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- From: njh@ukc.ac.uk (Niki Hemmings)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Is a real good mpeg player possible on the amiga ?
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 96 15:26:55 GMT
- Organization: University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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- In article <4e2gqu$5ca@caers3.unicaen.fr>, Samuel Devulder <devulder> wrote:
- >It would be great if standard amigas could play mpeg anims with
- >a good speed. I don't think the color is always usefull, working
- >in black&white/grey mode at 20fps is better in my mind than having
- >a pseudo truecolor anim in ham8 at 2fps !!. Further more, if our
- >computer claims to be a "multimedia" machine, it is a pity that it
- >can't display mpeg in a correct way !
-
- If you have mp, try:
-
- mp -dither gray8 <filename>
-
- This will make the player only decode luminance, and display the result
- in 256 grey-scales. The play-back is about twice as fast as full colour
- decoding with mp.
-
- However... I must say, it's very dissapointing that even on a fast
- 68030, 160x128 mpegs still only play at around 10 fps, even in grey-scale
- mode. Particularly when compared to the numerous PC mpeg players, whose
- performance is disproportionately higher than the hardware performance.
-
- Nik.
-