@Deniil

I don't think that there are such hybrid memory cards as you wrote it. However mine has on-board 128 MB, and as you see my previous post I found where it losts a significant amount of memory by a unproperly created desktop theme.

At last the problem is solved :)

It was a desktop theme from OS4depot which used insanely large (1280x1022) images for window titlebars. After I cropped the images more than 50MB of video ram is freed.

Maybe Workbench shouldn't allocate and store image parts that hangs out the viewable area.

The concerned theme is: DeathCon desktop theme

@nubechecorre

There is 56MB free gfx mem if compositing is disabled in gui prefs. So it is 64 MB total.

Hi!

My system has a 128MB Radeon 9250. Booting from the install cd it shows the full memory on workbench titlebar.
On my recently installed system seems to only handles 64MB of video RAM, however Ranger 1.45 tells me that the card has 128MB.

Of course nothing which needs more video ram runs correctly.
What can I do?

OS4.1 update 2
Pegasos 2

I remember that there was some posts in this subject before, but can't find it.

@carvedeye

For example:

Logitech Precision is an USB digital joypad (similar to PS1 joypads). It works for C64 and classic Amiga emulation, and can be fully configured as a lowlevel.library joypad.

Genius MaxFighter F-16U USB analog joystick. Works too with amigainput.

@kas1e

I doubt that it will worth the effort. It is quite dated and in that form it works. Here is what I found in the context of DynaCADD authors:

Quote:

Several years ago I bought a hungarian DynaCADD user guide in a promotion which contained the software itself for any platform. It's a 500+ detailed book. I never used it seriously but I think it has decent 2D drawing capabilities.

@328gts

DynaCADD seems to be working fine on OS4.

@freddix

Around 1995 there was an agreement around AmosPro between Francis Lionet and an italian guy named Pietro Ghizzoni. Pietro got the full sources of the latest AmosPro and he made a great job to make some changes in it to create a more system friendly Amos system/compiler.

He continued supporting Amos with his GUI extension, but at one point he realized that to move it further he should rewrite the code from scratch.
After I was turned to be an OS4 user I was less and less interested in Amos and losted contact with Pietro. His last mail address that I knew was: ilghizzo at yahoo dot it, but that was in 2006.

If you can contact with him please pm me. There is a tough problem with Amos on G4 cpus which could be fixed with the source.

@Varthall

Quote:

Thousands of Thanks! It is working now and much importantly creates videos that my doughter can play on her mp4 mplayer.
She is impressed too, how helpful this community can be!

So for the record:
With the help of Varthalls's mencoder port you can convert videos for ROCKCHIP based mp4 players. OS4 recognizes it as ROCKCHIP mass storage device. It has strict requirements for the video format.
The commandline:

mencoder -noodml INPUT.avi -of avi -o OUTPUT.avi -ofps 20 -vf-add scale=320:-2,expand=320:240 -srate 44100 -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=400:max_bframes=0:quant_type=s16le -oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=mp2:abitrate=128

@amigadad

Quote:

Try that when Tunenet is in SkinFX display mode.
Tell us what happens!

@freddix

Just a rough tought, and obviously off topic.

It seems for me that old joystick handling could be a good use for SAM's FPGA if it would be technically viable.

@Varthall

Thanks in advance! It would be great if it can run with the mentioned options.

@ktadd

Thanks for your suggestions. FFMPEG Gui is a really neat tool that I use occassionally, however I failed to create a video with it that the Rockchip based mp4 player can eat.

Mencoder fails with the following parameters. This should create a compatible video file for my doughter's mp4 player. These parameters are found on a linux page. Is our mencoder too old for that option?

10.Tool:Video/MEncoder_1.0rc2> mencoder -noodml Bigdisk:Angij?/MC2.avi -of avi -o ram:OUTPUT.avi -ofps 15 -vf-add scale=-2:128,crop=160:128:30:0 -srate 44100 -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=400:max_bframes=0:quant_type=h263 -oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=mp2:abitrate=96
MEncoder 1.0rc2-4.0.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: PowerPC
get_path("config") problem
-xvidencopts is not an MEncoder option

Exiting... (error parsing command line)

@freddix

The same is happening here sometimes.

Bye!

@corto

Your optimized 0.72 version runs very well here. The 10% speed gain makes every emulated game much better. Nice work!

However there is a common problem in some games which the original 0.72 port doesn't have. The pointer trashes the background on moving.
That can be seen in example in the following games:
- Operation Stealth
- Stonekeep
- X-Wing
- Fatty Bear

(dl location sent by PM)

@MH2

Quote:

It doesn't work for me.
If it is close by the window close gadget, then the message is something like cannot seek in stream.
If closed by ctrl+c the:
>Exiting... (Quit)
>read error:: Bad file number
>pre-header read failedn

ctr+alt+q is not a known combo here : "No bind found for key '0x9c '. "

@afxgroup

Thanks in advance!

Anyway, could somebody else confirm that bug on his/her system?

Hi!

Using the april 1 version of Mplayer I found that it do not exit when playing streaming videos.
The last meassage is the following:

> MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: key_events
>
> Exiting... (Quit)
> read error:: Bad file number
> pre-header read failed

The window of the video is closed, but the process is still there as c:status reports it and the allocated memory is certainly captured:
7.Workbench:> status
Process 6: Loaded as command: mplayer
Process 7: Loaded as command: status
7.Workbench:>

It happens on my micro and on the peg2 too. Could somebody confirm that it happens on every system?

Here is the full output of the event:
6.Workbench:> MPLAYER:
6.Tool:MPlayer> stack 150000
6.Tool:MPlayer> mplayer mms://vipnrj.yacast.net/nrj_tvhit
Warning unknown option a52volume at line 19
MPlayer SVN-r29068-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
131 audio & 273 video codecs
Menu initialized: /progdir/conf/menu.conf

Playing mms://vipnrj.yacast.net/nrj_tvhit.
STREAM_ASF, URL: mms://vipnrj.yacast.net/nrj_tvhit
Resolving vipnrj.yacast.net for AF_INET...
Connecting to server vipnrj.yacast.net[213.205.99.101]: 1755...
Connected
unknown object
file object, packet length = 8000 (8000)
unknown object
stream object, stream ID: 1
stream object, stream ID: 2
unknown object
unknown object
data object
mmst packet_length = 8000
Cache size set to 64 KBytes
Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes)
ASF file format detected.
[asfheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
[asfheader] Video stream found, -vid 2
VIDEO: [WMV3] 640x360 24bpp 1000.000 fps 700.0 kbps (85.4 kbyte/s)
VO: [p96_pip]
Opening video filter: [screenshot]
==========================================================================
Requested video codec family [wmv9dmo] (vfm=dmo) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Requested video codec family [wmvdmo] (vfm=dmo) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
[wmv3 @ 0x6a6d1648]Extra data: 8 bits left, value: 0
Selected video codec: [ffwmv3] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg WMV3/WMV9)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16be, 64.0 kbit/4.54% (ratio: 8005->176400)
Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg))
==========================================================================
[AO SDL] Samplerate: 44100Hz Channels: Stereo Format s16be
AO: [sdl] 44100Hz 2ch s16be (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 640 x 360 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
[swscaler @ 0x6a774280]No accelerated colorspace conversion found.
[swscaler @ 0x6a774280]using unscaled yuv420p -> rgb24 special converter
VO: [p96_pip] 640x360 => 640x360 Planar YV12
[wmv3 @ 0x6a6d1648]Bits overconsumption: 15456 > 15328 at 16x17
[wmv3 @ 0x6a6d1648]concealing 223 DC, 223 AC, 223 MV errors
[wmv3 @ 0x6a6d1648]Bits overconsumption: 6364 > 6352 at 2x5
[wmv3 @ 0x6a6d1648]concealing 717 DC, 717 AC, 717 MV errors


MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: key_events

Exiting... (Quit)
read error:: Bad file number
pre-header read failed

@jbni

You need this:

http://www.os4depot.net/index.php?fun ... utility/print/lpr_dev.lha

Please give us feedback, how does it work with OS4!

Bye!