MPEG player.......where?

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3 total messages Started by Alan L.M. Buxey Fri, 19 Apr 1996 14:45

#9301

Author: Alan L.M. Buxey
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 14:45

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Right, we've proven - very convincingly - that the Amiga CAN do
wolf/doom clones (there will soon be enough of them that they come out
ours ears!)...

.....but I can do nothing but cringe in shame when I try to play an MPEG
on my Amiga.

It CRAWLS when compared to a PC with the same CPU power.....why?

why isnt any work being done on this anymore? amipeg seemed to be going
somewhere, but it now seems to have halted..

is it the chunky->planar problem still? if so, then why arent some of
the new c2p algorithms being used??

We have a machine that is CAPABLE of good applications, but those
applications are being ignored... think, multimedia presentation with
loads of MPEGs around (taking up much less space than CDXL's) - ie even
MORE gfx can be used in presentations...

Alan

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Re: MPEG player.......where?

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Author: Michael van Elst
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 19:28

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kcci1@central.susx.ac.uk (Alan L.M. Buxey) writes:

>It CRAWLS when compared to a PC with the same CPU power.....why?

The PC is about 50% faster with "the same CPU power" and "the same
graphics hardware (performancewise)". This is due to c2p and better
coding on the PC decoders.

>is it the chunky->planar problem still?

Never was.

>if so, then why arent some of
>the new c2p algorithms being used??

Because the c2p needs about 10% of the total decoding time. The
best algorithms are maybe twice as fast and the decoding would
speed up by a whopping 5%.

This relation will change when other parts of the decoder run
faster.

Regards,
-- 
                                Michael van Elst

Internet: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de
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Re: World Construction Set V2 Amiga Prerelease now shipping

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Author: Andrej Kastelic
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 04:12

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How much for the Upgrade.... ???
As I just purchased 1 a little while back..

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