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- Short: MPEG-2 video player (040/60/PPC)
- Author: thorgal@amiga.com.pl
- Uploader: thorgal@amiga.com.pl
- Type: gfx/show
-
- This is a preliminary release of Frogger - MPEG video player that supports
- both MPEG-1 and MPEG-2. It is based on source code from MPEG Software
- Simulation Group with quite some speedwise optimizations by me. Currently
- it still is very slow and I guess it will only be of interest to 060/PPC
- users.
-
- Although there are other MPEG players available for PowerPC, I suggest that
- you try this one - its stream parser is of exceptional quality and I yet
- have to find standard-conforming MPEG stream that fails to work with
- Frogger.
-
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-
- Frogger plays in a window on Workbench and uses only 8-bit output, which
- however is much better looking than that of other MPEG players due to very
- well designed palette. Full quality can be only achieved if you have at
- least 224 free pens on WB, so please run it on 256 color WB. Frogger uses
- WritePixelArray8() call, so AGA users are advised to install some speedup
- patch, like Michael van Elst's excellent NewWPA8 from Aminet.
-
- In the archive you will find two versions - 040 and PPC. I left out 060
- version because speed difference between it and 040 one was unmeasurable.
-
- Usage:
-
- frogger -o4 -b <filename>
-
- and on PPC
-
- runelf frogger.elf -o4 -b <filename>
-
-
- Have fun,
- Milek
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-
- Some things Frogger will support in the future:
-
- - 15/16/24-bit screens,
- - scalable output,
- - video hardware of CV64/3D and CVPPC
- - sound
- - framerate control and frame dropping
- - random-access slider
- - and of course MORE SPEED! :)
-
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-
- Thanks to:
-
- Marcin Orlowski for letting me debug Frogger on his CS PPC (I'm still a
- 060 user :( ).
-
- Steve Krueger for his continued work on SAS/C.
-
-
- ============================= Archive contents =============================
-
- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
- -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- -------------
- 78216 41301 47.1% 08-Jan-98 15:34:36 +frogger.040
- 164842 67103 59.2% 07-Jan-98 19:53:58 +frogger.elf
- 1947 995 48.8% 08-Jan-98 15:25:44 +readme.txt
- -------- ------- ----- --------- --------
- 245005 109399 55.3% 08-Jan-98 21:47:44 3 files
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