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AmiDog's Movie Player 2 - BETA
(I know the logo must be the world ugliest ASCII art, so please don't remind me)
010618 - NOTES:
This is the first release in quite a while and contains a lot of changes. All
renderers have been completely rewritten and optimized and are somewhat faster.
I've also droped all Cybergraphics fallback code, this means that AMP will fail
if you choose a screen with an unsupported pixelformat. Please let me know which
pixelformats you need support for and I'll try to add them.
The main addition to this release has to be the experimental and preliminary DVD
support, basically all you need to do is to put a DVD in your DVD drive, supply
AMP with the device and unit and use any of the reserved names VCD, CDI or DVD.
AMP will autodetect the CD/DVD you have inserted and act properly. You will first
be presented with the worlds ugliest atempt of a GUI where you will have to select
which title on the DVD to play, AMP will select the largest by default which
usually is the main title. Just close the window when you are done. Then you'll
get another window where you can select audio and subtitle. Again just close the
window when you are done and AMP will start playing. I hope to replace the ugly
GUIs with proper DVD menus at some point, but until I figure out how to do that,
these GUIs will atleast give the most basic functionality.
Please note that there are a lot of things which are unknown (to me) about the
format of the IFO files where the supported audio and subtitle information (among
others) are stored. Thus AMP may not work as expected. Please report any strange
behavior to me and I'll see what I can do. Also note that you need not only a
fast PPC to even bother trying to play a DVD, but also a fast device to connect
the DVD-ROM to. The internal IDE port of the A1200 is NOT recommended since it's
so slow that AMP will use most of its time just reading the data from the DVD.
With a fast 604e and a SCSI DVD-ROM, DVD playback might be possible.
With my 603e and DVD-ROM connected to the internal IDE port, I can not play
DVDs at a descent speed, although I can watch SVCDs (480x480 pixels) in either
gray or 8bit color with synced audio. Ofcourse things will improve with future
optimizations.
Please use the DEBUG option and include the output with every bug report!
010618 - HISTORY (This is a short version of my rather large history file):
* MPEGV decoder optimizations, 13% faster for color and 45% faster for gray.
* New more general and faster C2P routines for AGA playback.
* UDF parsing, DVD authentication, CSS key extraction and CSS decryption added.
* Added autodetection of DVD, CD-i and VCD disks.
* Rewritten and optimized all renderers, small difference for gray, 4-5% for
15/16/32bit and 103% for 8bit (CGFX). 8bit playback on AGA is 34% faster for
fullscreen and 140% faster for half height. All HAM modes are 10%+ faster.
* DVD subtitle decoding has been added and appears to be working correctly.
* Removed FLIC decoder and NOSPEEDHACK option. Renamed SLORES to HALF and added
HIPAL, Hires PAL option.
* Added experimental (non-working) Picasso PiP support (PIP), need to fix this one.
* An unlimited number of AMPs can now be run simultaneous (instead of just one).
* Changed the 15/16/32bit/HAM renderers to use the same fixed point format as with
AMP1 and the AMP2 previews, should give better quality (I hope).
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