Had a bit of a weird realization, Athena might actually have enough power to play back primitive FMVs
So I spent some time prototyping a Cinepak / Smacker inspired compression scheme. Designed to be played back via mode 1 (256 color 320x200 bitmapped mode) and to be small-ish and very quick to decode.
Did a little test of round-tripping a video through it, so here's what that looks like. Still some things I need to fix, and could use some dithering, but anyway!
(pasting a direct link to Streamable since Youtube's compression munches the video too much)
https://streamable.com/ze2rc