On 6/13/08, Freddie Witherden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > > > On Friday, 13 June 2008 at 0:19, bugs buggy wrote: > >> I haven't done much with video stuff, but I used ffmpeg with a > >> bitrate > >> of 2400K, and used the 'double sized' video (as in, it skips ever > >> other scanline to make the FMV appear bigger than it is), so while > >> the > > > > Skip every other line means inserting black lines, or doubling the > > lines? Inserting black lines will increase the needed bitrate way too > > much (if you want to do that, rather do it after decoding the video), > > and doubling the lines won't really make it look different, will it? > > (And also can be done as post-processing, rather than eating bits > > unnecessarily.) > > > I agree here. Doing it in software *after* we have de-compressed the > video is the way to go. A lot of games, however, did use this > technique of adding in alternate black lines. Namely, early C&C and > TA spring to mind. It does work. > > Regards, Freddie.
I guess we can change the ogg playback code to do the same thing... Just got to work out the issues it has first. _______________________________________________ Warzone-dev mailing list Warzone-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/warzone-dev
