[TYPO3-dam] Welcome to that damn thing

[Franz Koch]

> Usually it's called a replay or a record, it's produced during the game 
> and allow people to see again the game afterwards. There is a big 
> internet activity on these file, especially on Warcraft3 replays.
> The fact is that it's XML compressed file, so it's possible to open the 
> file and collect automatically information about the game : player 
> names, played map, civilisation, game conditions... which are all 
> metadata used to index the file. That's why it is a media file :)


These files exist for almost every online-multiplayer strategy game - 
but I don't think that they are all in xml-format or have the same 
data-structure - so that a general support would not be possible. So for 
every game there has to be a seperate service. (I don't think that e.g. 
starcraft-replys are xml - ok, starcraft is old - but still played and good)

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Franz Koch