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Cinepak Libraries
IBarracudaI - Dec 18, 2002
  IBarracudaI Dec 18, 2002
Hey guys!

I would like to know if there are any cinepak libraries available... I read somewhere on the saturn dev docs, that they existed, anyone has them?

Are they already on SGL?? SBL??

 TakaIsSilly Dec 18, 2002
In a word, no. In many words, the cinepak library is absent from the standart SGL package, and seems like the CD's that came with the Dev Kit don't carry a version of it as well.

 IBarracudaI Dec 18, 2002


So I guess nobody knows how to play cinepaks on a saturn...

How did the developers used it?

 CyberWarriorX Dec 18, 2002
I've been trying to track down those libraries as well. It almost appears as though anything cinepak related(libraries, encoding tools, etc.) was controlled by Cinepak's owner at that time, Radius.

Cyber Warrior X

 IBarracudaI Dec 18, 2002
So the conclusion is that we'll never get our hands on those...


  vbt Dec 18, 2002
I think you can find sources to decode saturn cinepack, I had some for linux I don't know where now(maybe on an old hard disk).

But they compiled successfully and I saw Tomb Raider vid.

 IBarracudaI Dec 18, 2002
You mean an on-the-fly decoder???

Or just a conversion prog?

 vbt Dec 18, 2002
I mean a player not a conversion prog

 vbt Dec 18, 2002
I think I can open my ext2fs partition on windows to see if I kept the source but I have to plug the disk before.

also you can check this prog(thanks again Weston) and his sources

It converts an avi to a saturn cpk file. so it create the header and write correctly bytes. With this you can write your own player. But I think the source I had was really easier to understand.

http://perso.club-internet.fr/vincent.bert...AviTo...

 IBarracudaI Dec 18, 2002
humm, ok I'm getting a little sleepy... it's 1 am in here... gotta go to college in the morning...

I'll see it tomorrow...

 vbt Dec 18, 2002
2h00 AM here and I have to go to work in 6 hours

 CyberWarriorX Dec 18, 2002

  
	
	

		
		

			I think you can find sources to decode saturn cinepack, I had some for linux I don't know where now(maybe on an old hard disk).



But they compiled successfully and I saw Tomb Raider vid.


Yeah, you could probably go through the mplayer(I think that was the linux program that can read them) source and try to port the code, but I'm not doing it.

Cyber Warrior X

 TakaIsSilly Dec 19, 2002
Of course, you'd need to understand the data streaming method of the Saturn CD-ROM. And pray the source is fast enough (what seems to be a problem) ^^;

 CyberWarriorX Dec 19, 2002
That too

Cyber Warrior X