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Interesting factoid: a codec called TrueMotion by the Duck Corporation encoded cut scenes for a number of games in that period, on PC and Sega Saturn+Dreamcast+
by danbmil99 4y ago
Interesting factoid: a codec called TrueMotion by the Duck Corporation encoded cut scenes for a number of games in that period, on PC and Sega Saturn+Dreamcast+3DO. This company later changed its name to On2, and developed the VP3/VP8 generation of codecs that were ancestors of AV1 (Google's open-source codec) (Disclaimer: I was founder/CTO)
Off the top of my head, we did intro & cutscenes for these titles/platforms (this is a small subset):
Spycraft | Activision PC
Gexx | Crystal Dynamics 3DO
The Horde | Crystal Dynamics 3DO
Street Fighter II | Sega
Final Fantasy 7 | Square (PC +/or PS2??)
There were at least 20 others
- fredoralive 4y agoFF7 used the Duck codec for the PC release, which can sometimes have a fun bug where all the videos play upside down. I assume the PS1 original uses the consoles built in Motion JPEG decoder.