CIN

• Extensions: cin
• Company: Id Software
• Technical Description: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~timf/videocodec/idcin.html (mirrored)
• Samples: http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/game-formats/idcin/

CIN (Id Cinematics) is an FMV format used in the computer game Quake II. For compressing 8-bit palettized video the file format uses a very basic Huffman compression scheme. The audio is 8-bit, unsigned PCM data.