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- MPEGIntuition 2.12b
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- by Sauron 1995
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- for MP(1.03) and AMIPeg(0.4)
- (both are available on Aminet)
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- What you can find in that doc. file
- (sorry for not AGuide documentation but.... I'm too lazy)
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- 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
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- 1. What is MPEGIntuition
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- 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.
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- Now something that I have to write :
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- MPEGIntuition is Freeware so you can copy it and do what do you want :)
- Amiga E source is available on my E-Mail address (just send me a mail,
- and I'll see what I can do).
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- All bugs report send also on my E-Mail address or ... PHONE ??????
- (nope better don't do that )
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- 2. Why I decide to write it
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- See paragraph 1 and you will understand why :) (I hope)
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- 3. Requirements
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- - 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
- - ReqTools library , Copy and Delete commands in your C:\ directory
- - A fast computer :)
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- 4. Installation
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- How to install MPEGIntuition ??
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- - 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).
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- - Then you MUST change the default path for anims and MP & Amipeg
- in the icon tooltype.
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- X_WIN & Y_WIN - Top, left corner of the MPEGIntuition window
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- MP_PATH - YOU MUST modify that line. You should type the whole path
- to MP procedure with it's name.
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- AP_PATH - YOU MUST modify that line. You should type the whole path
- to Amipeg procedure with it's name (MPEG_Play)
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- MP_DITHER - start (default) dither type (name only)
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- MP_RAM , MP_NOP , MP_NOB , MP_LOOP - YES/NO bool expressions
- to initial checkbox (look for more information below)
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- MP_ANIMPATH - Directory where you have your's mpeg anims
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- MP_ANIMNAME - Name of the default anim (that means that if you
- run MPEGIntuition and push Start you will see
- that anim :) )
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- 5. Usage
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- How to start ??
- - You just double-click on MPEGIntuition icon and that's it !!!
- (If there is something wrong, see doc : 6. Error report)
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- 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! :]
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- What are the gadgets for ??
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- - As you can see (I hope) there are four main parts of the window
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- 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.
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- 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 )
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- Speed factor Dither name ds amount (higher - better)
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- 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
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- * If you use that dither type, MPInt. will use Amipeg
- program)
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- Gadgets functions
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- Play - Start to play mpeg anim
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- About - Open new window with my address :]
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- 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 ....
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- 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)
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- Loop - Loop play anim (before playing anim program will ask
- you for the number of loops)
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- 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).
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- NOP/NOB- see mp doc !
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- d) Load
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- In that part of the window you can write anim name or use
- ReqTools requester by pushing L button.
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- 6. Error report
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- 1. can't find MP program - check path in mpegintuition icon (there's
- something wrong)
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- 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)
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- 3. unknown dither type ... - you written something wrong in
- the icon (check MP_DITHER for correct
- of dither name !!)
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- 4. Sorry no icon.library - check if you have icon.library in your
- libs: directory. If no , than copy it
- from Workbench disk !!
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- 5. You need to run this program under WB - that's mean that you
- can't run MPEGIntuition from CLI !!
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- 7. Hmmmm ???
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- 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 ???)
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- !!!!!!! Only under 2.12 ver. !!!!!!!!!!! (2.12b is OK now)
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- 8. Special thanks to :
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- Michael van Elst (for his MP)
- AMIPEG creator :)
- Dudi , Unknown (he don't know his nick ???) , Fajfer
- For their testing (Like always - not enough)
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- and Amiga E creators @#)
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