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[Horscht]

Sotu, I don't think that it is realy necessary or even usefull to set the resolution higher than 256 x 224 pixels.

Zsnes outputs movies in that resolution, so we can safely create wmv's that size and let zsnexbox handle the upscaling on runtime if needed.

Or do you have a way to let zsnes output movies of 640x480? I am not sure of that is even remotely possible, as exceeding the SNES' native resolution is probably only acchieved with upscaling as well...

[Horscht]

All-American Championship Football DONE
Arcade's Greatest Hits (Not the Atari one, I've got that) DONE
Archer MacLean's Dropzone DONE
Asterix & Obelix DONE
Asterix DONE
Battle Clash DONE
Big Sky Trooper DONE
Blazing Skies DONE, for some reason this is pretty huge, though (20 megs)
Chavez I DONE

here they are in wmv format (uploaded to sendspace, googlepages wouldn't let me upload it): http://www.sendspace.com/file/6pkpm7

Also, I checked to see wether there was any quality loss when encoding in 256x224 compared to 640x480. I wasn't able to notice any (seing as the actual input avis are 256x224 i was expecting this result) so I updated the WMVXMV.prx profile and is now available on my site: http://horscht.googl....com/WMVXMV.prx

it is also included in the batch-file package: http://horscht.googlepages.com/WME.rar

The profile now has the following settings:

Audio encoding mode: CBR
Video encoding mode: Quality VBR

Audio Codec: WM Audio 9.2
Audio Format: 32 kbps, 32 KHz, Stereo CBR
Video Codec: WM Video V8
Video Size 256x224
Frame Rate: 29.97 fps
Keyframe: 8 s

This profile keeps file sizes pretty much down

[sotu]

You are indeed right, I see no quality loss in the lower resolution and in fact the filesize is less than half.

What was 14megs is now 6.8.  

Nice part is that you've provided us with the batch encoder so it should only take me a few days to re make them all.  I'm no dummy, that's twice the number of previews I can fit now so no point in wasting space.  Since I'm learning during this whole process I don't feel like I've been wasting my time, thankfully.    

I'll also have to remake and post smaller vids for RezX for the project.  Shouldn't take long.

[ressurectionx]

Thanks a lot guys.  I'll work with your settings and if I have questions then I'll ask.  

I should have some time tomorrow to work on this so I should be able to get the first few letters of the alphabet put out there after I grab yours and bunch them together.

I'll keep you updated.

~Rx

[ressurectionx]

Wow......  You guys are definately more advanced than I am.  

This is taking me forever to figure out.

Just finally figured out that I had to make a folder "C:\Programme\Windows Media-Komponenten\Encoder" instead of "C:\Program Files\Windows Media Components\Encoder"

That got it started, but now it says ".Error occurred in transcoding:  Error Code = 0xC00D002F"

I have no clue what that means, and I probably wouldn't understand it if somebody explained it to me.  



What do you mean by "edit line 5 to the install folder of WME (where you installed WME)"

When I replace the current line 5 with that text, it erases the profile completely.  And of course the batch then fails with "Invalid profile:  0xC00D1B5F The profile's media types must match the media types defined for the session."

  When I add a new line 5 and say "C:\WME" it fails with ".Error occurred in transcoding:  Error Code = 0xC00D002F" again.


I'm sure this is my problem somehow, but I can't figure it out.

[ressurectionx]

<profile version="589824"
             storageformat="1"
             name="WMVXMV"
             description="WMVXMV">
                   <streamconfig majortype="{73647561-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}"
                   streamnumber="1"
                   streamname="Audio Stream"

That's the first 7 lines when I open it in notepad.  I've tried replacing line 5 with "C:\WME" and also have tried adding a new line 5 and putting "C:\WME" there without deleting the current line 5 with no success.

[Horscht]

i was talking about the .bat file, not the .prx file.

you should edit the bat file to point to your WME instal path, C:\Programme\Windows Media-Komponenten was mine, as I am from germany. Yours will differ (that's why i made it a variable "wmedir" in the batch script).

I once got the Error Code = 0xC00D002F as well, i fixed that by installing ffdshow. But remember to put cscript or the SDK batch encoder.exe on your ffdshow blacklist.

when using the batch encoder exe that comes with the WME XDK, you don't need to edit the .bat file, obviously.

if you're using my bat file instead, you'll have to edit that bat file to your WME install dir (C:\Program Files\Windows Media Components probably

[ressurectionx]

I see what you mean about the .bat      my bad.

I still can't get it to work though.





I think it's ffdshow that is my problem.  You mentioned something about codec packs having what I need.  How else would I get around the ffdshow problem.  

I'm bored, and I'm quitting this now.  It's too frustrating.


EDIT:  I can get Magic Video Batch Converter to work fine, but the videos look like shit even with the "Best for Broadband setting"  

I can't get the batch file you created to work at all.

Output

[Horscht]

well, what exactly is the problem? What does not work? the SDK batch encoder? the batch-file? or both?

Also, in either case, do you get any screen ouput? if so, what?

[Horscht]

so, do you have any codec packs installed? try installing ffdshow if you don't. you can get it here

http://www.free-code...oad/FFDshow.htm

also, after you installed it, don't forget to add cscript to your block list of ffdshow. how to do that is described in my readme.

if you have any codec pack installed, try removing that first. iirc, i got that error when i had Xvid installed...

EDIT: Alternatively to installing ffdshow, you could try installing the Windows Media Encoder SDK first...
http://www.microsoft...;displaylang=en

I realy hope either of this methods will work for you. I also had a very hard time figuring out what was wrong with my setup, why it didn't work etc. If it doesn't (I sure hope that wont happen), we have to find another way for you to batch encode them or get the avi's to someone whose setup is working.

[ressurectionx]

I've already tried installing ffdshow and following the instructions about what to block.  I've also installed X CODEC PACK which says ffdshow is included.  Neither method works for me.

I think I got it.  It converted to wmv anyways.   Now to see if I can make an xmv out of it.

I removed all codecs and ffdshow.  The Media Encoder SDK does the trick on its own.

Thanks man,
~Rx


EDIT:  The batch file crapped out on me after three videos, but I started it back up again and it is converting the video of Casper that it got stuck on last time.

Hopefully it doesn't happen too often.  But otherwise it works great.  I've got three videos on the SNES that look great.

[ressurectionx]

Holy Crap sotu!

Your videos were huge man.  

Don't worry about getting smaller versions of those.  A few big ones are fine.  I'm going to try to get a few letters out there sometime tonight or tomorrow.  Let me know if you guys start working on C and D.  Thanks so much for both of your guys help.

~Rx



EDIT:  On second thought..... as long as you're remaking them for yourself, you mind sending the smaller versions.  They get even bigger when converted to xmv.   If you don't mind zipping them all together for one download too man, that would be great.

Thanks.

[ressurectionx]

Could somebody make vids of Addams Family Values, Alfred Chicken, Brandish and Brandish II for me?  That's all I need before I release A and B sets.

[ressurectionx]

Cool man.  Thanks

[sotu]

Got those posted and all weigh in under 13megs which should be an improvement.  

Won't be on tomorrow but will grind hard on monday and get a bunch done.

Nice to finally have a grasp on these.  I've been editing some of them in VirtualDub which makes it easy to simply cut out what you don't want and rebuild the avi complete with your edits.  Very simple and fast.