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moozooh wrote:
I find that somewhat less than completely unreadable.
That is being generous.
Imagine after resizing to 256x224 and compression, lol.
p.s. sorry if you were making a serious suggestion, but it seems ridiculously bad IMO
or maybe you thought I was trolling and you're just counter-trolling me =_=
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turska wrote:
I propose that a generic TASVideos logoset be created...
If you had made a generic logoset that looked awesome it would be easier to see a positive side to this proposal.
A concrete solution would make your criticism more constructive.
I'll start. Here is my logo, made more generic.
http://i.imgur.com/CRWV6.png
Gimp editable: generic.xcf
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This might more sense with examples, so I'll use a super mario bros 2 run that
YoungJ1997lol mentioned on IRC last night.
The linked youtube is 240p and just uses SelectEven.
Young's attempt upsizes to 480p and applies TASBlend throughout.
There is very little blinking in the run, so the TASBlend ends up blurring motion
everywhere with little positive effect. SelectEven is the correct approach for most
of the run. I put together a collection of some of the more complex parts and I'll
try to explain how to use the test=true option to sort things out.
Section 1
The first 100 frame are typical of most of the movie. Blues for pixel change. Greens and yellows for flashes. Nothing that needs to be corrected.
With the shyguy at the bottom there is some real blinking which shows up as red/magenta.
Section 2
The flashing at the beginning isn't very distinct, it might just be a sprite limit issue.
Toad looking back and forth is definitely blinking.
Section 3
The enemies are constantly swapping screen order as they fall.
The shyguys at the end flash at odd intervals.
Section 4
The fish at the beginning looks like it might be blinking, but a double check shows it is just complex motion tricking my filters.
The logs are blinking, which seems strange, probably a sprite issue.
Section 5
Flashing at the beginning with some blinking as Luigi lifts the egg.
Section 6
Mostly flashing, some blinking while Luigi is invincible.
Section 7
Health bar blinks with the mask a bit.
Blinking egg, sprite issue.
Section 8
Egg blinks, probably a sprite issue.
Boss blinks. Toad blinks when invincible
Section 9
When Toad looks back and forth at a 1 frame rate it is blinking, but the (2 left, 1 right) isn't.
Section 10
Wings are blinking.
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Famtasia isn't great, there are a number of reason one would want to avoid it when making an encode.
But if it doesn't sync on anything else you might be stuck.
I have a possible work-around, but I don't know what kind of practical limits it runs into.
If the movie syncs on famtasia and the savestate data for each frame could be recorded, could that then be played back with TASEditor?
IE a large collection of single-frame from-savestate movies, using famtasia to recreate its faulty logic and something else to render the A/V.
Edit:
ACK, the famtasia source code is lost, pulling the savestates out of the .exe is probably nigh impossible.
Oh well, plenty of SNES youtubes to encode.
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turska wrote:
Presenting unnecessary information is undesirable.
But what information is necessary?
I think the encoder's name is as useful as the rerecord count.
I'm all for a standard logo I could just drop my name in.
Making an individual logo sucks, someone is sure to think it is tacky or bland.
Finding placement for subtitles is more my level of artistic expression ;)
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I've updated the deblink function
http://pastebin.com/JNJQKHm9ng_blinkmask(test=true) will show a side by side of the video with some motion vector information.
Use that to tell when you have blinking.
Decide how best to deal with the blinking you have. (some guidelines at the pastebin)
Then tie it together with some ReplaceFramesSimple.
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Optional memoization is in.
That should save some time if you preview in vdub or end up re-encoding, so you only have the lut creation times once.
Give each memo a different name.
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I think it runs out of memory, recycles the masks and then has to remake them again and again.
Maybe splitting into two function, one that makes the masks and writes them to a png, and another function to layer the png on the right range.
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The default halo width is fixed at 1, which isn't visible when supersizing.
I hacked up an alternate subtitle function that allows for bigger halos.
http://pastebin.com/y1kviNFR
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natt wrote:
Honestly, given all of this information, it doesn't sound like there is a good way to cut this video.
Maybe show "This has been a tool-assisted speedrun, for more information visit http://TASVideos.org/" and then end.
Might make the ending look more intentional.
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natt wrote:
As far as the ending goes, use your best judgement... I dislike where this encode ends not particularly because of the song (it's the same song that has been running the whole race), but because it seems "abrupt" and unprofessional; it looks like something may have been cut off, even if that's not the case.
Yah, the ending is a non-event because its a 2-player race and the 2nd player hasn't finished yet.
Can I finish the 2nd player and splice in whatever ending happens then?
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Has anyone heard about/tried this or other psy tunings?
Touhou is the video game the x264 team uses to showoff how good their motion estimation algorithm is.
It has its own tuning, but the documentation has been removed.
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creaothceann wrote:
What about using MP4Box to create an .mp4 file? (or some other tool than x264)
That is what NHML lets you do, but it loses some metadata.
MP4Box has an option to change the SAR, but I didn't see anything to put the color matrix tags back.
Probably not a big deal since most software ignores those tags anyway.
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The timecode problem is just something with mp4, right?
So by storing my dedupped files as mkv I could avoid that hassle?
But mp4 is still needed for the 512 because archive.org won't stream mkv?
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Velitha wrote:
--vf resize:,,,,i420:8,lanczos
Ilari told me to use that (and let x264 handle the color matrices), so what I'm using is what I was told to use.
I'm sure x264 uses a predetermined color matrix, I just didn't know which. Is it 601?
Is there a way to signal that after mp4box combines the nhml?
Does nhmlfixup need the nhml from the raw h264?
Would pulling the nhml from an mp4 stream keep the metadata?
This issue also seems to kill the SAR.
A video I flagged as 7:6 ended up as 5:4 according to mediainfo.
Is there a program to check if the video is tv/pc range?
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Velitha wrote:
--vf resize:,,,,i420:8,lanczos
It looks like you end up with an undefined colormatrix in your encodetypes 1,2,3 ?
Though I guess by the time nhml is done with them, any information I passed to x264 is lost as well.
So, does it matter, or just expect everything SD will be treated as PC.601 and hope for the best???
P.S. thanks for the correction
With the shyguy at the bottom there is some real blinking which shows up as red/magenta.
Section 2
The flashing at the beginning isn't very distinct, it might just be a sprite limit issue.
Toad looking back and forth is definitely blinking.
Section 3
The enemies are constantly swapping screen order as they fall.
The shyguys at the end flash at odd intervals.
Section 4
The fish at the beginning looks like it might be blinking, but a double check shows it is just complex motion tricking my filters.
The logs are blinking, which seems strange, probably a sprite issue.
Section 5
Flashing at the beginning with some blinking as Luigi lifts the egg.
Section 6
Mostly flashing, some blinking while Luigi is invincible.
Section 7
Health bar blinks with the mask a bit.
Blinking egg, sprite issue.
Section 8
Egg blinks, probably a sprite issue.
Boss blinks. Toad blinks when invincible
Section 9
When Toad looks back and forth at a 1 frame rate it is blinking, but the (2 left, 1 right) isn't.
Section 10
Wings are blinking.
Use that to tell when you have blinking.
Decide how best to deal with the blinking you have. (some guidelines at the pastebin)
Then tie it together with some ReplaceFramesSimple.