On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Christian Ohm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > 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)).
>

Uncompressed AVIs.  You're only getting the artifacts from the original RPL
dec130 compression.

Search the archives for rpl2avi if you want the source.

-- 
- Gus
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