Niefel AAR: "...Some Say In Ice"

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Peter Ebbesen:
I tried applying an Indeo Video compression codec to an avi of a 1 minute battle for test purposes this afternoon, but even with hefty blurring, low quality, and only 7 FPS, it ran to rather more megabytes than my puny account can reasonably support. (A typical jpg runs to 80K-100K with the compression factor I use, a blurred stuttering movie runs to many megabytes, and a clear one to dozens)

Dominions II battles already ARE stuttering. In fact, there's basically no animation in a Dominions II battle. Units don't walk, they just kinda teleport-hop. A Dominions II battle is actually a slideshow: There's no real animation, just a "stand" and an "attack" pose for units. As such, most video codecs are probably poorly optimized for this kind of behavior.