Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2019 9:58 am Post subject:
Idea: Alternate video format DLL-hook
Hello everyone,
it has been a long time since I last posted anything here.
I've been thinking a bit.
Over at the X-Wing Alliance Modding Community, a lot of DLL-hooks have been released to introduce new and previously dormant features into the game.
Then I remembered something similar is being done for Tiberian Sun, Red Alert 2 and Renegade.
Something which bothered me when Nyerguds and I were working on the German uncut video patch for TS was that the VQA-format is quite lossy and it took at least a day to encode a video in that format with the tools available back then.
And then something occurred to me:
Could a DLL-hook be written to play any video format other than VQA within TS and RA2, like for instance MP4 or MKV?
Imagine the possibilities: High resolution videos, subtitles, fast encoding, different audio tracks with different language dubs etc.
Me, CCHyper and tomsons26 are all working on projects using dll injection for the older C&C games over at https://github.com/TheAssemblyArmada but the plan is a bit grander in scope than what you are asking for. CCHyper is the lead on our TS project, but the code hasn't been made available for that one one as of yet.
The idea is for us to use DLL injection to eventually replace all the functions in game game with our own code so that we can modify it in any way we see fit, not just add extra video formats. However we are a way off that just yet. QUICK_EDIT
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Idea: Alternate video format DLL-hook
