Frogger & DivX movies

[Cass]

Well, this was a posting on the news section, but didn't get much attention:

Finally a decent DiVX player for AMiGA!!!
I just installed it and I have some questions:

1. What would be the best parameter settings in order to get the best of the player?

2. If I set NOSKIP, I watch the movie with half its frame rate. If I omit NOSKIP, I get 98% of the frames skipped?!?! Anyway to skip every 2 frames (just to keep viewable the movie)?

It decodes the first frame of the deltaframe, and then jumps to the next deltaframe, skipping all the intermediate frames. Is there anyway to keep the video fluid (prebuffer the deltaframes, and skip every 2nd-3rd movie frame)?


P.S. The config is:
CSPPC 604@150/060@50 WOS 5.1
CV3D P96

This is it. Any expert out there that has watched a DivX movie on an accelerator board (not a 600-800MHz PPC)?


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[KennyR]

I used to try playing divx on my PPC Amiga, but it was a hopeless cause. I just couldn't get the frame rate, no matter what I did. I have an 040/25 with my PPC, though (although the PPC 200 MHz). BlizzPPC memory access is also slower than the CPPC's.

[Ponos2D]

Even my 300MHz BPPC is very slow for DivX

[Cass]

Sounds like we have to move on more powerful machines (I'm planing to buy an AmigaOne when OS4 will be availiable -I'd buy OS4 for my CSPPC also- ), but I'd like to see these nice programs running on my A4000.

P.S.
I mistaken the forum (Hardware instead of Software). If there is any moderator on-line, might be as kind to move it to the right section?
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[redrumloa]

I mistaken the forum (Hardware instead of Software). If there is any moderator on-line, might be as kind to move it to the right section?

ZOINK! :-D

[AxE]

i got about 7fps with noskip on my AGA 060 not bad for 68k  :-)

[Jose]

A CPPC @ 233 with some optimizations at the code level would do the job I think, but there's probably noone anymore with the spare time to do that. Something along the lines of Mepega for audio..

[Jose]

@AxE
Cool, but at what resolution and color  depth?

[Cass]

Thanx redrumloa (the nickname seems to be inspired by the OverLook hotel room).
I was reading a post about hardware issues, and I mistakenly added a thread. :python:

By the way, any CSPPC user willing to test the new frogger?

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[Mad-Matt]

LowRes (vcdres) div3 files playback ok on my weedy bppc 040 603/175.  couldnt get any div5 files to work.

[mindful]

I've heard you need at least 350Mhz..

[KennyR]

A Pegasos eats divx for breakfast, so an A1 should easily handle them.

However, there is a problem. An OS4 compile of frogger is probably unlikely. The PPC versions might not work on OS4, and the 68k version, even with JIT, still might be too slow...

[lempkee]

moovid pro is on  os4 so no prob, also it works in os4beta ppc mode (frogger also) ...faster indeed..

anyway i get about 22 fps on my a1200ppc in frogger 2.07 with a divx clip, with sound but soundquality is ####...reduced it to minimal..

better than nothing i guess..

svcd and low res divx etc works fine..., but still not with fullblown ahi ..

always play em in p96 and 16bit ..

hope this helps..


also as a last addition, i wasnt impressed over pegasos and divx, neither was i impressed over its dvd...BUT! this was on mos1.3 ...mos1.4 might be another thing...
but until then (which is DELAYED)...dont bother.

also kennyR, why wouldnt froggerng work btw? , audio device aint a missing feature on os4, also i never read anywhere that he wouldnt support os4.   show me a link if u know this for sure, or else be quiet,

[poweramiga2002]

Gday too all i get 23 fps on my a1200/603e+210mhz/060/50/grex/voodoo3/3000/128meg ram using scsi drives ive seen my friends comp simular setup just with mideator and soooo slooow anybody else got simular setup as mine? would be interesting to see if they also get good playback as well

[KennyR]

@lempkee

also kennyR, why wouldnt froggerng work btw? , audio device aint a missing feature on os4, also i never read anywhere that he wouldnt support os4. show me a link if u know this for sure, or else be quiet

Because elf (the coder of Frogger) is a MOS developer and is extremely unlikely to be running OS4 any time in the future, so no native compile will appear. OS4 probably won't support WOS and PUP, so OS4 users will probably be stuck with the 68k compile.

This will happen with lots of software. There's no point in getting angry and defensive about it, unless you want to be thought of as yet another fanatic.