Those "ordered chapters" mkv files are a bitch to make and don't play nice with things like 0-byte dupe images, which mkv's can use to otherwise save a lot of space for a game like oot which is 60/30/20fps depending on what is going on.
There is no need for that as the encodes are variable frame rate and drops 99% of the duplicate frames already.
Antoids wrote:
No offense, as I'm sure you guys aren't slacking, per se, but what exactly is the holdup with publication? It's been at publication underway for quite some time, and there's not that many videos sitting on the workbench at all.
Actually I have been slacking, sorry about that =p
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Edit by FractalFusion: Merged two posts.
Looking good.
Archive.org asks for hinting on the 512kb encode. ( -hint on the mp4box line)
http://archive.org/about/faqs.php#Movies Encoding Parameters
MPEG-4 -- 512Kbps h.264 VBR 320x240 video with 64Kbps AAC audio. Hinted for streaming. Created with ffmpeg and mp4creator.
You dropped the SelectOdd on ng_deblink, so the HD is coming out at 60fps.
I would leave ng_deblink parameterless, which defaults to .67.
0.5 and 1.0 should really be saved for use with replace.
Is the 512 suppose to use TV range?
Do the "--input-range pc" parameters work correctly? I thought they were backwards or something.
About hinting, hmm, never noticed this, but since we are using pseudo HTTP-streaming, hinting is not required for it to work on our site.
The range bug existed with RGB input, but even then I think the bug has been fixed.
That Windows 7 is a tricky one. I'm assuming it shows up fine normally in the actual Mupen window, right? I doubt this is the cause, but what GPU (graphic card) do you have? Also, have you tried setting compatibility mode to Windows XP on .kkapture?
About your problem with .kkapture, maybe if you use the right ctrl key to end the capture instead. It may work. What the right ctrl key does is tell .kkapture to shut down and force terminate the application it is capturing and then close capture file gracefully. You would need to alt-tab to another windows first before pressing the right ctrl key as .kkapture only recognizes it then.
Well, I just finished reading the thread and noticed the subtitle file and the suggestion of chapters. I don't see any reason not to add the subtitles, but can someone give me the times for chapters?
What are the rules for making our own encodes or Youtube uploads of a TAS?
You can make your own encode, but in order for it to be used on the publish page, you need to follow the Encoding Guidelines here: http://tasvideos.org/EncoderGuidelines.html
IMO, really you should not choose a set bitrate. Some require more some require less. It will even out. Just set it to a certain CRF and be done with it. On a side note, TASVideos site itself already streams from archive.org to get great quality and full frame rate. It's what the _512kb files we make are for.