How about the Reel Magic ISA board?
I've read it can work on a 386SX-16 and has Windows 3.1 software.
But I don't know if it's 16-Bit friendly.
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dr.zeissler wrote on 2024-02-24, 10:24:I need something for VGA Dos for 286/8Mhz.
Hm. That's tricky.
I've tinkered with CompuShow 2000, a picture viewer, in the past few days.
Mainly in PCem with 8088 and 286 machines.
It seems to me that decoding bigger stuff had a good use for XMS or EMS memory.
So I assume it's worse with pictures in motion.
I mean, Windows 3.0 and PC GEOS have FLI players, but these GUIs need some RAM to work smoothly.
Luckily, both can run in Real-Mode and use EMS.
Maybe that's also the case with DOS-based video players, that they have EMS support?
Because there's a new 4 MB EMS card, or so it seems.
I've just stumbled over a YT video about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EzCCTPdAM4
Interestingly, the YouTuber has an Amiga A2286 in use for testing. 🙂
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I think I should use uncompressed video in 320/200 or less with 256 colors or 256 greyscales with 8khz mono-sound.
I need a solution to generate such files out of e.g. DVD's and a player that can run this on a 286/8 from HDD.
Space is not a problem. I have 4x2GB on that A2286.
Retro-Gamer 😀 ...on different machines
Hm. I've once used to have an Hauppauge WinTV board with Windows 3.1 software.
It had a TV tuner and could encode MPEG.
I wonder if the chips on the board (full-size ISA) also had decoding functionality.
Not sure if the software ran on an 286, also.
Audio wise, I remember playing back VOC and WAVE files found on shareware CD-ROMs of the day (90s, on my 286).
These were in 22 KHz 8-Bit Mono format often (sometimes Stereo, too).
But that was audio alone, of course.
I'm not sure how much CPU load a higher sampling rate causes here.
I suppose it depends on the soundcard type, its capabilities (decompression etc) and if it's being using DMA or not.
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Hi again! Found something interesting.. Video for Windows for Mac.
A source on the interwebs describes it as..
A utility set for moving AVI files to the QuickTime environment and for converting QuickTime files to AVI format.
Includes a Windows Compressors system extension, which contains compressor/decompressors (CODECs) for Microsoft RLE, Microsoft Video 1, and Microsoft Full Frame formats.
Does anybody have experience with this, by any chance ?
The old VFW 1.0 runs on a 286 PC w/ Windows 3.1, but it has Video 1 codec only.
Which this set of utilities seems to support. So..
PS: I *think* I've used an old copy of VLC player at some point to generate AVIs.
Not sure which codec, though. AVI is a container, foremost, after all.
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