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[Horscht]

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for /f "tokens=*" %%a IN ('dir /b ^"*.avi^"') do mencoder "%%a" -of lavf -lavfopts i_certify_that_my_video_stream_does_not_use_b_frames -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=wmv2:vbitrate=100 -vf scale=176:144 -oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=mp3:abitrate=48 -o "%%~na.wmv"

This of course requires you to have mencoder in the same directory. Also, I could not test it, but it should do the trick.

EDIT2: also, there's bitrates and scaling options included. They of course need to be modified to reasonable values.

EDIT3: mencoder is part of the mplayer package: http://www.mplayerhq.hu

[ressurectionx]

Thanks Horscht.

I'm not all that good with code myself though and wouldn't know what I was doing.  I don't know how to get batch files to work with applications, I just know it can be done.  Can somebody who's tried making videos give it a shot and see if you can get a batch type file to convert a folder full of videos on autopilot?  I've got over 700 SNES vids that need converting.

Thanks,
~Rx

[competes2win]

How about this program?

http://www.video-tool.com/

after a brief look it seemed to imply that the trial version was fully functional, although I may be wrong.

best of luck with this.

[ressurectionx]

Hey Sotu,

We should get together on another thread and list what we have already.  No sense in us doing double work.  All of these videos I bought were awesome.  They are about 30 seconds on average, and they start with an action sequence, fade to black, and then show the title sequence.  I think they were probably made by splicing two videos together.  These are way too awesome not to have on your rig man.

What pisses me off is that as good as they are, there are quite a few games that aren't covered in the set.  The count of videos I believe is 702.  

I would really love it if you would work on getting the games that I don't already have videos for sotu and we could combine them when we're done.  



I'll even tell you where I'm at now... I've gotten part-way through the letter "C".  Most of the games I have great vids for now, but these are the ones I'm missing so far.  Maybe you could work on those and we could start a thread where the wmv files are made available (or better yet, the xmv files if the mods would allow it).

Here's the missing games through the letter B:
90 Minutes - European Prime Goal
Addams Family Values
Adventures of TinTin
Aguri Suzuki F-1 Super Driving
Alfred Chicken
All-American Championship Football
Arcade's Greatest Hits (Not the Atari one, I've got that)
Archer MacLean's Dropzone
Asterix & Obelix
Asterix
Ballz 3D
Bananas de Pijamas
Battle Clash
Bazooka Blitzkrieg
Big Sky Trooper
Blazing Skies
Brandish I
Brandish II

If you want to work with me, I'm sure we can get this done a lot faster.  I'll get a list together of the videos I have so you're not wasting time working on ones that we've already got great versions of.  I wasn't going to at first, but I'll probably replace the ones that NES did because these are so good, even though it's more work for me.  

Oh... and that tracker I was talking about is back up.  They have the same avi collection there that I have and the guy called "EmuMovies" actually thanked the guy for putting the set up there because the other tracker that he used wouldn't allow Nintendo or Playstation vids.   So it looks like it's fine if I post them when we're done too.

Let me know what you think man.


EDIT:  Tell you what Sotu.  You get those missing wmv's to me for the letter A tonight and I'll put them together and make a new thread for releasing the videos.   I'll put them all together in zipfiles on megaupload for everyone......   I don't want to do it until I have every game for a letter though.  





Competes to Win.  I'll give it a try, thanks.

~Rx

[ressurectionx]

That's a cool list.  And I understand how you only want to do games that you or your kids will play, but here's what I'm saying to you though...

If you help me by doing the ones I don't have (you don't even have to convert them to wmv, Ill do that), I will provide you with awesome videos for every game you want.  (I'm sure 98% of the ones you would want are covered in the ones I'm working on).  

You scratch my back, I scratch yours  

Here's previews of what is to come.  In wmv format of course, so they have to be converted.  

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GRBAPVPT

Here's hoping you can and want to help us get a complete set of SNES videos.  I've already got 700+ coming over the next few weeks/months.



Oh... I don't understand Japanese either.  Brandish II was a translated game.  I think that's the only one you were thinking about that was Japanese

[ressurectionx]

Sorry man... I dont' have an FTP.....

Yeah... there's tons of US roms.  The ones that I mentioned above starting with A and B would be a great start.  I have a collection of almost 900 SNES roms.  Most of them are US, but some are Europe & UK and some are translations of Japanese (Mostly role playing).  

What did you think of those vids?  Pretty kick ass, am I right?

If you would work on the A and B games I'm missing that would be great.  We'll figure out the best way to transfer them then.  What I'd like to do, if you would do the videos for the games I'm missing, is make a thread where there is no chat, but we post the videos by letter as we complete the letter over the next few week/months.   If I didn't put it in that list above, you can be sure that I have a video for it.  I just need those that I mentioned so far.  Everything else is made and the videos are great.

In the mean time, if you do the missing videos for A and B I will make a new thread devoted to the download of SNES vids and give the credit you and EmuMovies deserve for all the hard work.  

At least you know what a bitch it is to use the media encoder.  Multitasking is right..... I wrapped up making Atari 7800 and Atari Lynx perfect emus while I was making just the letter B in SNES movies.





EDIT:  Here's hoping that NES appreciates the effort in the end.  I will make these movies for you eventually my man.......


Just a few requests, if you dont' mind

1)  Allow use of subfolders (and an ability to program the main folder) for all images.  I have hundreds of SNES manuals that I converted from PDF to JPG and they look great in your image preview.  No need to scroll through thousands of pictures to get to what you want though.  

2)  Allow a switch, so people could use either video previews or screenshot/boxart/cartridge previews at their whim.  I have a great collection of still images I might want to look at, at some point.  Even better if there is an option to scroll through the pics before starting the video.

3)  Maybe give a little advice to madmab about getting this functionality to work on the XPort emulators if he needs it.


Thanks for the great emu man.

[(XBOX)]

http://www.zshare.ne...960615890ac86e/
Wow, good job just thought I'd cheer you on & say what a good job your doing Thanks from me + the hundred of other xbox owners waiting for these zsnes previews.
regards to the #2 I think that'd be a cool idea (for instance have the game box front appear and then by selecting the left on the right thumbstick have the xmv game preview show up or vice versa) or even have it to where it changes on its own.

[ressurectionx]

Thanks for showing that preview XBOX

That's one of my favorites so far.  It looks like it cut a lot of it off though.  The full version is pretty amazing though, ain't it?

Most of the games that aren't covered in this collection don't really matter much, but there are some that I'm surprised haven't been done like Alfred Chicken and Addams Family Values and some others I can't think of right now.  

Hopefully we get a full set put together.  As the letters of the alphabet are completed and I have them all I will release them to members.  I don't want to release unfinished letters in links though.  I hope you understand.


With a little help from my friends here, I should have some good news for everyone soon.

~Rx

[sotu]

I'm torn here because I do want to help but I don't see the point in having previews for games that "may not be that good".  I do have the free time to work on them but it's a chore as it is without doing it for lame games.  

I'm of the mindset that all the popular/memorable/fan fav's get done 1st then if someone's nostalgic and has a request it can be filled.  I just don't like the idea of doing unnecessary work since I'm already busy enough with RL as it is.  Like I said if there's 2 or 300 games worth previewing why do them for every game.  I don't want this to be about who's Preview Penis is bigger, although I can already see it going that way.

I'd feel different if Nes and the gang chimed in and articulated their desire to have them ALL done.  Plus like I said, my previews aren't small so we'd be talking gigs.  I've just got some reservations before diving in.  

Would also be nice to hear who else has made some and would be willing to pitch in.

[Horscht]

Ok, No matter what I tried, I could NOT get mencoder to get a proper wmv file with audio that xmvtool.exe accepts. The wmv plays fine in VLC with sound, but xmvtool will simply refuse. So I'll have to investigate a different way to batch convert a ton of avis.

[ressurectionx]

Thanks for trying man.  I hope you figure it out.  I'll keep working on vids one at a time when I get a chance in case.

[Horscht]

of course higher resolution looks better . But is it realy worth the effort redoing every movie when ressurection has most of them pre-made already?

and btw: I seem to have found a solution, or at least a first start to develop one:

http://www.tech-reci..._avi_asf_to_wmv

I will reboot to windows to fiddle around with those scripts, wish me luck. This will probably work, as it is using the tool recommended in the tutorial

[Horscht]

Ok, I think my windows setup is seriously flawed. I tried several "recommended" ways to batch convert the files. All failed. And I even tried converting a single file using Windows Media Encoder 9, which also simply failed. I found out, that the WME 9 SDK ( http://www.microsoft...;displaylang=en ) actualy comes along with a batcher (C:\WMESDK\examples\vb\batcher), maybe someone who was actualy able to convert a single file could try that...

I think i'll just try making video previews then...

[competes2win]

stuff like this concerning super nintendo is typically a project I would jump on.

however i take the mcat august 5th and as a result havent even downloaded this version of zsnexbox or updated my xmbc in over a month... havent updated my mame emulator either when Im aware of some updates... and this coming from a guy who is usually right on top of things...

guess what Im saying is that starting august 6th, if my help is still needed, I'd be willing to contribute as much as I can.


ps: kinda  a thread jack but as a side note, after my test I was seriously contemplating the idea of whipping up an xbmc skin that is designed specifically for games and emulators... bare bones in the sense that it wont include anything for media... this is because I am jumping the xbox ship and using my macbook to run xbmc now, outputted to my tv, for all of my media... plus I have reached my 320gig limit on my hdd... but anyways, so if anyone is interested in lending a hand with that, than that might be a cool project to work on... however this is entirely up in the air. and like I said I won't even be available to work on this until after my test.

[Horscht]

finaly, success!

turns out I had a broken xvid decoder installed, so I removed the xvid codec completely and instead installed fddshow. Now i can finaly convert avis to wmv using WME, and even the batch encoder that comes with the WME SDK works now

all you have to do, is create a profile using the profile editor that comes with WME, and specify that in the batch encoder. easy as pie, realy