advance.

1. About 2 weeks.

2. You get a confirmation email.

3. The author is still active in the Amiga community What incentive would the author have to rip you off? I suppose if you pay with Paypal you could contact them. I threw cation to the wind with that $15 because I have that kind of scratch to throw around. That's how I roll...

4. LHA file for the $15 fee. Email sf.amiga @@ gmail.com, perhaps for more you could get an autographed copy, or for enough money you could have it delivered on a wagon pulled be clydesdales. For me, the LHA was enough.

5. You get an new EXE. No key. Don't expect updates...

6. Depends on a lot of factors. AGA, ECS, GFX card(and bus), CPU, resolution of the video, etc..

I don't see why you don't run the demo and see how that works on your hardware. Color is going to be like 25% slower (or so) on AGA.

http://aminet.net/package/gfx/show/RiVA

Actually I think ALL of these questions are answered in the documentation.

[bbond007]

I thank you for answering my question, of course I would loved if your sarcasm level was toned down a little but I am not to complain. You toke your time to answer questions to a stranger where you would not get any benefit from it, but yet you still helped a stranger and to that I thank you for it.

Tomorrow I will receive my money and as such I am going to pay for it exactly tomorrow. I will order the 68060 in the future. Right now I am struggling getting my A1200 to recognize my CF card on the PCMCIA slot. It is an Ultra ComptactFlash 15 Mb/s with 2 GB ScanDisk card drive (not ScanDisk II). I have to see how to get her working.

Well, for your 1200 with AGA with 060 you'll have watchable playback. Widescreen stuff is better because that 33% missing from the bottom of the screen does make it go like 33% faster. If you were able to overclock, it bet would really help RiVA. If you have a PAL A1200 you can speed up the playback optionally at the cost of more blocky resolution. That option only works on a PAL A1200. Peease don't expect 24FPS fullscreen unless you can get that 060 up to 80MHZ or geta GFX board. The 040 for RiVA would have been a big mistake.

I doubt the speed if the CF card you buy will have any difference on your Amiga 1200 unless you have a FastATA and even then speed is limited to under 6MB/sec.

mpeg1 video stream is only like 150K/sec anyway. Its the decoding that is demanding.

Please do read the documentation where it provides some sample resolution and expected playback rates in HAM6 or HAM8 on various CPUs and to take into account that I don't think any of those tests were done with a video containing sound.

[bbond007]

What is the maximum speed that I can overclock a 68060 without damaging it and where can I get it overclocked? I am willing to pay for the services and the fan cooler for it.

I think that depends on the revision mask of the 060, active cooling and if you want SCSI or not...

[bbond007]

his vidoes does not show how to overclock it. So does that mean I send the card to him, I pay him for the service and he send it back to me?

I do not want SCSI. I want to remove SCSI and replace it with USB instead.

I think in some cases he unsolders replaces the CPU with a newer mask. That is not something I can do at home I almost killed my A1200 with a rogue solder blob when I was doing R127 mod for flickering vga modes.

I think SCSI limits you to 60 or 66MHZ which is still a big jump over stock 50MHZ. I just have one 1260 board, so I don't want to risk it so I stay at 50mhz.

[bbond007]

If I bought a PPC card and placed it on the trap door of the Amiga 1200 would I be able to run workbench OS 3.5 on it, run Riva on it and use the power of the PPC card to watch videos or I must own OS 4.0 and run Riva on OS 4.0?

RiVA does not run on PPC for that you use Frogger (NG?) or MPlayer DVPlayer (From the RiVA guy) or something. I don't know. I don't have PPC classic.


Piru is absolutely right to some extent. Trying to play modern videos 24FPS on your classic (even PPC ) hardware is going to not be anything other than frustration. Modern PCs have all sorts of stuff like color conversion and hardware motion compensation built into the video hardware. The amiga has to try to do all that stuff in software and in the case of AGA, convert it to HAM8 format... on a 50mhz CPU....

I almost forgot the best part. You cant SEEK or even PAUSE. Once you hit PLAY it just goes. I just break all my videos into 100MB parts

On the other hand, I have converted all of the video content from Amiga Forever, other Amiga and related Commodore stuff to MPEG1 (tuned for RIVA) on my 1200 where I have a video partition for that sort of stuff. Its pretty neat watching that stuff real time in HAM8 on the 1200 even if it is a bit choppy. Stuff with bright colors like sitcoms and animations look amazingly good. If you happen to find any old Video CDs it will play those. Star Trek Generations looked good video quality wise, but the movie was disappointing.

I think the application for $15 is probably worth it.