[Scummvm-devel] Smacker to DXA conversion

[Max Horn]

Yo,

while browsing the forums, I noticed a post by a fellow Mac user of mine
who asked how he could convert the SMK movies to DXA, given that he
doesn't have a Windows PC to run the RAD decoder tool on.

This caused me to think of the following: As you know, at this time we
don't want to include native Smacker support in ScummVM, for legal reasons
(something which maybe we should at some point try to resolve, by
explicitly contacting RAD about it...).
But, this doesn't mean we couldn't try to persuade somebody to write a
portable smacker-to-DXA converter, right? Somebody on #scummvm (madmoose
?) has been working on a libsmk recently. It should be fairly easy to
write a tool based on this and our DXA converter code which directly
converts a SMK into DXA (at least the graphics part). For legal reasons we
shouldn't host this as part of ScummVM I guess, but that shouldn't be the
issue.

Thoughts?

Also, would it make sense to create a seperate DXA SF.net project, where
documentation for DXA and a simple encoder / decoder, plus possibly more
advanced codecs for it, would be hosted?


Bye,
Max