by trixie on 2024/8/27 8:46:02

@LiveForIt

Quote:

So in other words, you need to make a AHI server/driver, that USB driver can connect to.

IIRC one of the problems is that AHI (by its design) expects audio hardware to be physically installed at boot time, for the AHI driver to recognize it. This is not the case with USB audio hardware, which can be plugged in any time.

@trixie

EXACTLY!

@LiveForIt

heh

I ran it from the Workbench, in the directory with the new
build, double-cicking on the Netsurf icon. No APPDIR: muss
or fuss involved.

All in all, as a decades long betatester, I rarely rely on
APPDIR: for my app paths. I want to know exactly what I was
running and from where!

Thanks,

PJS

IIRC, a big problem with USB audio is its transient nature.

All advanced Amigas (and imitators) seem to rely on AHI (or
something like it??) and as I understand it it, AHI has no
provision audio sources/destinations changing without reboots.

IIRC, LyleHaze came up with a number of USB audio hacks over the
years, but the transient nature of USB made things touchy at
best.

So it's not that small a job for it ork well, AFAIK.

PJS

@Sbaitso

"bad penny" ...heh

But afraid to get on IRC??

Slacker!

;D !!

PJS

@white

"From in Russia everyone is free to say what he thinks"

LOL

Lets hope Russia stops attacking its neighbors.

PJS

@Chris

Thanks for posting the URL to the new build of NetSurf! I
installed it into a new directory and fired it up.

Unfortunately it's still asking for the GuiGfx.library. None
is installed.

After OK'ing to that, the NetSurf window came up. But like as
others reported, attempts to load pages off the internet all
resulted in "Error occurred fetching page" - but then everything
I tried redirects to HTTPS links.

I did try a local webpage generated by YT.rexx (that's obviously
NOT https) and that loaded fine, but without the thumbnail image
(probably a goggles HTTPS link).

I hope all this helps you chase down the GuiGfx & https bugs!

Thanks again!!

PJS

/me pokes sbaitso to see if he's real....

it must be an AI !!

;D

PJS

@zerec

Congrats! you are NUMBER ONE! The first person in two
decades (??) I've seen able to make iFusion work.

So many questions....

Was that on just your A4K 060/CSPPC or have you ever gotten it
to work on a NG machine?

Where did you get the magical v16 Warp lib from? Is it still
available?

When it ran, was it really stable, usable and did it take
advantage of the host machine's powers - memory, higher res,
higher palette depth, network, etc?

Please let us know how things went.

Thanks,

PJS

@Newton

Unfortunately with the state of Amiga brosers currently, there
are a number of points of failure with a lot of websites that
want to load the internet in each webpage...

Blame lazy brainless web coders.

Be that as it may, IBrowse tends to auger through the page code
as well as it can, can get hung up on complicated JS and can
cause crashes when a site send boatloads of oversized images
consuming all the gfx memory.

Oddity... err... Odyssey gets a lot further with some >HTML4
page layout but the JS stuff often does not render/work,
persistent scripts won't die (google) or memory errors trash the
system.

All in all, most times the page that crashes or won't render at
all in IB these days, I find Odd doesn't get a passably better
job done either.

In some cases you can tweak the per site settings in IBrowse
to turn off JS or image loading, if you can get by with the
rest of the page that gets though.

Unfortunately, web browsing is a rough landscape for Amigas
these days. At least this all means most of the spyware
coursing through every vein of your peecee is DOA.

Good luck,

PJS

Hi All,

It would be great if we could efficiently run PPC Mac OSX
software... Essentially anything that would run up through
OSuX 10.4.

I'd always heard about and even bought Jim Drew's iFusion, yet
never heard of a single, solitary person that could ever get it
to run.

Does that mean it isn't possible?

Obviously Mac-On-Linux was able to work somewhere; but without
loonix memory protection, I'd imagine it would blow up AmigaOS
if it could be compiled to native.

So is there any MacPPC emulator that does it's own housekeeping
in house (!!) that would work? Sheepshaver?

It would even be helpful progress if the Basilisk - the 68K Mac
emulation - could be made to either use SANA (like Shapeshifter
did so well) or could access the RAM Disk without blowing up.

It's a pity that my 30 year old 68K 4000 ran MacOS stuff way
better than (a Mac or) my X5K.

It would be great if that could be fixed.

Thanks,

PJS

Hi nubechecorre,

To open a single AmiCygnix application, Edgar has provided a
"...standalone.bat" script file which will open that app in
a window on the Workbench.

For example, take AbiWord... If you go into the /software/
dir of AmiCygnix, then into /AbiWord-2.8/ you will see that
script file.

You can just double-click on the script and AmiCygnix will open
a configuration window where you can set how AbiWord will be
opened. Of course in the Amiga-like way of things, you can
then "Save" or "Use" how you want to use AbiWord.

In my case, I have taken these "standalone.bat" files and
dropped them AmiDock so apps like AbiWord and Gnumeric are
readilly available.

Great stuff! THANKS EDGAR!

Enjoy,

PJS

@AmigaOldskooler

Great round up as always! Thanks for your work on this!

Can I make one suggestion... Your page mostly shows fine in
IBrowse, but your YT video links never appear in the page.

I'm guessing you might be embedding YT video code in the page
that IB just isn't catching.

Only when I run YT.rexx on your page do I get all the videos and
then I can play them on my Amiga splendidly.

Any chance you could also provide the straight HTML links to
your YT vids beside the embedded video code in future?

TIA!

PJS

Hi Utri007,

Is this a Sam440mini? Is it possibly your power supply isn't
putting out enough power to drive all those drives?

You could try pulling a few drives and seeing if the other ones
work correctly. Then alternate to the others and try again.

With my Sam440mini I ended up replacing the original power
supply from ACube with a higher wattage mini-ITX model.

I think this might be the one I got:

http://www.mini-box.com/picoPSU-160-XT-192W-Adapter-Power-Kit

Maybe that might help you?

Good luck!!

PJS

@smarkusg

Hi,

Figured I should follow up on the sporadic issue of static YT
streams ending a few seconds (5-15secs) before their proper
ends....

I tried a bunch of different combinations of the suggested
forceidx, cache-min & cache arguments in the config file,
tried repeatedly playing the same streams over and over until
YT seemed to lock me out (for the day).

Unfortunately, I still kept getting the sporadic early endings.

It's not the end of the world by any whatsoever means... All in
all MPlayer has otherwise been working great.

Thanks for the efforts in any case!

PJS

Hi all,

I just went to the new poll and it let me vote (apparently?)
without having to log-in. I'm wondering, if it's possible,
should being logged into Amigans be a requirement for voting?

Just to keep all pancakers out... ;D

PJS

@smarkusg

Thanks for the feedback!

I went back through and found a news video that stopped playing
prematurely without the cache change - stopping around 4m11s
instead of playing to the full 4m33s. Unfortunately, while it
happened a couple times, it wasn't consistent. :/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgQPCOuUgKQ

Then I tried setting the cache to 20480 as suggested. It
most often meant there was a 15-20 second delay before playing,
but I also didn't see the premature shut-off in a repeated
plays. Maybe it was the inconsistency at play?

I also tried playing that video with a January 2020 build from
Mick and it repeatedly played the video to the end.

When I wasn't playing the video with the 20480 setting in the
config file, I renamed the config file out of view to avoid any
other deviations.

I also made a point not to do any seeking back or forwards to
try to keep that variable out of the mix when playing.

Sorry I didn't come up with a more clearcut results or clues.

Thanks,

PJS

Hi Capehill,

Thanks for a really handy program!

A really nice way to see what's happening on your Amiga.

One little thing I keep seeing when I start Tequilla from the
shell (even from inside the Tequilla dir), the Workbench or
AmiDock... I typically get a console output/window with this
line:

Failed to open catalog (205)

I'm running a fairly basic OS4 (old beta) install with the US
english locale.

Any ideas what might be missing?

Thanks again,

PJS

Hey guys,

First, thanks guys for your continued quiet, dilligent work
on MPlayer. No drama, just results. :D

I've been using this MPlayer:

MPlayer 1.5-rc2 (01/26/2024) SVN-r38440-snapshot-11.3.0

...mostly for YT streaming, etc. and I'm noticing that it most
often seems to quit before reaching the end of the stream.

I wondered if anyone else has noticed this or if any of the devs
working on this might have any insight on what's happening.

This is on my X5K using Mick's YT.rexx (directly or via
IBrowse) using the mostly default .config with whichever VO is
used with the RadeonHD 6450.

Thanks again,

PJS

@Maijestro

Guessing you're using YT.rexx to watch videos on YT, I hope you
caught that only "static" videos are shown with MPlayer, live
video on YT is played with FFplay.

I'd also guess the German TV channels are also "live" video
streams, so it seems like they are following the same pattern -
playing in FFplay, not in MPlayer.

So maybe you just need to configure however you're gonna watch
these streams to use FFPlay?

Thanks,

PJS

@Maijestro

Guessing you're using YT.rexx to watch videos on YT, I hope you
caught that only "static" videos are shown with MPlayer, live
video on YT is played with FFplay.

I'd also guess the German TV channels are also "live" video
streams, so it seems like they are following the same pattern -
playing in FFplay, not in MPlayer.

So maybe you just need to configure however you're gonna watch
these streams to use FFPlay?

Thanks,

PJS