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Any way to play video on an A500+?
« on: October 03, 2012, 03:05:14 PM »
Is there any way to play video on an A500+? Is there a need for some sort of graphics card or an accelerator card would be enough?
 

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Re: Any way to play video on an A500+?
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2012, 03:50:41 PM »
Yes you can, but you need a HD or CDROM.
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Re: Any way to play video on an A500+?
« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2012, 03:53:22 PM »
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Is there any way to play video on an A500+? Is there a need for some sort of graphics card or an accelerator card would be enough?
Depends on the format I guess... Anim5 files play very well, H.264 files would probably take a week to decode each frame and then it would be low resolution and limited colour...

-edit- and you would definitely need as much fast ram as you can find!

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Re: Any way to play video on an A500+?
« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2012, 03:56:34 PM »
I'm not an Amiga (HW) user, so I have something off topic in my mind (sorry):

Believe me, I don't hang around in forums much. There are about three forums I sometimes visit and the other two being non amiga related. But, a note: I keep seeing recurring symbolic numbers in users post counts: 911 (yours right about now), 404, 386, 486, 666.
Though I have yet to see a 68000, or ∞ ...
I have spoken !
 

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Re: Any way to play video on an A500+?
« Reply #4 on: October 03, 2012, 04:00:51 PM »
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I'm not an Amiga (HW) user, so I have something off topic in my mind (sorry):

Believe me, I don't hang around in forums much. There are about three forums I sometimes visit and the other two being non amiga related. But, a note: I keep seeing recurring symbolic numbers in users post counts: 911 (yours right about now), 404, 386, 486, 666.
Though I have yet to see a 68000, or ∞ ...
I'm hoping to get to 68,000 posts ;)

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Re: Any way to play video on an A500+?
« Reply #5 on: October 03, 2012, 04:16:43 PM »
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I'm hoping to get to 68,000 posts ;)


I hope you do. Then there will be one to go, who'll be up to that challenge ?
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Re: Any way to play video on an A500+?
« Reply #6 on: October 03, 2012, 05:01:28 PM »
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Re: Any way to play video on an A500+?
« Reply #7 on: October 03, 2012, 07:40:02 PM »
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I'm hoping to get to 68,000 posts ;)

Sweet, I bet your 68,000'th post will be:

"Any news on the laptop?"

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