demo on a loop

[Justin]

hi all,

I need some assistance from you programming gurus.

is it possible to take a collection of Demos, join them together and then run them on a constant loop?

cheers, Justin

 

[hooverphonique]

in the general case, no.. with the use of something like whdload, you might be able to achieve it though, since it is able to force-close them (many demos never exit on their own).

 

[Justin]

the demos that don't close, do they loop?

 

[davideo]

If the Demos exited in a clean way you could create a script to run them one after the other.

Or record them onto DVD and play that on a loop.

Dave G

 

[Justin]

yes!!! a dvd video would work perfectly!!! thanks buddy


now how do i get a load of demos onto a DVD, is there a site somewhere with a load of high quality demos already recorded in a video format that i can download?

 

[ajk]

I don't know if there are ready ones, but if you can't find some, you could record from WinUAE or a real Amiga plus a cheap USB video grabber.

 

[davideo]

@Juvvie

Amiga or Atari ?

There are a couple of demo dvd collections out there. In fact I'm sure I've got one.

Dave G

 

[Justin]

Amiga buddy

 

[Chinners]

yes!!! a dvd video would work perfectly!!! thanks buddy


now how do i get a load of demos onto a DVD, is there a site somewhere with a load of high quality demos already recorded in a video format that i can download?

Youtube and JDownloader (link)

 

[ajk]

YouTube can't handle 50/60Hz videos so in most cases they won't be very high quality unfortunately.

 

[roy_bates]

why dont you just record them to a capter card on you pc,then put them on a dvd.

 

[davideo]

@Juvvie

I'll have a look tonight and see if I can find my DVD but Chinners link looks interesting. I'll give that a try tonight.

Dave G

 

[Chinners]

YouTube can't handle 50/60Hz videos so in most cases they won't be very high quality unfortunately.

Neither can DVD

 

[Justin]

ok Dave, i'll see what you can find, if no joy then i'll look at creating something myself

 

[ajk]

@Chinners

Sure they can, DVDs use exactly the same kind of video signal as the Amiga.

 

[hooverphonique]

@Chinners

Sure they can, DVDs use exactly the same kind of video signal as the Amiga.

not really.. standard dvd encoding only supports 25 and 29.97 fps, so the amiga content (assuming lo-res which almost every demo uses) would need to be converted to one of these framerates and interlaced. 25 fps lo-res is supported directly by dvd's, but that would require dropping every other frame.

 

[Gouldin]

Can't you just use fraps to record the demo from UAE straight into an avi file?

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[ptp170]

If you are using Firefox then get the 'Downloadhelper' Add-On from here( http://www.downloadhelper.net/ ). It'll save YouTube Clips as FLV's... you can then string them together for your Dvd

 

[johnim]

will this help its free MindCandy Volume 2: Amiga Demos

http://www.mindcandydvd.com/2/frames?p=download for the dvd

http://www.mindcandydvd.com/2/frames?p=demos for the demos

 

[ajk]

@hooverphonique

But that is exactly what happens when you connect an Amiga to a TV anyway, the fields (or lo-res frames) are shown one after the other and you get all 50 of them per second. Only difference is that you get alternating top and bottom fields rather than just one or the other. No frames are lost or need to be altered. After all, the Amiga was so popular for video work exactly because it produced a TV-compatible video signal