About:
The old rare codec required for Civ2 videos to work on modern operating systems.
Taken from here:
https://soggi.org/misc/articles/Intel-Indeo-video-audio-codec.htm
Just in case I've backed up the whole page and downloads on webarchive here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20211009...sc/articles/Intel-Indeo-video-audio-codec.htm
Original Description/Intro:
Intel Indeo video/audio codec
Through the 1990s the Intel Indeo codec was very popular, many computer video games and other software utilized it to encode their videos and audio. Indeo seems to be a blend, more precisely a portmanteau, of "Intel Video".
Originally the Indeo codecs were developed by the Intel Architecture Labs since 1992. It was one of the first codecs without a need of hardware acceleration. The version history goes from Intel Indeo version 2 (IR21), 3 (IV31 and IV32), 4 (IV4 and IV41) to 5 (IV50 and IV51). As of June 27, 2000, Ligos Technology acquired the rights to Intel Indeo media software.
Read more about Indeo on Wikipedia.
Ligos Indeo payware
Ligos later provided Indeo video version 5.2 called "Indeo XP for Windows" as payware with the following new features:
As of the beginning of 2020, the website of Ligos Corporation went offline and the package "Ligos Indeo Codecs" isn't available anymore. For historic reasons view the website via archive.org: Ligos Indeo Codecs.
Indeo codec on Windows Vista/7/8/8.1/10
On Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1(?) and Windows 10(?) the Indeo video codec is integrated but not registered.
Open a command prompt ("Start" -> "Run..." -> type "cmd" or "command", click "OK") and execute the following commands.
First change directory (64 bit Windows only):
cd C:\Windows\SysWOW64
Second register the DLL:
regsvr32 ir50_32.dll
Now the Indeo video codec is activated and videos based on this codec will be played back. To unregister Indeo just execute the command below. The following error message can be ignored, Indeo will be removed from being active.
regsvr32 /u ir50_32.dll
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The old rare codec required for Civ2 videos to work on modern operating systems.
Taken from here:
https://soggi.org/misc/articles/Intel-Indeo-video-audio-codec.htm
Just in case I've backed up the whole page and downloads on webarchive here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20211009...sc/articles/Intel-Indeo-video-audio-codec.htm
Original Description/Intro:
Intel Indeo video/audio codec
Through the 1990s the Intel Indeo codec was very popular, many computer video games and other software utilized it to encode their videos and audio. Indeo seems to be a blend, more precisely a portmanteau, of "Intel Video".
Originally the Indeo codecs were developed by the Intel Architecture Labs since 1992. It was one of the first codecs without a need of hardware acceleration. The version history goes from Intel Indeo version 2 (IR21), 3 (IV31 and IV32), 4 (IV4 and IV41) to 5 (IV50 and IV51). As of June 27, 2000, Ligos Technology acquired the rights to Intel Indeo media software.
Read more about Indeo on Wikipedia.
Ligos Indeo payware
Ligos later provided Indeo video version 5.2 called "Indeo XP for Windows" as payware with the following new features:
- Optimization of the Indeo Video 5 scalability feature
- A wavelet compression algorithm that improves visual quality over previous versions of Indeo
- Better compression at all levels of video quality than previous generation codecs
- Playback performance enhancements including smoother, interpolated "zoom by 2" playback
- Indeo XP also includes the legacy codecs Indeo Video 3.2, Indeo Video 4.5, and Indeo Audio 2.5
- For all Windows OS from Windows 95 to Windows XP
As of the beginning of 2020, the website of Ligos Corporation went offline and the package "Ligos Indeo Codecs" isn't available anymore. For historic reasons view the website via archive.org: Ligos Indeo Codecs.
Indeo codec on Windows Vista/7/8/8.1/10
On Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1(?) and Windows 10(?) the Indeo video codec is integrated but not registered.
Open a command prompt ("Start" -> "Run..." -> type "cmd" or "command", click "OK") and execute the following commands.
First change directory (64 bit Windows only):
cd C:\Windows\SysWOW64
Second register the DLL:
regsvr32 ir50_32.dll
Now the Indeo video codec is activated and videos based on this codec will be played back. To unregister Indeo just execute the command below. The following error message can be ignored, Indeo will be removed from being active.
regsvr32 /u ir50_32.dll
.
