Frogger & DivX movies

[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.

[lempkee]

kennyr: ok thanx for the info.
(i answered like i interpreted your statement)
(also, wos and pup is not banned in os4...)

[Mad-Matt]

well thank goodness for cross compilers, should be just as easy to make for aos4 as it is for wos pup under mos, besides there should be some degree os wos compatability in aos4 since thats what current aos ppc software uses.

And when os4 is running on peoples machince mos wont be neededd anymore, its dont its job now and soon wont be required as all miggy users will soon be back to running amigaos on their ppc system (exept for those few with a pegasos

[lempkee]

madmatt:indeed...but what we want now is Mplayer from linux , beats everything i have seen so far....and its free.

[carls]

@lempkee
Obviously, you haven't tried VLC :-)
Seems to be a very portable player - it's available for Win32, Linux, BeOS and MacOS X. It handles every format I've thrown at it although I haven't tried WMV yet. Let's just keep our fingers crossed for an AmigaOS/MorphOS port.

http://www.videolan.org

[KennyR]

I have to agree with lempkee - mplayer is a great player. A port of this would be great for any platform.

[GPT]

How come that Softcinema can play a Divx movie (64x*3xx) at decent frame rate but frogger just jumping around (like a frog ;-) ).

Any good answer?

And it's not the codecs that's slow, I tryed to use the codecs from frogger with Softcinema and it worked at the same speed.

[Cass]

The whole point was if there was any chance of making it work on a standard accel. board by optimizing it's code:

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)?

But I think there isn't any free time to dedicate on such matters ("If you can't optimize, buy a faster CPU" ;-) ). Afterall the whole thing is probably hidden in the codecs.
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