[freespace2] end of the game

[Ryan C. Gordon]

> They aren't working.  I think the code to play the movies is "Sacred IP"
> and wasn't released with the source.  I'm pretty sure that's the end of
> the game and the video is supposed to fill in the blanks although I
> still dislike the end of the game.  Descent 3 also uses the same video
> format on the windows side but I'm pretty sure that Loki converted them
> to MPGs for the linux version.  I've looked for a tool on the internet
> to convert the movies to another format but all I've found is a program
> to convert them into self playing EXEs.

Descent3 for Linux will play the movies from freespace2. You can see this
if you copy any of the movie files to
/where/i/installed/descent3/movies/intro.mve and run D3.

Our best bet is to use Descent 3 to convert them to MPEG, and stick an
SMPEG decoder into freespace2. This involves using the dynamically-linked
D3 binary from Loki and a hacked SDL.

Here's how I converted the D3 movies to MPEG. It's trickier without the D3
source, but I think we can shift the work entirely into SDL if we're
clever:  http://icculus.org/misc/mpeg.txt

--ryan.