It would be really cool if someone could throw together a utility where all you do is select two movies, the emulator they are for, the frame where you want one file to end and the other to begin, and then it spits out a spliced movie.
I know this is not a difficult thing to program (I just don't know how to do it), so someone do this please!
Joined: 5/17/2004
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I believe virtualdub could do that for you, provided you skip the emulator input field. What do you need it for, anyhow? A frame is a frame, regardless of emulator.
It would just make it so I wouldn't have to hex movies together. You'd need to imput the emulator because different movie formats have different crap in the header, and probably use different numbers of bytes for a frame.
Anyways, it always takes me 18 years to hex crap together, a utility would make my day.
Why on earth would u want a utility like this to be made?!?!?!?!?!?
Meh. I think I`ll stick with just my VBA and MAME tasks.
Oh by the way a VerY,VerY good VBA release should be out in a few days, this time it is good and not shit like before!!!!
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A specialised program to edit emulator movie files could be nice if it was done correctly. It would be like a hex editor, but you could see which buttons were being pressed on each frame instead of some tricky hex values.
But I don't really think the demand is high enough. My guess is that there are about 4 people in this world who would use it.
Besides, it wouldn't really help a lot since the movies would still desync a hell of a lot. You shouldn't really count on hex editing to make movies, it's best to just try to avoid it as much as possible.
Well, Genisto could implement it in his php script.
Right now, you can edit movies easily.
Right now, it looks like this: http://hiddendragon.sytes.net/
If you saw some bugs or request feature just tell me.
Btw, only NES video movies are editable now.
It doesn't do anything at all in Firefox. I press the "Go" button after selecting a file, and ... nothing. It works in Internet Exploder, though.
The interface in that program is clumsy at best, I think it's better to just convert to fmv and use a hex editor. You can't copy stuff between two movie files, for example. Unless I'm missing something. No, I think a full featured program is required for it to be better than a hex editor. No offense meant. I'm sure it's a nice php script that took lots work to get right. But it's just not very useful, at least not to me.
It doesn't do anything at all in Firefox. I press the "Go" button after selecting a file, and ... nothing. It works in Internet Exploder, though.
It is working pretty fine with Firefox.
Blublu wrote:
The interface in that program is clumsy at best, I think it's better to just convert to fmv and use a hex editor.
I don't understand what you're meaning. Maybe you want a site designed in Flash?? It's not so easy and long using an hex-editor to edit movie file.
Blublu wrote:
You can't copy stuff between two movie files, for example. Unless I'm missing something.
Like I said before, Genisto may implement it.
Blublu wrote:
No, I think a full featured program is required for it to be better than a hex editor. No offense meant. I'm sure it's a nice php script that took lots work to get right. But it's just not very useful, at least not to me.
Then, I don't think your dream may come to reality(Except if you are doing it ;) ). Personally, I found it useful and even more when we will be able to manage two movie at a time for copying frames from one to another.
FODA wrote:
phil, thats a-m-a-z-i-n-g. is that genisto's work?
Well, Genisto could implement it in his php script.
Right now, you can edit movies easily.
Right now, it looks like this: http://hiddendragon.sytes.net/
If you saw some bugs or request feature just tell me.
Btw, only NES video movies are editable now.
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Sorry about my negativeness. I just couldn't see the use of that thing. Maybe I was a little quick to judge. It's great that people are finding it useful. Although it still doesn't work in my Firefox, I guess it must be a problem at my end.
