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• WMA Lossless and ProRes Encoder

  4 mars 2012, par Multimedia Mike — General

  The projects (FFmpeg / Libav) just got a WMA lossless decoder. For those keeping score, this means that there are open source methods for decoding every single one of Microsoft’s proprietary audio codecs (Windows Media Audio, or WMA) : WMA v1, WMA v2, WMA9/Pro, WMA Voice, and now WMA lossless. Currently, it’s only advertised to decode 16-bit audio (no 24-bit). Also, when I first tried it a few days ago, it didn’t decode the very end of the single sample file I concocted many years ago (luckynight.wma). But that might be cleared up by now.

  Some other recent developments in the projects that I wanted to call out : An encoder for the Apple ProRes encoder from Kostya ; XWD (X window dump) image decoding and encoding from Paul B. Mahol ; a Sun rasterfile encoder from Aneesh Dogra.

  And then there’s the new playback system for CDXL files, also courtesy of Paul B. Mahol. I wasn’t familiar with this format until I wrote this post, which is surprising, given the format’s vintage. This was a CD-ROM FMV format favored for Amiga computers. Here it is in all its 160x120x10fps glory :

  
  
  

  That’s the amigaball.cdxl sample available in the repository. The sample is 3835910 bytes large and plays for about 24 seconds. This yields a data rate of about 159 kbytes/second. So, yeah, single-speed CD-ROM FMV.

• avformat/alp : fix handling of TUN files

  23 octobre 2020, par Zane van Iperen

  avformat/alp : fix handling of TUN files
  Sample rate is always 22050. Verified by trying various files in the game.
  

  • [DH] libavformat/alp.c

• G.I. Joe Custom Multimedia

  30 mars 2012, par Multimedia Mike — General

  I received this 3-disc set of G.I. Joe CD-ROMs today :

  
  
  

  Copyright 2003, and labeled as PC ONLY. Each disc claims to have 2 episodes. So are these some sort of video discs ? Any gaming elements ? I dove in to investigate.

  So, it turns out that there are some games on these discs, done in Flash Player (which tells me that these were probably available on the web at some point). Here’s a shooting gallery game from the first disc :

  
  
  

  As promised by the CD-ROM copy, the menu does grant access to 2 classic G.I. Joe episodes. Selecting either one launches this :

  
  
  

  Powered by C-ezy ? Am I interpreting that correctly ? Anyway, the video player goes fullscreen and looks fine (given the source material). I can’t capture screenshots and controls are limited to : space for pause, ESC to exit player, and up/down to control volume. No seeking and certainly no onscreen controls. Pretty awful player.

  Studying the first disc, I find a 550 MB file with the name 5859Hasbro.egm. Coupled with ep58.cfg and ep59.cfg files in the same directory, I gather that the disc has G.I. Joe episodes 58 and 59 (though the exact episodes, “There’s No Place Like Springfield” parts 1 and 2, are listed on Wikipedia as being episodes 154 and 155 ; but who’s counting ?). The cfg files contain this text :

  ep58.cfg :
  EGM_GIJOE.exe
  5859Hasbro.egm /noend /track:0 /singletrack
  ep59.cfg :
  
  EGM_GIJOE.exe
  
  5859Hasbro.egm /noend /track:1 /singletrack
  

  The big EGM file starts with the string “Egenie Player”. After that, I see absolutely no clues. The supporting EGM_GIJOE.exe file has some interesting strings : “Decore Bits Per Pixel” (I know I have seen “Decore” used to mean “decoding core” in some libraries), “Egenie Player – %s, Version :%s”, “4th June 2002″, a list of common FourCC tags seen in AVI files, “Brought to you by Martin, Patrick Bob and Bren” (do you suppose “Patrick Bob” is one person’s name ?), a list of command line options…

  Aha ! A URL : http:\www.e-genie.tv (yep, backslashes, not forward slashes). e-genie.tv seems to redirect to mygenie.tv, which… doesn’t appear to be strictly related to video technology these days.