Thread: RE: [email] Re: [GD-General] Video codecs

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DivX is great.  We used it on Homeworld2.  They have a slightly
customized version where you install the codec with the game, not into
windows.  This prevents users from installing DivX x.y.broken version in
windows and breaking your game.  If you can install the game you can
install 100% of the game.

I highly recommend DivX, it's very easy to use, cross platform now,
great encoding times, great compression ratio, and has very high image
quality.  It was low enough CPU usage we were able to decode it to
texture and draw the texture over the screen for a nice fade between the
movie and the in game 3d engine.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Thompson [mailto:da...@ar...]=20
Sent: February 10, 2004 11:45 AM
To: gam...@li...
Subject: Re: [email] Re: [GD-General] Video codecs

XVid I had problems installing under limited user access, so I wouldn't
go with that. Couldn't figure out why a video codec needed admin access,
but it wouldn't run without it. I was most bitter.

Bink and Smacker seem to do pretty nicely from what I've seen, and
they've been around so long that the tech should be incredibly mature. I
decompressed a smacker(bink?) video off of the Mechwarrior 2 cd i had
lying around.. and thats an old (but awesome!) game.

Ogg Vorbis is also nifty, but I also had problems getting it work under
LUA. Finally got it to work, but it was a trial, let me tell you.

-Dan

----- Original Message -----=20
From: "~BG~" <arc...@ma...>
To: <gam...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 8:06 AM
Subject: [email] Re: [GD-General] Video codecs

> 3ivx and XviD...  Both are MPEG4 advanced simple profile alternatives=20
> to DivX...  3ivx is a commercial codec like DivX, while XviD is an=20
> open source GPL codec.
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> There's also Ogg Theora which is built off of On2's VP3 codec, but=20
> it's at a pretty rough alpha stage right now (but should have pretty=20
> loose restrictions on use like Ogg Vorbis)
>
> On Feb 10, 2004, at 12:30 AM, Alen Ladavac wrote:
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> > I'm evaluating video codecs for FMVs, and have currently looked into

> > Bink and DivX. Are there any others worth checking?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Alen
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