{"id":152,"date":"2005-11-23T00:13:50","date_gmt":"2005-11-23T07:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/?p=152"},"modified":"2005-11-23T00:14:23","modified_gmt":"2005-11-23T07:14:23","slug":"more-gdv-documentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/more-gdv-documentation\/","title":{"rendered":"More GDV Documentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have written some more <a href=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/gdv-format.txt\">documentation for the GDV file format<\/a>. VAG&#8217;s decoding functions are pretty straightforward but the documentation process gets tedious in a hurry. The more advanced coding methods use a bizarre bit packing method interleaved with data bytes that I can almost guarantee <a href=\"http:\/\/ffmpeg.sf.net\">FFmpeg<\/a> does not support with its native bitstream readers.<\/p>\n<p>I have the game <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/dos\/realms-of-the-haunting\"><em>Realms Of The Haunting<\/em><\/a> which is 4 CD-ROMs packed full of FMV goodness using the GDV format. Two other games, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/windows\/hardwar\"><em>Hardwar<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/dos\/normality\"><em>Normality<\/em><\/a>, are known to use the GDV format, but with other color depths and perhaps other coding modes. If anyone has those games, I would like to see some GDV samples from each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been at work on that GDV document&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reverse-engineering"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}