It's finally here! The first version of the MovieToSaturn replacement. This should eliminate the need for a classic Mac enviroment:
Usage is fairly simple. Simply select your Cinepak video file and click Create FILM file. If successful it will create a .CPK file of the same name in the same directory. Beside the button the stats of the video bitrate will be displayed. Anything above 300KB/s will have playback issues on Saturn. Any spikes could also cause playback issues.
Currently the following video types are supported:
- Standard Modern Quicktime MOV files
- The format has apparently changed and parsing older ones from Quicktime 4 or older isn't working correclty at the moment with stereo audio.
- Cinepak Codec at 24-bit RGB
- 8-bit and 16-bit PCM Audio in both Mono and Stereo not exceeding 44100Hz.
Chroma Key processing is also supported. Simply put the RGB values for the color you want the player to set to the background color. This currently isn't tested but should work as far as the file encoding goes.
Quicktime MOV files can be encoded and created with either FFMPEG or VirtualDub 2:
- Select Cinepak as the video compression codec.
- Set the bitrate to be below 300KB/s (Don't forget to factor in your audio bitrate!)
- Adjust the framerate to the desired frame rate.
- Set the output colordepth to 24-bit RGB
- Set the Audio to 8-bit or 16-bit PCM
- Samplerate cannot exceed 44100Hz
- Channels can only be Mono or Stereo.
- Save as .MOV file (not fast start!)
This is still a work in progress. Every possibly video frame rate, audio rate, etc. has not been tested so there may still be issues.
