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- From: runee@hai.hiMolde.no (Rune Espeseth)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Is a real good mpeg player possible on the amiga ?
- Date: 24 Jan 1996 16:02:35 GMT
- Organization: Molde College, Department of Computer Science
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- Steve Koren (koren@hpsrk.fc.hp.com) wrote:
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- : Samuel Devulder <devulder> wrote:
-
- : > I've tried mp and mpeg_play, but they are too sloow (even on my
- : > 68030@40Mhz). I think this is due to the fact they come from
- : > unix-world and don't try to use amiga-specific features.
-
- : Or perhaps they are slow because you have a dog-slow CPU. MPEG provides
- : good compression and can be used with low bandwidth input streams, in
- : exchange for which it needs a fair amount of CPU power to play. My
- : 68040 is downright marginal. A 68060/50 may be tolerable, but still not
- : in the P133 class. A 68030 is just not going to cut it here.
-
- : - steve
-
- Maybe when someone gets their finger out and start making an mpeg-player
- that supports cybergraphics (24bit) speeds will start showing.
- (Won't have to do c2p and color-decoding to 8 bit.)
- So, anyone ? :)
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- Regards,
- Rune Espeseth
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