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Or in other words, how recording gameplay from ZSNES is such a long endeavor. It comes down to 40 minutes of gameplay with recording turned on. Then at the end you stop recording and do a dump of the movie which takes somewhere between 60 - 80 minutes because the movie playback is slowed by having Mencoder and Lame doing their work. After that the video has to be named and moved before any new video dumps can be made. Then Virtualdub is loaded up, the file is loaded, VD bitches that the lame encoding is wrong so audio filters have to be configured, and video filters must be set up to adjust the video size and compression. Rendering out that file as a new 40 minute video takes approximately 100 minutes.
Wash, rinse, repeat for every movie that is desired. That isn't even starting on doing any editing - that's purely to compress the raw video and get everything in the same framerate, audio codec, and resolution. If those things don't match up then VD won't allow video appending. ZSNES ouputs video in something like 55 fps which is plenty fast but generates more actual frames then needed. The frame total gets decimated in half in the compression pass which easily cuts the file size in half.
Still, ZSNES allows for encoding the video as x264 right out the gate which means the raw video is smaller by several orders of magnitude then CamStudio's lossless codec.
I put my poor older 'puter through hell doing this.
I'm still collecting footage from Dark Seal. There are several different versions and I want to be thorough!
Wash, rinse, repeat for every movie that is desired. That isn't even starting on doing any editing - that's purely to compress the raw video and get everything in the same framerate, audio codec, and resolution. If those things don't match up then VD won't allow video appending. ZSNES ouputs video in something like 55 fps which is plenty fast but generates more actual frames then needed. The frame total gets decimated in half in the compression pass which easily cuts the file size in half.
Still, ZSNES allows for encoding the video as x264 right out the gate which means the raw video is smaller by several orders of magnitude then CamStudio's lossless codec.
I put my poor older 'puter through hell doing this.
I'm still collecting footage from Dark Seal. There are several different versions and I want to be thorough!
