Duck TrueMotion codec - where can I find it?

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

For my own, dark, malignant, rule-the-world-bwahaha secret purposes, I kinda need a way to convert DUK files to AVI. DUK stands for Duck TrueMotion. And I thought the best way would be to find a codec, so that I could maybe make do with my own Windows Media Player and Windows Media Maker. But I can't find one, no matter where I look. I wonder if anyone here can help me? The alternative is finding some program that actively converts DUK to AVI. I tried imTOO MPEG ENCODER, but the DUK file ended up greyscale and with some other visual problems.

[scotch]

Haven't tried, but ffmpeg appears to be able to work with that codec. I'm not sure what good frontends for ffmpeg exist, but if you get ffmpeg the command line would be something like this:

ffmpeg -i myvideo.duk -b 1500 -ab 128 myvideo.avi

where 1500 and 128 are the video and audio bitrates you want to get out, I think that'd proably encode it into an avi with mpeg4 video and mp3 audio, you can specify a codec to encode with if you want to, just run the program with no parameters to see a list of the things you can give it.

I know precompiled ffmpeg binaries can be hard to find so here http://217.172.186.14/~scotch/fmg/ffmpeg.exe

Again, I don't know if this'll work, and I expect someone has an easier way.

[Orieac]

I think the PC version of FF VII used that codec, but these were avi files. I have TrueMotion 2.0 codec required to convert these files in virtualdub.

Orieac

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Scotch, thanks a lot for the link - I HAD tried FFMpeg, or rather TRIED to try, but like you hinted at, I couldn't find any precompiled exe for it (and I don't know how to compile raw sorce code, I think I might even need a program I don't have). But, when I tried to run it, it said it coudln't find the file "cygwin1.dll". Are you sure the program is only that one exe file? Nevertheless, I'll hunt for this dll, see what happens.

Orieac, that might do! I have virtualdub myself - at least I THINK I have - and if you could maybe send me, or link me, to that codec... funny thing, though, I thought that if I had a codec installed I'd be able to even use Windows Media Player with it. Guess that ain't that kind of codec, huh? But if VirtualDub can convert, all right with me!

EDIT - Scotch, I found the .DLL, but when I tried to run the program again (I put the DLL in the same folder, I didn't dare put it into my System folder before I knew for sure it worked), it gave out the following message:

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ffmpeg.exe - Ponto de entrada não encontrado
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Não foi possível localizar o ponto de entrada do procedimento __getreent na biblioteca de hiperligação dinâmica cygwin1.dll.
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OK   
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I know, this is Portuguese. It kinda translates to "Unable to find the entry point of the __getreent proceeding in the dynamic hyperlinks library cygwin1.dll". Or, some such thing of the sort.

[scotch]

I guess it might be a different version of the dll than what my version is expecting http://606u.dir.bg/avicheck/ has some precompiled binaries with the appropriate dlls.

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Ok, thanks for the link, I'll give it a go.

EDIT - Unfortunately, I don't seem to find any precompiled binaries... maybe you could just send me the DLL you have and I try that with the exe you linked me?

[scotch]

They are on the page
http://606u.dir.bg/avicheck/ffmpeg.exe.gz
http://606u.dir.bg/avicheck/cygwin1.dll.gz
http://606u.dir.bg/avicheck/cygz.dll.gz

gzipped, but any decent archiver should support that.

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

...woops. Must have looked in all the wrong places, sorry 'bout that.

EDIT - Thanks for everything, scotch... it worked!