The movies for Crusader: No Remorse have a unique decoder which is not too hard
to implement. Unfortunately, they don't properly implement the "compression"
FourCC, and instead put their ID in the "Stream Handler". Since supporting
them requires a change to the existing Image API, I thought I should make a
pull request for comments.
With this change, the movies in Crusader can all be played nicely.
Symbols for codes shorter than the prefix table index width are stored
in the table. All the entries in the table with an index starting with
the code are set to the symbol value. That way, when decoding it is
possible to get the number of bits corresponding to the table width from
the bitstream and directly find the symbol value. Longer code still need
to be searched for in the codes list.
The high-resolution videos play back at much lower volume than the
original ones. This adds hard-coded values for how much to amplify
each cutscene. It's all done by ear, and it does introduce some
clipping, but I think it should be acceptable.
Of course, it could also be a problem with the audio decoder, so
this may be the wrong approach entirely.
In all my attempts to get the audio and video to sync up in the
ZGI videos, there have always been 9-10 frames of video before the
audio even starts, even though the audio is timestamped to start
before. This attempts to fix that by prioritizing sending audio
packets to the decoder in a timely fashion.
I do not know if this is the correct way of doing this, and there
are still some things that need to be fixed. But pragmatically, it
does procude significantly better sync, so...
Sometimes (only at the very start of a movie?) there will be a
video packet that has a PTS but no frame to display. Save that PTS
and use it for the next frame. This doesn't actually improve
anything, as far as I can tell, but feels right.
This is another attempts at improving the audio/video sync in the
MPEG-PS decoder. Unfortunately, the audio probably also needs to
be synced to its pts timestamps...
This code comes from clone2727's now defunct (?) ac3 branch, with
some minor compile fixes. This represents the latest version of
the stalled AC-3 decoder work for Zork: Grand Inquisitor. Note,
however, that I have not yet asked for clone2727's permission to
use this. I'm just experimenting.
In the Spanish version of Riven, the last edit of the video ogk.mov
ends one frame after the end of the media causing the playback to fail
without this check.
Fixes Trac#10633.
Vladimir Serbinenko
Andrei Prykhodko
Paweł Kołodziejski
Eugene Sandulenko
Vladimir Menshakov
Cameron Cawley
D G Turner
Thomas Fach-Pedersen
Matthew Duggan
Dmitry Blau
Bastien Bouclet
Torbjörn Andersson
Eric Fry