Odyssey 1.23 progress: r5 RC2

@Jabirulo
I just recompile version of cairo we use with png16 together with odyssey itself, and then it works, yahoo!

One bug less ;)
Good job!

@kas1e

YESSssssssssss, GREAT JOB MAN!!!!

@all

http://kas1e.mikendezign.com/aos4/ody ... odyssey_1.23r5_beta03.lha

Odyssey 1.23 r5_beta03 - AmigaOS4

-- fixed bug in Odyssey with WebP rendering being in blue color (Cairo expect ARGB, no needs for byteswap) (c) Petrol. Also, rebuild with newer libWebP v1.1.0
-- major PNG decoding changes:
1). Odyssey compiled with 1.6.37 instead of old 1.2.50 libpng + necessary changes in Odyssey's code
2). added APNG (animated png) support. Code taken from today's WebKit source code and adapted to our version + added .apng mime-type as well.
Changes applied:
https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/181553/webkit
https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/194503/webkit
For test visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG and see if animation works
-- Ouch! The current version of Cairo we use till now didn't use Semaphores as expected, but pthreads instead ! Removed pthreads usage in favor of os4 semaphores.
That theoretically can bring some speed and may have some impact on MediaPlayer. Also recompiled Cairo with libpng16 as well (but it still old version of cairo, some more work should be done before updating it)
-- actual build dates for $VER: everywhere (version, aboutbox, and about.html)
-- fix "download-font" script by adding --no-check-certificates to wget (c) khayoz


All updates are on github, so if morphos guys will be not that stubborn they can just copy+paste apng related parts. Probabaly if they have issues with webp then our fix can fits into to. Updated not only odyssey's code, but also SDK (new cairo lib/includes, new libpng lib/includes), so if you will build things from github, then SDK update are must and whole rebuild of whole Odyssey from scratch are must 100% (as it use cairo in all the places, and if you will keep old objects compiled with old cairo includes, it will then bring all sort of bugs). So fresh full recompilation with whole update of SDK are must.

@kas1e

Really good job. Animation working without any problem !

@kas1e
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Very nice. Thanks for all the work!

Just did some quick testing of APNG's and webm videos. All worked quite well. Did a google search on animated PNG graphics and play many of the APNG files that came up in the search without any problems.

Found a couple of websites to test the embedded webm playback. The good old Buck Bunny embedded webm video can be found here:https://www.webmfiles.org/demo-files/

I also found a site that let's you change the embedded webm video resolution on the fly. Just click on the video and click the webm control at the bottom.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Volcano_Lava_Sample.webm

360p plays great with the X1000. 480p starts to struggle a bit.
The Webm videos I tried so far seem to work great!
This sitle also allows switching to vp9 format and they play but they are much more prossesor intensive so the sound can get lost.

@kas1e
Can i just replace the new version over the older one?

@JoeledQuote:
I tried that and received a lot of crashes. I then kept beta3 on its original directory and copied the key preferences files over from beta2 and it runs very stable. Even playing a lot of videos.

@joeled
Better fresh install all the time, that will save us from all kind of possible issues which may happens because of different lbraries and their new/old config files. Different fontconfig caches, .db files, fonts libs, and co, everything can be cause of issues. So fresh install is must.

@ktadd
In case with beta3 there was added new filetype/mimetype, so if you has for example some manually added things in prefs, then new binary may cause issues yep, as things shifts/changes. Better all the time fresh install for sure.

@kas1e

Would it be possible to upload your RC's to github instead?
That way it would be in it s central place and people wouldn't have to remember your personal webspace

@raziel
Those "betas" just for ppls in that thread, nothing which will be placed anywhere after "r5" will be ready. I just made them so those who in interest can just test it if nothing got broken in process.

You don't need to remember any place where is it, it only just for easy download (and from amiga itself too, as from github it will be hard to download from our browsers). Once r5 will be ready, then it will be on our central "os4depot" place :)

@kas1e

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Hu?
I never heard that before.
I can download stuff from GitHub just fine, it is and was perfectly fine even with old Odyssey.

But since you'e maintaining it, it's your call

@ kas1e
Thanks for the new beta 03 it's getting faster.
Now the links pointing to Youtube on sites like EAB etc. also work well.

I wanted to ask if it was possible in some way, to add spoffing to the following user-agent:
Mozilla / 5.0 (Nintendo WiiU) AppleWebKit / 534.52 (KTTML, like Gecko) NX / {Version No} NintendoBrowser / {Version No} .US

Or even more recent

In my example I can modify the user-agent with the following line to the user-startup

; BEGIN OWB
SETENV OWB_USER_AGENT "Mozilla/5.0 (Nintendo WiiU) AppleWebKit/534.52 (KTTML, like Gecko) NX/{Version No} NintendoBrowser/{Version No}.US"
; END OWB

but with this Beta 03 version it seems to slow down the browser, therefore I had to eliminate it from the user-startup.

Currently in my experience it seems the fastest user agent for Odyssey.

I'm probably wrong, but it seems to be faster for the 4.1FE update1.

Thanks for a possible reply.

Do you consider my comment unnecessary if it is not in line with the current project.

@All
Thank you all

@Raziel
Right, its comments didnt works in github's tickets, just messed it a bit with downloads. Maybe i can use github later too for downloads indeed.

@white
So you mean add latest Nintendo WiiU user-agent ? ok, will do so, one more agent should't do any harm.

@ kas1e
Thanks a lot, really very much.
And thanks again for your work.

Hi guys!
For example i am not a coder but i can support by saying thank you and maybe even click some donate buttons ...

@kas1e

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Now i start to wonder which user-agent you spoof with?

I can (also) comment to existing github bug tracker items just fine.

I cannot
1) create new bug tracker items (i can reach the items "editor window", but the "Post" button never appears). Have to use a PC for that.
2) edit my own comments/items. The "Edit" option (from the "..." menu) does nothing on a mouse click.
3) add smileys/reactions to posts (well, i can, but the smilies to choose from aren't displayed - they are shown as rectangles/boxes, so i don't know what i'm choosing). Seems to be some kind of unsupported gfx format.

The above are all, as far as i understand, unsupported features in css/html/javascript, so nothing we can do about, unless we get a newer webkit version (i think)

I m spoofing with IPad 13.2.3 for now, since all the others have problems with one or more sites.
Even this one i have to switch back to Odyssey, if i want to attach something to an email on my providers site...

@kas1e

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All right, extracted all versions to RAM and then retried the 2 sites
Spoofing is defaut (Odyssey Web Browser)

Downloading from https://tigerskunk.itch.io/inviyya
Works now, good

But the Dashboard of Transifex website still not, apparently it doesn't work in all versions now, including the public OWB on OS4Depot
Probably they did some changes very recently and that changes are no more compatible with our old webkit .. don't know really

@kas1e

Btw in beta03 the new variable date "#define DATE __DATE__" is wrong

It show: "Tue 16 2020"
But new date still miss the month completely

Maybe better following the original numeric scheme (day.month.year)

@samo
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Usual stuff, more and more websites want new features.

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What wrong ? For me it show in the top bar :
Mar 16 2020

In the about box :
Mar 16 2020


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Probably for you localisation in OS are broken, and Mar translate to some Tue, if that Tue dind't mean Mar in italian.