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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Is a real good mpeg player possible on the amiga ?
- Date: 23 Jan 1996 14:34:31 +0100
- Organization: dis-
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- Samuel Devulder <devulder> writes:
-
- >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.
-
- They are that slow because MPEG requires heavy computations.
- Your 68030@40MHz is not enough.
-
- >I'm not an expert, but may be doing some pre-processing on the
- >file (an index to start of frames for example) and only working
- >on luminance values (and skipping the decoding of other color
- >informations) could speed up the thing.
-
- The color information is skipped when you chose a gray display
- mode.
-
- >It would be great if standard amigas could play mpeg anims with
- >a good speed.
-
- Buy Amigas with a P133 and very fast graphics card and you can do
- that...
-
- >computer claims to be a "multimedia" machine, it is a pity that it
- >can't display mpeg in a correct way !
-
- The good way to display MPEG "in a correct way" is an MPEG hardware
- decoder. You just have to buy one.
-
-
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- Michael van Elst
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