Jigsaw
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Post by Jigsaw on Jul 26, 2004 17:29:42 GMT
Final game is going to take place on wednesday at 3pm gmt (4pm for england, 5pm for france, poland) chosen spectators are: Bytor, MrTPenguin, Konrad, Nyctalope and NormalPro, if anyone can't come - tell us
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fury
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Post by fury on Jul 26, 2004 17:31:51 GMT
If Nyctalope can't make it, it will be Javito.
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Post by Bytor on Jul 27, 2004 1:12:09 GMT
I will be recording the game in an uncompressed AVI formal and after wards I will encode 2 versions, 1 low res for dile up uses and a 2nd high res for broadband users :-)
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fury
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Post by fury on Jul 27, 2004 7:24:24 GMT
(!!!!!!!) ;D ;D ;D Bytor, it's awesome!! What software are you going to use? Did you do some tests?
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Post by NormalPRO on Jul 27, 2004 9:08:13 GMT
Bad news Looks like I won't be able to watch the final on personal matter. It so sad..... but what to do? Take somebody instead of me. Nevertheless I wish you to have a great game and let the winner will be the really strongest wormer, not just a lucky man
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Post by Bytor on Jul 27, 2004 19:09:41 GMT
I will be using a program called "camasia studio". I will record the game in uncompressed AVI format. Now don't think this is a breakthrough for future games. To record a game like I am doing will require 1 hell of a computer so it is not likely that everyone can do it, in fact probably only me and a hand full of others have equipment fast enough to do it. To give ya an idea, in Full frame uncompressed AVI format of a 800x600 res 15FPS video will take up about 1 gig of Hard drive space for every 1.5 min of video. and U would need a CPU and hard drive capable of saving 15,800x600 .jpg images per sec. all while playing worms too. I my choice to make the initial recording in uncompressed format is so the quality will be good enough to still be usable when re-encoded to a lower format. (.mpeg "GOP" structure depends on good source to draw "I" frames from.) I am however having trouble keeping the Audio synchronized to the video after the first round of a game so my recording will not have audio.( I just don't have time to work out all the bugs) In addition the video may flicker occasionally, this is caused from "curser draw acceleration", witch is needed for WWP to run. Anyway enough tech talk, Hopefully I wont experience the dreaded WinXP-WWP crash to desktop between rounds. I have been lucky and never crashed during an important game but it would be just my luck it would happen when recording the final. (knock on wood) ;-)
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fury
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Post by fury on Jul 27, 2004 19:49:59 GMT
Indeed, lots of tech talk!! I fully trust you on this Bytor, I hope there won't be any problem. Btw is the game running smooth enough on your computer when you're recording? If you get booted to desktop, we can go to AG and wait for you (taking care of who should go first on next round). I believe that Jigsaw quite often has desktop-booting troubles so anyway... About the audio, I'm sure it's not an issue that it's not synchronized, since you can adjust it offline once recorded... it would be great to have audio too, but if you can't, you can't. I hope that next year we will have all W:A fixes.
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Jigsaw
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Post by Jigsaw on Jul 28, 2004 12:32:12 GMT
I was wondering, wouldnt it be smoother to record game on vcr connected to pc and then to compress it on pc?
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