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Short: Ultimate MPEG video player (PPC v1.5)
Author: Miloslaw Smyk, Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz, Przemyslaw Gruchala
Uploader: Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz <bjsebo@jota.wi.tuniv.szczecin.pl>
Type: gfx/show
Www: http://jota.wi.tuniv.szczecin.pl/~bjsebo/Frogger/
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Frogger is the ultimate MPEG video player, with MPEG-2 layer support.
Frogger was oryginally relased by Miloslaw Smyk (thorgal@wfmh.org.pl),
recently, the development has been taken over by Sebasian Jedruszkiewicz
(bjsebo@jota.wi.tuniv.szczecin.pl) Additional programming was made
by Przemyslaw Gruchala.
Changes in this release
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v1.5
- Added direct VideoCD support!!! (only in PPC version).
- There is new mailing list, dedicated to all our programs
(including Frogger,VisionFX and SoftCinema). To subscribe
send blank message to: tvision-subscribe@egroups.com and
then follow the instructions.
- Fixed an ugly bug in P96 dislay code.
- Removed BUFSIZE,FORCEAUDIO and AUTOEXIT parametters.
- New parametter: FASTDIRECTCGFX. It will speed direct video memory
access routines, but may be dangerous. I have not got single crash
when using this option, but who knows? If there will be no problems
with it repoted by users, this option will be enabled by default.
- Fixed (at least I hope so) bug which caused Frogger to lock at
end of some movies.
- Reworked main loop, simplified messages received code. Also I have
added some new keyboard commands.
- Fixed slider code. It now 'almost' works, with sound disabled. Also
Pause/Play now works.
- +/- keys can now be used also in windowed mode to scale display.
- switched to faster IDCT code in 68k version. Applied the same
changes in PPC version. IDCT code is about 10% faster now, But it
gives only 2-5% overall speedup.
- Replaced calls to WritePixelArray with my own fast direct routines.
Also scaling is now done by CPU; ScalePixelArray calls has been
removed. Windowed mode is now really fast.
- Added support for every possible pixel format supported by cybergfx.
However, I have tested only some of them. in case of problems, please
use VERBOSE option, send me output and (if it is possible) make me a
screenshot. Almost forgot - there is no conversion for 8bpp cgfx
screens. But who needs it? However, 8bpp mode works in grey.
Of course 8bpp mode works on AGA machines.
- Updated Speed section of the guide.
- Switched back to old pll calculation code. Frogger now needs latest
ppc.library emulation (v0.7c) if you working under WOS.
- version string is now y2k compatible ;)
- It was impossible to exit (in some movies), when LOOP was used.
Fixed.
- Again I had to fix main loop, to be able to read multiple video sequences
movies. It now works ok. Thanks must go to Miroslaw Bagrowski, for
sending me CD with such a movie.
- Changed filename format for saving iff images. it now looks like this:
basename.x, where x is frame number (6 digits: 000001,000002,etc.).
Please refer to guide inside archive for more info.
Changes in this release: