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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