[Shoal]

The subject line says it all. Is this possible? Has anyone done it?

[kuze]

Looks like the file format has been chewed on for some time. Here you can see the results - to my knowledge there are no converters available, it should be possible to make your own though (as far as I can tell from looking at the wiki).

EDIT: Googling some more brings up this - no idea how legit it is.

[Shoal]

I found all the wiki stuff and some other info, but no converter.

This total conversion thing looks suspect, but it's better than nothing. Thanks!

Just for fun, I took the introduction to Lord of the Rings Online, losslessly converted it to an AVI, resized it to 308x167 (the 1.85:1 resolution used by the videos in GK2), cut the framerate down to 10 fps (what I think is the framerate to the GK2 videos), and then cut the color down to 8-bit (again, to the specs of the GK2 videos).

Then, just to see what the thing would look like if it were running in GK2, I resized the width and height by 2x (nearest neighbor) and added scanlines.

Note: I determined the frames-per-second of the GK2 videos by using a screen capture device and saving a DOSBox gameplay video at 30fps. I then opened up the video in VirtualDub and cut out all non-unique frames (doubles and triples of the same frame). I then kept playing back the unique frames at different framerates until I found a speed that seemed to match the speed of the videos in the game.

I determined the resolution of the videos by taking a screenshot of the game in action, cropping out all but the video, and then resizing by .5 (nearest neighbor).

Man... I really do the weirdest stuff for fun.

EDIT: Turns out the converter works, and all my measurements are correct! Thanks! Although I wish there were some way to just demux the video and audio into two separate files without recompressing them into a different formats. But whatever; I have more than enough to work with for now.