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Started by IlyaZ March 30, 2006 02:06 PM

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IlyaZ

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March 30, 2006 02:06 PM

Hey, I've seen quite many games using the bink format. I wonder if it's free and if it's easy to use with c++/dx9. I want to play an intro cinematic. (AVI file is 200MB, with bink it's like 15MB). If not, are there any other formats I can use? Thanks, IlyaZ

Sneftel

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March 30, 2006 02:14 PM

The Bink SDK is non-free.

Emmanuel Deloget

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March 30, 2006 02:25 PM

More info on bink here

-- Emmanuel D. [blog, in French] [blog, very bad googlized translation]

IlyaZ

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March 30, 2006 04:01 PM

There are no other free alternatives?

marcjulian

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March 30, 2006 04:12 PM

sure,
ogg theora is free...

Sneftel

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March 30, 2006 04:14 PM

Quote:Original post by IlyaZ
There are no other free alternatives?

There's plenty of free alternatives. You say "AVI file is 200MB", but what that really means is "AVI file using an uncompressed format is 200MB". Why not use MPEG-4 or Sorenson or something as the format for your AVI?

IlyaZ

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March 31, 2006 09:53 AM

Yes ok, but is there some rather easy (=quick) way to combine it with a game. Like through an SDK. But which one would you recommend?

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