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DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 (Announce)

posted by Zyzzle, 28.02.2026, 14:48

> Now use only last DJGPP port of FFMPEG 5.1.2 as video decoder!
> it support most codecs including webm animated GIF ...
 It is fabulous to have another DOS video player which supports modern codecs. Thanks very much. This is a logical progression of the DUGL picture viewer. I seem to recall you released a DUGL player over a decade ago which supported MPEG1 and MPEG2, but not h.264 or h.265.

I tested it in raw bare-metal DOS 7.1, and it played a 640x480 6mbps h.264 .mp4 at about 55 fps with MTRR enabled and ~38 fps without MTRRs enabled. This is on an i5 3427 CPU @ 1.7 Ghz. Full-screen playing worked, but my 1366x768 and 1920x1080 VESA modes did not. (These use the native 16:9 AR of the screen). They were garbled. The only modes which worked for me were the 4:3 VESA modes.

The 55 fps was with Vsync enabled, full screen, and full screen "smoothing". Not sure what full screen smoothing does. Does it interpolate and do some sort of b-spline and / or lanzcos interpolation? Without any of these enabled, the player plays at 200-250 fps.

Really would like seeking in videos and playing sound. I loaded SB-Emu and DUGL player didn't crash with it loaded. So, this gives hope that when you enable sound with videos, it should work with on "modern" IHD PCI sound.

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