I am pleased to announce that Kostya Shishkov has opened a new blog: Kostya’s Wild Codec World. Kostya is a talented codec hacker who has sorted out the details of the QPEG, TechSmith Screen Capture Codec (TSCC), IBM Ultimotion, Autodesk RLE (AASC), and Indeo 2, among other audio and video codecs, and has helped implement open source decoders for the FFmpeg project. His current target is Duck/On2’s old TrueMotion v2 codec. Soon we may finally be able to natively view the movies from the Final Fantasy VII PC game.

Head over to his blog and keep up with his progress.