Opened 17 years ago

Closed 13 years ago

Last modified 13 years ago

#3366 closed defect (outdated)

PSP: Stuttering video on all Smush SAN files in COMI

Reported by: SF/avatar1976 Owned by: joostp
Priority: normal Component: Engine: SCUMM
Version: Keywords:
Cc: Game: Monkey Island 3

Description

I have tried both uncompressed and compressing the SAN files (audio both in MP3 and OGG). Current version 0.10 produces stuttering and pauses where it misses several frames of video (audio is not affected as badly and video stays in sync aside from while pausing or stuttering).
The 333Mhz 0.9 version created by Joostp does not experience stuttering, however video does go out of sync during SAN (Smush Anination) playback. Sync issues in SAN has been fixed in 0.10 but a 333Mhz version has not been made available due to Joostp wanting issues logged. Request 333Mhz to be available from the downloads section also on ScummVM website (at least for testing if sheer Mhz will resolve problems).

Ticket imported from: #1766695. Ticket imported from: bugs/3366.

Attachments (1)

codec47.patch (8.1 KB ) - added by fingolfin 16 years ago.
Experimental patch for SMUSH codec47

Download all attachments as: .zip

Change History (15)

comment:1 by fingolfin, 17 years ago

Joostp, any idea where the bottleneck is, precisely? Would it help if we found a MIPS coder who writes an ASM version of the relevant SMUSH codec (like Robin did for ARM systems) ? Or is it taking up the time somewhere else? Can you even do reasonable profiling on the PSP? :)

comment:2 by fingolfin, 17 years ago

Owner: set to joostp
Summary: PSP Port: Stuttering video on all Smush SAN files in COMIPSP: Stuttering video on all Smush SAN files in COMI

comment:3 by SF/flamaxil, 17 years ago

Yes, he is right! A 333 Mhz 0.10 would be very welcome. As today, most of PSP owners set it at 333 Mhz... I'm certain more Mhz and the addtional 32 MB of Ram from PSP Slim could solve these COMI performance issues.

by fingolfin, 16 years ago

Attachment: codec47.patch added

Experimental patch for SMUSH codec47

comment:4 by fingolfin, 16 years ago

I added an experimental patch which tries to rearrange the code in SMUSH codec 47 to make it possible for compilers to optimize it better.

Caveat: It might not run properly (or might be super-slow) depending on what the alignment rules for reads are on the PSP: The code used to read stuff bytewise on the PSP, I changed it to read 16bit words, which might not be OK on the PSP. If that's so, I could add some hacks to mitigate that effect (though a hand-written ASM version of this will always be better).

I wonder if you could give this a try, joost / anybody?

comment:5 by fingolfin, 16 years ago

What is the status of this item?

comment:6 by fingolfin, 16 years ago

Status: newpending

comment:7 by joostp, 16 years ago

Sorry Max, I COMPLETELY forgot to try this patch. Will do it ASAP.

comment:8 by SF/sf-robot, 16 years ago

Status: pendingclosed

comment:9 by SF/sf-robot, 16 years ago

This Tracker item was closed automatically by the system. It was previously set to a Pending status, and the original submitter did not respond within 14 days (the time period specified by the administrator of this Tracker).

comment:10 by joostp, 16 years ago

Status: closednew

comment:11 by joostp, 16 years ago

Unfortunately this patch causes it to crash a few seconds in, presumably due to an unaligned read. At present I don't have a comprehensive debugging environment set up, so can't tell you exactly where the problem lies. :-/

comment:12 by fingolfin, 15 years ago

What is the status of this item?

comment:13 by joostp, 13 years ago

Closing this as it seems to work well for me in a current build.

A lot has changed since this bug was filed (over 4 years ago!)

comment:14 by joostp, 13 years ago

Resolution: outdated
Status: newclosed
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