PS2 cinematics/movies?
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Hi,
What does the PS2 use for movie playback? Most PC games use Bink or Smacker, this is also available for XBox and GameCube, but which movie playback library is used for the PS2? I can''t find anything on this.
Any help?
Thanks! Mark
It uses a proprietry Sony system which is very close to MPEG2
GC has a proprietry Nintendo system (THP).
Smacker isn''t so commonly used these days due to being limited to 256 colours. Bink is extremely popular for PC games. People will sometimes use Bink on console games to simplify their code and movie compression paths - i.e. for a game release on PC, NGC and PS2, rather than requiring 3 different code paths, and to compress the movies into 3 different formats (often twice for multiple territory release NTSC & PAL), you compress into a single (or two) format and use a single code path.
GC has a proprietry Nintendo system (THP).
Smacker isn''t so commonly used these days due to being limited to 256 colours. Bink is extremely popular for PC games. People will sometimes use Bink on console games to simplify their code and movie compression paths - i.e. for a game release on PC, NGC and PS2, rather than requiring 3 different code paths, and to compress the movies into 3 different formats (often twice for multiple territory release NTSC & PAL), you compress into a single (or two) format and use a single code path.
Author
Thanks,
Since its proprietary that must be why I can''t find info on it on the web. BTW, even Bink isn''t available for the PS2 as far as I can see. Looks like there aren''t any commercial FMV playback libraries for the PS2, unless RenderWare or Intrinsic offers something like this..
Mark
Since its proprietary that must be why I can''t find info on it on the web. BTW, even Bink isn''t available for the PS2 as far as I can see. Looks like there aren''t any commercial FMV playback libraries for the PS2, unless RenderWare or Intrinsic offers something like this..
Mark
Hi,
We use RenderWare at our company so I can say for sure that RenderWare does not support movie playback - RenderWare on the graphics side is just a 2D and 3D rendering toolkit - much like a portable version of DirectX but somewhat more advanced and placed at a higher abstraction level.
I could tell you a lot about PS2 movie playback, but unfortunately the Sony Non-disclosure agreement does not allow me to do so. What I *can* tell you is that there is no need for 3rd party libraries to do movie streaming on the PS2.
Jacob Marner, M.Sc.
Console Programmer, Deadline Games
We use RenderWare at our company so I can say for sure that RenderWare does not support movie playback - RenderWare on the graphics side is just a 2D and 3D rendering toolkit - much like a portable version of DirectX but somewhat more advanced and placed at a higher abstraction level.
I could tell you a lot about PS2 movie playback, but unfortunately the Sony Non-disclosure agreement does not allow me to do so. What I *can* tell you is that there is no need for 3rd party libraries to do movie streaming on the PS2.
Jacob Marner, M.Sc.
Console Programmer, Deadline Games
well i for onw can tell you about the ps2 fmv playback 
its basically mpeg2 video data and pcm audio (compressed using ac3 i think). while i have not dealt directly with the format, there are tools on the net so you can view the movie files including directshow filters. if i had links i woudl supply them, do a search on google and you will be enlightened.
though this is limited to the fmv data on most games. being that the ps2 has a hardware mpeg2 decoder (ie dvd playback) it can be used by game developers to play to texture. i mena why use another compression format when you have hardware mpeg2 decoding? ist dvd quality which is pretty damn good. especially since the game can be stored on dvd so there is plenty of space.
its basically mpeg2 video data and pcm audio (compressed using ac3 i think). while i have not dealt directly with the format, there are tools on the net so you can view the movie files including directshow filters. if i had links i woudl supply them, do a search on google and you will be enlightened.
though this is limited to the fmv data on most games. being that the ps2 has a hardware mpeg2 decoder (ie dvd playback) it can be used by game developers to play to texture. i mena why use another compression format when you have hardware mpeg2 decoding? ist dvd quality which is pretty damn good. especially since the game can be stored on dvd so there is plenty of space.
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http://www.radgametools.com/bnkmain.htm
http://www.radgametools.com/bnkmain.htm
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