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Posted: 8/3/2010 7:30 AM
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Kyman is now a publisher. Welcome aboard, Kyman!
Posted: 8/3/2010 6:46 AM
Post subject: Re: Keeping the video uncompressed
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Warp wrote:
(Of course it might be that "H.264 lossless" isn't lossless after all, unlike the name implies...)
h.264 lossless will cause a colorspace conversion to YV12, so it isn't lossless relative to the original input.
Posted: 8/3/2010 6:44 AM
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Mister Epic wrote:
-ovc lavc
You're specifying this in the absence of any 
-lavcopts
option; I don't recall what the default settings are but they are rather lossy. I'd suggest specifying 
-lavcopts vcodec=ffv1:format=bgr32
, which will give you FFV1 lossless video which would work extremely well for subsequent steps. If you really want to continue using uncompressed video, specify 
-ovc raw
instead of 
-ovc lavc
. EDIT: By the way, if ffdshow isn't working for you for ripping (as I remember from earlier), try using another lossless RGB codec such as the Camstudio codec (which mencoder will happily accept as an input). EDIT2: As Warp says below, if you are using a lossless RGB codec, you will see absolutely no loss in visual quality from step to step.
Posted: 8/2/2010 11:59 PM
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Posted: 8/2/2010 11:18 PM
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adelikat wrote:
We are TASers, we don't like to be bound by such confining things as "rules"
Not even these rules?
Posted: 8/2/2010 8:50 PM
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Your filename's slightly off for the _512kb - it should be _512kb, not _512k as present.
Posted: 8/2/2010 8:01 PM
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It looks like you managed to overwrite your encode on archive.org with the derived _512kb.mp4. Can you reupload your encode to archive.org?
Posted: 8/2/2010 7:45 PM
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Feel free to rename the derived video files as well (to [...].ogv and [...]_512kb.mp4), and go ahead and upload the video to any streaming sites you wish.
Posted: 8/2/2010 7:41 PM
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Go here: http://www.archive.org/details/GbaSilentScopeIn0341.98ByJlun2/ Select 'Edit item' on the left, select 'change the files', select the .mp4, and select 'File -> Rename'.
Posted: 8/2/2010 7:35 PM
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Hi Epic - looks good. Can you rename the file to "silentscope-tas-jlun2.mp4" on archive.org?
Posted: 8/2/2010 6:04 PM
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Just get to work already. :p (For those wondering: Flygon's encode uses soft subtitles for movie information, which is unacceptable.)
Posted: 7/31/2010 4:33 PM
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was0x wrote:
By the way, I succeeded to improve from your movie by 3 frames.
Hmm... an interesting conundrum. Would you be willing to allow the submission file to be replaced by the one containing your improvement (and be credited for it, of course)?
Posted: 7/29/2010 5:10 AM
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If it's a minor improvement (which by all appearances this is), just ask a judge to replace the submission file. Otherwise, yes, you'd normally cancel and resubmit.
Posted: 7/29/2010 12:29 AM
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This run is completely impossible to follow. Which makes it hilarious. Yes vote.
Posted: 7/28/2010 11:34 PM
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To chime in on subtitles: Soft subs for movie commentary subtitles are fine if not encouraged strongly over hard subs (and we have several published encodes that make use of them). The current policy for the stock movie info subtitles is to hard subs basically as a watermark to ensure that our encodes can't be ripped off by unscrupulous types (it's much easier to do that than to create the encode in the first place), and it's far too easy to remove soft subs of that nature for me to consider using them as that watermark.
Posted: 7/26/2010 11:38 PM
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I don't have the opportunity to review every published encode, but I do lecture encoders and publishers on this whenever I spot an encode that demonstrates problems of this nature (it's in the Encoder Guidelines, after all). Fortunately, most of our people know better than that.
Posted: 7/26/2010 11:33 PM
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zem wrote:
the archive.org mp4 mirror is broken
Works for me - perhaps it was a transient problem?
Posted: 7/25/2010 10:09 PM
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FractalFusion wrote:
I plan to make two encodes, one without any subtitles, and one with subtitles.
No need for that - if you have the subtitles in .sub or .srt format, you can just add them in during the muxing process as soft subtitles, which is preferred for commentary-type subtitles (the movie info subtitles still need to be hard-embedded, of course).
Posted: 7/24/2010 3:44 PM
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I read the comment as, "I was about to accept this, then I remembered I'm supposed to watch the movie from the input file first, and I haven't done that yet".
Posted: 7/24/2010 2:24 AM
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Congratulations to Toothache, our newest publisher!
Posted: 7/21/2010 6:43 PM
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Let me draw attention to another recently rejected run, submitted under similar circumstances where there's no substantial difference in game play between the NTSC runs (and there are several there as well) and the PAL run. Does that submission warrant revival for publication as a separate branch?
Posted: 7/21/2010 5:36 AM
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Pointless Boy wrote:
Another valid option (among many) is for this excellent run to be published in addition to the NTSC version.
I explained earlier why this is not a valid option:
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This does not showcase sufficiently groundbreaking PAL-specific glitches (such as with Blaster Master) to warrant publication as a new branch.
To expand upon this:
Judge Guidelines wrote:
A run for a proposed new branch for a game should offer compelling differences relative to previously published runs of that game.
Posted: 7/21/2010 4:28 AM
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Apart from PAL making it easier to abuse one particular glitch and shaving a fraction of a second off from NTSC, what does this run demonstrate over and above the rest of the SMB content on the site? In my opinion, nothing. This does not showcase sufficiently groundbreaking PAL-specific glitches (such as with Blaster Master) to warrant publication as a new branch. It must either obsolete another run (which I can't necessarily see being warranted) or be rejected altogether. I am voting No.
Posted: 7/20/2010 10:45 PM
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So, wait. To be clear, there are no PAL-specific glitches in the content of this run? If there aren't, this isn't sufficiently different to be accepted amongst the glut of currently published SMB material.
Posted: 7/20/2010 8:09 PM
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Encoded: http://www.mediafire.com/?pv8g2m2ip57u6uj
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