It's here! It's here! my Vampire2 has arrived!!!!

[kolla]

Am I the only one who's really puzzled by all this effort and excitement

No, you are not alone.

[vince_6]

Am I the only one who's really puzzled by all this effort and excitement, of being able to play a low-res clip encoded in a long obsolete format?

Nop.

[Niding]

Am I the only one who's really puzzled by all this effort and excitement, of being able to play a low-res clip encoded in a long obsolete format?

When was the last time any of you saw MPEG1 encoded video, anywhere?
For me, it was the very early 2000s.

Its one of the ways of evaluating progress in the core development. As the core gets more features, speed and software is tweaked to utilize the core spesifically, its nice for users to see those developments thru other means than benchmarks like Sysinfo.

Nothing really puzzling with that.

[Pat the Cat]

Am I the only one who's really puzzled by all this effort and excitement, of being able to play a low-res clip encoded in a long obsolete format?

Maybe if you had actually tried doing that on a stock Amiga, you might be be a little impressed. Especially an A600. :laugh1:

Pretty sure what I saw 20 years ago was MPG-1, not MPG-2. Big difference in screen resoluition.

[UberFreak]

Its one of the ways of evaluating progress in the core development. As the core gets more features, speed and software is tweaked to utilize the core spesifically, its nice for users to see those developments thru other means than benchmarks like Sysinfo.

I agree, but from all I've read, this video playback effort is specifically targeting (A)MMX instructions, which I dont consider as advancements in the core, as nothing uses them (well, except the updated Riva player).

Don't get me wrong, I'll be getting an A1200 Vampire the second they come out, but I'm absolutely positive I will not start watching low-res MPEG1 videos on my A1200 any time soon

[Thorham]

Maybe if you had actually tried doing that on a stock Amiga, you might be be a little impressed.

Not really: More speed -> more real time codec options. I'd be equally unimpressed by a 1Ghz 68060 decoding a video.

I'm not saying anything about the Vampire board itself, rather that it's no surprise that a card designed to be fast can handle some old codecs very well.

[UberFreak]

Maybe if you had actually tried doing that on a stock Amiga, you might be be a little impressed. Especially an A600. :laugh1:

Pretty sure what I saw 20 years ago was MPG-1, not MPG-2. Big difference in screen resoluition.

I don't find it impressive as I've seen it done in the 90's with a Peggy+ card, on an A4000.
Even then, it was the end of useful life for MPEG1, as MPEG2 started taking over when the DVD format was released in 1997.

As for me, I've been watching MPEG2 encoded 720P and 1080i video since around 2001, then moved to MPEG4/AVC a few years later, around the time HD-DVD and Blu-ray came out.

[SamuraiCrow]

RiVA is just an example code for today's standards.  I think the AMMX extension to the instruction set is better used for datatypes and drivers dealing with repetitive tasks like audio mixing.

Once I get my hands on another Vampire board I will look forward to either replacing AHI or getting a new driver written for the digital audio output on the Gold3 core.

[kolla]

In 2001 for sure. At the time I used my A3000 as a my daily work station in the office, and next to it I had a Linux PC with VMWare that I used to create images for deploying Windows setups. I watched the terrorist attacks on Manhattan live on that Linux PC with VLC, in full screen, MPEG streaming over multicast, RTP/RTSP. And yeah, the A3000 had a Peggy plus as well

[Jeff Jones]

Have a good time with your new Vampire2. I never get boring playing this one.

[NoFastMem]

Nice. I always sorta fancied an A600 for the small footprint, but it seemed daft to bother vs. a stock A1200. Do you still have to switch monitors/inputs for RTG modes?

I saw a vid on YouTube they had unveiling the A500 version where they were talking about building ASICs later with a couple gigahertz clockspeeds. Somehow I find that way more exciting than the PPC stuff.

[kolla]

they were talking about building ASICs later with a couple gigahertz clockspeeds.

Sure.... :laughing:

[NoFastMem]

Sure.... :laughing:

I wasn't performing a feasibility study, just commenting on what I found interesting. Stuff your "LOL".

[SamuraiCrow]

Before the ASIC comes out there will likely be another generation of FPGA boards.

[darksun9210]

so... uh... part 2 has turned up *cough*

https://1drv.ms/i/s!ArUfT_xm4N1vgu1y_dmjHWLniZ0QGw

https://1drv.ms/i/s!ArUfT_xm4N1vgu1x5NnBwsPH3OYaXg

ok, so it's a bit late, and I've not really gotten stuck into it yet. also still wondering how i'm going to get any "big data" into it. the A600 has USB and therefore USB flash drives that I can fill up with whatever. I do have a rapid road USB thing i'm not using on the A4k, but word on the street is it's quite sensitive to getting it right when being plugged in. also. The cat's chewed off the fly lead off the clockport adapter labled "int6". And I don't know either what pin on the CPU this goes to, or what pin on Gary the other end would plug in to... i'm guessing "int6"?

oh, and the little board on top of the vampire is a 32gig "DOM" or Disk On Module. I bought a few thinking I could convert some HP thin clients into full windows media centre machines. well I could, but the disk access speed was awful. so ditched them till now. they fit the wrong way round to work in an A1200 or A600 , but sit pretty on the Vamp500. it's basicly a lump of flash on a 44pin IDE controller. and VERY fast for an A500!