Posted: 2/21/2010 8:02 PM
Post subject: Creating AVI files
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STaRDoGGCHaMP
Joined: 2/21/2010
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Hello, It seems to me like I missed something very essential, because I don't know how to properly create avi files on Windows. Im recording a video and get this nice smv file. What is the best way now to create an AVI (or any other video format) file? One thing I immediatly noticed is the "Start AVI recording" function of snes9x. Loading the smv file and recording with snes9x is working, but the resolution (256x224) sucks. So is there a way to directly convert a smv file to an avi file or do I have to manually use a program like FRAPS or Camtasia to record the replay of the smv file?
Posted: 2/21/2010 9:25 PM
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amaurea
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Generally, you first record the smv file, and then you record to avi while playing back the smv file. That way, the slowness of the encoding won't mess things up for you. It sounds like you have gotten this far already. You definitely don't want to use anything like fraps. I don't understand why you ask if you need to use fraps when you already have discovered that snes9x will do it directly. Why don't you want a resolution of 256x224? It is the native snes resolution for non-high-res games. That is how much information is actually there, and increasing the resolution would just mean interpolating, which I'd say is the player's job, not something to do in the video file itself. It would only make the file size bigger, and not add any quality at all.
Posted: 2/21/2010 9:30 PM
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STaRDoGGCHaMP
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Hello anameura, First of all, thank your for your answer :).
amaurea wrote:
Why don't you want a resolution of 256x224?.
Because it sucks, too small. But I found out that ticking the "Simple2x Resize (for HiRes)" option solves my problem.
Posted: 2/21/2010 10:13 PM
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amaurea
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STaRDoGGCHaMP wrote:
amaurea wrote:
Why don't you want a resolution of 256x224?.
Because it sucks, too small. But I found out that ticking the "Simple2x Resize (for HiRes)" option solves my problem.
I really don't get this. When somebody plays back your encode, they can scale it up and down as they please, so what is the point of resizing it in the encode? All the encodes here are in the native resolution. That doesn't mean that you can't watch them in whatever resolution you want.
Posted: 2/21/2010 10:24 PM
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STaRDoGGCHaMP
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Well, for my liking an avi file with the resolution 256x224 is too small, I just don't like it. Then I just tick this option and I get a better (bigger resolution and better quality) recording.
Posted: 2/22/2010 12:59 AM
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Derakon
Joined: 7/2/2007
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But the effective resolution is the same. There's no more information in the "high-resolution" encoding than there is in the standard encoding.
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