Holy Smokes! An Amiga program that plays back almost every video format known to man

Pyromania · 19 May 2003, 04:53

http://frogger.rules.pl/features.html

Twistin'Ghost · 19 May 2003, 05:23

Quote:

Originally appearing on the Frogger site
Codecs that will most likely _NEVER_ be supported
· QDesignMusic (QDM2)

Do not ask about those codecs. If you try, you will be shot. Survivors will be shot again.

LOL! What the heck is QDM2?

th4t1guy · 19 May 2003, 06:07

Holy crap! Is this for real? Does it even play these formats at decent speeds?

If I remember right, not even Linux supports Quicktime.

Pyromania · 19 May 2003, 06:40

Quote:

Originally posted by Twistin'Ghost
LOL! What the heck is QDM2?

Must be one of those formats that needs a $5000 license to allow support for. Greedy developers most likley.

19 May 2003, 07:42

Isn't that a map in Quake?

Unknown_K · 19 May 2003, 08:44

Quote:

Originally posted by BustaCap
Isn't that a map in Quake?

Its a codec the new quicktime uses, what chip does a amiga need to decode mpeg2 ( or do you need a ATI card to do it on a towered amiga)?

manicx · 19 May 2003, 12:39

Frogger rocks. I am not sure whether this will be fully licenced to play those formats thought...

Phiber · 20 May 2003, 07:39

hmmh.. PPC needed.. or a 68060.. preferably with highest possible MHz i guess.. in another words..

NOT ON MY MACHINES!

paul_r_t · 30 May 2003, 23:59

Frogger works great on my towered A1200, 68060 50Mhz, 96K ram, with a mediator board and Voodoo 3 card. I have tried various formats (Avi, Mov, Mpeg) and i could play them all at fullscreen with no problem, even in a window stretched to fullscreen (in my case 800 x 600). It uses the Vlayer capability of a graphics cards to allow scaling with no overhead on the CPU, the CPU is used soley for decoding! To answer one question Mpeg (video and audio) is decoded in software and not hardware.

The only problem for people who are going to download frogger is the shareware restriction, it only plays the first 30% of the file. If you want it all you have to register, just under £10 in UK money. There are only two sharware programs i have ever registered 'WHDLoad' and 'Frogger', both of these have had a lot of work put into them and are worth every penny!

Twistin'Ghost · 31 May 2003, 03:28

This definitely sounds like software worth buying (if you have a spec machine that supports it, natch).

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19 May 2003, 06:07	#3
th4t1guy Registered User Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Kansas City, MO, USA Posts: 683	Holy crap! Is this for real? Does it even play these formats at decent speeds? If I remember right, not even Linux supports Quicktime.

19 May 2003, 07:42	#5
BustaCap Posts: n/a	Isn't that a map in Quake?

19 May 2003, 12:39	#7
manicx Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Athens, Greece Posts: 991	Frogger rocks. I am not sure whether this will be fully licenced to play those formats thought...

20 May 2003, 07:39	#8
Phiber Hardware Freak Join Date: May 2002 Location: Helsinki / Finland Age: 50 Posts: 222	hmmh.. PPC needed.. or a 68060.. preferably with highest possible MHz i guess.. in another words.. NOT ON MY MACHINES!

30 May 2003, 23:59	#9
paul_r_t Registered User Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Formby, England Age: 53 Posts: 41	Frogger works great on my towered A1200, 68060 50Mhz, 96K ram, with a mediator board and Voodoo 3 card. I have tried various formats (Avi, Mov, Mpeg) and i could play them all at fullscreen with no problem, even in a window stretched to fullscreen (in my case 800 x 600). It uses the Vlayer capability of a graphics cards to allow scaling with no overhead on the CPU, the CPU is used soley for decoding! To answer one question Mpeg (video and audio) is decoded in software and not hardware. The only problem for people who are going to download frogger is the shareware restriction, it only plays the first 30% of the file. If you want it all you have to register, just under £10 in UK money. There are only two sharware programs i have ever registered 'WHDLoad' and 'Frogger', both of these have had a lot of work put into them and are worth every penny!

31 May 2003, 03:28	#10
Twistin'Ghost Give up the ghost Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: U$A Age: 33 Posts: 4,662	This definitely sounds like software worth buying (if you have a spec machine that supports it, natch).

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