Cinepak
Cinepak is a format for lossy compressed video data from the Radius company from 1991, which was originally developed for playing small videos on computers that were still very slow at the time. An AVI - or QuickTime - file that uses the Cinepak format was even then in real time also of CD drives with single speed decompressed be. Compression, on the other hand, took a relatively long time, even on modern computers, and was therefore not recommended for video editing .
While the compression rates used to be astonishing, Xvid and other MPEG-based formats now offer significantly better quality compression methods. For this reason, Cinepak was later only used in addition to Indeo if a format with widespread use was required, since the Cinepak codec was supplied with Windows, for example .
All animations in Cyan's Myst and Riven were encoded with Cinepak, where the numerous full-screen sequences could be played directly from the CD even on computers that were slower back then.
Internally used FourCC : CVID