{"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":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe I actually found a usage of <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.multimedia.cx\/index.php?title=On2_VP3\">On2&#8217;s VP3<\/a> video codec in the wild&#8211; on a 2006 Windows game called <a href=\"http:\/\/games.multimedia.cx\/time-to-ride-saddles-stables\/\"><em>Time To Ride: Saddles and Stables<\/em><\/a>. The most amazing part about this is that software based on my <a href=\"http:\/\/ffmpeg.org\/\">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<p>Official decoder, distributed with the game:<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/eggs\/images\/vp3-wrong.jpg\" alt=\"VP3 incorrect decoding\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Same file, played with FFmpeg&#8217;s FFplay (it&#8217;s supposed to have a grainy film feel to it):<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/eggs\/images\/vp3-correct.jpg\" alt=\"VP3 looks right\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/xinehq.de\/\">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":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe I actually found a usage of On2&#8217;s VP3 video codec in the wild&#8211; 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 [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","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=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}