Electronic Arts Formats

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  • Extensions: ASF, CMV, DCT, TGI, TGV, TGQ, WVE, UV, UV2, MAD, VP6
  • Company: Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts, the video game publishing empire, and the various constituent development houses under its umbrella, have deployed a number of multimedia formats in its games.

EA multimedia formats are comprised of a series of blocks with the following format:

bytes 0-3    block type FourCC
bytes 4-7    block size
bytes 8..    block payload

It is important to note that there is no consistent byte order for multi-byte numbers.

Chunk Types

Games Using Electronic Arts Multimedia Formats

Name File Ext Video Codec Audio Codec Byte Order
CyberMage: Darklight Awakening tgv TGV 1SNx/EACS/pcm_s8 le
Need for Speed tgv TGV 1SNx/EACS/pcm_s8 le
Privateer 2: The Darkening tgv TGV SEAD/adpcm_ima_ea_sead le
NBA Live 96 tgv TGV 1SNh/EACS/adpcm_ima_ea_eacs le
Need for Speed 2 dct DCT SCHl/PT/adpcm_ea le
Need for Speed 2 (Demo) uv TGQ SCHl/PT/adpcm_ea le
Warcraft II: The Dark Saga (Sega Saturn) tgq TGQ ? be
Crusader: No Remorse (Sega Saturn) tgq TGQ 1SNh/EACS/mulaw be
Wing Commander: Prophecy wve TQI SCHl/PT/adpcm_ea le
NBA Live 99 mad MAD SCHl/PT/adpcm_ea le
Need for Speed 3: Hot Pursuit mad MAD SCHl/PT/adpcm_ea le
Need for Speed 4: High Stakes mad MAD SCHl/PT/adpcm_ea le
Need for Speed 5: Porsche mad MAD SCHl/PT/adpcm_ea_r1 le
Need for Speed 6: Hot Pursuit 2 mad MAD SCHl/PT/adpcm_ea_r1 le
FIFA 2005 mad MAD SCHl/PT/adpcm_ea_r1, SCHl/PT/adpcm_ea_r3 le
Need for Speed: Underground 2 vp6 VP6 SCHl/GSTR/adpcm_ea_r3 le
Need for Speed: Most Wanted vp6 VP6 SCHl/GSTR/adpcm_ea_r3 le