CRI Middleware
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Native name
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株式会社CRI・ミドルウェア |
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Romanized name
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Kabushiki gaisha Kuri Midorūea |
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| Traded as | : |
| Industry | Computer and video games |
| Founded | 1983 |
| Headquarters | Tokyo, Japan |
| Products | Audio and video middleware for video game consoles |
| Website | www |
CRI Middleware Co., Ltd. (Japanese: 株式会社CRI・ミドルウェア Hepburn: Kabushiki gaisha Kuri Midorūea?) (formerly CSK Research Institute Corp.) is a Japanese developer providing middleware for use in the computer and video game industry. From the early nineties, CRI was a video game developer, but shifted focus in 2001.
CRI started out as CSK Research Institute, subsidiary of CSK, producing video games for the Mega Drive/Genesis. It went on to develop games for the Sega Saturn and Dreamcast before it was incorporated as CRI Middleware in 2001.
ADX is a streamed audio format which allows for multiple audio streams, seamless looping and continuous playback (allowing two or more files to be crossfaded or played in sequence) with low, predictable CPU usage. The format uses the ADPCM framework. It is now known as CRI ADX.
Sofdec is a streamed video format supporting up to 24bit color which includes multistreaming and seamless playback with a frame rate of up to 60 frames per second. It is essentially a repackaging of MPEG-1/MPEG-2 video with CRI's proprietary ADX codec for audio playback. It is now known as CRI Sofdec.
Clipper is an automated lip-syncing program which analyzes waveforms and outputs an appropriate lip pattern into a text file, for later substitution into the facial animations of the (in-game) speaker. It is now known as CRI Clipper.
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