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Hey, when trying to publish a submission I get an error relating to the old tracker. The error is as follows: Fatal error: Uncaught SoapFault exception: [HTTP] Not Found in /home/tasvideos/public_html/inc/tracker_api.php:53 Stack trace: #0 [internal function]: SoapClient->__doRequest('<?xml version="...', 'http://tracker....', 'urn:NesvTracker...', 1, 0) #1 [internal function]: SoapClient->__call('GetAnnounceURI', Array) #2 /home/tasvideos/public_html/inc/tracker_api.php(53): SoapClient->GetAnnounceURI() #3 /home/tasvideos/public_html/inc/publishfun.php(192): GetBittorrentExpectedAnnounceURI() #4 /home/tasvideos/public_html/doc/queue.php(395): MoviePublisher->GenerateAndProcessPublishingForm('1655') #5 /home/tasvideos/public_html/doc/queue.php(499): PublishSubmission('1655') #6 /home/tasvideos/public_html/doc/queue.php(516): QueueDecidePage() #7 {main} thrown in /home/tasvideos/public_html/inc/tracker_api.php on line 53 This prevents the rest of the publish page from loading, keeping me from publishing a submission.

Posted: 7/14/2009 2:55 AM

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http://www.mininova.org/tor/2760799 Here is a test torrent so you can see how things look when mininova is hosting a file. This is the jewel master Tas.

Posted: 7/12/2009 12:09 AM

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not especially I'll have more on Monday. Main things: Its a very simple sort of account, you can't set subusers or anything like that and there aren't really any special features outside of you are allowed to upload to the file to mininova and then it spits out the torrent. The speed on it is not bad I get 400-500k on a good time and 150-200 when they seem busy. I think it should work good. I need to do a little more testing as soon as I have time to finish an encode for the site.

Posted: 7/8/2009 7:14 AM

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Mininova approved our account today. I'm going to try to do some testing with it tomorrow. I'm going to pick a approved sub to encode and see how it goes from there.

Posted: 7/4/2009 1:22 AM

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Ugh, looks like youtube doesn't handle my method of frame decimation well, at all =/ sound way off sync.

Posted: 7/4/2009 12:34 AM

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Congrats on finishing this. I think this getting published is a foregone conclusion, as not only is it a big improvement but it also looks sexy. I'll toss my yes vote into the pile.

Posted: 7/3/2009 11:14 PM

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Honestly they look nearly exactly the same to me either way, which is a good thing because it's what I was hopefully aiming for with the articles.

Posted: 7/3/2009 10:05 PM

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I can't really tell the 2 apart, maybe I need glasses :P I may have introduced extra blurring converting the file to 4:3, I may rethink that in the future. From what I can tell otherwise you pretty much followed everything well.

Posted: 7/2/2009 11:48 PM

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I put in an application as 'TASvideos'. We'll see if it goes through or not, I'll update you with any info I receive.

Posted: 6/27/2009 9:16 AM

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I was hoping to port over Bisqwit's old pages into a similar 2 page version, but the problem is I don't have enough familiarity with Linux, and his pages are outdated. I would love if someone with Linux familiarity could help me port those pages over. This is his main page: http://tasvideos.org/EmulatorResources/MakingAVI/Common/Linux.html He then has emulator specific information separated into a bunch of multiple articles like how adelikat did before this overhaul. Here is an example one: http://tasvideos.org/EmulatorResources/MakingAVI/FCEUX/Linux.html

Posted: 6/27/2009 2:53 AM

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Avisynth is definitely a great tool, but unfortunately im not familiar enough with it to make a seperate tutorial. It does make superior subtitles using vsfilter, is great for resizing/trimming, color conversion, and I'm sure does many other things that I don't know how to do with it yet.

Posted: 6/26/2009 8:37 PM

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arflech wrote:

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This type of humor is my favorite i dont know why it makes me laugh so much.

Posted: 6/26/2009 6:57 PM

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That was my goal. I was hoping to make things at least a little bit easier while also hopefully 'centralizing' video quality so we don't have things vary wildly between encoders. (Except the more experienced ones who will always find that way to squeeze in that last bit of quality, and have their own methods.)

Posted: 6/26/2009 12:15 PM
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Post subject: Discussion of 'new encode method' articles.

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For those of you who rarely check the articles section, there has been a major overhaul to the articles on encoding in Windows. Most of the information comes from a merging of adelikat and shinydoofy encode methods, and an addition of a custom x264cli recommended by johannes. This main article goes over the new recommended encoding method for beginners, with some advice for advanced users. http://tasvideos.org/EmulatorResources/MakingAVI/Common/Windows.html This article combines the old 'separate' emulator pages into one much cleaner one. It still needs some updating which I am working on. http://tasvideos.org/EmulatorResources/MakingAVI/EmulatorSettings/Windows.html This article goes over logos very briefly. I admit its not the greatest method but its fast and works well. http://tasvideos.org/EmulatorResources/MakingAvi/Logo/Windows.html Tests: adelikat and I decided to choose a game with a history of encode problems (gunstar heroes) to test this new method. This is a new encode of Gunstar Heroes that meets the sites 4:1 requirement. It followed the article exactly with a bitrate of 480. No other changes were made from the articles 'default' settings. http://www.teamspooky.com/TAS/gunstarheroes-tas-arkianduski-newencode.zip The old encode can be found on it's movie page here: http://tasvideos.org/945M.html at 6:1 ratio. Please compare the 2 and give your thoughts. It is subjective but I believe the new encode to be superior, not to mention smaller. (Day after edit: Or not, it is a close call in places, the higher bitrate really helped adelikat's encode while mine was restricted.) Please give any additional thoughts you have on encoding settings used or the method.

Posted: 6/26/2009 11:50 AM

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Bisqwit resolved the uploading images issue. I upped the screenshot for you.

Posted: 6/24/2009 3:09 PM

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Ugh that is ugly. Things to try: Tools -> preferences, on the bottom go to show settings:all. Click video in the left pane and make sure under filters nothing is checked. Other than that im not sure why the older version gave you a clean image while the new one doesn't. You may want to try mplayer or the latest ffdshow + media player classic instead. It seems vlc's support of h264 in mkv isn't handling the newer x264 implementations well.

Posted: 6/24/2009 2:54 PM

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This is a known issue with the site atm. You may want to email the zipped file to Bisqwit and ask him to upload it (rename it to whatever you named it to when published)

Posted: 6/24/2009 11:01 AM

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Ferret Warlord wrote:

Well crud, trying to navigate the MKV with the slider bar crashes VLC. And wow, they even have Falcor. Many of the movies referenced to in here were expected, but I never saw The Neverending Story coming. I feel kinda giddy because of it. And the moon crashing reminded me of I Wanna Be the Guy, but I know there's no real reference in there. Well made game, well made movie. I highly enjoyed it. Good decisions were made throughout. Seriously, that's the most entertaining use of wobbling I've seen.

If you have a moment, please try this with the latest version of vlc from http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html. I don't have the issue you described but I want to make sure there isn't an incompatibility for future movies.

Posted: 6/23/2009 11:38 AM

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are the cache flush/reboot buttons on that cache control page accessible to everyone? I can see them and it looks like I can click on them.

Posted: 6/21/2009 11:15 AM

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To be honest I really like the game. I'm considering finishing it anyway even if it has a chance of not being published. I may work on it some more thanks to the update of mednafen-rr.