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Re: Could Sdlmame be recorded on video? BrainDead #40284 04/15/08 12:49 PM
Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 21 J Jack Anton Member
Jack Anton Member J Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 21	I just tried the -record on two separate recordings, one was real short and it worked good. The other one was around 20 minutes of play and that one didn't work out. I guess there are still some gremlins to fix. Problem was that sometimes the fighters would just pause and do nothing. Sometimes only one of them did something. I do have imagemagick and it didn't occur to me to use it as a mng converter. Thanks for pointing it out BrainDead.

Re: Could Sdlmame be recorded on video? Jack Anton #40311 04/16/08 10:28 PM
Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 21 J Jack Anton Member
Jack Anton Member J Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 21	Hello everyone. I've done a bit more testing on the inp recording and I think the longer the recording the more Mame can potentially mess it up. I managed to create an mng file though Imagemagick didn't seem to like extracting the pngs so I used XnView (THANKS). The command I used: nconvert -xall -out png test.mng I then tried to use mencoder: mencoder "mf:///path/*.png" -mf fps=30 -double -o test2.avi -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=1024 The resulting video had some intense black screen flickering. If anyone has any idea, would be much obliged.

Re: Could Sdlmame be recorded on video? Jack Anton #40314 04/17/08 12:25 AM
Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 107 B Brass Senior Member
Brass Senior Member B Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 107	Yep, imagemagick/convert wasn't working for me on the mngs, so I figured it wasn't compatible. If we're doing something wrong, by all means let us know, but it's just hanging with mng here. All that's worked for me was wine + mng2avi.exe. I'll also add that when dealing with inp or save states, some games, for example, pulstar, get messed up sound when starting from a save state if the -sr is changed; gets slow and out of sync. Also, the "-fps 60" mencoder setting someone mentioned after me is off if the game doesn't run at 60 fps, so keep that in mind. Oh, and this: Quote I then tried to use mencoder: mencoder "mf:///path/.png" -mf fps=30 -double -o test2.avi -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=1024 The resulting video had some intense black screen flickering. If anyone has any idea, would be much obliged. My idea is to use x264 instead of xvid. And 30 fps? Does the game run at that speed? If not, try setting the proper fps of the game. I already mentioned this, but this is the line I use to make the movie of the pngs: Code mencoder -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=ffv1:vstrict=-2 -o video.avi mf://<path>/.png -mf fps=<game fps> This is a lossless format, and good to work with. At that point, video.avi can be merged with the sound, frames and dimension can be cropped, etc. Then I encode 3-pass to x264 (optional cropping and sound addition settings would be added accordingly): Code mencoder -ovc x264 -x264encopts qp=29:frameref=15:subq=7:brdo:trellis=2:direct_pred=auto:bframes=16:bime:mixed_refs:8x8dct:weight_b:pass=1 video.avi -o /dev/null -aspect 4:3 mencoder -ovc x264 -x264encopts qp=29:frameref=15:subq=7:brdo:trellis=2:direct_pred=auto:bframes=16:bime:mixed_refs:8x8dct:weight_b:pass=3 video.avi -o /dev/null -aspect 4:3 mencoder -ovc x264 -x264encopts qp=29:frameref=15:subq=7:brdo:trellis=2:direct_pred=auto:bframes=16:bime:mixed_refs:8x8dct:weight_b:pass=2 video.avi -o compressed.avi -aspect 4:3 MS = fraud

Re: Could Sdlmame be recorded on video? Brass #40315 04/17/08 12:41 AM
Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 21 J Jack Anton Member
Jack Anton Member J Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 21	I did try the -fps 60 and that pretty much didn't work. I'll try wine with mng2avi and see how that works out. imagemagick/convert was also hanging for me and I tried it dozens of times trying to read up on possible syntax I missed. XnView managed to extract the pngs just fine. I forgot to mention that when mencoder tried to encode the video the video timeline was split in half in that the latter half of the video played first before the start of the video. Minor inconvenience and should be easy to fix. EDIT: Brass, I'll try your mencoder settings to see how that goes. I plan to run all of this on a video editing software anyway, so the fps doesn't have to be spot on, but it's roughly 30 fps. The flicker problem is one thing I'd like to get resolved. EDIT: I just used the wine mng2avi exe to extract the pngs then did mencoder. This worked brilliantly. The video plays correctly and the flickers are gone. For reference: Code wine mng2avi.exe test.mng -movieskipblack 1 Then: Code mencoder -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=ffv1:vstrict=-2 -o mng2avi-test.avi "mf:///path/pngs/*.png" -mf fps=30 Thanks everyone! I hope this thread helps others attempting to record too. Last edited by Jack Anton; 04/17/08 01:27 AM.

Re: Could Sdlmame be recorded on video? Brass #40323 04/17/08 02:36 PM
Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 4 B BrainDead Member
BrainDead Member B Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 4	Originally Posted by Brass Yep, imagemagick/convert wasn't working for me on the mngs, so I figured it wasn't compatible. sorry, my fault :-( convert can not handle delta mng now a better tip: there is a dead mame port called advance mame. the author also wrote some utils for it. One of them is called AdvanceCOMP. http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/comp-readme.html it contains the tool 'advmng'. Its intended for recompressing, but it can also extract png form mng. advmng --extract xxx.mng

Problems with Mencoder on Windows Brass #40614 04/30/08 09:07 AM
Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 3 M Moon Member
Moon Member M Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 3	Among various tries with syntax likes this Code mencoder mf://d:\1\.png -mf w=256:h=224:fps=60:type=png -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:trell -oac copy -o output.avi on Win XP SP2 Mencoder locks up and I'm getting an error message: Quote MEncoder 1.0rc1-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team CPU: AMD Sempron(tm) 2200+ (Family: 6, Model: 8, Stepping: 1) CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. success: format: 16 data: 0x0 - 0x0 MF file format detected. [mf] search expr: d:\1\.png [mf] number of files: 3566 (14264) VIDEO: [MPNG] 256x224 24bpp 60.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s) [V] filefmt:16 fourcc:0x474E504D size:256x224 fps:60.00 ftime:=0.0167 Opening video filter: [expand osd=1] Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1 ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Selected video codec: [ffpng] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg PNG decoder) ========================================================================== Flushing video frames Filters have not been configured! Empty file? Writing index... Writing header... ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header. Video stream: -1.#IO kbit/s (-2147483648 B/s) size: 0 bytes 0.000 secs 0 frames What kind of filters? And what about aspect info when image size is given? Thx! c64-longplays.de Complete C64 game walkthroughs as videofiles

Re: Problems with Mencoder on Windows Moon #40619 04/30/08 12:37 PM
Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 17,316 Likes: 280 USA R R. Belmont Very Senior Member
R. Belmont Very Senior Member R Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 17,316 Likes: 280 USA	I don't see an error, and the "lock up" might be that it's just taking time to run. Maybe try it on a smaller number of frames?

Re: Problems with Mencoder on Windows R. Belmont #40736 05/03/08 07:52 AM
Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 3 M Moon Member
Moon Member M Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 3	No, it's definitely an error that also occured with only 100 frames. I'm getting this: Rough translation: mencoder has experienced difficulties and must be terminated. All data not saved may be lost. The resulting output.avi ist actually a text file that has lots of '[= MPlayer junk data! =]' in it. Being a complete Linux newbie I tried it with Live CDs. Neither Ubuntu nor Kubuntu would compile Mencoder (why the HECK don't they offer a binary of it but only of Mplayer?) so I finally made it work with Knoppix 5.3. It's been a pita to get this far though. Curiously enough Fraps worked like a charm for me. Which brings me back to our dialogue in the other thread. c64-longplays.de Complete C64 game walkthroughs as videofiles

Re: Problems with Mencoder on Windows Moon #40737 05/03/08 09:24 AM
Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 107 B Brass Senior Member
Brass Senior Member B Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 107	mencoder is far from perfect but I find the windows version to be nearly identical to the nix version. The version I have, which I think is current, can't even encode vorbis correctly. But I digress. Is there a special reason you need to use mpeg4? It's already quite inferior to h.264/x264 which is actually "mpeg4 part 10" and I doubt setting mpeg4 in mencoder is the same thing. If it's for iphones or something, it supports h.264. If you don't need mpeg4 look at the previous posts on this thread and try encoding x264 with those commands. Then it will support the -aspect tag and you won't need any -mf options, so you can basically forget about that -mf option and simply encode the pngs with mf:// and specifying -fps by itself, -aspect will also work (ex: -aspect 4:3). You should just try those lines first, they're sure to work. I haven't tried it, but I think setting mpeg4 to a similar command wouldn't yield a much different result as far as errors. MS = fraud

Re: Problems with Mencoder on Windows Brass #40772 05/04/08 08:06 AM
Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 3 M Moon Member
Moon Member M Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 3	The line quoted above just happened to have mpeg4 in it, I've been trying several codecs and all end up in said error message. I've also tried your setting from post #40314 but to no avail. Maybe I'm just too stupid to come up with the right parameters so if you don't mind maybe you can give me the syntax for this setup: source: d:\1\*.png target: mngtest.avi 60 fps 256x224 lossless or xvid 1.wav Option a) Mux with Mencoder straight to xvid Option b) Encode to lossless and mux wav in Virtualdub and encode to xvid c64-longplays.de Complete C64 game walkthroughs as videofiles

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