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Actually, mkvmerge does support aspect ratio setting apparently.
From mkvmerge --help:
Options that only apply to video tracks:
-f, --fourcc <FOURCC> Forces the FourCC to the specified value.
Works only for video tracks.
--aspect-ratio <TID:f|a/b>
Sets the display dimensions by calculating
width and height for this aspect ratio.
--aspect-ratio-factor <TID:f|a/b>
First calculates the aspect ratio by multi-
plying the video's original aspect ratio
with this factor and calculates the display
dimensions from this factor.
--display-dimensions <TID:width>x<height>
Explicitely set the display dimensions.
--cropping <TID:left,top,right,bottom>
Sets the cropping parameters.
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I somehow suspect that Maza's findings are not really mistakes. Eagerly waiting for explanations :)
Edit: no, they do look like mistakes for most part... Well, it's not the end of the world. :)
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If the trick AngerFirst described indeed works not only in the bottom of the ladder as
shown in this animation, it will be a huge timesaver in the tool-assisted movie.
Can someone confirm it?
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Ragowit wrote:
What exactly is "aspect ratio setting"?
Aspect ratio is a number that is embedded to the multimedia file.
It allows saying that although the video resolution is 256x224, it was originally supposed to fill a 4/3 screen, and if played on a 4/3 screen, it should again fill the screen regardless of display resolution instead of having black bars on the sides.
In short, it tells the aspect ratio of the original video.
It's much better solution than to prescale the video to 300x224, because the aspect ratio setting doesn't create any loss in video quality. It's just an instruction to players (which all players don't honor).
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Saturn wrote:
Bisqwit forgot to describe that I also asked him why the hell he has picked exactly this movie for experimenting with OGM instead of any other movie that is rejected like the tons of Donkey Kong 1-min movies and here he couldn't give me an answer instead of ignoring me. It's just impudent to no end.
BECAUSE I DID NOT EXPECT YOU (OR WHOMEVER'S MOVIE I HAD CHOSEN) TO BECOME A PAIN IN THE A** FOR THAT.
[Edit]
Honestly. I do not have anything against you (or at least didn't have before this).
I didn't "pick exactly this movie for experimenting".
The only thing I "picked" was "the next movie to be published".
And for that, I decided to use the vorbis codec, all in the name of technical improvements.
And it was your movie that was published. And I really regret that now, considering how bad feedback I got from the author of the movie.
I'd unpublish the movie because of the utter distaste this debate has gave to me, but I don't wish to make it the first case.
[1] I'm not making an AVI because
- there already are TWO multimedia files released with this movie (that's more than my preference; therefore I discourage anyone adding an AVI to the entry)
- viewing either one of them is possible to anyone with modest effort
- it would take time to re-encode it (admittedly, less time than already spent in this debate) - time from my free time which can be spent more effeciently
- if someone has special requirements on the multimedia files, he can fulfill those himself. We already have a viewable file released
- I'm not interested in viewability on a specific hardware device
[2] You should be grateful for that
- this movie was published
- it has gained extra attention due to this debate
[3] I ignored you because
- you continued to debate after I had explained reasons of [1]
[4] I'm angry because
- despite my good intentions, all the feedback has been saturated by complaints
- the movie author takes it personally and represents a "why me, why not someone else" position (not with those literal words) as if he's somehow higher priority person than others
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Ouzo wrote:
May I suggest to change the title of this movie to Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island? SMW2 is alphabetically incorrect and just doesn't look right.
I abbreviated it because the long title breaks the layout of the front page of the nesvideos site.
It can be changed when it has scrolled off the main page (if I remember) :)
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After the 16th edit, much better than the 15th time!
As for the movie result, 1 minute better than the previous version can't be anything but good.
But only watching it will confirm ;)
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Saturn wrote:
OK everything cleared. Bisqwit already shown me his smart site of himself. I give up...
(For those who can't guess what that means - briefly explained, Saturn2 contacted me privately and demanded an explananation for why AVI wasn't made, and I told him there is already OGM and MKV. He wants AVI because he has issues with his DVD player. I am not interested. We debated the issue a few minutes and then I got bored with the debate and put him into ignore. Then he seemed to be sure I have personal issues against him, which I don't have.)
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http://www.globetown.net/~rockmovie/gyairo.mpg
Gyro Man level
- As usual, saving energy by jumping
- Lots of luck-manipulated energy upgrades
When exiting the lift, jumping just before scrolling. The jump continues in the next screen.
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Saturn wrote:
OK I understand, but why using Vorbis?
Do you mean: Why experiment with Vorbis?
For the same reason we experimented with X264 after using divx-variants for a long time.
Getting the same or better quality with smaller file size is a good thing.
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Saturn wrote:
Everything, but just not the requestet AVI to make the life easy. Thats the world today...
That's because I could make an MKV file with a single command that takes about 5 seconds to execute. Making an AVI would require re-encoding the whole thing because as I said already a couple of times, Vorbis sound doesn't work in AVI (don't ask me why. I guess it has something to do with that AVI is byte-based and Vorbis is bit-based, but I don't really know).
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First experience of MKV: It works fine, and it does not have the decimated-frame-ignoring problem, but it doesn't seem to support the aspect ratio setting that is supported by AVI and OGM.
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Bisqwit wrote:
This seems to be a problem occuring today.
I don't understand what causes it, but I'll try to resolve it.
Okay, I did something.[1] Does it work now?
[#1]: I deleted the 'peers' array from the dstate file.
Edit: Didn't help.
Edit2: Okay. I upgraded Bittorrent, patched it to support the extra statistics needed by BittorrentTracker.html and wrote a program to patch the dstate file to prevent the tracker from reseting it. Then I cleared the peers array again.
Now it seems to work. Confirmed?
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Truncated wrote:
Well, AVI is also a free standard.
Developed by Microsoft. That's a difference. :P
But despair not, I am not going to take OGM as an official format. But I am considering MKV. Maybe the next time I'll experiment with it instead. However now I'm battling a problem with the tracker...
If the trick AngerFirst described indeed works not only in the bottom of the ladder as
shown in this animation, it will be a huge timesaver in the tool-assisted movie.
Can someone confirm it?