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Novus
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The .duk format is really badly documented, old, badly supported, inefficient and low quality. If you are making new videos, I'd strongly advise you to use a better video format, e.g. MPEG-4. XviD handles this type of video quite nicely and would be easy to add to UQM both technically and legally.
The only reason to support DUK video at all is to use the original 3DO videos without losing quality and/or disk space by converting.
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meep-eep
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There is no .duk encoder available. I guess the Duck Corporation (now On2) will still have one, but I'd say you're out of luck.
The only reason we can play the .duk videos is because we made our own decoder (fOSSiL handled the video, I did the audio). We didn't have any specs or source code to go by.
There are a few codecs that say they play .duk files, but they can't handle the SC2 duks. When the 3DO version of SC2 was created, the duk codec was new, as was the Duck corporation itself if I'm not mistaken. I suspect the duk file format (and perhaps the codec itself) wasn't final yet.
Instead of writing your own .duk encoder, I suggest you go with another format. The .duk encoding isn't very good by todays standards, and we will eventually support other video formats, probably through some video library (see http://uqm.stack.nl/cgi-bin/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=489). You could add support for it to UQM yourself, or just wait until someone else does it. PR3 said it was on top of his list of things he would like to see in UQM.
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i dont want to recompile all of uqm to use a different format other than the duk, frm, hdr, tbl Look, adding something like MPEG-4 support to UQM is going to be a lot easier than writing a program to convert to DUK.
The minute someone releases nice intro and/or ending videos for UQM that can be legally redistributed with UQM, there is going to be a frenzy of activity related to getting these videos running in UQM. Even the 3DO DUK videos, which most of us aren't allowed to use and were quite difficult to support, are supported in UQM. Don't you think there would be quite a lot of people willing to add support for pretty much any well-known video format to UQM if that would give us all a good intro and/or ending? Heck, if the videos are good enough (and in a sane format), I'll do it myself, if that's what it takes.
Don't worry about getting those videos playing in UQM. The hard part is producing the videos.
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DukHunter
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Hello,people. I have one question. By the reason DUK player fully released inside UQM, can it be released outside the game, so anyone can play DUK videos from 3DO game platform?
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capitansolo
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Recently donwload original 3DO videos...
My idea was to resize to HD and restore those videos using AI programs for sharing with you in mp4 or hevc format to use with UQM HD mod but i didnt find any program for play those files or any codec...
I know this thread is old but maybe in this time, someone found a way for playing that files and could share with us.
Regards!
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capitansolo
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Serosis, did u try to make the video to sequence of pngs, loading into topaz sharpness and after into gigapixel CG module? this was the step i was thinking to do...
Maybe you can try if you had access to the video 
Regards!
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