Posted: 12/11/2023 5:27 PM
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Captain_Forehead
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Decided to make personal NES TASes and uploading them on YouTube as backup. When playing them on YouTube, the video quality is pretty blurry. I wasn't able to find instructions to make them in good quality, maybe similar to HD? Are there simple instructions to encode FCEUX movies into high quality?
Posted: 12/11/2023 5:31 PM
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I upscale custom encodes in virtualdub https://tasvideos.org/EncodingGuide/CasualEncoding
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Posted: 12/11/2023 7:17 PM
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I decided to go with Lagarith and made a sample encode of The Legend of Zelda. When I replay it through VMC, the colors are off. And I did enable the following things: Check Enable Null Frames Check Use Multithreading Select Mode: RGB (Default) Do you know if any of this is the reason why the colors would be off?
Posted: 12/11/2023 7:19 PM
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What's VMC? How does it look in virtualdub or mpc-hc?
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Posted: 12/11/2023 7:22 PM
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Sorry. I meant to say VLC. That is, VLC Media Player. But I did check it in VirtualDub, and it looks great as far as I'm concerned. Not sure if this affects anything if I upload it to YouTube
Posted: 12/11/2023 8:00 PM
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I just uploaded it to YouTube, and the different colors aspect was unaffected. However, the video is still in the lower quality as it was before. Not sure how else to approach this, or if I just have to live with the lower quality.
Posted: 12/11/2023 8:01 PM
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Did you read the Editing chapter of the page I linked?
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Posted: 12/11/2023 8:35 PM
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I did. I'm a tad confused on where to put the 720 pixels. I assume it's the section where it says Absolute (pixels), but do I leave Absolute checked as opposed to Relative? Also, pretty sure the height section is the one on the right, right?
Posted: 12/13/2023 4:57 PM
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Yes.
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Posted: 12/14/2023 4:09 PM
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I just tried it, and although it uploaded correctly, it takes up a butt-ton of space. Like over 200 GB of space. I don't think that's worth it. I just won't worry about it.
Posted: 12/14/2023 4:12 PM
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What did you select in Video -> Compression menu?
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Posted: 12/14/2023 4:22 PM
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I chose uncompressed (RGB). I know the instructions said to choose x264vfw, but I didn't see that option in there. Unless I have to choose Lagarith because that's what I used for encoding?
Posted: 12/14/2023 4:40 PM
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The link to x264vfw is in the guide. Uploading lossless video to youtube is pointless, because youtube decides how well it will look based on its resolution, not compression it has. So you want the highest resolution you can afford, which makes lossless even more pointless. And uncompressed video is not even used by anyone ever because it's giant, and also slow.
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Posted: 12/14/2023 5:53 PM
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I switched over to x264vfw, and formatted in the way exactly as the link said including setting the ratefactor to 15, and made a separate encode with it. Viewing it in VLC, the resolution was still blurry, but I rubbed that off thinking VirtualDub will fix that. After following the steps for VirtualDub and adding the filter and compression as the link said, I tried saving it as an AVI file, and this is what I get: VirtualDub Error: Unable to initialize video compression. Check that the video codec is compatible with the output video frame size and that the settings are correct, or try a different one. I cannot understand why this is much more difficult than Bizhawk. What am I missing?
Posted: 12/14/2023 5:58 PM
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x264 needs video dimensions to be multiples of 4, I may have forgotten to add that detail to the guide.
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Posted: 12/14/2023 7:33 PM
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Yes, that did the trick. Thank you so much