what i would have really wished for was a adx player for the dreamcast... i had a software for converting to adx time ago, and the resulting video were almost dvd quality in a reasonable space... sadly no players for it so far...
There's some ISO somewhere floating around the old DC sites which has a few files from a game, and you can encode your own video into .adx format and replace the video on the CD. It selfboots and plays the video. I assume it's just the first parts of a game that boots the intro movie.
I have that file on my hard drive. Lets you make movies in SDF format for playing on the DC as mentioned above. If someone has a place I can upload it to I'll be more than happy. ADX is the audio format, not movie format. I also have the official CRI MPEG Softdec tools if needed (Got to find them first though) Yakumo
i would be interested in both and i might gladly host them too... could you send them to soulkarsten(AT)gmail.com? then i would up them to my webpage
I've hosted the file at my webpage: www.auritech.eu/assembler/Softdec_Movie_Player_USA_DC-ECKO.rar by the way, if people are interested and send me such kind of software, i might create a dedicated webpage... what are you toughts?
I'm sure it would be good to have a handy resource for such things, but to be honest I'd have no idea what kind of thing to put on there. :/
ADX was already backward engineered, all deviations of it - altho some of them don't have straight players yet (like low-bitrate AHX for voice files, or the interleaved 5.1 AIX files). Most players only seem to include support for ADX only (and not all revisions of ADX). Here are some samples of uncommon ADX based files: http://evilboris.sonic-cult.net/!trash/ADX/ AHX is low-bitrate, used for voices. AIX has three stereo, full bitrate ADX files interleaved, for storing 5.1 audio. ACX is a container of many adx files, similar to afs (but it only stores the audio data whereas afs stores whole filesystems). http://forums.sonic-cult.org/index.php?showtopic=37&st=0 this topic has a lot of talk about the formats.
This is most likely what was ripped from a demo disc. Demo discs containing videos would boot a separate binary to play the sfd [not adx] file. You can't rewind or pause though. You can play sfd this way OR you can do it through the browser. You can make your own modification of either Planet Web or Sega browser and play both sfd and adx files. There is a separate player for sfd files aswell. After all it's just an mpeg based codec.