Warzone 2100 Forums

ffmpeg is difficult to legally distribute (at least as binary) in some countries, and eg most linux distributions do not carry it because of patent worries. See http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/legal.html. I do not see why we should add a dependency on it, when we could just as well use the unencumbered o...

Very nice. Now we need to find a free format we can distribute them in. MPEG is encumbered by patent. OGG Theora is the only video codec I know of that we can use that will work on all platforms and we can link to the GPL code. Even just playing the Comms video during briefings would be a step forwa...

I am not done with my thesis work yet, so no, I'm not working on anything yet. Soon, though. I am sure we can discuss whether HTTP is a good idea. Not entirely sure if I can explain right now why I thought it was a good idea when I first thought about it.

My current thought is that using JSON-RPC (http://json-rpc.org/) over HTTP is the best choice. It is very light-weight, human readable, and goes straight through almost any firewall. It is also well supported by many implementations (C, Python, Google Web Toolkit, etc.).

Chojun - I think the Collective2 and Shaovin tracks are really good. However, in the Collective2 track, it sounds like the heaviest drum beat is horribly downsampled or something. It starts at 0:24. Other than that, I think it would make an awesome menu/intro track.

Rman - why are you linking to a page that explains copyright law for musical educators? There are exceptions (for example parody), but unless you know what you are doing, you may get angry lawyers coming after you. Artists are often touchy about derivative works. I would not recommend it.

Derivative works require permission from the original copyright holder. So that is not feasible.

Chojun - as Kamaze asked, any chance of doing .ogg versions of these?

The rebirth song is really nice.

So late initialization is better?? I think I was teached by my book that I should initialize as soon as possible, because the compiler/CPU/PC/whatever can then immediately create the variable with it's contents and doesn't need to do this in 2 steps... Whether there is anything at all to be gained ...

not everyone has a good compiler. 1985 called and wants its compiler back. Seriously, early variable *declarations* has nothing to do with speed. Too early *initialization* does. Readability of code is more important, though, and moving variable declarations to the smallest scope is good for readab...

I tried to do that a while ago, but the resulting PNG images when I converted the JPGs were way too big for my liking.

Can you tell me how to reproduce this bug?

Sounds good to me.

Fixing autorepeat seems like a much easier job...