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News Release
For Immediate Release
Loki Contact:
Kathryn Sorhaindo
Loki Entertainment Software
Tel.: ++1 (714) 505-8915
sigyn@lokigames.com
Tustin, Calif., September 8, 1999 -- Loki Entertainment Software, the leader in bringing top-selling PC games to the Linux operating system, announces their third Open-Source project, the SDL Motion JPEG Library (SMJPEG).
SMJPEG creates and displays full motion video using an open, non-proprietary format created by Loki. It is based on a modified version of the Independent JPEG Group¹s library for JPEG image manipulation and freely available source code for ADPCM audio compression. Among its many benefits, SMJPEG allows for arbitrary video sizes and frame-rates, user-tuneable compression levels, and facilities for frame-skipping and time synchronization.
Loki developed SMJPEG in the course of porting Railroad Tycoon II: Gold Edition by PopTop Software and Gathering of Developers. While Loki is contractually bound to protect the publisher¹s original game code, Loki shares any improvements to the underlying Linux software code with the Open Source community.
"We hope that by making this tool available to the Open Source community that others will be able to use it for their own products, and improve upon it for everyone¹s benefit," said Sam Lantinga, lead programmer at Loki and the author of SMJPEG.
Loki¹s first Open Source project, the SDL MPEG Player Library (SMPEG) is a general purpose MPEG video/audio player for Linux, developed while porting their first title, Civilization: Call to Power by Activision. The second project is Fenris, Loki¹s bug system based on Bugzilla from the Mozilla codebase.
SMJPEG, SMPEG and Fenris are freely available for download from www.lokigames.com, and are offered under the GNU Library Public License (LGPL).
About Loki Entertainment Software: Based in Orange County, CA, Loki works with leading game publishers to port their best-selling PC and Macintosh titles to the Linux platform. Loki meets a pent-up need in the Linux community by providing fully-supported, shrink-wrapped games for sale through traditional retail channels. For more information, visit www.lokigames.com.
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