{"id":323,"date":"2006-10-06T19:56:30","date_gmt":"2006-10-07T02:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/gamecube-multimedia-review\/"},"modified":"2006-10-06T19:56:30","modified_gmt":"2006-10-07T02:56:30","slug":"gamecube-multimedia-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/gamecube-multimedia-review\/","title":{"rendered":"GameCube Multimedia Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poking around on a number of Nintendo GameCube games, I have found a pretty consistent mix of FMV formats. In due time, these will need to be entered into the <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.multimedia.cx\/\">MultimediaWiki<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.multimedia.cx\/index.php?title=THP\">THP files<\/a> seem to be the most prevalent<\/li>\n<li>H4M files have the markings of a hierarchical vector quantizer (like the letters &#8216;HVQ&#8217;); HVQ is also used in Sorenson Video 1 and LucasArts video<\/li>\n<li>Electronic Arts games have a VID format which has similar markings as a number of their other evolved game multimedia formats<\/li>\n<li>One game has 11,500+ <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.multimedia.cx\/index.php?title=Ogg\">Ogg<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.multimedia.cx\/index.php?title=Vorbis\">Vorbis<\/a> files; some of them appear to correspond via base filename to files with the extension .cib; I tend to think that these are corresponding video files<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.multimedia.cx\/index.php?title=Sofdec\">Sofdec files<\/a>, as commonly seen on Sega Dreamcast games<\/li>\n<li>DSP files, often paired as L and R files for stereo effect<\/li>\n<li>occasional <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.multimedia.cx\/index.php?title=Bink_Container\">BIK files<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Plus, there are a number of other audio files, probably encoded with a custom ADPCM format common on GameCube games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poking around on a number of Nintendo GameCube games, I have found a pretty consistent mix of FMV formats. 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