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MPEGIntuition 2.12c
by Sauron 1995
for MP(1.03) and AMIPeg(0.4)
(both are available on Aminet)
What you can find in that doc. file
(sorry for not AGuide documentation but.... I'm too lazy)
1. What is MPEGIntuition
2. Why I decide to write it
3. Requirements
4. Installation
5. Usage
6. Error report
7. Hmmmm ???
8. Special thanks to
1. What is MPEGIntuition
It's a small (but it takes a lot of memory :) ) GUI for MPEG players.
MPEGIntuition is created for MP (Michael Van Elst) and Amipeg (sorry
I lost doc :[ ) to make more easy playing MPEG anims. You need only
to click and done. Without cli commands and two lines long arg. line.
Now something that I have to write :
MPEGIntuition is Freeware so you can copy it and do what do you want :)
I DON'T TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY OF DAMAGED MADE BY THIS PROGRAM
All bugs report send also on my E-Mail address or ... PHONE ??????
(nope better don't do that )
2. Why I decide to write it
See paragraph 1 and you will understand why :) (I hope)
3. Requirements
- To start MPEGIntuition you will need an MP (1.03 ver) of course
and (or) AMIPeg (0.4 ver) (that is MPEG_play command) both
from AMINET
- kickstart 2.0 or higher (I i guess that with GadTools.library
for 1.3 it will work on that system
but i can't check it)
- ReqTools library , Copy and command in your C: directory
- A fast computer :)
4. Installation
How to install MPEGIntuition ??
- You just need to put the MPEGIntuition (and it's icon of course) in one
of your HD directories (You can put it on a floppy disk - if you don't
have a HD, but you should have a lot of memory and use RAM option).
- Then you MUST change the default path for anims and MP & Amipeg
in the icon tooltype.
X_WIN & Y_WIN - Top, left corner of the MPEGIntuition window
MP_PATH - YOU MUST modify that line. You should type the whole path
to MP procedure with it's name.
AP_PATH - YOU MUST modify that line. You should type the whole path
to Amipeg procedure with it's name (MPEG_Play)
MP_DITHER - start (default) dither type (name only)
MP_RAM , MP_NOP , MP_NOB , MP_LOOP - YES/NO bool expressions
to initial checkbox (look for more information below)
MP_ANIMPATH - Directory where you have your's mpeg anims
MP_ANIMNAME - Name of the default anim (that means that if you
run MPEGIntuition and push Start you will see
that anim :) )
5. Usage
How to start ??
- You just double-click on MPEGIntuition icon and that's it !!!
(If there is something wrong, see doc : 6. Error report)
How to use it ??
- If you've used MP before, you won't have any problems to use that
program (excluding RAM options - that's my innovation )
If you are using it for the first time, you should read the entire doc! :]
What are the gadgets for ??
- As you can see (I hope) there are four main parts of the window
a) Information (on the beginning you will se only a lot of 00000000)
X,Y SIZE - width & height of the anim frames (pixel)
TIME - total time spend after initialization (seconds)
Frame/s - informs you about frames rate (frames per second)
Frame/B - size (bytes) of a single frame
Compress - compression rate (not avaiable with Amipeg)
KB - size of the animation in KBytes
Fr. - number of frames in anim (that number is calculated
by MPEGint. so some small differences between MP results and
my program might occur ;)
There can also be some differences between MP & Amipeg results,
because Amipeg doesn't have so many output infos as MP, so MPEGint.
needs to calculate them.
b) Dither (all dither types used in MP procedure + Amipeg)
If you want to know something more about every dither type see
mp103.doc. I can only tell you about speed of that filters.
And so : (the slower one is 1 [ds]) - sorry for no gfx card
results ( i don't have them )
Speed factor Dither name ds amount (higher - better)
2 Gray8 (only AGA) - 6.44 ds
1 Gray - 7.27 ds <--- Fastest
15 HAM8 (only AGA) - 2.32 ds
7 HAM6 - 3.87 ds
4 Color - 4.72 ds
13 2x2 - 2.88 ds
6 MBordered - 4.00 ds
3 Threshold - 6.44 ds
14 Hybrid - 2.69 ds
16 Hybrid2 - 2.06 ds
12 Ordered - 2.90 ds
5 Ordered2 - 4.04 ds
17 FS2 - 1.32 ds
18 FS2 Fast - 1.27 ds
19 FS4 - 1.00 ds <--- Slowest
8 MONO - 3.78 ds
10 AMP-color * - 3.51 ds
9 AMP-ham6 * - 3.72 ds
11 AMP-hiresham * - 2.97 ds
* If you use that dither type, MPInt. will use Amipeg
program)
Gadgets functions
Play - Start to play mpeg anim
About - Open new window with my address :]
Save - Save mpeg anim as iff 24bit pictures (animation
must be specified in a name box before using this
gadget) By some stupid reason save path must be
no longer than 31 letters @:)
When you use that gadget you will need to pick a drawer
where the frames be saved (as IFF ILBM 24 pictures) and
write a pattern of pictures name.
(you can write any name but you HAVE to put unless three
%%% signs - in its place MP will put a number)
For ex. - if you write IFF24.%%% MP will generate frames
like IFF24.001 IFF24.002 IFF24.003 ....
ps. I don't know why but if I write SAVE path longer then
32 chars then MP just crash my Amiga so MPEGIntuition
won't gone do anything in that situation)
Loop - Loop play anim (before playing anim program will ask
you for the number of loops)
RAM - If marked, program will first load anim to ram and then
he will play it (it looks much better because MP & Amipeg
read only a piece of anim after end of loaded sequence,
so you will see (if your machine is fast enough)
some stops without this option).
NOP/NOB- see mp doc !
d) Load
In that part of the window you can write anim name or use
ReqTools requester by pushing L button.
6. Error report
1. can't find MP program - check path in mpegintuition icon (there's
something wrong)
2. can't find Amipeg program - see first error. (IF you don't have
MP program, MPEGint. won't gone run
because it mainly use MP to all options
but without Amipeg you won't be able
only to use AMP_#? filters)
3. unknown dither type ... - you written something wrong in
the icon (check MP_DITHER for correct
of dither name !!)
4. Sorry no icon.library - check if you have icon.library in your
libs: directory. If no , than copy it
from Workbench disk !!
5. You need to run this program under WB - that's mean that you
can't run MPEGIntuition from CLI !!
7. Hmmmm ???
There is something that you can do to speed up playback of MPEG
anim. You need simply to click on the anim SCREEN (not window)
after pressing PLAY button. (it's make different only on non
GFX cards' computer - I guess ???)
!!!!!!! Only under 2.12 ver. !!!!!!!!!!! (2.12b is OK now)
8. Special thanks to :
Michael van Elst (for his MP)
AMIPEG creator :)
Dudi , Unknown (he don't know his nick ???) , Fajfer
For their testing (Like always - not enough)
and Amiga E creators @#)