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samsc
03-08-2003, 10:20 AM
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samsc
03-08-2003, 03:27 PM
try these links

http://www.cnet.com/Resources/Info/Glossary/Terms/cinepak.html
http://www.compressionworks.com/cinepak.htm

Sorenson vs cinepak:
http://hcs.harvard.edu/~tabanger/sorenson/

Something here calls itself 'Codec Central' dates from 1998...
http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperGraph/video/codecs/Cinepak.html
and
http://www.icanstream.tv/CodecCentral/Codecs/Cinepak.html


We are talking about ancient technolgy here.
Technical specs are around 1997 or before.

samsc
05-08-2003, 09:07 PM
I found code to do cinepak:

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~timf/videocodec.html

The cinepak algorithm
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~timf/videocodec/cinepak.txt
An example decoder
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~timf/videocodec.html

samsc
11-03-2004, 11:30 PM
shit.
cinepak is shit.

noone in their right mind would use it.