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- From: sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Is a real good mpeg player possible on the amiga ?
- Date: 25 Jan 1996 12:17:49 GMT
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- Niki Hemmings (njh@ukc.ac.uk) wrote:
- : 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.
-
- This remind me that on the PC compcore mpeg player support stereo
- audio track with the video stream. I get ~2.5mpixel in true color with
- audio... (75mhz p5). thats 20time faster then your 50mhz? (you said fast
- 030). So mp would play same as the compcore player if you had a 1000mhz
- 030, or a 300mhz 040 or a 100mhz 060, but without the 2channel 16bit
- audio :) just playing with numbers...
-
- Anyone with a cyberstorm and care to play a 320x240 stream in various
- mode?
-
- Stephan
-