{"id":578,"date":"2008-07-26T19:55:53","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T03:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/vp3-in-the-wild\/"},"modified":"2008-07-27T23:06:16","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T07:06:16","slug":"vp3-in-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/vp3-in-the-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"VP3 In The Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t believe I actually found a usage of On2’s VP3<\/a> video codec in the wild– on a 2006 Windows game called Time To Ride: Saddles and Stables<\/em><\/a>. The most amazing part about this is that software based on my FFmpeg<\/a> VP3 decoder plays one of the files correctly while the official VP3 decoder installed with the game exhibits some serious bugs.<\/p>\n

Official decoder, distributed with the game:
\n


\n\"VP3
\n<\/center><\/p>\n

Same file, played with FFmpeg’s FFplay (it’s supposed to have a grainy film feel to it):
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\n\"VP3
\n<\/center><\/p>\n

This makes me almost as proud as finding that an Apple QuickTime trailer for a particular 2000 movie that used to work in QT 4 was able to play with my xine<\/a> QuickTime demuxer but not with QT 6. (To be fair, the same trailer works again under QT 7.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can’t believe I actually found a usage of On2’s VP3 video codec in the wild– on a 2006 Windows game called Time To Ride: Saddles and Stables. The most amazing part about this is that software based on my FFmpeg VP3 decoder plays one of the files correctly while the official VP3 decoder installed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-hacking","category-vp3theora"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t