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@ninjawedding Everyone knows you bake the stuff you want to preserve, you don't refrigerate it

@tom I'm really curious if PPC is going to turn out to be vulnerable or not. I've heard analyses on S/390 and SPARC (not vulnerable) and ARM (vulnerable) but I haven't seen anything that's covered PPC yet!

I *knew* backing SH-2 over i386 was going to pay off someday.

My least favourite bug to fix is GCC builds on 10+ year old hardware. Iterating is hard when success or failure takes ~18 hours.

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@jaycie Excuse me I'm perfectly professional in an office setting

Well, I gave it a try yesterday, and I guess the "Apple Grandia Data" bitstream is different enough from standard MPEG-1 that FFmpeg doesn't understand it. I wonder if it's actually MPEG-1 or if it's something else.

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@blackle@dev.glitch.social @PDz@mastodon.art omg this is awesome. :D

Why am I even doing this? Partly, I just want to understand the mystery, lol. And partly because I want to translate the Saturn version of Grandia, which may require me to understand the FMV format.

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* I'm not entirely sure what the video codec is, but it appears to be a macroblock-based format that uses 8x8 macroblocks. This is very unusual for the hardware. It may be MPEG-1 meant to be used with a software decoder, or a very similar custom codec.
* The resolution is 320x144, encoding an image meant to be read at 16:9 using non-square pixels.

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Also, spent some time today investigating Grandia's extremely weird video format. I think I actually made some progress, so if I'm lucky I'll be able to add full decode support to FFmpeg. What I know so far:

* The container is Quicktime, and mostly standard.
* The stsd atom reports the codec as `cvid` (Cinepak), but this is not correct.
* The audio track is not detected by FFmpeg, but is compressed using the ADX ADPCM format.

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I decided to add support for Sonic Jam’s audio format to FFmpeg, but I didn’t expect it to only take six lines of code! awoo.space/media/N9DozT-0zKKE8

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@lindar Congratulations on the anniversary! You look great.

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@KitRedgrave@glitch.social Right???? I’m still so amazed with how it came out!!

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