audio/video codec and player for the A1200 (020)

[tom_a_spar]

Are there any audio/video codecs playable on an a1200 (020)?

[Piru]

Out of video, perhaps these (depending on resolution):
IFF ANIM
IFF YAFA
FLI

Out of audio: Any uncompressed audio, such as IFF 8SVX or RIFF WAVE.

Anything else you can pretty much forget.

[humppa]

If you would like to play MP3s, the best would be to get a MAS-Player (http://mp3.mas-player.de/) (German), a parallel port device (integrated decoding chip) that can even be used on a bare A600/A1200 to play MP3s .

[tom_a_spar]

so what are the limitions for each format
IFF ANIM?
IFF YAFA?
FLI?

do any of them support 16bit color?

[keropi]

16bit color? AGA? :crazy:

[tom_a_spar]

keropi wrote:
16bit color? AGA? :crazy:

one of the HAM mode?

[Oli_hd]

one of the HAM mode?

You could look at CDXL, its not a great format to convert to but playback at half screen is do-able on an A1200-020 with a harddrive or CD-Rom.

The Anim format can also do HAM, there are mpegtoanim converters on aminet.

[Waran]

Amigas with the OCS/ECS chipsets support up to 6 bitplanes, which limits the number of colors to 64. The HAM-6 mode, based on a 16 color palette, is able to display 4096 colors (12 bit).

Amigas with the AGA chipset support 8 bitplanes or 256 colors and feature an upgraded HAM-8 mode. This mode uses 64 base colors and offers a maximum of 262,144 colors (18 bit).

The maximal frame rate depends on the screen mode you choose: 60 fps for NTSC, 50 fps for PAL. If you use Interlace mode the frame rate is halved.

The ANIM format uses a loss-less compression technique. This is best if you have e.g. static backgrounds and not too much moving objects in the foreground. If you have a lot of camera movement, color changes or noise the file size will blow up very quickly.

With programms like AnimatEd or AnimFX you can enhance animations with sound.

The CDXL format was originally designed for the Amiga CDTV with a 68000 cpu and a DoubleSpeed CD drive. It plays video / audio streams with a maximal bit rate of 150 Kb per second (max. 4096 colors). The best you can do is about 160 x 100 pixles in HAM-6 with 11,025 Hz 8 bit Mono and 12 frames per second.

I hope this informations are usefull for you.

[buzz]

For the a1200 I would recommend something like yafa over CDXL. It also supports ham6/ham8 rendering. You can also synchronise anims/video with Protracker modules or 8svx samples

[tom_a_spar]

I am looking at doing both screeen capture (winUAE/real amiga)
and video camera recording with sound

can you give me a link for more information about yafa?
viewers/players/converters, etc?

[InTheSand]

Waran wrote:
The CDXL format was originally designed for the Amiga CDTV with a 68000 cpu and a DoubleSpeed CD drive. It plays video / audio streams with a maximal bit rate of 150 Kb per second (max. 4096 colors). The best you can do is about 160 x 100 pixles in HAM-6 with 11,025 Hz 8 bit Mono and 12 frames per second.

This was updated for the CD32, with higher resolution and the ability to have stereo sound. Unfortunately, I don't have any exact specs for its capabilities.

- Ali

[Waran]

Detailed descriptions for the YAFA animation format you can find here (http://www.aminet.net/search.php?query=YAFA-doc.lha).

This package (http://www.aminet.net/search.php?name=YAFA.lha&path=gfx/misc) includes the animation converter Wildfire v1.08 and the YAFA player YP v0.78. Wildfire enables you to convert between YAFA, ANIM-5, ANIM-7S, ANIM-7L and IFF pictures.

The updated version of the YAFA anim player YP v1.02 you can get here (http://www.aminet.net/search.php?name=yp.lha&path=gfx/show).

CyberYAFA (http://www.aminet.net/search.php?query=cyberyafa.lha) is a YAFA player for the CyberGfx board.

[tom_a_spar]

I have read of the readme file
and it looks like it needs OS 3.9?
am I correct?
I am looking at OS 3.1 software