Posted: 10/25/2016 2:42 AM
Post subject: Problem with loading video from a set marker
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Vaan666
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Joined: 10/9/2016
Posts: 40
Hey, when I try to start the movie from a marker I set earlier during the process of making a TAS it usually either sets me back to 2-3 previously set markers or even to frame 0. I never bothered too much with it as I would just let the couple hundreds or thousands of frames play until it reached the point I wanted to rewatch. For some reason though when I hit about 120.000 frames it would always set me back to frame 0 when I wanted to revisit parts that are older than ~500 frames ago. Now the question is: Is there a way to always start a movie from any given point as it really gets annoying to rewatch 100.000 frames just to test new ideas, compare it to other strategies I came up with and so on? For reference: I usually set markers everywhere throughout a room until it feels like I'm done with it where then I delete all of them and only leave the ones at very significant parts of the TAS such as: Start/End of a dungeon Bossfights So roughly every 10.000-15.000 frames I have a permanent marker set so far. Thanks for your help in advance Greetings Vaan
Posted: 10/25/2016 2:48 AM
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Posted: 10/25/2016 3:18 AM
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Vaan666
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I've tried that now and it worked perfectly fine. But in the process of replaying the full movie and making the branches along the way a "Fatal Error" happened. When I try to reload the movie I get following error report: "Movie system Id () does not match the currently loaded platform (PSX), unable to load" I've had that happen before and what I simply did was to copy the Input file from the .tasproj file into a new one. Though I personally don't care about the loss of the amount of rerecords for example that I did ever since I started, it gets quite annoying having to redo that over and over. Is there any solution on how to fix that error or prevent it from happening? Even after copying the InputFile into a new .tasproj file it keeps throwing those Fatal Errors at me after a random amount of frames watching the video. This is what the error message looks like: Bizhawk version I tried for this was 1.11.6.
Posted: 10/25/2016 3:00 PM
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Posted: 10/25/2016 3:15 PM
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Vaan666
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Joined: 10/9/2016
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I first wanted to even try to restore the movie at all and then upgrade to 1.11.8.1. I kind of got around the crashes and corrupting the file by doing roughly 5.000-10.000 frames at a time without setting any branches. It still happened from time to time that the file got corrupted but making backups after every portion made it a lot less stressful. I'm at a point now where the movie was once fully loaded, branches are set corresponding to the markers and backups are done frequently for every state. Will try to upgrade to 1.11.8.1 now and see if the movie runs from frame 0 to the last one without having any crash. Edit: Played the movie in it's final state in one go in version 1.11.8.1 and there was no problem at all. Edit2: After going back to a previous branch I set to record the progress I made so far it kept freezing at the same frame for 3 attempts I did. After that I closed Bizhawk and opened it again just to see it telling me yet again: "Movie system Id () does not match the currently loaded platform (PSX), unable to load" I'm not sure what makes the file corrupt itself so frequent and making it unable to play older parts of the movie. It might be related to the branches since ever since I started using them that problem occurred more frequently than ever before. But not using them at all isn't a solution either since I don't want to sit here every time I want to go back to something that is ~500 frames ago and watch 30+ minutes of the movie.