DXA support in BrokenSword 1/2

Post by **eriktorbjorn** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 11:14 am

keirondrk wrote: from the quick test i've just done, if your after a bit of space
I would highly recommend re-encoding your dxa's with the latest
SVN tool, just left mine working away today.

The new dxa's varied from being half the size to even smaller!

The downside, of course, is that they will not be compatible with ScummVM 0.9.x.

The way encode_dxa works is that it tries several different compression methods for each frame, and picks the one that produces the smallest output. The SVN version has added one - or was it more than one? - new compression method, and of course there had to be a corresponding decompressor added to the DXA player.

keirondrk · Post by **keirondrk** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 6:22 pm

slight down side but I can live with that... they will all be compat, when the new 10/+ version is released in the end..

impressive work!...
if I remember right they went from something like 1.5gb to 1.2gb..

john_doe · Post by **john_doe** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 7:34 pm

eriktorbjorn wrote:The SVN version has added one - or was it more than one?

It's one new method.
I'm currently working on a patch for the Dxa encoder (and player) that produces even smaller files. (Files made with the current SVN encoder will still be playable.)

clone2727 · Post by **clone2727** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:49 pm

john_doe wrote:
eriktorbjorn wrote:The SVN version has added one - or was it more than one?
It's one new method.
I'm currently working on a patch for the Dxa encoder (and player) that produces even smaller files. (Files made with the current SVN encoder will still be playable.)

Sounds good. When do you think it will be ready?

keirondrk · Post by **keirondrk** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 10:00 pm

wow even smaller.... !!! I'll get ready to re-encode them again when the time comes