[FFmpeg-devel] New information on EALater3 MPEG audio-derived codec

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Ronald S. Bultje <rsbultje at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 1:59 AM, Jonathan Wilson <jfwfreo at tpgi.com.au> wrote:
>> Mike Melanson wrote:
>>> On 08/26/2010 06:49 PM, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
>>>> Some information on the EALayer3 audio codec as used in Command &
>>>> Conquer 3, Red Alert 3 and Command & Conquer 4 has been posted here
>>>> http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=EA_SAGE_Audio_Files
>>>> and here
>>>> http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=EALayer3
>>>> Also code for decoding EALayer3 (under BSD license) is here
>>>> http://bitbucket.org/Zenchreal/ealayer3
>>>>
>>>> Hopefully this information is of use to allow someone to support this
>>>> format in FFMPEG (better yet, hopefully someone can write an encoder for
>>>> it). I dont know anything about the internals of the FFMPEG MPEG audio
>>>> decoder otherwise I would write some patches myself.
>>>
>>> No format too marginal. :) Thanks for the research.
>>
>> I didnt do the work, Ben Moench did and I thank him very much for finding
>> all this out.
>> Seems wierd that they would invent a format that's close to MPEG but not
>> quite MPEG.
>
> Divx, Xvid, 3ivx come to mind...

None of those were new formats, just encoders... perhaps you mean
msmpeg4v1/v2/v3/wmv1/wmv2/Intel H.263/FLV/RV10/RV20/OH GOD NOT MORE...
;)

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