k6-2 compatibility

Posted on 2016-12-25, 04:49

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by emosun

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So after watching this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAgJ5aM3etc&t=163s i tried a k6-2 266 on my packard bell m415 which yielded a no post. I then tried a k6-2 450 which did work , however it posted as an unidetified cpu at 66mhz. Within windows it shows as a k6-2 with no speed identified. The cpu …

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Re: Newest games on oldest hardware

Posted on 2016-12-19, 01:57

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by emosun

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I once had a 1999 dual pentium 3 system playing crysis. all on the low setting but still pretty amazing none the less.

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Re: old video formats for pentium 1

Posted on 2016-12-11, 22:21

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by emosun

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Ah my Corner has a 200MMX in it at the moment. What's the resolution settings and stuff you use? If I tried to render a video in Kdenlive what do you think I would have to set it up as to get it to spit out something useable? i'll make a video about it when i get back home on the 17th i'm not near …

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Re: old video formats for pentium 1

Posted on 2016-12-09, 21:07

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by emosun

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Nope the m415 is lpx. Its using the 233 mmx so if your corner has the same it should work. I also have one of the regular 166 machines from billy so I can see what those can max out at aswell

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Re: old video formats for pentium 1

Posted on 2016-12-08, 15:23

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by emosun

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Hey Emosun, interesting work! I eagerly await the results of this as I'd love to be able to play full length movies on my humble Packard corner PC. :D Oh btw what are you using to encode the videos? I'm a total noob to all this so I hope when you're done you release a tutorial! lol Im using the …

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Re: old video formats for pentium 1

Posted on 2016-12-07, 17:57

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by emosun

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Now that looks pretty cool. I do have a voodoo2 but id like to see how well it does on its own at first. It does mention the video will only be 16bit so that may explain the higher resolutions

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Re: PCI/ISA/AGP card organizer

Posted on 2016-12-04, 01:27

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by emosun

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just put foam or cardboard between them when you stack them. or if you want to go super organization mode , buy a bunch of dead motherboard and chop just the expansion slot section off the board and stick them all upright in the slots maybe buy backpane boards or riser board to stick them in?

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Re: old video formats for pentium 1

Posted on 2016-12-03, 23:59

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by emosun

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I tried VCD playback on a P100 for my Video for CPUs thread (scroll to near the bottom of the first post). I wasn't able to get more than 18fps, even after I retested using ActiveMovie with no scaling. I was trying to play hi-color 352x240/30p @ 1.15mbps, with 224kbps MP2 audio. wow that's a hell …

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Re: old video formats for pentium 1

Posted on 2016-12-03, 16:59

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by emosun

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Scali wrote: Why am I 'not helping'? Because I'm not telling you what you want to hear? I'm telling you how MPEG decoding and video accelerat […] Show full quote emosun wrote: ok , you aren't helping please stop. thanks Why am I 'not helping'? Because I'm not telling you what you want to hear? I'm …

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Re: old video formats for pentium 1

Posted on 2016-12-03, 14:46

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by emosun

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BTW: It also depends if you read the File from CD-Rom (mostly in Pio-Mode) or from HDD with DMA. DMA has less CPU usage so more CPU-Power is free for the decoding. Hey this actually helped a bit. At least for .mov files. The mov files play back much better . I didn't even know what DMA was , but I …

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Re: old video formats for pentium 1

Posted on 2016-12-03, 14:44

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by emosun

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ok , you aren't helping please stop. thanks

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Re: old video formats for pentium 1

Posted on 2016-12-03, 13:28

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by emosun

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Try replacing the Radeon 8500 with a 'Pentium 1-era' card like the S3 Trio64, and you'll probably notice a considerable drop in performance on video replay. A Virge is not a Trio64. Like the Radeon 8500, it has quite advanced features for accelerating MPEG video. I understand what you're saying …

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Re: Suggest some graphics cards for these 2 PCs

Posted on 2016-12-03, 07:44

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by emosun

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Paadam wrote: I don't think there's Radeon 8500 in PCI form yes it came in pci.

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Re: old video formats for pentium 1

Posted on 2016-12-03, 07:28

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by emosun

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Try replacing the Radeon 8500 with a 'Pentium 1-era' card like the S3 Trio64, and you'll probably notice a considerable drop in performance on video replay. The boards integrated gpu is a 2mb s3 virge which has the same exact results as the 8500. I actually just now took the 8500 out to make sure …

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Re: old video formats for pentium 1

Posted on 2016-12-03, 06:48

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by emosun

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Cinepak is one. The videos on the Win95 cd used Cinepak and 22KHz ADPCM iirc. ffmpeg can encode videos to an appropriate format for a stock win95 box (this being a .bat file for a SendTo operation) ffmpeg.exe -i %1 -r 15 -s 320x240 -ar 22050 -acodec adpcm_ms -vcodec cinepak %1.avi dunno what -r 24 …

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Re: old video formats for pentium 1

Posted on 2016-12-03, 01:26

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by emosun

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emosun wrote: My goal is too see how far the cpu can be pushed in terms of video playback quality. Without resorting to simply using a tv tuner card or something and just cheating.

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Re: Suggest some graphics cards for these 2 PCs

Posted on 2016-12-02, 14:43

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by emosun

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radeon 8500 , geforce 2 or 4 , should liven those both right up

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Re: old video formats for pentium 1

Posted on 2016-12-02, 14:29

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by emosun

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Well that's great but we're getting off topic here. I'm more interested in the various file formats available at the time and the info so far is pretty good lots of neat file types to consider. What i'd really like is a file type that can sacrifice color depth for resolution or bandwidth. When i …

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Re: old video formats for pentium 1

Posted on 2016-12-02, 12:43

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by emosun

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Well it seems that most video cards that have at least 4 or more mb can playback pretty much anything and the real bottleneck is the pentium 1 itself. Being that the cpu has to do all the work loading and unloading the system ram with information quickly. I disagree. In the Pentum 1-age there were …

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Re: old video formats for pentium 1

Posted on 2016-12-02, 10:36

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by emosun

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I never tried playing modern-ish video on anything pre-Pentium III. On a Pentium 1, I would think it would primarily have to do with how good the video card is. Well it seems that most video cards that have at least 4 or more mb can playback pretty much anything and the real bottleneck is the …

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