[Scummvm-devel] BS2 cutscenes

[Max Horn]

First off: Merry Christmas, folks (to those of you who are concerned 
with such things :-)


Second, on our latest news item, Ender writes:
"The release schedule for 0.6.0 has been pushed back a little due to  
various problems (such as reencoding Broken Sword cutscenes)"


Now, is actually any work being done on this??? From my POV, people 
have been talking about this for a couple months now, but nobody has 
actually *done* anything. If nobody simply implements it, I fear we'll 
not be ready for release by eastern, or next christmas, either....

I still am not hot on merging libmpeg2 into our CVS tree; but IMO 
that's actually not the main matter - because this particular decision 
(include whatever playback library we choose to use into our CVS or 
have it as an external dependency) really can be made later. 
(Personally, I still don't see why it is too much to ask people who 
want BS2 video playback to install some lib before compiling ScummVM - 
those who don't care or don't know either build w/o video support, or 
get an official binary. But I digress :-) ).

So...

1) Are we set on MPEG2? Or is there still need for discussion of the 
video format (if so, what realistic alternatives are there? Remember, 
we need a portable playback library for it)

2) If so, did somebody already convert the videos to MPEG2?

3) Do we have permission to re-distribute the re-encoded movies?

4) If yes, how do we plan to distribute them? If no, we should make a 
doc for users on how they can convert the movies by themselves.


I think we should move this forward aggressively now. From my POV I 
don't quite see why we couldn't have settled all of this one month ago 
(lack of drive apparently was what caused this delay, apparently? :-)


Cheers,

Max