#4106 - lorndragon - Wed Mar 19, 2003 4:19 am
I want converts Movies (*.avi or *.mpg ....) to GBA, Help me please.
#4121 - DekuTree64 - Wed Mar 19, 2003 6:39 pm
Either buy a very expensive commercial codec (I think they run about $2000), or write your own. Either way is a lot of work^^
Of course if you're just doing it for fun, you can play uncompressed video, but that takes a huge amount of ROM, so you probably won't get much more than a few seconds on a flash cart. You could probably get away with using RLE compression on each frame though, and especially if your whole animation is 256 color with the same palette it would be smaller. If you want sound though, that's another story. You could play a MOD with short sound effects and stuff without soaking up a lot of memory though.
#4128 - tepples - Wed Mar 19, 2003 11:18 pm
I'm curious. If you read that somebody released a decent quality video codec with a real-time GBA decompressor under the GNU GPL, what would be your first reaction?
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#5459 - joemmac - Mon Apr 28, 2003 8:07 pm
Has anyone developed a codec for this purpose? Or is anyone working on a project like that right now?
I am designing a hardware adapter to connect a SmartMedia card to the GBA cartridge bus. If someone made a way to convert video files to GBA rom files, it would be comprable to the am3 or PocketPix. It would provide up to 128MB (1Gbit) of storage partitioned into pages of up to 32MB (256Mbit). This is ample space for a decent quality/length video, so any video conversion program would be very helpful.
#5778 - Questionmark - Thu May 08, 2003 2:37 pm
I just downloaded 2 trailers (Matrix and IceAge) that play well on the GBA
http://www.gameboy-advance-roms.tk
Seems like the HW is able to decompress video with sufficient speed.
There is also an OpenDivX port for the GBA but i think its not yet that fast.
Search for: OpenDivx 4.48 port on GBA using GCC
#5983 - Ghostlight - Wed May 14, 2003 6:38 pm
The old predator vid codec used to be around, and I make short GBA videos all the time with it. Its watermarked, takes a hella long time to compile, and is lower res then the matrix video. But its a good party trick.
#5990 - joemmac - Wed May 14, 2003 8:33 pm
Do you know where one could get a copy of this predator vid codec?