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mz wrote:
sgrunt wrote:
The net result is to win the game instantaneously without satisfying any of the normal quests that would need to be undertaken in order to do so.
Who gives a fuck. Is it entertaining? No. The only people I see on that list who rated high the entertaining of that movie is the people who normally faps after looking at a rerecord count or after comparing the frame count of two runs and noticing a difference of one frame.
I disagree.
I'd have given it a reasonably high entertainment rating (7 to 8) simply because it was very obvious that the game should not have been beaten so fast. Essentially, it gets high entertainment ratings due to the WTF factor.
Myst lacks much of the similar WTF factor, apart from the fact that the answer for the puzzle is known without even finding any clues.
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You want to configure ffdshow, basically, when you are asked to select a codec, click the configuration button and select H.264 lossless as the Encoder, this should allow for perfect image quality, since you don't want to put it on the Internet (YouTube dislikes H.264 lossless).
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On a side note, be sure that you have the appropriate video codecs installed, specifically, ffdshow. This should allow you to dump high quality AVIs, better than the standard codecs supplied with default Windows installations.
I suggest using the lossless H.264 codec if you plan to process the video further. The Camstudio codec is also a good dumping codec if you wish to engage in further processing, but it is only really useful for if you plan to make High Definition videos.
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OmnipotentEntity wrote:
I always knew that you were a computer, Flygon.
You can thank Nach for fine tuning me into the insane machine I am today.
He still refuses to install the Anti-virus software, though, something about CPU cycles.
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With regards to the subtitle timing, a quick lesson.
Try to keep the subtitles on when there is actual gameplay on screen (Unless there is a significant enough delay for gameplay to make it look silly if the subtitles went on so late), and try to make them last 500 or so frames (Around 8 seconds, it seems long but it actually isn't), don't be afraid to lengthen or shorten if there is changes in action screens (Such as the 1-1 warp pipes in Super Mario Bros., the overworld will have longer subtitles for the game title and author, the underground will have a much shorter time period however, but still be readable).
Seems like a bit of an odd place to give encoder advice, and indeed it's an opinionated bit of advice but it's how I do it and I've seen no one complain.
Also, Brushies statement regarding the URL is completely correct.
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Long story short, I'll be posting the weekly statistics of the people that view TAS's on YouTube (My channel's only popular videos are TAS's). These are .csv spreadsheets and are perfectly operable in OpenOffice.org.
The times are based on the AEST (10+) timezone, allow a 1 hour margin of error because I can't be assed compensating for daylight savings, but the point is, this is important for calculating if the date is inaccurate (For you) or not. The spreadsheets will only be a week long, with the exception of the first one in order to cover from roughly when I started offering videos on my channel again.
Insight downloads:
24/2/10 - 24/3/1023/3/10 - 30/3/1030/3/10 - 6/4/106/4/10 - 13/4/1014/4/10 - 21/4/1022/4/10 - 07/05/1008/05/10 - 14/05/1015/05/10 - 28/05/1029/05/10 - 05/06/10
I will post reports of specific videos if people ask.
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Randil wrote:
...I could see him getting really glad, and he leaned over to me and kissed me on the cheek.
I wonder how to interpret this dream...
That part would not surprise me at all.
The weirdest part is though... the 'unoptimized' part literally describes my Gourmet Paradise run at this moment (And it will do so until I can get those goddamn Momos to be manipulated just right).
Just out of curiosity, what did I look like?
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Derakon wrote:
Thanks for the encode, Flygon, but wow my computer (iMac 2GHz Core Duo / 2GB RAM) cannot handle 1080p Flash videos. We're talking like one second per frame here.
I suggest using YouTubes provision of HTML5, I'm pretty certain that Safari supports H.264 (It's basically Chrome with a slightly different equipment). I've found that the performance levels significantly increased, I can play the videos at full 30fps on my 1.6GHz Core 2 Duo.
Also, uploading to Dailymotion.
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I take full blame for duplicating maTO (This was very early in my publishing carrier) and I've cleared it up with adelikat, it turns out someone already merged the dupes... except for removing the dupe itself.
Can't say I know anything about xipo and mike89, however.
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A few days ago, I had one of my oddest dreams...
I was publishing Golden Axe (This was before it was published)... never before have I had such a boring uneventful dream.
Other than that, I can't recall anything interesting.
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PlaylistPart 1Part 2
Due to an error in encoding, I have set the frame count as the rerecord count, this has been fixed via the use of an annotation because the effort required to reencode it is essentially pointless.
It's a rerecord count, your standard viewer won't really care as long as it is covered up by an annotation.
Also, I can apparently allow others to add annotations, so, maTO, if you want to add any details (Or a psudo-commentary) I'll PM you the link.
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Anavrin wrote:
Flygon wrote:
I actually tried to do this.
I ended up making a 128 megabyte AVI composed entirely of PCM. So basically, I have lost all and utter hope of Mupen 64 actually working after four attempts.
If this quality is acceptable, I would be pleased to encode N64 movies in HD.
That's far more than acceptable but... the major issue is that I've been utterly incapable of even being able to dump a proper AVI using Mupen64, let alone encode it.
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I always treated voting as less of a Judge related thing and more of an Encoder related thing, I see no reason to do away with it (Unless you mean the confidence rating... in which case, I never really paid much attention to it unless it's a fairly extreme number, usually below 70%).
It's a rough guide but it provides a quick reference for what should be on my encoding priority list... assuming it isn't empty, anyway.
Close enough.
Also, preoptimized.
