[Scummvm-devel] Section 3.7 in our README (Smacker)

[Marcus Comstedt]

Torbjörn Andersson <eriktorbjorn at telia.com> writes:

>> At least the PS1 version ought to be runnable directly from the CD
>> (how else would you run it on a PS1?)...
>
> Maybe, but doesn't it use some strange format for the cutscenes that
> ScummVM probably doesn't support? I'm not even sure they're normal
> files, because I'm not able to copy them from the CD to hard disk on my
> computer. (Wikipedia mentions something about PlayStation using a
> "mixed-mode format". Perhaps that's what I'm seeing.)

If they are "STR" files, then they contain a mix of audio mode sectors
(for the audio), and data sectors (for the video).  You can usually
read the video data by seeking past the audio sectors as you encounter
them (this works on Linux at least).  Reading the audio sectors is
probably more difficult when you treat the segment as a file...

If we lack support for the codecs, I can add them (it's basically
MJPEG for the video and ADPCM for the audio), but I suppose it's a bit
moot if we don't also make a portable mechanism for reading in the
data.


  // Marcus