Hey fronzel, with that quality I am curious, what if you converted an old Charlie Chaplin video? Those are already black and white movies, image quality wasn't that great back then anyway, and sound was just a music instrumental being played on the background (both midi and wave would suffice). I bet it would look good on the HP 😀

What tools are good for converting modern videos into a playable format? I want to see about getting an episode of a certain horse cartoon or maybe Star Wars VII into as terrible quality as possible to play on a 486-33.

ffmpeg?

SRQ wrote:

What tools are good for converting modern videos into a playable format? I want to see about getting an episode of a certain horse cartoon or maybe Star Wars VII into as terrible quality as possible to play on a 486-33.

Star Wars was available on VideoCD back in the day...

Anonymous Coward wrote:

You're probably confusing those with MPEG2 DVD decoder cards. Those require considerably more bandwidth than ISA is capable of. Though, I do have an MPEG2 decoder for EISA bus...but no drivers or software!

Did you check Win95 through XP for the drivers? What about linux or os/2?

Refer to this thread.

Optivision OPV9100 MPEG2 decoder for EISA bus

mrau wrote:

ffmpeg?

I don't believe ffmpeg supports some important codecs from the time such as Indeo and Cinepak.

I believe this might be helpful
old video formats for pentium 1

Like I said, I would love someone tried it out in a 486

This is video playback on my 486DX2-66 VLB system:
In 1024x768 TrueColor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jineMBgaHU
In 1280x1024 64k: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhQ8Oq52O_k

For the video conversion I used Virtualdub to crop to 4:3 aspect ratio and prescale to SIF. For the conversion to MPEG1 I used TMPEGENC.
http://www.tmpgenc.net/en/download.html
http://retronn.de/ftp/archiv/tools/TMPGEnc-2. … 5.64.184-EN.zip

You can find some of the MPEG1 converted videos here: ftp://retronn.de/videos/MPEG1/

We showed a few trailers on this vintage machine at the Long Night of Computer Games in Leipzig this year.

elianda wrote:

This is video playback on my 486DX2-66 VLB system: In 1024x768 TrueColor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jineMBgaHU In 1280x10 […]
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This is video playback on my 486DX2-66 VLB system:
In 1024x768 TrueColor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jineMBgaHU
In 1280x1024 64k: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhQ8Oq52O_k

For the video conversion I used Virtualdub to crop to 4:3 aspect ratio and prescale to SIF. For the conversion to MPEG1 I used TMPEGENC.
http://www.tmpgenc.net/en/download.html
http://retronn.de/ftp/archiv/tools/TMPGEnc-2. … 5.64.184-EN.zip

You can find some of the MPEG1 converted videos here: ftp://retronn.de/videos/MPEG1/

We showed a few trailers on this vintage machine at the Long Night of Computer Games in Leipzig this year.

That was really great, good job man! 😁
You could try using Calmira XP, to get a more modern interface (I find it easier to use than Win 3.1 standard interface).

I still find it important to have ways to access videos " on the wild", instead of needing to convert them. Youtube is the main source (you are using it yourself, 🤣). Though I find it amazing to play such high quality videos in an old machine (which is easier using hardware instead of software, but still looks gorgeous).

ratco wrote:

You could try using Calmira XP, to get a more modern interface (I find it easier to use than Win 3.1 standard interface).

The machine has 8 MB RAM, I am not sure if Calmira would run so well. With more RAM however I could also run Win95.
I also have the problem with Calmira that it crashes the graphics driver on certain systems (with e.g. TIGA). Since it is no longer in development I doubt this will get fixed.

elianda wrote:

ratco wrote:

You could try using Calmira XP, to get a more modern interface (I find it easier to use than Win 3.1 standard interface).

The machine has 8 MB RAM, I am not sure if Calmira would run so well. With more RAM however I could also run Win95.
I also have the problem with Calmira that it crashes the graphics driver on certain systems (with e.g. TIGA). Since it is no longer in development I doubt this will get fixed.

I would think 8 mbs to be enough to run Calmira XP. BUt not sure, never tried with so little 😀
I never faced that bug either.
It was just a suggestion 😀 I would stay away from windows 95, that was when they really started to blow it up and down xD

Btw, why not use DOS? You can play mpeg videos just fine with that. Though to be fair windows is sometimes more stable with multimedia stuff.

ratco wrote:

Btw, why not use DOS? You can play mpeg videos just fine with that. Though to be fair windows is sometimes more stable with multimedia stuff.

The MVP2000 card has drivers for Win3.x and Win9x only. So in DOS video playback would be software only resulting in quite reduced video quality.

Ahh, I know this is major necro-posting but....I found mention of CMPEG/DMPEG in this thread and I could really use those! They're 286-compatible and I have a very interesting idea for mpg on a 286. If you could help me find a link to either or both of them it would be greatly appreciated. I've been scouring the web for them and all I can find are mentions of them in ancient text documents all over the place, but never any downloads.
Thanks in advance.

M0nk3m4n wrote:

Ahh, I know this is major necro-posting but....I found mention of CMPEG/DMPEG in this thread and I could really use those! They're 286-compatible and I have a very interesting idea for mpg on a 286. If you could help me find a link to either or both of them it would be greatly appreciated. I've been scouring the web for them and all I can find are mentions of them in ancient text documents all over the place, but never any downloads.
Thanks in advance.

They should be in the file linked here in 2013.
Re: Recommendations for fullscreen video on a 486 DX-66?

[EDIT] Yes, they are, I just checked.

Stiletto wrote:

They should be in the file linked here in 2013.
Re: Recommendations for fullscreen video on a 486 DX-66?

[EDIT] Yes, they are, I just checked.

Ah, heck. Somehow I missed that link entirely. Thanks much for pointing it out. I probably would have never realized it was there...🤣
Cannot wait to try this idea out. haha
Edit: This idea did not work out at all. Pretty much exactly what I expected. But hey, it was sorta worth a shot.