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Full motion video playback on the Sega Saturn?

keeptryin - Nov 21, 2011

		keeptryin		Nov 21, 2011
			Hello there! This is my first post over here. I've been messing around with Saturn Orbit for a while now, compiled a few working applications. (mainly simple applications that display backgrounds & sprites) , but now I'd like help in something more complex. I'd like to create an application that plays a Cinepak or TrueMotion file on the Sega Saturn. The thing is, I don't know exactly where to start. I've used AviToSaturn, it created a *.cpk file for me. But I don't know how to write code to play Cinepak video... and I can't find any documentation or whatsoever. I don't know about TrueMotion. Well the thing is: I just want to play some full motion video on the Saturn, it doesn't matter if it's Cinepak or TrueMotion. Is there any documentation that can help? Or sample code? Thanks in advance!

		Chilly Willy		Nov 21, 2011
			SaturnOrbit includes all the Duck TM1 stuff, including the sample code. You'll find the example in SaturnOrbit\DUCK\SATURN\SEGASMP\DUK. I couldn't locate anything for cinepak other than SEGA's .h file for their library - no sample code or even a doc on it. You'd probably be better off swiping the cinepak code from ffmpeg if you want to play cinepak files.

		keeptryin		Nov 24, 2011
			Chilly Willy said: SaturnOrbit includes all the Duck TM1 stuff, including the sample code. You'll find the example in SaturnOrbit\DUCK\SATURN\SEGASMP\DUK. I couldn't locate anything for cinepak other than SEGA's .h file for their library - no sample code or even a doc on it. You'd probably be better off swiping the cinepak code from ffmpeg if you want to play cinepak files. I found what I was looking for in that folder. Thank you so much!

		Chilly Willy		Nov 24, 2011
			keeptryin said: I found what I was looking for in that folder. Thank you so much! No problem. Of course, the FUN part is actually making the movies... I set up Windows 3.11 on dosbox and installed the DUK software. Needless to say, it's a might slow. That's one of the bigger problems with TM1/2 - no modern encoders.

		Madroms		Nov 26, 2011
			CPK resource released in 2009 with the source code of D2SGM2: At satakore.com...

		Chilly Willy		Nov 26, 2011
			Madroms said: CPK resource released in 2009 with the source code of D2SGM2: At satakore.com... Damn that's big! But thanks a bunch! Cinepak would probably be easier to encode than TM1.

		itsstillthinking		Feb 27, 2016
			seems that it wont compile, any ideas?

		vbt		Feb 28, 2016
			itsstillthinking said: show us the errors

		itsstillthinking		Feb 29, 2016
			seems to be with the it not finding a "main" in the cpkviewer, sorry if my terms are rusty as im getting back into saturn dev