I'm trying to encode a run-through of FF1 GBA for my personal usage. I just want the video to look exactly like the emulator(rerecording 19.3), and I'm not too concerned about file size. I've got the k-lite codec pack installed, and I've noticed the emulator seems to have specific options for XviD. I've messed around with those, but can't get the display to look pixelated(I know, I know, but the GBA didn't have any special filtering either intentional or otherwise, so I don't want any).
However, after taking a look at the FAQs on the site, it seems I was wrong about the XviD options, and I'm just more confused than ever.
The only reason I'm encoding this run-through is it's a long one, and it's kind of hard to rewind a video when you're not recording it(At least, I haven't found an option to do so, and I've looked all over the program. :().
I also can't turn up the throttle to higher than 125% unless I use frame skipping, but that's probably a problem best suited for another thread...
I'm 100% new to this stuff. No idea what I'm doing here. I'm more of a hardware guy...
The thing about "pixelated" is that when you playback the movie at a larger size than original, your display card hardware "scales" the movie into larger size by a filtering process that specifically avoids pixelation.
If you disable hardware acceleration, you will see pixelated video.
If you view the video at 1:1 size, i.e. unscaled, you will also see it as it is originally. Each pixel of the video corresponds to one pixel in the game console's screen.
If you want the video to be pixelated when scaled to larger size without having to disable hardware acceleration, you will have to prescale it prior to encoding.
I'm trying to encode a run-through of FF1 GBA for my personal usage. I just want the video to look exactly like the emulator(rerecording 19.3), and I'm not too concerned about file size.
If you mean, exactly like that, you could try following the instructions on this site.
Those worked well for me, though they may need some tweaking; for example, if you really don't care about filesize, installing X.264 and encoding that with a quantisizer of 0 will encode at lossless quality.
The thing about "pixelated" is that when you playback the movie at a larger size than original, your display card hardware "scales" the movie into larger size by a filtering process that specifically avoids pixelation.
If you disable hardware acceleration, you will see pixelated video.
If you view the video at 1:1 size, i.e. unscaled, you will also see it as it is originally. Each pixel of the video corresponds to one pixel in the game console's screen.
If you want the video to be pixelated when scaled to larger size without having to disable hardware acceleration, you will have to prescale it prior to encoding.
I was playing it back at the original res(That's what I've set up my media player to do by default.). >.>
Xkeeper, I'll try those settings. Thanks.
Edit: Ok, turns out I was semi-wrong. I have the player set to display the video's default res, but it's always encoding at 480x320. Always. I've changed video render method from DD to D3D and tried it at various resolutions(All multiples of 240x160).
I'll try updating to 19.4. Not the same version as the one that was used to record these videos, but it might help.
Edit: aaaaaaaaaaaand that didn't help. OK, I'm gonna uninstall all video codecs, then install x264, ffdshow, Media Player Classic.
And if that doesn't work, I'm going to report it here and go to bed.
Edit: Well, now it's encoding at 240x160 no matter the resolution of the emulator.
I forgot to mention. Just before I uninstalled the K-Lite codec pack and install X264, ffdshow and MPC separately, I tried running my last encode in WMP to make sure it wasn't MPC screwing up the file. Same problem.
I've got to be missing something here. I'll work on this problem later. I'm awful tired, I'm on sleep-inducing meds, and I have trouble thinking when I'm this dammed tired.
