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how to watch grandi .mov movies?

evangelion-01 - Jan 14, 2006

		evangelion-01		Jan 14, 2006
			any program out there? and no, quicktime and vlc wont work...

		Quakester2000		Jan 16, 2006
			Are the files not truemotion video files? There is a player called TMplayer or something like that that played truemotion files. Then again it could be a custom codec which means you will have to write your own decompressor.

		G. Borisz		Jan 16, 2006
			Duck Truemotion files are in AVIs. I don't think Grandia uses them. (by the way - TMplayer is crap. it has buggy playback. Either set ffdshow to decode your truemotion files, or get mplayer or get the duck truemotion directshow filters, they were found years ago.)

		M3d10n		Jan 25, 2006
			Noone knows exactly what those .mov files are encoded with. The header hints at Cinepak, but the compression artifacts look entirely different than both Conepak and Truemotion. It looks very similar to MPEG-like codecs, with ringing artifacts and "smooth" macroblocks during heavy motion. I am pretty sure about reading somewhere about a Saturn game that used a software MPEG decoder, and also supported the VCD card. That way you got to see the same FMV files even without the VCD card, but at a lower framerate or something like that. The audio wasn't MPEG, it was ADX. Maybe that's what GameArts used? (BTW, the rason the Grandia videos look oddly pixelated is because GA had the stupid idea of running them in high resolution mode, and scaling them up, in a pathetic attempt to make it look sharper - so it got scaling artifacts, due to the non-uniform scaling, and shimmering).

		CyberWarriorX		Jan 26, 2006
			You're thinking of MPEG Sofdec. And contrary to what you may have heard, it doesn't use the mpeg card in the slighest. Cyber Warrior X