Posted: 5/5/2004 10:31 AM
Post subject: Joining FMVs together?
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Player1
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Now that we can convert .fmv to .vmv (and vice versa) or atleast we almost can. Could it be possible to join two .fmv s together if there were no randomness. In Excitebike there are 5 tracks to beat, but if more than 1 person try to do a timeattack for them it can turn out that playerA can do the tracks 1,3 and 5 the fastest and playerB the tracks 2 and 4. It can be very difficult and timetaking for 1 person to do all the tracks. Even if he could do all the tracks there can always be some mistake that we find out later ,eg in the track2, and then he/she had to do all the tracks 2,3,4 and 5 again. This idea has been mentioned before but I guess we didn't know enough about the composition of .fmv files then.
Posted: 5/5/2004 12:34 PM
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Bisqwit
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Yes, you can copypaste any length of button sequences from FMV to another. The header doesn't need to be edited for that. It's only a matter of a number of consequent bytes transferred from a file to other. But it might be difficult to find out the exact source / destination frame position.
Posted: 5/5/2004 1:17 PM
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Player1
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Can you identify specific sequences of key presses in FMV file? If yes, it is able to make a program that finds out them. Idea: For example in Excitebike, every time in the beginning of the each track at the exact frame when the screen turns into playing mode (the mode where you can see your bike for the first time), you can do certain button sequence that doens't affect the playing at all or is invisible for viewers (eg select,select,down,select,select). If you do this all the time, it is easy to find those presses from FMV file and copy&paste them and make continuous FMV Am I missing something?
Posted: 5/5/2004 1:55 PM
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Bisqwit
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Then try it :) A frame where select key is pressed has the 6th bit on (byte & 0x40).
Posted: 5/5/2004 2:03 PM
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Player1
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I would give it a try if my famtasia worked. Maybe I borrow my big bro's laptop some day. If it works, it'll be a great help in many games.