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Short: VCDImager 0.7.7 Beta (WarpUP and 68k Supported)
Author: SteffenH@hyperion-software.de (Amiga Port), hvr@gnu.org (Original Linux Version)
Uploader: SteffenH@hyperion-software.de
Type: gfx/conv
This archive includes VCDImager (a tool to convert MPEG Stream Files to Video CDs,
different sorts of Video CD Formats are supported, see enclosed original documentation
vcdimager.info for more information) and VCDRip (convert Video CDs to MPEG Stream Files).
According to the author of VCDImage this 0.7.7 Beta version is
"nearly stable and usually to be prefered to the 0.6.2 Stable version".
To go sure I provide both in seperate archives.
Note: It seems for 0.7.7 Beta the Contextswitch problem is much
less serious, so for that one the PPC version got noticably faster I think.
VCDImager generates .bin/.cue files. If you edit the .cue files a bit (some minor changes)
you can write the Video CDs with BurnIT! for example. I tested the Video CD with
AMP 2 and it works fine.
Executables for WarpUP and 68k are included. Be sure to raise your HD Buffers with
addbuffers.
Go to
http://www.gnu.org/software/vcdimager/
for more information on VCDImager.
Steffen Haeuser
User notes:
Just set a big enough stack, and go sure you assign etc: to somewhere (does not matter
where...). Use it like:
vcdimager -t vcd11 filename.mpg
Go sure the used MPG files are MPEG Streams (Video and Audio)
Notes for people wanting to compile the stuff:
Note: You need to depack sources.lha to be able to compile. I did the compile
with gcc-WarpUP. Adapting it to a different compiler might be quite some work
(I did not use StormC, as I was too lazy to convert the makefile into a project file).
As AmigaOS has no fully working configure, I made up the makefiles myselves, for WarpUP
and 68k. The WarpUP version can probably be improved a lot in speed by introducing
buffering to reduce the context switches. The 68k version requires ixemul being installed
(sorry).
differ.txt includes the changes to the original 0.6.2 version for the Amiga version.
If you apply both differ.txt and differ2.txt to the 0.7.7 Beta Source of vcdimager,
you can also port 0.7.7 Beta to the Amiga.
You get the full Linux Source Code of vcdimager at http://www.gnu.org/software/vcdimager/
To get my current Amiga Source of the thing you just have to apply the differ.txt on
the original source, and copy the makefiles over.
VCDImager falls under the GPL.
Note that my makefiles are a bit crappy. They will bring an error occasionally. In this
case just enter the directory where the error came and make the sub-makefile directly.
Also they won't link. To link you have to do (from frontends/cli, after copying the
linker libs to appropriate places so they will be found):
PPC:
ppc-amigaos-gcc -warpup -V2.95.2 -warpup -mcpu=604e vcdimager.o snprintf.o vsnprintf.o -lpopt -lvcd -lppcamiga -ovcdimager.exe
elf2exe2 vcdimager.exe vcdimager
ppc-amigaos-gcc -warpup -V2.95.2 -warpup -mcpu=604e vcdrip.o snprintf.o vsnprintf.o -lpopt -lvcd -lppcamiga -ovcdrip.exe
elf2exe2 vcdrip.exe vcdrip
68k:
gcc -V2.95 -m68060 vcdimager.o snprintf.o vsnprintf.o -lpopt -lvcd -lamiga -lm -ovcdimager68k
gcc -V2.95 -m68060 vcdrip.o snprintf.o vsnprintf.o -lpopt -lvcd -lamiga -lm -ovcdrip68k
elf2exe2 vcdrip.exe vcdrip
For 0.7.7 Beta you'd additionally include the object file rint.o and you would
also link vcddebug additionally.
Ah, to be able to compile vcdrip.c you also have to start this manually, another bug in
the makefile. Just compile it with the same options like the makefile does for
vcdimager.c...
Steffen Haeuser
SteffenH@hyperion-software.de