The movies for Crusader: No Remorse have a unique decoder which is not too hard
to implement. Unfortunately, they don't properly implement the "compression"
FourCC, and instead put their ID in the "Stream Handler". Since supporting
them requires a change to the existing Image API, I thought I should make a
pull request for comments.
With this change, the movies in Crusader can all be played nicely.
A lot of the standard VideoDecoder methods were still treating the
transparency track as part of the video, so methods like getFrameCount
would return double the amount it should be. This refactoring properly
separates the transparency track into a separate field entirely.
It turns out that at least one video in Starship Titanic, for the
Lift Indicator, has only a single transparency frame in track 2.
The added code, therefore, when it doesn't find an index entry
for the desired frame number, works backwards until it finds a valid
frame (likely frame 0), and then scans forward. If it hits the end
of the video, then it simply uses whatever last frame it last decoded.
This is needed for Starship Titanic, where videos can have a secondary
video track. It was simpler to use the callback as a means to select
one video track each across two decoders than trying to make VideoDecoder
and/or AVIDecoder support decoding from multiple video tracks simultaneously
Starship Titanic in particular needs this, since some of the videos
have extra junk at the end of the file, such as ycursors.avi,
and parsing fails if we don't respect the filesize field
Relying on the videos to have 'initial frames' for audio tracks is not the best way to handle AVI videos. Now videos without initial frames (or broken interleaving) will buffer properly.
This is used in German release of Full Pipe. Unfortunately our
current MP3 decoder cannot work with streamed MP3s, and bails out
at the AVI header since there is no full MP3 header yet.
Truemotion uses its own demuxer and seems to follow its own AVI rules. Work around it by coercing the video's dimensions to use the codec's internal dimensions.
