saatana on 17/12/2004 at 22:33
I'm doing a speedrun of T2 on hard using fraps. So far I've completed the 7 first levels and I've got 5.85 GBs of uncompressed material and total time of 29:07.
Maybe you'll be watching it in the future.
New Horizon on 18/12/2004 at 01:28
Quote Posted by S_Hole
try some other video capture programs
like camtasia or something
they're commercial though
Yeah, had tried that one last night. Didn't work very well though. :)
Invisibility on 18/12/2004 at 03:12
You know, I was thinking that a Camvator of Garrett robbing Bafford's manor would be really cool. I'd try to make one, if it wouldn't be so difficult to make.
ejsmith on 18/12/2004 at 16:30
Oh, I realized what was causing that screen corruption. My card's memory was clocked too high. I'm usually cpu-bound on most FPS's. Anyway, Cragscleft is ready to go. I think today I'll do a power-game through Bonehoard, Guild, Assassins, and Sword. Since there's people worried about the sizes, I'll also do high and low quality versions of all the missions.
I'll post eMule links to all the files. My IP is far too dynamic to bother with anything else, and eMule is very simple to use. It takes quite awhile to convert the video, but I'll have the videos up by this evening.
High Quality:
640x512, Xvid, 30fps, 1340kbps; MP3, CBR, 128kbps
Low Quality:
320x256, Xvid, 24fps, 600kbps; MP3, CBR, 96kbps
S_Hole on 19/12/2004 at 15:58
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you have a lot of room for optimization there
use OGG - you can use very low bitrates and the quality degradation is barely noticable, where as mp3 gets this annoying watery sound
use VBR encoding - this is especially effective with material such as a game like thief, where most of the time is spent in silence anyway.. you're making me cry over the bandwidth wastage with CBR
xvid is a good choice for video compression (best liveaction video codec there is)
just use 2 pass encoding and find a good balance of "good enough" visual quality versus filesize
also, xvid is a lot better with higher resolutions than very small ones (320x*)
so you will probably reach a better size/quality ratio by using a lower bitrate on a higher resolution than a lower resolution
for further filesize reduction you could decrease the framerate - 15 fps should be enough.. blend frames together to get a motionblur effect if you want it to look smoother
ejsmith on 19/12/2004 at 20:36
I'll mess around with it a bit more. I've not tried high res with low bitrates. Anyway, I've got a few here. I'm fighting Fraps as much as I'm fighting Virtualdub and aMule; you will notice some splices, but I've tried to minimize it, so that it does not detract completely from the movie. Most splices are where I chucked out 10 or 20 seconds of waiting, or in the case of Bonehoard, like 20 minutes. Other splices are to fix an annoying issue with fraps; sometimes it saves the sound with a massive crackling sound, which goes away after 30 seconds. I can't pin it down on anything exact, but I've noticed it seems to always do it on the 3.9GB file limit. I've been saving at conveinent times, so I don't have to start all the way at the beginning after a glitch.
I didn't just pound on some dog shit with a hammer and serve it out. I've figured out workarounds for both issues, but it's the LONG way around. Coupled with the fact that Virtualdub (or Nandub) doesn't want to fix VBR stretching, I just used CBR and called it good. Anyways.
I was double checking bafford's, and it was entirely too dark. I deleted the original and just kept my "first pass", so I decided to redo it. No big deal. I always get completely lost in Guild, so THAT'S going to take a long damn time. And I'm still wanting to play through Sword.
d'Spair on 19/12/2004 at 21:39
24 hours for both Thief Gold and Thief 2?!! And you don't call it a 'speed-run'?? Wow, it usually takes me 30-40 hours to complete ONE of those games...
Anyway, Fraps trial worked fine with Thief games on my PC.
ejsmith on 20/12/2004 at 02:36
emule links deleted
TBE on 20/12/2004 at 04:20
Uh.....so where are the files located?
ejsmith on 20/12/2004 at 14:21
Thinking about it now, what would be even cooler is if I played through the game and took screenshots of all the literature, and then plugged it into premiere with the background ambient. I could even mix in the opening briefings. You'd have the briefing, the game, and all the books and scrolls; detailing the whole story through that one mission.
I might play back through Bafford's and see what I can do with it like that. The hardest part is finding the right sound effect in the crf file. I could pause on each page for like 3 seconds,and if someone wanted to read it, they could just pause their movie player and read it. I'll have to take notes, though, so I know where to insert the screenshots and which background noise is playing.
