m68k/PPC MPEG-2 video player for Amiga
This is a preliminary release of Frogger - MPEG video player that supports
both MPEG-1 and MPEG-2. It is based on source code from MPEG Software
Simulation Group
with quite some speedwise optimizations by me. Currently
it still is very slow and I guess it will only be of interest to 060/PPC
users.
Although there are other MPEG players available for PowerPC, I suggest that
you try this one - its stream parser is of exceptional quality and I yet
have to find standard-conforming MPEG stream that fails to work with
Frogger. What's more, this player is the only one that works with both PPC and
Picasso96 RTG software.
Frogger plays in a window on Workbench and uses only 8-bit output, which
however is much better looking than that of other MPEG players due to very
well designed palette. Full quality can be only achieved if you have at
least 224 free pens on WB, so please run it on 256 color WB. Frogger uses
WritePixelArray8() call, so AGA users are advised to install some speedup
patch, like Michael van Elst's excellent NewWPA8 from Aminet.
UPDATE
Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz has inherited the source and is currently working on
new versions of Frogger. Here is the link
to his site. You can also
download
1.2.2beta from this server.
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Some things Frogger will support in the future:
- scalable output,
- framerate control and frame dropping
- random-access slider
- and of course MORE SPEED! :)
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