[Scummvm-devel] FOTAQ CD version in Ogg format?
Joost Peters
joostp at 7fc1.org
Sun Sep 11 11:12:06 CEST 2005
Hi Stefan,
As _sev said, we're already exceeding our quota, so we can't host it on
SourceForge.
However, if you intend to host/mirror the Ogg-compressed version
yourself somewhere, then I can provide you the QUEEN.1 file from an
original FOTAQ CD (for a limited time on a fast connection) so you can
grab and reencode it yourself.
Alternatively, you could modify queenrebuild to support transcoding.
Regards,
Joost
Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm new to this list, so I hope this has not been discussed before.
>
> I'm the current maintainer of scummvm and BASS/FOTAQ (both floppy
> version) for SUSE. Some of our customers wanted to play the CD version
> of FOTAQ with speech output and stumbled about the MP3 problem, since
> we no longer ship scummvm with mad (MP3) support due to legal/license
> issues. I tried to rebuild it, but ran into problems. I made a
> bugreport and wrote a small README.SUSE about the results.
>
> ======================================================================
> FAQ
> ---
>
> Q: When using the CD Version of "Flight of the Amazon Queen" (which
> includes speech output in MP3 format) I get the following warning:
> "Using MP3 compressed datafile, but MP3 support not compiled in!"
> A: scummvm on SUSE is compiled without MAD (MP3) support. This is
> intentional and we can't change this. It should be possible to
> convert the FOTAQ data into ogg/flac instead of mp3 format
> with "queenrebuild" (shipped since SUSE 10.0). But this does
> *not* work with the FOTAQ version you can can currently download
> from the scummvm website.
>
> # /usr/games/queenrebuild --ogg queen.1c
> Unknown/unsupported FOTAQ version!
>
> SUSE reported this problem to the scummvm developer team. They
> told us that this tool only supports official versions (not yet
> converted data) of FOTAQ. Unfortunately the scummvm project
> suffers from restricted project file space and therefore cannot
> provide an ogg version of FOTAQ. We're working on a solution for
> the future. For now you need to download an official CD version
> of FOTAQ (not converted yet data) - FOTAQ has been freewared -
> and convert it to ogg format with "queenrebuild" yourself. Start
> your favorite search engine and use
>
> "Flight of the Amazon Queen" download
>
> as search string. The size should be much more than 35 MB.
> Otherwise you'll likely download an already MP3 converted
> version again, which won't help you.
> ======================================================================
>
> "sev" told me to discuss this issue on scummvm-devel. So here we
> are. :-)
>
> Best regards,
> Stefan
>
> P.S.: It isn't that easy to find a full version for download. Up to
> now (tried about a dozen download links) all version has been
> compressed versions (about 32 MB zipped) and therefore handled
> as unsupported versions by "queenrebuild". So if anybody can tell
> me a valid download link, please let me know!
>
> Public Key available
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