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G'day, >> Are there? I have not seen any mention of "non-lossy" JPEG modes; only >> of degrees of loss. I have been informed by reliable sources that there is at least one "Professional JPEG" mode that is lossless. The resulting file is no where near as small as the…
G'day, PMFJI, >> With JPEG, he sees what the artist created, filtered through a lossy >> file format, and the end result is an approximation. JPEG does not equal "Lossy". JPEG has many modes, the most familiar to us is the "90% reduction in file size – lossy mode" but…
>> you have to forgive him for saying "wrong way". After all, he's been >> standing upside down for some time now… Right, I'll see you in the yard at playtime! 🙂
#Flush the toilet
Message #178932
G'day, >> The wrong way? What's the right way? Clockwise of course! Next thing you'll be telling me that Christmas is in the middle of winter! Merry Christmas, and try not to get sunburned. 🙂 Sam Yates Montrose, Victoria,Australia. samyates@werple.mira.net.au
G'day, >> I'm afraid you're right on that – so I suppose the system isn't the >> best approach for European markets – but it works True, it's much better than nothing but I'm not sure that PAL broadcast stations would allow it to be used on air (unless they…
G'day, >> I'll never forget that day walking into a smoke filled room with the >> 3000's fan running half speed and the power LED dim… Ouch. I know that feeling (not as expensive though). Plug in…. *POP* …Please let that have been a screw landing on the floor….. Smoke…
G'day, >> PS: Don't use it to dry your old 8-tracks 🙂 I think you just dated yourself with that one 🙂 Better get the Carbon-14 count to make sure though 🙂 Sam Yates Montrose, Victoria, Australia. samyates@werple.apana.org.au samyates@ozemail.com.au
G'day, >> Could you explain this comment for me? Certainly. PAL has more pixels (specifically, lines per picture) than NTSC. (You've caught me at a bad time, my brain has gone south on me and I can't remember the exact broadcast resolutions at the moment) An Amiga example: NTSC Amiga…
G'day, The only toaster I use cooks bread. Can NewTek's thing do that? No? What good is it then? 🙂 Sam Yates Montrose, Victoria, Australia. samyates@werple.apana.org.au samyates@ozemail.com.au
G'day, Nothing like a good whinge to purge the soul 🙂 Sam Yates Montrose, Victoria, Australia. samyates@werple.apana.org.au samyates@ozemail.com.au
G'day, >> Just to update the technology – the Pastport 4000 provides Toaster >> input and output in all formats, including PAL and SECAM. I think I remember reading about that, but blacked out when what I thought was an international direct dial telephone number turned out to be the…
G'day, >> How about a separate card for slots? Doesn't the A4000 have this? >> Have one slot that you plug a card of slots into. Yes, the A4000 does do it this way, however, stacking the slots vertically is not very efficient space wise. (You can get 8 slots…
#Passport 4000
Message #174279
G'day, >> Else the Amiga will be nothing more than a Toaster machine And not even that on this side of the pond, as the Toaster only works in "MickeyMouse'Ovision" 🙂 Sam Yates Montrose, Victoria, Australia. samyates@werple.apana.org.au samyates@ozemail.com.au
G'day, >> Probably start by modifying the CD32 motherboard. I think that's a >> good start for the "little" people. Personally, I think there should only be one Amiga motherboard. The "low end" and the "high end" machines should have the same motherboard, and come in the same case. They…
#Open Letter to CEI
Message #174123
G'day, Just thought I'd throw my 2 peneth in…… >> 2. Adopt the 'Bouncing Ball logo'! Everyone in the Amiga community >> loves that logo–and maybe using it would rekindle some of the spirit that >> was Amiga early on. Nooooooooo! I much prefer the multicoloured tick myself. It implies…
#C= PC in your future?
Message #162943
Gday, >> (which in this persons opinion will kill the Amiga in the U.S.) Hasn't it been as good as dead in the USA for quite some time now? >> Most C=Dealers have 'diversified' and have told the C UK group they >> are not interested in selling Amigas again.…
Gday, >> If the Bahamian Supreme Court is the only entity with accurate >> knowledge of the details, then whether they choose to divuldge the details >> extends their "juristiction" to the US. Yes, I understand that. But Steve's transcript of the Amiga World message said: >> These company's identities…
Gday, >> However, the problems of quality don't seem to be something that is >> unique to MPEG. I didn't mean to imply that they were. I just ment that I have a horrible feeling that someone is going to use one of the real time boards to produce Video-CD's,…
#150998-
JPEG and MPEG
Message #151163
Gday, >> But doesn't the amount of data depend on the amount of moving pic's in >> the video-data? Sounds reasonable to me. I think they may pad the newsreader out to make it 150KB/s (eg. insert more I frames or give more bandwidth to the audio?). Sam Yates Montrose,…
Gday, >> Actually, you can control how much space an MPEG stream will take up >> based on the number of I frames So you can. 🙂 I thought the discussion was about Video-CD applications. I was under the impression that: a) The MPEG-1 standard set down a 150KB stream.…
Gday, >> I thought it was about 300k? (double speed CD-ROM). No. If it was 300K you would only get about 36 min. on a CD (650MB/300K = 36 min.) (Video-CD's hold 72 min.) Sam Yates Montrose, Victoria, Australia. samyates@werple.apana.org.au
Gday, >> The advantage of MPEG is that one-second of audio/video playback >> takes, more or less, 300KB. 1 second of MPEG-1 video+audio will be around 150KB (180?) (1.5Mbits/s) (give or take). MPEG-1 bitstreams are designed to be played from single speed CD's. (I think CD-I only has a single…
Gday, >> the vertical scanrate of 15kHz is NOT supported by the NEC 4FG! I From memory: The problem is that your deinterlacer on your 2000 actually doubled the scan rate of your 15KHz screens to 31Khz. The 1200 will not do this. It can promote some screens to 27KHz…
Gday, PMFJI, >> one was a geographical program which had details of different >> countries along with examples of language and pictures etc. You aren't perchance refering to World Vista are you? If so you should be aware that it lists Melbourne as 1/8 and Sydney as 1/5 the size…
Gday, >> I'll try MVB, I haven't seen any CDTV titles around. I haven't been in for a while, but they used to have some (It may be cheaper to buy them from o/s though). >> It may be difficult to work out whether they are CD32 compatible or >>…
Gday, >> Have you also looked in Dixons. Last time I looked in my Milton Keynes >> branch they had titles for under a fiver. Bargin!!! Could be difficult as I live in Australia and the Montrose-Milton Keynes 'bus is never on time. 🙂 Anyway, it was Lu who was…
Gday, >> Do you or anybody else stock the CDTV titles? I've heard that some of >> them work on CD32 and there were a couple I thought were terrific. Have you tried MVB? (in Croydon, Vic. They advertise in ACAR, or I can look up the phone no. if…
>> Maybe, but most people are impressed with a laserdisc picture right >> away, and it isn't THAT much better than broadcast I would guess that's because they are comparing it to VHS video rather than off air broadcast. Laserdisc isn't very popular over here (Most discs are in NTSC…
>> I am impressed with what 3DO does now. I am surprised that so many >> people who have seen it at trade shows were not impressed by it. It blew >> me away with the first generation of titles. Having not ever seen a 3do (or CD-I for that…
#CD^32 -> Amiga OK!
Message #135756
Gday, Here is a press release I found on the Internet. I thought it may help answer some of the "Can I hook the CD^32 to my Amiga?" questions. I understand that the device will be demonstrated at CeBit'94 —————————————————————————– EUREKA Adsteeg 10 6191 PX Beek(L) The Netherlands International: Tel.…
Gday, >> We hope CD32 takes off in the US! I hope so too. Methinks they'll need lots of money (and a good ad. agency). >> While we have TVs we don't have any reception Sounds like somebody I know. He live less than 1km from the TV towers, and…
Re: PCMCIA is not a bus I know, I was just using Zorro II as a comparison to PCMCIA in terms of speed. (3.5 Mb per sec.)
Gday Charles, In answer to your question regarding PCMCIA vs Processor slot: PCMCIA has a transfer speed of about 3.5Mb per second (ie. the same as Zorro II), however it does not have DMA (Direct Memory Access) or a 32 bit data path (both of which are required by the…
RA> from SGI said the engine was capable of something like 3 million RA> floating point operations per second. There some speed for you! The 68040 does 3.5 million floating point operation per second. The Vivid 24 card for the Amiga does 160 million floating point operations per second, and…
Gday, Ahh.. You had a genlock connected, that would explain it. PAL and NTSC are the only modes that can be used with a genlock. I didn't know that the icons were disabled when you have a genlock connected though (I don't have one.). Learn something new every day! :-)…
MS> To use Postcript fonts, do I need Amiga screen fonts that match the MS> Postscript fonts? No. Final Copy II will display Adobe Type 1 fonts on screen. MS> Can FC import ProWrite files? If you look in the FinalCopy_II/FCLibs directory you will find (Amongst other things): – fcpenpal.library…
Gday, No no no no no no and no! 🙂 VGAOnly just makes the modes centre better (outputs a more compatible signal) It does NOT force you to use VGA modes. There….memory cleared up? 🙂 Sam Yates
Gday, This is how it's supposed to work: 1 – Dragall monitor icons from storage/monitors to devs/monitors (Note: Except A2024 and Super72. The 1942 does not support those modes.) 2 – Make sure you have VGAOnly in devs/monitors as well (Allows you to centre the display much better. 3 -…