We could simply make warzone capable of playing theora files, and then
just leave it at that.
Then anyone willing to distribute the videos, or some other videos for
this purpose, can do
so on their own behalf and responsibility.
Yes, I guess something like that was what I had in mind. I think there is little (personal) risk of being sued over the videos, since it'd be pretty hard for anyone to demonstrate economic loss at this point - but I understand this project (and others, like Debian) not wanting to ship the video content in any form.
Anyway, here's a newer version that flips the video frames (apparently I had them upside down and never noticed..) has much smaller output files (forgot a /8) and hacks around a wine max index size limitation. I've run it across most of the warzone RPL files and the only remaining problem I see (via mplayer on the result) is in a handful of cases the audio goes corrupt about half way through - not sure if that's a code problem or my original RPL files..
Just fyi, my early tests show the original RPL files being comparable to a naive ogg/theora/vorbis version and an avi/mpeg4/mp3 only being ~half that. So it looks like we mightn't actually gain a whole lot in file size, without tweaking the quality way down :(
Having seen that, I might actually look harder into supporting the original RPL files directly..
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- Gus
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