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Posted: 8/13/2013 4:24 PM
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All welcome RGamma the Dolphin ace, our newest publisher!
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Posted: 8/13/2013 4:18 PM
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Publisher is a person who encodes TASes our players produce, creates torrents and screenshots, and publishes the movie on the main site. There are 2 encodes that are required now:
  • Archive.org 480p stream (8-bit 4:2:0 MP4)
  • YouTube HD stream
The first one is uploaded to Archive.org, HD stream is uploaded to TASVideosChannel on YouTube. Screenshots are picked from the lossless dump and then either saved as PNG and optimized, or saved as JPG. If something does not work out right, use our Wiki: LiveChat to solve all kinds of problems (Discord is preferred). Encoder is a person who only makes encodes and has a permission to upload to TASVideosChannel. Those encodes are then used by a publisher. Some encoders then become publishers. Guidelines exist, to help doing everything correctly. If you don't follow all the flow this post mentions while creating publication files, they will most likely be not used for an actual publication. Otherwise everyone is welcome to participate and help us handle the publication job! This thread is locked and kept for announcements only. To discuss its contents, make a quote of the needed post and reply to it in Thread #12461: Ask a question, get an answer!.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 8/13/2013 2:57 PM
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Technically I support pressing A. Personally I support what was submitted. Aesthetically I support the cutscene over credits.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 8/12/2013 3:30 PM
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Nach BimmyLee: Quick, employ Workout Program C! BimmyLee three uppercuts feos BimmyLee: Quick, make RGamma a publiher! Nach Why should he do it? feos publisher is good as well Nach RGamma: want to be a publisher? feos because RGamma does all encodes for dolphin Nach Let's see BimmyLee I don't see an RGamma user TASVideoAgent New homepage assigned to RGamma by Nach: http://tasvideos.org/RGamma.html feos :D BimmyLee well, ok then TASVideoAgent Homepage for RGamma removed by Nach BimmyLee hey Nach er
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 8/10/2013 7:05 PM
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If it loses time to existing public WIPs it can be proven to be suboptimal. Unless the losses are considered insignificant :) Someone should help and post the losses per act.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 8/10/2013 8:01 AM
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Looks tier was not set.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 8/9/2013 6:32 PM
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Such cases are not critical for us. I was meaning games that primarily do streams instead of generation/synthesis. Link to video
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 8/9/2013 2:06 PM
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There just must be some definition which games use chiptune (and need default settings) and which use stream audio (and require higher quality).
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 8/8/2013 3:21 AM
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Thanks! Am I right that line breakers (%%%) are forgotten there?
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 8/7/2013 4:13 PM
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This movie is reported to start from Reset, while the previous ones of that branch were starting from a snapshot. As I playback 4017S and then try to replay your submission, it fails to load the movie.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 8/7/2013 1:55 PM
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Settings for audio stream are taken once again from http://tasvideos.org/EncodingGuide/HybridEncodeScript.html#Commands where they were put by the senior publisher. I agree with using q2 instead of q0.5 which just killed the sound. As for video, my personal settings are even tighter that the ones at the wiki. I use 
--merange 64
instead of 24. BTW, back when natt made that edit, it was a standard to encode with 
--me umh --merange 64 --subme 10
which then was changed by me to be 
--me tesa --merange 24 --subme 11
because that saves a LOT of size.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 8/7/2013 1:38 PM
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Blurry?! Not antialiased, yes. Because it is a bitmap font!
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 8/7/2013 3:24 AM
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My encode (with settings from http://tasvideos.org/EncodingGuide/HybridEncodeScript.html#Commands): Размер потока : 146 Мбайт (73%) Библиотека кодирования : x264 core 124 r2197 69a0443 Настройки программы : cabac=1 / ref=16 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=tesa / subme=11 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=64 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=3 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=0 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=16 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=600 / keyint_min=60 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=250 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=20.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00 Saturn's encode (with who knows what settings): Размер потока : 119 Мбайт (75%) Библиотека кодирования : x264 core 44 svn-452 Настройки программы : cabac=1 / ref=16 / deblock=1:-1:-1 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=6 / brdo=1 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=64 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / chroma_qp_offset=0 / slices=1 / nr=0 / bframes=2 / b_pyramid=0 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=2 / wpredb=1 / bime=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / rc=2pass / bitrate=230 / ratetol=1.0 / rceq='blurCplx^(1-qComp)' / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30
The fonts used look a big jagged.
What does it mean? Thread #13094: FreeSub (custom subtitles plugin by natt)
With better technology 5 years later, 50 MB larger doesn't make much sense...
The exact same settings I used here saved 50 MB from previous SK3 encode, so I have no idea what you are trying to say.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 8/7/2013 3:15 AM
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Forgot to start uploading. Will be here Link to video
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 8/6/2013 3:51 PM
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The run is okay, the game is cool, the sound effects make just no sense!
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 8/6/2013 1:49 PM
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/me looks at Nahoc >_>
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 8/6/2013 1:43 PM
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Okay, they should have been put in the beginning of the first level. I'm curious who will reencode all 8 of them now.
AllBogs wrote:
Wonder if it's possibly to pause the music during transitions as well, as having the music skip around did get on my nerves for a little while. Not sure if one can exercise that much control over the game's behavior through LUA scripts, though.
It is perfectly possible, but not easy at all. Requires good hacking skill. You may try requesting it in SM thread.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 8/6/2013 3:51 AM
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All SM encodes I did had subtitles at the first gameplay room.
Rules wrote:
The subtitles should appear within the movie once gameplay has started, while not blocking any relevant parts of gameplay.
Nach wrote:
Which violates our rules.
So you are telling me that entering the first gameplay room (Ceres it is called?) is an automated cutscene?
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 8/6/2013 3:45 AM
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I know that V0 is the best/maximum. But what about minimal transparent setting for ogg?
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 8/5/2013 5:53 PM
Post subject: Better audio for 10bit444 encodes.
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AngerFist used to request HQ encodes with overkilled settings for some TASes: lossless audio and overscaled video. The file size was respective. RGamma was making such encodes for him lately. Today I published Super Metroid with usual 10bit encode, but used q10 ogg audio, just for AngerFiset (regards only the alternate encode). He said that he sees and hears no disadvantage over the usual HQ encodes he requests, just is surprized by the file size. I propose using better audio settings for 10bits, since they already have lossless video, having near-lossless audio is logical. People can resize the encode with pixel filter and see the same lossless video they see in emulator. But audio was always suffering. Why not make it better? The only question is, what setting is the best? Since it is a chiptune, neither lossless, nor q10 are really needed. But what would be the transparent minimum?
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 8/4/2013 5:41 PM
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All four encodes will have alternate versions.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 8/3/2013 8:21 PM
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Under the RTA rules, Any% is the highest category which includes all sorts of allowed glitches, including the invincibility ones.
Under our rules, game breaking glitches are only allowed in a glitched branch, any% can't use them. So if skips and game over abuse are considered game breaking, then any% should avoid both. Just describe what would be needed for a full competion kind of run.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 8/3/2013 7:40 PM
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Dump lossy (faster, I recommend x264vfw), reencode lossy if needed.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 8/3/2013 7:28 PM
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Don't forget to use lossy compression.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 8/3/2013 12:29 PM
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Hmm, then probably we may skip "Glitched" in the branches at all, using no branch for the fastest one, "Impossible" for a run like yours, and "All rooms" for glitchless warpless.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
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