Nameless Voice on 23/4/2011 at 19:00
I don't think nicely re-scaled videos are really in the scope of the EP, but that could be a nice project in its own right.
jtr7 on 23/4/2011 at 21:56
Yeah, the part about cleaning up jpg compression artifacts, if it would work, is what brought the videos to mind, quite tangentially to this project.
ZylonBane on 25/4/2011 at 22:06
Quote Posted by Boxsmith
If I can find the tools to extract every frame as an image and then stick replacement images back in, I should be able to scale these up quite nicely.
That tools would be VirtualDub.
Albert on 27/4/2011 at 03:21
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
I don't think nicely re-scaled videos are really in the scope of the EP, but that could be a nice project in its own right.
Didn't someone reencode both the TG and T2 movie files a bit back then? Sure, the resolution wasn't upped, but it was tidied up and looked a little less like a grain mill.
(Dunno if anyone's brought this up, seeing as I started writing this post 12 hours ago, and forgot to finish and post it... :p)
(Ah, my fears are put to rest!)
jtr7 on 27/4/2011 at 04:20
Yeah. That was done mainly to get rid of the Indeo 5 codec, and therefore, the issue of the videos not playing on newer systems, and the need for fixes.
Albert on 27/4/2011 at 11:42
Well, for starters, they look pretty well cleaned up. Just imagining how someone would pull off a widescreen video, without either faking anamorphic, or recreating the image on the sides of the video, or we could just stick with the column bars, or make them look all nice.
Dunno, but just for me, it's pointless trying to update something like a cutscene video, without having to make it from scratch, which would take much longer than necessary, but if done right, it could look pretty good.
Boxsmith on 27/4/2011 at 14:23
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
That tools would be VirtualDub.
Yeah, I figured that out already. :P
Thanks, though.
Nameless Voice on 1/5/2011 at 22:39
Any more? ;)
Nameless Voice on 2/5/2011 at 01:07
They look more like rusted metal to me.
