Cinepak

Cinepak is a lossy video codec[1] developed by Peter Barrett at SuperMac Technologies, and released in 1991 with the Video Spigot, and then in 1992 as part of Apple Computer's QuickTime video suite. One of the first video compression tools to achieve full motion video on CD-ROM,[2] it was designed to encode 320×240 resolution video at 1× (150 kbyte/s) CD-ROM transfer rates. The original name of this codec was Compact Video,[3] which is why its FourCC identifier is CVID. The codec was ported to Microsoft Windows in 1993. It was also used on fourth- and fifth-generation game consoles, such as the Atari Jaguar CD,[4] Sega CD, Sega Saturn, and 3DO.[2] libavcodec includes a Cinepak decoder and an encoder, both licensed under the terms of the LGPL.

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  3. ^ "QuickTime 1.6.1: Read Me". Apple Knowledge Base. 19 February 2012. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  4. ^ "The Jaguar CD-ROM...". Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 59. EGM Media, LLC. June 1994. p. 122.