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- Short: MPEG player for CyberGfx/AGA V3.10 (68k/PPC)
- Author: Andreas R. Kleinert
- Uploader: info@ar-kleinert.de
- Type: gfx/show
-
- akMPEG Player
-
- - SHAREWARE -
-
- © 1999-2000 by Andreas Ralph Kleinert. All rights reserved.
-
- A PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX PRODUCT.
-
- Needs Kickstart V3.x
- GUI created with StormWizard 2.0
-
- Actively supports PowerPC (TM) via powerUP (TM)
- and ppc.library (or -emulation V0.6b+)
-
-
- Program information
- ===================
- akMPEG is a program that has been designed to play MPEG animations
- on CyberGfx or compatible systems with a 68030 or greater CPU.
- Recommended is at least a 68030-50 or 68040-25 CPU.
-
- There are PPC versions available as well (040+PPC or 060+PPC).
-
- It allows several ways to replay animations:
-
- - in an overlay window on any kind of CyberGfx screen
- (requires cgxvideo.library and a graphics card capable of Overlay)
-
- - in a normal window on any kind of a 16/24 bit deep CyberGfx screen
-
- - on a 16/24 bit deep CyberGfx screen (auto-selection)
-
- - on a 8 bit deep AGA or CyberGfx screen (requires OS 3.1)
-
- Please note, that conventional color 8 bit screen or window displays
- (CyberGfx or AGA) are not supported due to speed reasons
- (the window of the 24 bit player simply will stay empty).
-
-
- Using the juggling-gigs.mpg animation from the Aminet CDs
- (showing Urban Mueller juggling with harddisks) on a
- CyberStormPPC system equipped with 68040-25 and PPC604e-180
- the following results have been achieved with akMPEG 2.60:
-
-
- 800x600 8/16/24 Bit CyberGfx WB Screen (CV64/3D):
- -------------------------------------------------
- mpOV 9.222222 FPS 040-25 (sometimes 9.576923)
- PPCmpOV 62.250000 FPS PPC604e-180 (sometimes 83.000000)
-
- Own screen (24/8 Bit CV64/3D)
- -----------------------------
- mp24sc 5.533333 FPS 040-25 (sometimes 5.659091)
- PPCmp24sc 41.500000 FPS PPC604e-180 (sometimes 49.800000)
-
- mp8sc 10.375000 FPS 040-25 (constantly)
- PPCmp8sc 83.000000 FPS PPC604e-180 (sometimes 124.500000)
-
-
- Display disabled
- ----------------
- If display has been disabled completely,
- the V2.60 values for PPC oszilate between
- 83 and 124.5 FPS (no idea, why) and the
- 68k delivers ~10.4 FPS for Overlay/Gray
- and ~6 FPS for any 24 Bit display.
-
- So, if you have a faster/slower graphics
- card, you may estimate the max. possible FPS
- rate from these values.
-
-
- Basically it shouldn't matter whether the original or the emulation
- ppc.library is being used. I've been extensively using both without
- problems, while the numbers above have been taken with the original.
-
- NOTE: MPEG files with audio part are not supported - yet.
-
- There's MPEG-1 (ISO/IEC IS 11172-2) video bitstreams and
- MPEG-2 ISO/IEC DIS 13818-2.
-
- Currently the player only supports video streams without audio parts,
- thus no "MPEG system" animations.
-
-
- Usage
- =====
- The GUI is quite self-explaining:
-
- - PPC support can be switched on or off (when available)
- - B- and P-Frames may be skipped (default is "do not skip")
- - looping is possible (default is "only play once")
- - 16 bit overlay, 24 bit window, 24 bit screen
- and 8 bit screen (gray) display is possible
-
- The MPEG players are external programs, that are run
- asynchroneously. So it is possible to play more than
- one animation at once. Or utilize PPC and 68k at the same
- time. However, it is not possible to open more than one
- overlay window at once (all except the first one will
- show "Please wait..." until the resources again are free).
-
- One may also start the external player tools from Shell
- (PPC version is named similarily, with "PPC" as prefix).
-
- The syntax can be requested by starting with "?" as the only
- parameter. It's the same for both programs:
-
- akmp [-display=(ov|24|24sc|8sc)] [-nop -nob]
- [-pubscr=pubscreenname] [-loop] anim.mpg
-
- Replay can be aborted via the player windows' close-gadget
- - the gadget is present in the on-screen replay modes as well,
- although it may not be visible there (click at upper left corner).
-
- Unless "loop" is specified, the animation only will be played once.
- With "loop", it will be played "endless" (well, until someone hits
- the close-gadget).
-
- Example display parameters for different replay modes:
-
- (PPC)akmp -display=ov anim.mpg Overlay
- (PPC)akmp -display=24 anim.mp 16/24 Bit Window
- (PPC)akmp -display=24sc anim.mpg 16/24 Bit Screen
- (PPC)akmp -display=8sc anim.mpg 8 Bit grayscale Screen (requires OS 3.1 !)
-
- Unless specified otherwise, "ov" is the default setting for display.
-
- That's it :-)
-
-
- Tooltypes
- ---------
-
- DEF_DIR default directory
- PUBSCR_OV public screen name for overlay window display (mpOV)
- PUBSCR_24 public screen name for 16/24 bit window display (mp24)
-
-
- Overlay Support
- ---------------
- With an installed cgxvideo.library you can make use of the overlay
- feature of any graphics cards that supports overlay (through this
- library, that is).
-
- The CV64/3D supports video overlay, unless the driver's MULTIMEDIAMEM
- setting has been changed, so that the 1 MB of texture/overlay memory
- is being utilized for conventional display. One overlay "window"
- at a time is possible.
-
- With the BVision/PPC (which perhaps also applies to the CyberVision/PPC)
- it has been reported, that adding the tooltype VLAYER=DESTRUCTIVE
- to the BVision Monitor Driver will enable overlay support through
- cgxvideo.library, at least with CyberGraphX V4.1 (the commercial release).
-
- It's highly recommended to make use of overlay when available, since
- it will allow for fastest and smoothest replay on your respective card.
-
-
- Evaluation Restrictions
- =======================
- This is the evaluation version of akMPEG, which is SHAREWARE.
-
- - in the unregistered version, MPEGs show vertical stripes
- when being replayed (except with the grayscale player)
- - registered version shows filename instead of Copyright
-
- MPEGs with black vertical stripes may look "darkened"
- compared to normal replay (I'd assume that's an optical effect).
-
-
- Copyright and Distribution
- ==========================
- See program archive for copyright and distribution information.
-
-
- ============================= Archive contents =============================
-
- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
- -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- -------------
- 80316 33565 58.2% 24-Jul-00 09:13:52 +akmp
- 1233 820 33.4% 27-Sep-99 12:37:32 +Help.info
- 1233 757 38.6% 19-Aug-99 18:14:24 +english.info
- 23310 9418 59.5% 24-Jul-00 09:14:50 +akMPEG.guide
- 915 530 42.0% 19-Aug-99 18:14:24 +akMPEG.guide.info
- 9086 3034 66.6% 02-Dec-99 19:51:14 +Commercial_1
- 5965 2368 60.3% 21-Mar-00 12:34:24 +Discount
- 883 454 48.5% 19-Aug-99 18:14:24 +Discount.info
- 2359 920 61.0% 12-Sep-99 15:30:46 +Register
- 883 454 48.5% 19-Aug-99 18:14:24 +Register.info
- 4737 1877 60.3% 20-Mar-00 18:23:18 +RegNet-Offers
- 890 463 47.9% 19-Aug-99 18:14:26 +RegNet-Offers.info
- 1246 575 53.8% 19-Aug-99 18:26:32 +Install_akMPEG
- 1906 1040 45.4% 27-Sep-99 12:37:32 +Install_akMPEG.info
- 16648 7249 56.4% 27-Nov-99 17:46:48 +MPGUI
- 3241 504 84.4% 27-Sep-99 12:38:18 +MPGUI.info
- 7176 1803 74.8% 29-Nov-99 18:33:08 +MPGUI_gui.wizard
- 165732 60298 63.6% 24-Jul-00 09:14:16 +PPCakmp
- 1233 732 40.6% 27-Sep-99 12:37:24 akMPEG.info
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- 328992 126861 61.4% 26-Jul-100 04:26:12 19 files
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