{"id":1936,"date":"2009-10-20T23:07:52","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T06:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/?p=1936"},"modified":"2009-10-20T23:07:52","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T06:07:52","slug":"roketz-vqm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/roketz-vqm\/","title":{"rendered":"Roketz VQM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been on a <a href=\"http:\/\/games.multimedia.cx\/\">gaming kick<\/a> lately. I found a game in my collection called <a href=\"\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/games.multimedia.cx\/roketz\/\">Roketz<\/a><\/em><\/a>; the full DOS game <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluemoon.ee\/history\/roketz\/index.html\">can be downloaded from the publisher<\/a>. The game has 2 files bearing the extension VQM that appear to be FMV files. <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.multimedia.cx\/index.php?title=Roketz_VQM\">Wiki<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/samples.mplayerhq.hu\/game-formats\/roketz-vqm\/\">samples<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Roketz<\/em> comes from a company called Bluemoon. According to their website, they&#8217;re also responsible for building the technological foundations for 2 well-known pieces of software: Kazaa and Skype. I&#8217;ve never used either, personally, but I understand that Skype uses a <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.multimedia.cx\/index.php?title=SILK\">custom vocoder called SILK<\/a>. Maybe Roketz and VQM is where the team got their start in codec technology?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found a format called VQM on a DOS game called Roketz from 1995<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-hacking"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936","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=1936"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1939,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions\/1939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}