Music and Video player

[Piru]

When I try to play WMV music using hippo player I get an error message telling me "not enough memory". I am trying this on WinUAE with 2Mb ChipRAM and 8Mb FastRAM on a 68000 processor. Should I maybe convert the music from mp3 to something else?

wmv isn't mp3.

I suggest you consult HiP.guide for the supported file formats.

[sim085]

wmv isn't mp3.

I know ... I tried to use a program to covert mp3 to wav.

I suggest you consult HiP.guide for the supported file formats.

I'll give it a look

[sim085]

Just to be more clear - I am converting music from mp3 format to wav format at 6000Hz, 8 bits per sample and Mono. The error message I get now is "Trouble with the player group".

[Cammy]

Okay guys, sorry about the mixup earlier. I have two versions of this clip. You can use the utility CDGSXL from Aminet to play them. This player has the ability to double the height of the video using the Copper chip, which helps us have larger looking videos for slower CDROM drives. These two clips were designed to stream from a 2x CDROM, and I've tested them on a CD32 and they play back at the right speed without any skipping. The only problem I have encountered is this flickering of colour occasionally, which I've only observed in my own CDXL videos, so I must have done something wrong when I made them. I really want to look into making some nicer clips to play on CDTVs, CD32s, and from CF/HDD on A600s and A1200s. Next time I might attempt to convert a movie trailer, but for now I have a short clip from the movie "I Am Legend".

Here's the 256 colour version I previously uploaded, but renamed now - http://home.exetel.com.au/amiga/IAmLegend256.CDXL
And here's the HAM6 version, which should play on an A600 - http://home.exetel.com.au/amiga/IAmLegendHAM6.CDXL

[Cammy]

I just played the video on my A600, and none of the players I downloaded from Aminet seemed to work. I think CDGSXL might need an 020 for it to work. AnimFX definitely needs an 020.

It works in MultiView but it plays it too slowly. I don't know if any players are going to work yet, sorry.

[sim085]

Yes I tried to play it on WinUAE but under 68000 CDGSXL complains and under 68030 it does not run ... when I play it from MultiView I get a dark picture and something moving slowly.

[sim085]

Hi,

I spent much of yesterday formatting mp3 to wav format using different parameters but none worked getting the error messages previously reported here when try to play them on hippo player. I then check if there was a plugin to play wav files on hippo player but could not find one either

Does anyone know how to make hippo player to play wav format music or if there is a player that runs this music. I checked hippo read me files but could not understand what the other formats it supports are and I am not intrested in mp3 (which seems to require at least an 020).

Thanks for any suggestions,
Sim085

[SamuraiCrow]

Did you try installing an old version of AHI and then setting the HippoPlayer to use AHI drivers only for audio output?  It might be able to stream it from the hard drive then.  (Or I could be wrong about Hippoplayer being able to do stuff like that.)

As for the formats HippoPlayer supports, it supports many music module formats including Protracker, MedPlayer (with the appropriate playback library), AHX, and many, many others.

[Cammy]

Play16 will play streaming wav files, but it doesn't have its own GUI, although there may be some available for it. You basically run it, select the file to play with an ASL requestor, and it plays the file. You can use it from CLI too, or even have it play a song from early on in the Startup-Sequence, so as your Amiga boots up it's playing your favourite music too.

http://aminet.net/package/mus/play/Play16

I still really want to look into this CDXL situation. They SHOULD run on a plain A600, since they run on a 1MB CDTV! They play perfectly on my A1200 030 and my CD32.

Also, if you'd like a nice program for converting WAV to IFF and other formats, try Sound Box from Aminet, and remember to download the keyfile too.

http://aminet.net/package/mus/misc/SoundBox
http://aminet.net/mus/misc/SoundBoxKey

Good luck, let us know how you go!

[Crumb]

@Cammy

do you know if there's any library to handle CDXL files for mencoder/ffmpeg? it would be quite comfortable to convert AVI files to CDXL using these tools instead of the long task of splitting each frame into a picture and latter joining all the frames.

[stefcep2]

i used to play mp3's using a script that let you choose your mp3 file from an ASl requestor via mpega and i found that the CPU use was halved compared to using a GUI like songplayer.  I think i still have it somewhere. might be useful for low-end CPU's

[Piru]

i used to play mp3's using a script that let you choose your mp3 file from an ASl requestor via mpega and i found that the CPU use was halved compared to using a GUI like songplayer.  I think i still have it somewhere. might be useful for low-end CPU's

For 68000? no way.

[stefcep2]

For 68000? no way.

No it was for 25 mhz 68030. Still impressive that with the settings that I had it played back with decent quality on Paula and didn't need 100% of the CPU.

[sim085]

I managed to play wav files with hippoplayer - had misplaced a file I like Soundbox as well ... going to install both on my hard disk.

Regarding CDXL, what I know about the CDTV is that it was very similar (if not the same) to the A500 - therefore I would assume that if it worked on the CDTV then it should also work on an A500, A500+ and A600! right?

I'll do some testing as well