DivX, QuickTIme, MOV AVI, DV to CDXL convertors???

[leirbag28]

 Ok, this is ridiculous already.................is there s program out there that will convert any of these formats into CDXL HAM6 or HAM8?  for crying out loud.isnt there a programmer out there who can make one of these?

 I would love to be able to download Movie previews and trailers and watch them in highest Quality CDXL possible..............this would be so great...........you can watch CDXL very easily by downloading MediaPoint from Computer City as it is now free!!!

MediaPoint is the Competition to SCALA MM300 or 400

So is there or isnt ther a program that can convert these files? including maybe MPEG2 DVD files?

Why dont someone make it?

[Karlos]

There may be such an amimation converter, I don't really know. How far have you looked?

CDXL doesn't offer the sort of compression ratio that would make it achievable unless you use very low quality.

Several GB of DVD footage would end up as several tens of GB of CDXL and would probably take an age on a 680x0 amiga to convert.

Why dont someone make it?

GCC and VBCC are free to use. If you want something and nobody else has produced it, make it yourself.

Before anybody says it, excuses such as "I can't program" aren't acceptable since:

1) If you want something badly enough, you will learn.
2) By doing so you will advance your own skills and be giving something to the community. We need more developers!
3) It has never stopped Microsoft ;-)

[odin]

Karlos wrote:
Before anybody says it, excuses such as "I can't program" aren't acceptable since:

What about 'humans are intrinsicly (is that a word?) lazy as a very obese pig' ? ;-)

[Karlos]

@odin

That goes for me too, but I still code the things I need. One of my longest ever projects is designed to make coding the things I need even less effort :lol:

[leirbag28]

@karlos

What is GCC and VBCC?    I do not know how to code.

I dont necessarily mean to convert entire DVD movies............just those Movie Traliers form apple.com quicktime section. Or even some small home movies recorded with a DV cam.

The software that will be doing the converting doesnt have to be for the Amiga.it can be for a PC and then one can burn the results to a CD and tranfer it to the Amiga...........I myslef do most of the heavy conversion processes on a PC, and then burn it ffor my Amiga

[Karlos]

@leirbag28

Bzzzzzt. Violation of point (1) : Excuse rejected ;-)

Off Topic, VBCC and GCC are a pair of compilers available for Amiga.

So you only want to convert short sections. That is probably doable.

From a laziness perspective, if you have the PC capable of viewing them in the first place, why the desire to make CDXL versions? Aside from finding / writing a tool to do the job, conversion to CDXL would probably reduce the quality quite a bit. It seems a bit of a wasted effort soley for the benefit of being able to watch it on an amiga.

Speaking of amiga video formats, whatever happened to PowerMovie? That seemed to be something capable of quite decent fullscreen quality.

[odin]

Wasn't Powermovie a very limited/hardware banging/totally-not-multitasking thingy?

[Karlos]

I dunno. I do know it needed AGA and that it undoubtedly bashed the chips. As for non-multitasking, I can't say. I do remember some video sequences made using it that were rather nice though.

[Dan]

The software that will be doing the converting doesnt have to be for the Amiga.it can be for a PC and then one can burn the results to a CD and tranfer it to the Amiga...........I myslef do most of the heavy conversion processes on a PC, and then burn it ffor my Amiga

I don´t think you will be able to find a pc-program that supports CDXL. Maybe ANIM and IFF-sound if your luck :-)

[leirbag28]

@Karlos

Karlos wrote:
From a laziness perspective, if you have the PC capable of viewing them in the first place, why the desire to make CDXL versions? Aside from finding / writing a tool to do the job, conversion to CDXL would probably reduce the quality quite a bit. It seems a bit of a wasted effort soley for the benefit of being able to watch it on an amiga.
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Because I would like to take my Amiga with me on the go, and don't want to have to carry a PC as a dongle just to display small SVI's and Mov's....aside from that, there is just this great pleasure I get from playing it on my Amiga over a PC. Nevertheless it also funny when a PC user wants to see you do something with your Amiga that his PC can do.....and usually Amiga users come up with all kind of excuses as to why they cant do it at the moment........................................for me, I like to have the proof in my hands at will if I can.......................I like to give a good answer to PC users who question me as to why I still use an Amiga over a PC or Mac, even in this day.
 I believe in the Amiga totally, and I use it because its just a darn pleasure to use........I want to have all the power possible in my hands if I am going to use the Amiga as my main computer............this is also why I am trying to find someone who is willing to create an adaptor for the CD32/SX32 that will alow connection of the FMV card as well as giving it a clockport (for USB) and maybe add a gfx card to that same adaptor (i'll settle for just an FMV passthrough) to play VideoCd's.especially since I now have excellent software to convert DVD MPEG2 into Super DUper excellent MPEG1 VideoCD's (better than commercial ones or as good as the best ones).

 I have Kill Bill Vol 1 and 2 in Widescreen on VideoCD and Street Fighter ALpha anime, Back To The Future, and others in seriously good high quality Widescreen VCD...........I currently play them on my othe CD32 with FMV card.

It can still be used by CD32 owners who do not have an FMV card as a passthrough for other peripherals that can be made.............maaybe a DVD decoder! that plays all formats and can even burn!

[Hyperspeed]

Yes, I'll second that leirbag28!

:-D

It's so nice to do as much on Amiga as possible, but I don't have a PC
so it's doubly nice to be able to squeaze as much use out of the
old A1200 as possible.

Fortunately over the years I managed to view the Phantom Menace
trailer on MooVid, then Attack of the Clones trailer on RiVA-GUI.

It would be nice for some sort of movie converter, wonder if Hollywood
can do things like this.

I think MooVID PPC has a DiVX or 3iVX codec but that's all I'm aware
of. Apple have gone haywire with their Quicktime releases and since
then there's WMV etc. to contend with.

There's a basic animation converter on Aminet, AnimConvert I think
it's called but it doesn't support CDXL.

I thought CDXL was a Commodore datatype for use with
Utilities/Multiview anyway!? There was a fantastic CDXL on the Genetic
Species game disc.

But as has been said, a 10mb MPG would probably be a 100mb CDXL.

The urge to expand the CD32 is totally understandable, it's such a
diddy little machine, particularly with the SX-1/SX32 expansions.

Don't see why an FMV can't fit in the hard disk space with a suitably
thin hard disk and some sort of switcher.

:-)

Just for the hell of it, and "Because We Can"...  try loading the CD32
with Fusion/Shapeshifter (with the special Akiko enhanced video
driver) and see how well it plays Quicktimes etc. on MacOS 7.5.5!

;-)