Switchblade is a series of video encoding tools used for the RoQ video format, which appears in many games based on the Quake 3 and Doom 3 engines. The Switchblade 3 encoder was integrated into the popular FFMPEG video transcoder along with some third-party improvements.

Switchblade 4

Switchblade 4 incorporates the improvements made during the FFMPEG port into the original package. It separates the codebook stage from the main encode stage, allowing quality to be fine-tuned without going through the lengthy codebook generation stage again. It can also mix in audio from the source AVI.

Download Switchblade 4.0b1 with source code

Switchblade 3

Switchblade 3 is a near-complete rewrite of Switchblade 2. It uses a better rate controller than Switchblade 2, comes with a portable MPEG-to-RoQ encoder, and uses a new codebook generator based on NeuQuant.

Download Switchblade 3.12 with source code

Switchblade 2

Switchblade 2 is an older version of Switchblade, with a few unresolved bugs and without the quality improvements of later versions, but it does come with a player named RoQPlay unlike newer versions

Download Switchblade 2 with source code