On 6/12/08, Christian Ohm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday, 12 June 2008 at 23:54, Angus Lees wrote: > > My intention with the fmvs originally was to provide a separate 'fmv.wz' > > which could just be dropped into the right directory - as other's have > > suggested. Look for the movie and fall back to current behaviour if not > > found (and when the movie ends). Distros-and-whatever would presumably > > package it separately, and (when the legal situation was murky) users could > > choose to download/distribute it themselves. > > > > The patch I sent some time ago supported both .ogg and .rpl formats, again > > my intention being allowing those few people with the original game to use > > their .rpls (or something) and the rest of us can use .oggs. And the code > > is structured to allow other formats if something better turns up. > > > Since the reencoded movies are quite a bit smaller and can now > definitely be redistributed, the RPL code isn't really needed anymore, I > think. > > For playback I'd prefer using FFMPEG to the OGG libraries directly, > since this will make it easier for others to make movies for mods > without lossy reencoding into obscure formats.
You mean launch a external program to handle this? I am not sure this is the best way to go on all platforms, you would also need some way to make sure each platform has ffmpeg available. Right now, I am playing around with ogg libraries... > > > > For reference, a no-fancy-options recompression of the rpl files into ogg > > ends up at about this resulting size: > > > > 187M sequences_ogg.zip > > 777M sequences_rpl.zip > > > > So .ogg theora/vorbis is a pretty big saving in size. sequences_ogg.zip > was > > generated via my rpl2avi wine program with the original eidos dlls and then > > reencoded using ffmpeg2theora - if you're interested in the resulting file > > or any of the pipeline just ask. > > > What codec was the intermediate AVI? If it was lossy, the double > reencoding degraded the quality/size more than necessary (i.e. with > direct encoding to the target format the files could be smaller or > of better quality (or even both)). For my experiment into this, I just dumped out each frame, and the sound, and then used ffmpeg to make that into a ogg/theora video. I used a bitrate of 2400K (unsure what I should use), and the results are pretty much what the originals look like. The only other thing I was trying to figure out is, that the original videos are all 320x240 or less. The 'full screen' option renders the video every other scanline. If you know a good way to upscale from 320x240 without big ugly pixelazation, I am all ears. :) _______________________________________________ Warzone-dev mailing list Warzone-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/warzone-dev
