#Overscan viewer
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I'd like to run a video slide show from my Amiga-which I didn't think
would be difficult, but now I've down loaded close to a dozen IFF file viewers
and have yet to find one that works correctly.
What I'm looking for is a viewer that will run automatically and display
overscan pictures (interlace, low-res, HAM) correctly. Some reformat the
overscan image for display on a montior-which is what I _don't_ need. Most of
the others don't show a full overscan-a side to side, top to bottom video image
from the A520. The normal failure is to show a black bar at the top.
The only viewer that actually seems to work is an old viewer called
"si"-and only the original version. Later versions show the first picture
correctly, then a black bar at the top with all others-strange. I can't use the
early version of see because it doesn't auto run, though.
So does anyone know of a viewer that will do what I need?- oh,
and it should run on a 1.3 machine. So far I've tried ushow, si,
show, dyna-show, iff, fastview, megaview, superview, disp, and
loadimage-and none will do what I need.
Have you tried Mostra?
-Richard
Richard,
Thanks for the information. I did have a copy of Mostra, but it
was a version that only operated under 2.x+ (and I'm still waiting
for my 3.1 upgrade to arrive). After reading your message, I found a
V. 1.7. I can make this one work-but only if I open my pictures in
Deluxe Photo Lab and increase their 480×352 resolution to 480×362.
It's better than anything else so far. I can use it even if I have to
"cheat".
The strange thing is that no matter what size I tell Mostra to
make the screen, if I don't expand the picture to 480×362 there will
always be a black bar on the left hand side of the pictures.
Barry