{"id":201,"date":"2006-02-11T23:16:55","date_gmt":"2006-02-12T07:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/?p=201"},"modified":"2006-02-11T23:34:31","modified_gmt":"2006-02-12T07:34:31","slug":"mad-dog-mccree-and-tta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/mad-dog-mccree-and-tta\/","title":{"rendered":"Mad Dog McCree And TTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got up out of my chair, ambled across the room to my big CD-ROM folder, got out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/dos\/mad-dog-mccree\">Mad Dog McCree<\/a> disc, unpacked the <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.xentax.com\/index.php\/American_Laser_Games_LIB\">LIB GRAF file<\/a>, so that I could finally test and commit Peter Ross&#8217; ALG-MM playback system for <a href=\"http:\/\/ffmpeg.sf.net\">FFmpeg<\/a>. If you have any of the very early multimedia titles by American Laser Games you should be able to use the latest CVS version of FFmpeg to play the cheesy, low-resolution, low-framerate multimedia. Further, I have placed some <a href=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/samples\/alg-mm\/\">select samples here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/dos\/mad-dog-mccree\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/eggs\/images\/maddogmccree.jpg\" alt=\"Mad Dog McCree\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artificis.hu\">Alex<\/a> has submitted a native FFmpeg playback system for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.true-audio.com\/\">True Audio (TTA)<\/a> lossless format. 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