I got the first episode of ren and stimpy converted to Amiga

[amiman99]

I tried the DemoREN file and it plays fine in my A1200 030 50Mhz, I also noticed that it has stereo. I have few PSB music videos that I converted, but I made my sound mono, to shrink the file size a bit.

[amiman99]

For cartoons, you could probably lower the FPS and you wouldn't notice the difference. Also, I wonder if is possible to do any pre-processing to reduce the colors in the original video file to reduce the dithering.
When converting my files, I noticed that if less mpg artifacts are present in the original file the better the conversion will look like.
It would be nice if someone made a script to automate the conversion process.

[amiman99]

See post #6

[amiman99]

To fix your audio / video sync problem, try to convert the video to 320x200 (or whatever you need) with 15/20fps with audio intact. I use "Any Video Converter" for that.
Then I strip/convert the audio with VirtuaDub to wav and then I convert the video to 15Bit RGB.
See if that works.
To see if your video is in sync with audio, open them in any player and compare times.

[amiman99]

Dont use dithering, it makes things worse. Try to use source file with a least "blocking" artifacts.
For me, its nice to watch movies/shows on Amiga, but is not very practical, the quality is not there, but is fun and challenging making it work.
One time, I'll try to see if it works on my CDTV at 7MHz!

[amiman99]

In VirtualDub under filter what I need to add to remove the horrible dithering and give the blocking artifacts?

I'm working on it, I have like over 200 plug ins for Virtualdub.
Looks like when converting from 24bits to 16bits there is a visible color reduction. I'm looking right now to see which filter is best for our purpose.It's been awhile since I converted videos to HV.

[amiman99]

Ok, I think I found something.
Use this filter called "Error diffusion" found here: http://whitewing.co.uk/vdub_errdiff.html
I was pretty happy with the output with a cartoon I had on my HD, the movie looked like a HAM animation considering the limitations on HAM, and much better then the dithering option included in HV converter.
I also use directshow plugin, so you can open any file, if you have correct codecs installed on your PC: http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/286901-VirtualDub-Now-Has-a-Directshow-Driver-Plugin

The HV files are quite big 200MB for 4 min video, but is fun making it.

[amiman99]

If you want to distribute your movies, try to compress them with zip. I was able to shrink the movie from 270MB to 85M zipped.
Don't try to unzip them in your Amiga, it took me 40 min to unzip that file on 68030 50MHz.
There is also AGA HAM8 version of the HV converter, but it seems alot slower playback then the original HAM6.

[amiman99]

By the way I wanted to thank you so much for these links. Now my quality of my movie HAVE IMPROVED SOOOOOO MUCH better than before!!!!

It is actually now enjoyable watching the videos

No problem, at first I wasn't too happy with the quality, but with this filter, it made videos look much better.
I'm still looking for another filter that reduces the colors that could be perfect for cartoons.