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Re: Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog Updated Posted on 10-May-2014 7:32:54
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Thanks for the feedback.
To be fair I only spent a small amount of time playing with LiveForIt Mplayer. It certainly was far from exhaustive testing!
What I found with the version I am using (from os4depot) is that when I play 720p videos using Composition mode, the videos have weird white blinking squares all around the video being shown when in a window.
This problem does not exist on the cgx_wpa mode, which is why I was using that mode.
When I try to run full screen on either mode, it tries to display it on the 9250 instead of the Radeon HD card and looks really weird, like it doesn't have enough colours or something. Unusable anyway.
One other suggestion from playing around briefly is to allow ".mkv" videos to be searchable from the MPlayer GUI load file dialog box. mkv is not included in the filter and it is frustrating to have to modify the filter every time so I can see .mkv videos to select it - it seems to play them ok. Update: I just found where I can modify this file search in prefs for the GUI.
I wasn't aware there was an update to Liveforit-mplayer on another website - I found the thread on Amigans.net being discussed and from there the link to the update. I will try out the v3 and see if there is any improvement - from the feedback here it looks like there is!
Update: V3 of LiveForIt Mplayer is indeed a big improvement - white boxes are gone now on video playback, although full screen mode still does same behaviour of using 9250 instead of using Radeon HD with the weird colour issue mentioned before.
Catcha, Epsilon
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Re: Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog Updated Posted on 10-May-2014 17:31:28
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Re: Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog Updated Posted on 10-May-2014 18:13:53
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Facing the same problem long ago with various MPlayers, I have a solution! In Prefs/Screens, grab hold of the "Custom: MPlayer Screen" and forcibly promote that sucker. In my case, I force MPlayer to use "Radeon HD 6: 1280 x 800 ARGB" and MPlayer goes to that screen when in fullscreen mode.
In cgx_wpa mode, playing a smaller video (say, 640x480) will play actual size video in a large field of black. Much less black when playing a 1280x720 video, of course.
However, I have noticed in composition mode that even in this scenario with my 1280x800 promoted screen that 640x480 videos fill the vertical dimension of the monitor -- but still on my preferred monitor and graphics card. Don't know why, but this is exactly what I want to happen so no complaints.
Note: This trick does NOT work with DVPlayer. And that's the reason I stopped using DVPlayer even though I registered it. Ideally, all the video players would have a preferences setting within the program to pick screen mode and graphics card. But the workaround works well enough with MPlayer. Last edited by mbrantley on 10-May-2014 at 08:48 PM. Last edited by mbrantley on 10-May-2014 at 08:47 PM. Last edited by mbrantley on 10-May-2014 at 08:46 PM. Last edited by mbrantley on 10-May-2014 at 06:15 PM.
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Re: Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog Updated Posted on 11-May-2014 9:05:34
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Your suggestion worked brilliantly - thanks so much for that. I can now view the videos in full screen using the Composition mode on the Radeon HD screen.
I noted and saw the cgx_wpa mode non scaling video behaviour you mentioned. I understand why you use the Composition mode now - v3 of the LiveForIT Mplayer really should be on os4depot.net.
Thanks again 
Catcha, Epsilon
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Re: Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog Updated Posted on 11-May-2014 14:02:59
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Re: Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog Updated Posted on 11-May-2014 16:43:13
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Re: Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog Updated Posted on 18-May-2014 10:54:25
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| Hi All,
I have written a new blog entry to look at Codebench and Hollywood for AmigaOS4 on the X1000.
I should stress that I am *really* NOT a programmer, so real programmers please don't expect any serious exploration of the features - just some fun playing around with what is currently available to develop with on AmigaOS4.
Link is here:
http://amigax1000.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/codebench-and-hollywood-on-x1000.html
I hope you enjoy it, and for any budding AmigaOS 4 coders please give them a go! 

Catcha, Epsilon
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Re: Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog Updated Posted on 18-May-2014 11:21:46
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| @Epsilon
Thanks! Powerful tools without doubt. I think login is not needed to download OS4 SDK - at least I downloaded some older V53 version without problems. |
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Re: Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog Updated Posted on 18-May-2014 11:26:53
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You are indeed correct - thanks for that. I have updated the entry to remove that bit.
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Re: Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog Updated Posted on 15-Jun-2014 15:05:27
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Re: Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog Updated Posted on 15-Jun-2014 16:20:43
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Once again a great little read. I'm not really much of a programmer neither which is why I went with Hollywood Designer to begin with, I really wish they make Hollywood Game Designer or something, but still glad I got the programs they do show what commercial software could be like on ng amiga just wished we had more. _________________ AmigaNG, YouTube, LeaveReality Studio |
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Re: Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog Updated Posted on 15-Jun-2014 22:11:44
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Re: Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog Updated Posted on 16-Jun-2014 3:11:56
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Just amazing Epsilon... enjoying your blogs so much.
Thank you so much for all your efforts show casing what the Amiga can do...
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Re: Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog Updated Posted on 16-Jun-2014 13:06:56
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Thanks! It is a lot of fun to do the blog entries and I want to try stuff out and show people why the Amiga is still great computer in 2014, particularly running AmigaOS4.1.6 with the latest AmigaOne X1000 system. I am really glad you enjoy it!
@broadblues
It has been fun playing around with your Fractal for Sketchblock software - it is a good product, thanks for writing it!
It also took me back to a much younger age when I was playing around with fractals and watching demos with them on the Amiga 500! 
After playing with Sketchblock, I am now seriously thinking about getting a wacom tablet to play with Sketchblock even more!

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Re: Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog Updated Posted on 30-Jun-2014 14:34:21
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Re: Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog Updated Posted on 30-Jun-2014 14:50:10
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Thank you for your webcams viewer review (including my LittleBrother). It's very detailled.
Could you be kind enough to share the webcams URL that you found yourself ?
I will add them in the readme for future updates. Thank you
PS : I'm aware that duplicating littlebrother icon is not really user friendly, but it saves me long hours of developpment for a not very used program
edit : the ultimate, the most interesting webcam is this one, the Livermore light bulb http://www.centennialbulb.org/ctbulb.jpg
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Re: Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog Updated Posted on 30-Jun-2014 17:58:43
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Thanks for the review of my tool BigSister ... feedback (and donations) are always welcome ... new webcams to share are also well accepted 
Ciao
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Re: Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog Updated Posted on 1-Jul-2014 4:07:56
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Re: Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog Updated Posted on 16-Jul-2014 13:12:11
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Re: Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog Updated Posted on 16-Jul-2014 13:51:58
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Great! :) I'll try on my A1200. I hope it works well enough on AGA.
By the way. I hope someone makes some kind of password encryption library so that other programmers can use it for storing passwords. There are many programs that saves passwords plainly in an env variable or tooltype. |
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