[callahan]

I went back to an old project today, trying to pull the Irix demo videos (as seen in the cool space tour video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srRquWes0BQ) off of my Indigo. The Indigo (R3K, elan) has a base 4.0.5 install to a SCSI2SD. I had given up a while ago because the EFS file system is a pain I didn't want to network the machine at the moment.

Today I finally realized I could just dd the SD image (for partition 7, if anyone comes looking) from the SD card to a file and use efs2tar to extract the whole filesystem. It worked. (If anyone wants the tarball of the R3K Irix 4.0.5 install, just let me know -- it's only 130MB uncompressed).

What I now have are the videos, filenames of "hospital.MOVIE", "indigo.MOVIE", etc. VLC can't figure out the codec, which for me is about as dead-end as it gets. It does pull the audio, but not at a consistently right speed.

I've attached a screen clipping of the header of one of the files in HxD. Anyone have an idea of any modern tool I can use to open this and possibly convert them to modern file format? Would be a shame for them to otherwise be lost. Especially the Indigo video -- I used to drool over that long before I had an SGI of my own.