Posted: 10/8/2013 1:43 AM
Post subject: Video encoding?
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Rising_Tempest
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Anyone familiar with this tool know how to encode video? All I see in the AVI drop down menus are checkmark options for capturing video, and they don't seem to do anything whilst checked? Appreciate any help. -J
Posted: 10/8/2013 3:20 PM
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http://tasvideos.org/EncodingGuide/VideoDumping.html#Hourglass
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Posted: 10/8/2013 7:56 PM
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I should clarify a bit. I follow the steps you linked there, but when it's supposed to prompt me for the file location/codecs etc. it doesn't, it just begins a playback of the WTF file. I've tried with and without fast forward checked, same either way. Thanks in advance EDIT: I've also tried redownloading hourglass, deleting the config file to start with fresh settings also. I am using version r81 if that helps also.
Posted: 10/8/2013 8:12 PM
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Stupid question: Do you have any codecs installed?
Posted: 10/8/2013 10:40 PM
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I do, yes. I wonder if it maybe only recognizes certain ones or something? I did try just now installing a couple recommended ones in the articles on the site, but still no-go. I'm running windows xp on this machine if that helps any.
Posted: 10/9/2013 9:38 AM
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I'll see if I have time figuring this out tonight. I need to look at the code and see what may cause it to skip over the promt.
Posted: 10/9/2013 3:19 PM
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I looked at it and I cannot find any direct reason to why you would not be prompted to save the file. To be able to go further, I need you to delete Hourglasslog.txt (both from the Hourglass and the directory of the game exe). Then try to make another capture, let it fail (if it does, should still do it), quit the game, close Hourglass normally, then upload the log (to for example pastebin) and give me the link.
Posted: 10/10/2013 4:37 PM
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http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=AyustMs4 Done and done. Hope this helps.
Posted: 10/10/2013 6:37 PM
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This is perplexing... The AVI capture (if activated) should start when the game displays it's first frame. And if the AVI capture doesn't know where to capture to, you shall get prompted to give it a location, select codecs etc... And there are no saved settings for this, so this will happen every time on the first frame. The only reason left where this can fail is if the DLL fails to find the frames and therefor doesn't send the "FRAME" or "SLEEPFRAME" message to Hourglass. But from the log it doesn't seem to use any unusual functions. I'm afraid this game might not be compatible enough with Hourglass for AVI dumping to work, without any directly apparent reason. Currently I cannot afford to buy the game, so I can't investigate this thoroughly enough myself right now.
Posted: 10/10/2013 7:27 PM
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Bummer. Thanks for looking into it though WP, I really appreciate it. I suppose I can just make use of standard desktop capturing software for now, though the quality won't be as good.
Posted: 10/10/2013 7:42 PM
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Well here is a simple test. Can you capture any game? Cave Story is a free game you can try. If you can't capture Cave Story, then it might be something else.
Posted: 10/10/2013 9:10 PM
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A solid idea. And yeah, I was able to capture Cave Story, so it must be something with this game. Welp, desktop software it is!