Does anyone know of a good (hopefully free) MPEG encoder that will work
with the SDL-MPEG Player Library? I’d prefer something that can take an
AVI and convert it to an MPEG.
Now I’ll tell you about my current project… A simple Myst type engine,
with MPEG support (instead of just jumping between locations, it plays
an MPG of the movement). It is still too early to release anything, but
I’m hoping to have it so you can walk around by the weekend.
Eventually I hope to do away with the single image/view format and move
to something like Quicktime VR for the locations. But that won’t be for
a while.
As for the game itself, that is still up in the air, right now I’m
thinking of something based around the Egypt (I hear it now, not another
Myst clone set in egypt!!) I have a twist though, have the game be
based upon the book of the dead, you play the dead Pharoah in his quest
to join/merge with/become the Amen-Ra.
-fjr--
Frank J. Ramsay
fjr at epsilon.com
framsay at epsilon.com
Genetic Engineering: (noun) Proactive Evolution.
Frank Ramsay wrote:
Does anyone know of a good (hopefully free) MPEG encoder that will work
with the SDL-MPEG Player Library? I’d prefer something that can take an
AVI and convert it to an MPEG.
Go to www.freshmeat.net and search for MPEG. It’s called MPEG tools or something
like that, it’s free and it does not work with AVIs but with still images.
Or you can use some (commercial) Xing encoder.
Vasek
Got the the MPEG tools page to find a dead link to the ‘complete collection of tools’ 
Anyone else have any ideas?
-fjr
Vaclav Slavik wrote:>
Frank Ramsay wrote:
Does anyone know of a good (hopefully free) MPEG encoder that will work
with the SDL-MPEG Player Library? I’d prefer something that can take an
AVI and convert it to an MPEG.
Go to www.freshmeat.net and search for MPEG. It’s called MPEG tools or something
like that, it’s free and it does not work with AVIs but with still images.
Or you can use some (commercial) Xing encoder.
Vasek
–
Frank J. Ramsay
fjr at epsilon.com
framsay at epsilon.com
Genetic Engineering: (noun) Proactive Evolution.
look for smpeg the SDL mpeg video and layer 3 player. I know there is a link
from the loki home page as they are helping the development. This is a fully
open source project.
Michael Lunnay> ----- Original Message -----
From: fjr@marsdome.penguinpowered.com (Frank Ramsay)
To: sdl at surfnetcity.com.au
Date: Friday, 6 August 1999 22:15
Subject: Re: [SDL] MPEG encoder
Got the the MPEG tools page to find a dead link to the ‘complete collection
of tools’
Anyone else have any ideas?
-fjr
Vaclav Slavik wrote:
Frank Ramsay wrote:
Does anyone know of a good (hopefully free) MPEG encoder that will work
with the SDL-MPEG Player Library? I’d prefer something that can take
an
AVI and convert it to an MPEG.
Go to www.freshmeat.net and search for MPEG. It’s called MPEG tools or
something
like that, it’s free and it does not work with AVIs but with still
images.
Or you can use some (commercial) Xing encoder.
Vasek
–
Frank J. Ramsay
fjr at epsilon.com
framsay at epsilon.com
Genetic Engineering: (noun) Proactive Evolution.
look for smpeg the SDL mpeg video and layer 3 player. I know there is a link
from the loki home page as they are helping the development. This is a fully
open source project.
This is just a decoder, not an encoder.
I found the encoder package that is referred to, but I forget where it was.
I can upload it somewhere, if you like.
Look on www.freshmeat.net for MPEG if you want.
-Sam Lantinga (slouken at devolution.com)
Lead Programmer, Loki Entertainment Software–
“Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature”
– Rich Kulawiec
I found a link to an AVI->MPG coverter (video & sound/or just video)
which is perfect because my 3D software (trueSpace 4) writes AVI’s.
This would probably be usefull for other people, so I’ll try and
remember to post the URL when I get into work Monday.
-fjr
Sam Lantinga wrote:>
look for smpeg the SDL mpeg video and layer 3 player. I know there is a link
from the loki home page as they are helping the development. This is a fully
open source project.
This is just a decoder, not an encoder.
I found the encoder package that is referred to, but I forget where it was.
I can upload it somewhere, if you like.
Look on www.freshmeat.net for MPEG if you want.
-Sam Lantinga (slouken at devolution.com)
Lead Programmer, Loki Entertainment Software
“Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature”
– Rich Kulawiec
Checkout http://www.mnsi.net/~jschlic1/
This should be what you were searchin for.
Eugen
Frank Ramsay wrote:
The URL for the converter I found is http://www.mnsi.net/~jschlic1/
-fjr>
I found a link to an AVI->MPG coverter (video & sound/or just video)
which is perfect because my 3D software (trueSpace 4) writes AVI’s.
This would probably be usefull for other people, so I’ll try and
remember to post the URL when I get into work Monday.
-fjr
–
Frank J. Ramsay
fjr at erols.com
fjr at epsilon.com
framsay at epsilon.com
Genetic Engineering: (noun) Proactive Evolution.