Posted: 8/6/2005 8:05 PM
Post subject: Yet another H.264 problem
Quote
Chopper
Joined: 8/6/2005
Posts: 6
Ok, so I got the most recent tetris video. Noticed the link about codecs, so I read up, got what I thought was all the needed codecs/player. I got ffdshow and mplayer. I made sure to ge the newest version of both. I checked the other threads, but none of them helped e out with my problem. That being that the video plays....but looks horrible. Its like someone drew tetris on my screen with a crayon, and then tried to rub it off with their hand. Any clue why it looks like that? Another question. Why switch to some obscure codec that seems really hard to use, I mean videos looked fine last time I came here. Just a question I have no idea about the pros and cons of the old types vs. h264.
Posted: 8/7/2005 9:11 AM
Post subject: Re: Yet another H.264 problem
Quote
AngerFist
Active player (433)
Joined: 4/21/2004
Posts: 3517
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
First edition TAS of 2015 Innovative TAS of 2007
Chopper wrote:
Ok, so I got the most recent tetris video. Noticed the link about codecs, so I read up, got what I thought was all the needed codecs/player. I got ffdshow and mplayer. I made sure to ge the newest version of both. I checked the other threads, but none of them helped e out with my problem. That being that the video plays....but looks horrible. Its like someone drew tetris on my screen with a crayon, and then tried to rub it off with their hand. Any clue why it looks like that? Another question. Why switch to some obscure codec that seems really hard to use, I mean videos looked fine last time I came here. Just a question I have no idea about the pros and cons of the old types vs. h264.
What options did you select when you installed the latest ffdshow? And what is your latest ffdshow version?
Nitrogenesis wrote:
Guys I come from the DidyKnogRacist communite, and you are all wrong, tihs is the run of the mileniun and everyone who says otherwise dosnt know any bater! I found this run vary ease to masturbate too!!!! Don't fuck with me, I know this game so that mean I'm always right!StupedfackincommunityTASVideoz!!!!!!
Arc wrote:
I enjoyed this movie in which hands firmly gripping a shaft lead to balls deep in multiple holes.
natt wrote:
I don't want to get involved in this discussion, but as a point of fact C# is literally the first goddamn thing on that fucking page you linked did you even fucking read it
Cooljay wrote:
Mayor Haggar and Cody are such nice people for the community. Metro City's hospitals reached an all time new record of incoming patients due to their great efforts :P
Posted: 8/7/2005 10:47 AM
Quote
Chopper
Joined: 8/6/2005
Posts: 6
ffdshow-20050803, as far as settings, I just checkmarked h264. I have codecs for jsut about everything else. After it installed I looked at the options and didnt see anything that I thought would fix it. Though ffdshow is new to me.
Posted: 8/7/2005 1:35 PM
Quote
AngerFist
Active player (433)
Joined: 4/21/2004
Posts: 3517
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
First edition TAS of 2015 Innovative TAS of 2007
Chopper wrote:
ffdshow-20050803, as far as settings, I just checkmarked h264. I have codecs for jsut about everything else. After it installed I looked at the options and didnt see anything that I thought would fix it. Though ffdshow is new to me.
You can actually checkmark every one of them (I have and it works fine for me) and sometimes its required to start over your computer again. have you btw solved your problem?
Nitrogenesis wrote:
Guys I come from the DidyKnogRacist communite, and you are all wrong, tihs is the run of the mileniun and everyone who says otherwise dosnt know any bater! I found this run vary ease to masturbate too!!!! Don't fuck with me, I know this game so that mean I'm always right!StupedfackincommunityTASVideoz!!!!!!
Arc wrote:
I enjoyed this movie in which hands firmly gripping a shaft lead to balls deep in multiple holes.
natt wrote:
I don't want to get involved in this discussion, but as a point of fact C# is literally the first goddamn thing on that fucking page you linked did you even fucking read it
Cooljay wrote:
Mayor Haggar and Cody are such nice people for the community. Metro City's hospitals reached an all time new record of incoming patients due to their great efforts :P
Posted: 8/7/2005 2:03 PM
Quote
Chopper
Joined: 8/6/2005
Posts: 6
Nah I sure havent fixed it. Whats really messed up about it, not only were the h264 vid messing up, but so were the normal avi vids after I installed ffd. For example, Castlevania:CotM, and Bionic Commando. Both were fine until hte installation of ffdshow, then afterwards they were blury and the color was all crazy looking. So I uninstalled ffd and they worked fine. Im going to try and reinstall it , maybe something messed up along the way. Codecs can be really fickle from my past experiances.
Posted: 8/7/2005 2:47 PM
Quote
Truncated
Editor, Reviewer, Experienced player (969)
Joined: 4/17/2004
Posts: 3107
Location: Sweden
Arcade TAS of 2023 Sega TASer of 2021 Sega TAS of 2021
I've had a similar problem, that the graphics smear and don't update as they should. But not with the H264 codec, it was some older one I think. Specifically I remember Rad Gravity looking like that, whatever codec that movie uses. No idea what your problem could be. It's really a shame with all the codec problems... I suspect we are losing a lot of viewers because of it.
Posted: 8/7/2005 2:53 PM
Quote
Phil
Active player (410)
Joined: 3/16/2004
Posts: 2623
Location: America, Québec
I have ffdshow-20050803 as well and the bionic commando is playing well.
Posted: 8/7/2005 3:22 PM
Quote
Chopper
Joined: 8/6/2005
Posts: 6
Well I just got the Simon's Quest vid by Walkerboh. And jsut got the same messed up problem. Which is odd because it uses Divx 4. Used Gspot to see what the problem was with that. Not only did it tell me my Divx 4 codec was misconfigured, but that the video was currupt. I used the Archive.org link to get it instead of the Torrent. As far as misconfigured thing I dont understand that since I dont know how to confiure it in the first place. Edit: btw just used Gspot to take a peek at the Castlevania time attack by Phil and Genisto and Im getting no error involving Divx 4 configuration...odd
Posted: 8/8/2005 3:12 PM
Quote
Chopper
Joined: 8/6/2005
Posts: 6
Good news everyone. I figured out the problem. The new Nvidia drivers are messed up. Drivers version 77.27. If anyone else is having the same problem as I was, here is the fix. 1. Go to the Display Properties control pantel 2. Go to the Settings Tab 3. Click "Advanced" 4. Open the nVidia driver tab 5. Click "Color Correction" 6. Set “Apply color changes to:” to "All" 7. Set "Color Profile:" to "Advanced Mode" 8. Click Restore Defaults If that doesnt work, try rolling back to the last version of the driver.
Posted: 8/13/2005 7:12 AM
Post subject: Re: Yet another H.264 problem
Quote
Warp
Banned User, Former player
Joined: 3/10/2004
Posts: 7698
Location: Finland
Chopper wrote:
Another question. Why switch to some obscure codec that seems really hard to use, I mean videos looked fine last time I came here.
Answer: The size of the videos get reduced considerably while the image quality is equal or even better.
Posted: 8/14/2005 2:25 AM
Quote
Chopper
Joined: 8/6/2005
Posts: 6
Well thats good for hosting and all, but as a viewer it doesnt bother me how big the file is Ill watch it. I mean thats what torrent is all about. But its cool, not like it matters since I got my problem fixed. Btw, how much of a size reduction we talking about here? Is there some kind of figure you could give me?
Posted: 8/28/2005 9:54 PM
Quote
Enhasa
Joined: 1/14/2005
Posts: 216
I avoided 77.27 since I heard in many places that it was borked. There is apparently a 77.77 now. Has anyone tested that out yet? I guess it doesn't matter if that fix really works, but it always helps to be careful when dealing with a company like Nvidia or Creative. Speaking of which, does anyone know if there are any good 3rd party drivers for Nvidia like kX for Creative? I did a search and got DNA-Force and Omega, but I don't know the first thing about either of them.
"I think happiness is just being able to loaf without stress." http://speeddemosarchive.com/
Posted: 8/29/2005 5:38 AM
Quote
Warp
Banned User, Former player
Joined: 3/10/2004
Posts: 7698
Location: Finland
Chopper wrote:
Btw, how much of a size reduction we talking about here? Is there some kind of figure you could give me?
Well, supermariobros2-timeattackv2-sleepz.avi is an older video encoded with DivX (or the equivalent format created with mencoder, whatever). It's 10:57 in length and the file size is 41MB. supermariobros2-tas-full-guanobowl.avi is encoded with the H264 format. It's 24:42 in length, ie. more than twice as long, yet it has about the same file size, 41MB. If you look at the latter at full screen, you will see that the image quality is better than in the former (the former has visible artifacts especially in the light blue backgrounds). supermariobros2-tas-philc.avi which is 10:56 in length and contains almost the same video (some frames faster) than the first one above is only 17MB big, and the image quality is better.