If you are highly motivated, you could use an old version of Avisynth or Virtualdub to frameserve and encode on a legacy platform like Windows 98 . You would need to convert to something like huffyuv lossless compressed YV12 , YV9 ( or whatever the destination encoder preferred colospace is) at the needed resolution on a modern PC in Virtualdub2, for example . If huffyuv encoded source file is bigger than 4GB, you will need to segment files.

Used to do that on Windows 98 with stuff captured from live TV using a BT848 or BT878 based capture card in 1998 . Most of the affordable capture hardware at the time did not have NT4 drivers, so living with Windows 9x limitations (FAT32) was a must, though an unpleasant one, but I digress .

Jo22 wrote on 2022-03-18, 18:30:

If you're brave, you can also check out the Ultimotion codec from IBM. It was its answer to Microsoft's Video for Windows or AVI […]
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If you're brave, you can also check out the Ultimotion codec from IBM.
It was its answer to Microsoft's Video for Windows or AVI, so to say.

Ultimotion was designed to be of high quality and to be played back purely through software.

OS/2 Warp supported it very well without any stuttering.
However, there's also a codec for Windows 3.1 -pardon- Win-OS/2 available (um4win.zip).

https://www.os2site.com/sw/mmedia/video/index.html

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H3BYvPDdRcQ

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0nTIkp8Yt_Y

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml3I_lGi2EI

Edit: Here's a chart for you.
https://sites.ualberta.ca/dept/chemeng/AIX-43 … VideoCodecs.htm

Edit: Found a player for the Amiga platform. Still looking for an encoder, though.
http://aminet.net/package/gfx/show/CyberAVI

Edit: Sample files: http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/V-codecs/ULTI/

Edit: Found a bit of information. In the 90s, IBM's "Ultimedia" and "Video In" could be used to create Ultimotion videos.
Also, converting Indeo to Ultimotion was an option.

Edit:
The next big enhancement to MMPM/2 will be additional Software Motion Video capture device drivers.
Video IN/2 supports a wide range of video capture cards, including: IBM Video Capture Adapter/A (MC);
Jovian Logic SuperVia, and QuickVia (MC and ISA); Sigma Designs WinMovie (ISA);
Creative Labs Video Blaster (ISA); New Media Graphics Super Video Windows (MC and ISA);
and Samsung Electronics Ltd. Video Magic (ISA).

The following video capture adapters are being considered:
Videologic Tiger, Supermac Video Spigot, Media Vision Pro Movie Studio, Intel Smart Video Recorder,
Creative Labs Video Blaster 2, and IBM Action Media II.
The addition of these video capture adapters will round out the video capture support on OS/2.

http://www.edm2.com/index.php/What_Is_the_Fut … 2_Multimedia%3F

Edit: This one seems promising.

The OS/2 2.1 MMPM/2-based applications that provide video support are:

Digital Video Player
Video In Recorder
AVI File Utility
Ultimedia Builder/2
Ultimedia Perfect Image/2

Source: http://mireality.co.uk/writing/technology/os2 … ox-to-video-in/

Edit: News snippet added.

Thanks my father worked for New Media Graphics on from the Graphover 9500 to the Super Video Windows in all it's itterations.

Decided to share my experience with same use case. In my case I did it for concert BluRay's playback on my P3-933 Win98 rig.

For P3-933 I found out that xvid (MP4) is suitable if you want to go higher than SD res. KLite codec pack is indeed simplest to install. However Mplayer is another player to try out. You need to find 32bit Win98 compatible version for that. For me mplayer utilized aprox 10% less CPU then ffdshow.

MPlayer is even capable playing back 720p resolutions with more static content. However concerts tend to have a lot of footage singers in front of stage LCD video screen's. So I had to decrease resolution in between SD and HD with following ffmpeg encoding parameters:
-c:v mpeg4 -vtag xvid -s 1088x612 -q:v 4 -c:a libmp3lame -b:a 192k

-q:v 4 produces rather high bitrate videos. It is needed in order handle same "stage LCD video screen" segments quality.
I had to move video library to my dedicated SMBv1 NAS share in order to have smooth playback. Storing them locally created way to much extra CPU overhead even for my modern SD card based SSD solution.

This reminds me of the music video Buddy Holly by Weezer that shipped as an MPEG-1 file on the Windows 95 installation CD.

I just realized that I'm actually feeling nostalgia right now about a '90s music video that was meant to evoke nostalgia about a TV show that came out in the '70s as a nostalgic homage to the '50s.

Does that make me meta-nostalgic? 😁