Visual Novels

What might have worked is if Acorn Replay was continued.

I feel sure that the world doesn’t need yet another video codec, especially a proprietary one with poor video quality.

but they are a very small part of the whole thing.

If that’s what you consider a title… Jeez, you’re a tenth of the way to an anime episode there…

I suspect Rick means this : https://youtu.be/OHA9ooftVHs

Yup, that’s the one.

I feel sure that the world doesn’t need yet another video codec,

Oh, the world is always looking out for new codecs.
I mean, we’re looking at wider JPEG support and maybe PNG somewhere too.
Meanwhile everybody else is looking to support HEIF…

especially a proprietary one with poor video quality.

That’s true, the quality wasn’t great. However given our lack of GPU assisted codecs, we need to rely upon software decoding. My Pi2 (a useful baseline as not everybody is going to have a Ti or iMX6) does “okay” with simple 360p video in a modern format. But scale that up to fit the monitor, it’ll look rubbish.
In order to get decent software decoding of larger video content, the codec itself must be simple. Perhaps something akin to MPEG1? It can technically go up up 4095×4095, but when I played with an encoder ages ago on the PC, it simply didn’t want to know about anything beyond 352×288.

The intro sequences are a maximum of three minutes (otherwise I would have to pay much more to get them rendered). End credits are between 3 and 4 minutes (based on song length).

As a whole they aren’t that important – they only appear once, so that side of things can always be changed.

I feel sure that the world doesn’t need yet another video codec, especially a proprietary one with poor video quality.

Using Replay as a framework does not imply to use an obscure codec.
Nota: there was a 32bit version on the Iyonix (I believe I saw it somewhere on my discs).

Using Replay as a framework does not imply

Which would be a more weighty point if there were a long list of applications that load and display Replay files without intimate knowledge of the format. Is there?

Using Replay as a framework does not imply to use an obscure codec.

No, but getting it to run really quickly in software only across a useful range of machines might.

The codec is what I meant. The container isn’t really that big a deal so long as something can demux it…

Nota: there was a 32bit version on the Iyonix

Encoder or decoder?

So, it looks like it’s something I’ll have to look into.

Encoder or decoder?

I don’t know.