@Maijestro

Keep up the great work!! Many Thanks!!

Great YT video. Would be good to be able to watch it in full res. ;D

It's good to see you have streaming working! That's one of my
biggest uses of MPlayer. Have you tried/gotten seeking working
in YT streams too?

I'm also interested in seeing the full ARexx command set being
supported. It's an Amiga thing. ;D

Otherwise I hope your new version also fixes some of the bugs on
the current public version:

- prematurely ending streaming videos
- sometimes loosing audio midway through a streaming video
- huge CPU hit, proportional to the video, length before play

I hit your paypal account. I hope it helps pay for lotsa
Pizza and Bier during your hacking!

Again, many thanks for your work on Amiga OS.

PJS

@Kirirur

re: Browsers - unfortunately that's a weak spot now on OS4, and
I guess most of the alternate world.

I use IBrowse 3 (OS4 native) most of the time on my OS4
machines. Netsurf is also a good option. Odyssey can do more
HTML5 stuff, but it's behind on all the javascript & security
demands and is generally unrealiable, so you see a lot of blank
pages & crashes.

There are a few other efforts to try to get a more modern
browser to the Amiga, but so far they are all still in the
works. Remember... Patience!!

OTOH, I have to say that a lot of general purpose, non-spyware
sites do seem to work for me in IBrowse even if the page layout
is kinda messed up. It's almost like having a backdoor into the
web.

Of course, using IBrowse also provides the accessibility of an
Amiga app... macros & helpers... being able to get to
contents, play videos, etc. But I'm partial to that. ;D

Good luck with your travels!

PJS

@Kirirur

Welcome to the nut house!

;D

I'm sorry you don't have any hardware to run AmigaOS - let
alone OS4 on.

It's great to run the classic and live in the past, but we could
always use more soldiers on the front lines trying to move
AmigaOS into the future! ;)

Maybe Hyperion will finally make some progress on getting you a
Mirari with OS4 on it??

Otherwise, patience is a lesson to learn in the Amiga world...
Two more weeks!!

;D

PJS

tekmage,

Maybe a field should allow for more information about AI's
involvement? Was code written by AI? Was AI consulted?
Is all the code human? etc. It's just a 1/0.

Thanks,

PJS

Hi guys,

A couple suggestions...

How about an HEIF image datatype?

In a parallel path, it would also be cool to see updates to
the XAD drivers.... Like on the ZIP dearchiver.

So many projects!

;D

Thanks guys!

PJS

Hi guys,

Sorry... late catching up with this thread... Cool Stuff!

regarding datatypes vs. HTML for the MarkDown data - It seems
like making a datatype would efficiently allow for any dev to
incorporate that in a proper program to see the resuls while
still maybe being able to edit the file on the fly. Of course
that gets into the question of file locking, etc etc.

Extending existing datatypes or creating other ones sounds
great!

These were always intended to be modular - whether done by or
with a bot or by craftsmanship.

Have at it!

Thanks guys!

PJS

@Maijestro

Fantastic work! Thank you very much for your efforts!
High hopes!

I was wondering the same thing Joerg asked...

Rather than trying to shoehorn FFmprg into MPlayer, would there
have been a path with FFPlay?

Is it possible a newer version fixes some of the deficiencies of
the one we have now or could the missing things (https, OSD,
ARexx port, etc) been added?

Just food for thought or maybe a later project....

THANKS AGAIN!

PJS

@AmigaOldskooler

Another Thanks for the round up!

It's funny how you always capture things I missed in the month.

Thanks too, obviously, to all the people working on these things
for our Amigas!

PJS

@skynet

Hi skynet,

I'm curious - you're backing up what from where to where?

It sounds like you are mixing up CLI scripts with ARexx scripts.

In my experience, anytime I start needing to be building
requesters (requestchoice, requeststring, etc), keeping track of
data and interacting with the a user, then it almost always is
better to just write the whole thing in ARexx.

Call any command line things using "address command +LINE"
and read/deal with any redirected output or errors from within
the ARexx script.

Maybe it would be better to describe more exactly what you are
trying to do?

Thanks,

PJS

@icbrkr

Another stable NG machine (XE, 440, 460, X1K, X5K) user here...

My suggestion would be: make a backup of your SYS: to a USB
drive and then start over... Something is quite amiss...

Put in your AmigaOS4 install CD (your machine should have come
with one) and do a clean install of the OS to your boot
partition.

The tricky bit is always the gfx card driver - assuming you
were able to boot and use the CD, before rebooting, make sure
to copy your gfx card driver files to your system.

From there it is the old chore of rebuilding your system.

First, do all the OS updates you get from AmiUpdate and the
updates on Hyperion's site (assuming you've registered your
OS serial number).

Then you go about configuring and adding everything the way you
want.

As others have said in the thread, beware of the half-baked
MattyOS ("Enhancer") things and install only VERY selectively.

There is no way his mercenary coding crew knew how to replace
components reflecting 40 years of AmigaOS coding experience.

Good luck!!

PJS

**LOL**

I find logging into Amigans while only using IBrowse on a real
Amiga, I have never ever once encountered such issues...

Maybe you should try it???

Of course, were AmigaOS ever get a VPN SANA driver (AHEM), to
be able to properly run on a laptop or cell[phone, I suppose
this all could get stickier.

...or walkero could just add a test for whether the browser
was IBrowse, HTML4 and/or didn't have an AI helper bot.

:D

PJS

@msteed @ktadd @nbache

I have to third the comment on the VideoClipper user interface.
I also downloaded and tried a number of versions out and had a
hard time making heads or tails of how to make it work.

Just like with FFMpegGUI, it seems like there's a *TON* of
ffmeg's powers being offered in all the buttons, sliders, tabs
and all. Clearly a *TON* of work had gone into making both
programs.

But I couldn't see a clear path through the forest. As you
mentioned, @msteed, it felt like if I devoted a lot more time &
effort to figuring out the terminolgy, the sequence of actions
needed, what is where, etc, etc. I could be put to good use.
I just haven't gotten there.

Even more documentation and tutorials could help all this, but I
also wonder if a GUI redesign would most effectively open
VideoClipper to a lot more people. From my experience, people
just do not read (more than 160 chars?)...

:/

...and then all you guys talk about having less time in
retirement!! That's not discouraging at all!!

;D

Sorry, @ktadd, one of these days (before I retire??) I need to
spend more time with VideoClipper to give it the appreciation
it seems to deserve.

Thanks,

PJS

@sailor

FWIW, mt XE boots, it's just not seeing the drive that is on my
SATA card (my usual boot drive). Therein lies my interest in
a more intelligent uBoot version.

But I wonder about the following posts regarding gfx cards...

I started with a 7000 and moved to a 9250 (IIRC) that was great
exccept for its weak immunity to thunderstorms. So I had to go
back to the 7000. :/

I've looked for an upgrade gfx card... But there are different
levels of AGP and I was always fearful of getting an AGP card
that might be incompatible.

Is that an issue? Would an 8x AGP card fry my ole XE? Are AGP
cards backwards compatible even if they don't explicitly say so?

Of course there's also the various recent efforts to run newer
cards via various Rube Goldberg bus interfaces... Has any ever
really worked?

Anyway, these are my XE thoughts.. Aside from trying to find
more Miggy time....

Thanks,

PJS

@all

...a slight aside (I think)...

I happened to fire up my G4-XE last weekend to test a few
things and I suspect the month (year+?) being off probably lost
its uboot vars.

So it's just the chore of finding my old (PS2?) compatible
keyboard and resetting everything.

It makes me wonder: is there any way we could get the uboot
updated for the XE machines??

I believe the Friedens were the keepers of XE's uboot (I could
easilly be wrong). Does that mean Trevor has its source now?

ACube has done a more than honorable job of keeping up the
uboots on the SAMs. Could they be enlisted to make a paid for
XE uboot upgrade from those sources?

At the very least it would great to have automatic drive
recognition. I can't remember all the other shortcomings of
the old XE uboot.

Thoughts?

Thanks,

PJS

Interesting topic.

Like you said, there are obvious core OS things we would all
enjoy...

- memory protection
- SMP
- how about a native port to X86 or ARM?

But I really think the biggest bang for our collective bucks
would be to get ahead on the browser front.

Getting to where wayfarer is would be a start... Getting to
where Walkero was trying to go (before getting Weaseled)
would have been even better.

All in all, we're so dependent on the web these days, without
a better (if slow) browser situation, most everything else is
moot, IMHO.

It would be nice if it didn't have to involve rolling over for
goggles or getting a weasel oil bath.

Worried...

PJS

I'm hitting roadblocks when I try all the spoofing things I
can think of with the latest IB beta.

Unfortunately, this is just ANOTHER example of how goggles is
simply and utterly anti-user.

It does not serve their spy on and monetize every last
thought/action model of business to allow a simple browser
just pose a question and get an answer.

Obviously we have a few other browsers to use and DuckDuckGo
has been mostly up to the task as my primary Ibrowse search
engine.

Good luck,

PJS

It's been a while, saw this thread and was wondering...

Is there some information that's needed? serial dumps that
could be collected? Anything???

Sacrifice an actual crapple????

...to see if we could get access through virtual ethernet
working or reliable access to a "Shared directory" on Amiga OS4?

I am also wondering how Basilisk emulates the 68K and whether
it could benefit from any of the work that has been done on 68K
JITs for UAE.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

PJS

@walkero

THANK YOU VERY MUCH for all your development work!! I always
look forward to the next things you are cooking up!!

but...

For your next project, could you develop a server backend for
webpages with donation links AND download buttons that will
work in at least one Amiga webrowser?

Maybe there could be a DevPages section of Amigans where devs
could have project pages to post ideas, news, downloads and
all...

If I have to use loonix to download an Amiga program that
will just give me nightmares I doubt AuraFly can't help!

;D

PJS

@all

IIRC, CBM licensed ARexx from the original porter of IBM's REXX
to the Amiga back in the early days - William Hawes.

But then, like with the speach-synth s/w, CBM tried to play fast
and loose with the devs with later OS versions, lost and then
they could only use the binaries they already had.

As a result the original 68K bits of ARexx and speach remain
trapped in ice. Anyone wanna start new PPC native replacements,
like the console? ;D

@davyw

I'm not sure how many OS's would elegantly deal with a user
randomly moving chunks of the OS out their proper locations.
If one starts removing parts from the OS, it's on moving man to
deal with the consequences, isn't it?

Thanks,

PJS

Hi Lazi,

Thanks for posting another version of Wormhole!

I installed it on my Amigas and it worked great. Auto accept is
working great. Clipboard syncing is a nice add! The progress
indicator is working.

I'll be curious to see how things work with foreign systems, if I can
ever get them to work. Still stuck on loonix x86 and osx PPC.

In both cases I decompressed the archives, I see the program file, it's
recognized as an application, but nothing will get it to actually,
recognizably run.

On linux in properties it says "executable (application/x-executable",
permissions are set to read+write and it shows it's an allowed executable.
I tried double-clicking & using the pop-up menu "run" in the GUI and
I tried running it in the shell (with "." & "./" prepended). I also
ran "chmod +x ", that didnt complain, but that made no
difference.

On the 10.4 mac, it's also recognized as a "application (PowerPC)",
I set all the persmissions to read+write, tried to double-click, "open"
and run it from the dock. In their shell I also tried all the path
possibilities, chmod'd, etc. Either it can't find it or (with "./")
it just says it's a directory (not an app).

There's probably some foreign magic I haven't been let in on.
Any clues?

Thanks again,

PJS