{"id":156,"date":"2005-12-12T16:46:50","date_gmt":"2005-12-13T00:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/?p=156"},"modified":"2006-10-04T21:46:43","modified_gmt":"2006-10-05T04:46:43","slug":"survey-of-gba-coding-methods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/survey-of-gba-coding-methods\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey Of GBA Coding Methods"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sony’s PlayStation Portable and Apple’s video iPod are enjoying quite a bit of recognition by allowing users to view television shows and movies on their tiny screens. Some folks, however, think that Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance should share in the fun. <\/p>\n


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Naturally, the PSP and the iPod have a few advantages over the GBA in that they have gobs of storage capacity, either optical or HD-based, whereas the GBA is limited to a few dozen megabytes in ROM. Further, the PSP and iPod presumably have a little more processing muscle (though I do not know the respective specs off the top of my head). PSP and iPod are known to use MPEG-4 technologies for the video. What does the Game Boy Advance use?<\/p>\n

Trixter<\/a> tipped me off about a game<\/strike> cartridge entitled Game Boy Advance Video: SpongeBob SquarePants, Vol. 1<\/a>. The ROM squeezes out 44 minutes of video. Trixter maintains that the video quality betrays characteristics of a vector quantizer codec. More Majesco GBA video titles can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What other video options are out there? Trixter pointed me to Caimans video codec for GBA<\/a>. The website yields zero data about the underlying compression techniques. Further, the MPEG-like 4xm format<\/a> is known to have been used in at least one GBA title– Britney’s Dance Beat<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don’t forget about the Game Boy Advance…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","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=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}