Attention Wing Commander III PlayStation owners!
If anyone owning a copy of the PlayStation version of WC3 can try the FMV extraction tool released for the CIC's birthday, the WCPedia could use your help.
Basically, I am wondering if the raw movie files extracted from the game can be cleaner than the DivX-compressed ones provided in that same news update. Compare the following images:
The latter is larger and has greater colour depth (the PC version was limited to 256-colours), but unfortunately, red pixels suffer badly in JPEG/MPEG-compression, such as DivX.
- PC Version (losslessly compressed)
- PlayStation version (DivX-compressed)
If anyone could provide a clean PNG of the Temblor Bomb image as well as the Skipper Missile image, it would be most appreciated.
HCl said:The 3DO videos should have quality similar to the PSX video. I would expect to see the same color depth and resolution at least. As for compression artifacts, that's a tough one to predict, although i would expect to see artifacts more similar to the PC-version on the 3DO videos. I suspect (although i haven't confirmed it yet) that the 3DO codec somewhat resembles the PC codec, using the 3DO CEL engine to accelerate key parts of the algorithm. In contrast, the PSX codec involves shoving data blocks at the video decoder hardware as fast as it can handle, and that's pretty much it (think of it as each video frame being JPEG-compressed, that's pretty close to what is happening)
The WC3 PSX version *may* still have the edge on image quality though.
Oh... so after all that, does this mean the PlayStation videos were also 320x160?
They do have the extra colour depth over the PC version but... hmm, this is disappointing.
Well, this all confuses me, since the 3DO clips we have on the CIC are 640x320 - have they been up-scaled for encoding purposes as well?
https://www.wcnews.com/wcpedia/Talk:WCPedia_Rules said:I know the rule is "don't steal from Wikipedia, only from yourself"... but what if the two are the same? For instance, I wrote the entry on the Confederation and it's still sitting there six years later, practically unchanged and being voted on to merge with the main article. I think parts of it are better than what we have now - so could I go and rip those parts from my last solo revision? I'm itching for a go at the whole article, actually.
I also wrote an overview on battleships that's since been deleted - gone for over two years now. I don't have the original anymore, but it's still floating around the internet on various Wikipedia copycat sites. I'd like to take it, try and clean it up, bring it up to date. Is that kosher?
Bob McDob 11:53, 12 August 2010 (CDT)
I'm not versed in legal matters, but the GNU FDL seems to allow for what they call aggregation (point 7). Re-licensing (point 11) also talks about using the original work in a public wiki. I'm not sure how that works with the No Derivatives variant of the Creative Commons licence cited on the WCPedia, though.
Really, since you were the author of the original work, however, I find it unreasonable that any of this could prevent you from re-using it in the WCPedia.