Topic by Blechy

Posted: 9/18/2004 12:20 AM

Post subject: FCMs now acceptable?

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Blechy

Former player

Joined: 6/27/2004
Posts: 550
Location: New York

I'm glad to see that Phil's FCEU movie was acceptable. I certainly think that since it was accepted, anybody should be able to use it to make movies- I know I'd like to. I would like to see already made movies such as Josh's to be submitted sooner or later. Any possible rules? -Should new versions of movies already made in famtasia be made in famtasia as well to keep consistent? -Should there be some more time until they are more widely accepted? I think bisqwit said he wanted some time to practice with them. -Would movies made by one emulator be generally preferred over the other? Comments by bisqwit and phil? The published FCM came as quite a surprise I think.

Posted: 9/18/2004 12:24 AM

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Bob_Whoops

Former player

Joined: 3/19/2004
Posts: 710
Location: USA

Well, keep in mind that Phil is the only one that will be doing the encoding for the fceu movies since Bisqwit still doesn't like it.

Posted: 9/18/2004 12:33 AM
(Edited: 9/19/2004 1:27 AM)

Post subject: FMV/SMV/GMV/VMV/

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Bisqwit

Editor, Active player (296)

Joined: 3/8/2004
Posts: 7469
Location: Arzareth

I once posted here stating that new formats can be accepted, provided that * the file format is documented well enough for me to create functions to parse them * someone can encode the movie as AVI (see MovieRecordingConventions) Currently only Phil can encode FCM movies. There are also some open questions: * Are the lengths of movies for different emulators really compatible? Different emulators run different amount of instructions per frame, meaning that the game runs at different speeds in different emulator. I don't know how big the differences are. If the lengths are exactly compatible, it does not matter if the same emulator is used. If the difference is less than 5 frames per minute, switching an emulator is ok as long as the movie is improved by at least 1 second per minute. (The numbers are not a rule here - I'm trying to give an idea.) I prefer Famtasia, because it's easiest for me to encode currently. And, in fact the only one. For VirtuaNES, the exactly same rules apply, except that Phil hasn't demonstrated being able to encode them, and that VirtuaNES movies can not be verified whether they really are reset-based. For that reason, I don't think I can ever open VirtuaNES submitting except for trusted players. ------------------------------------------------------ The status of different formats are currently as follows: Edit: Moved to the EmulatorRecordingStatus page.