[game_preservation] AMAZING collection of E3 '95 videos!

[Captain Commando]

Hmm... My e-mails to Robyn are bouncing ( contact at tinselman.com ). I could
try through my gmail, but I really should use something a bit more
professional for this!

-DM

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>
wrote:


>  Mike Melanson wrote:

>

> I haven't heard of meGUI before. However, we only recently (in the last

> few weeks) added support for some of Fraps' later versions. Since

> everything depends on FFmpeg, your software would not have been able to

> handle the newer files.

>

>

>  meGUI can run those scripts that do the command line stuff step-by-step.

> I'd rather not delve into the command line itself, heh.

>

> It also runs it's own downloads for the processing and suchlike, obviously

> Frap's isn't there yet like you said.

>

> Would an 'ffmpeg' command line be suitable if the user could specify a

> preset? I.e

> ., './ffmpeg -preset QualityX'? A lot of people have wanted

> that for a long time but we're still mired in details.

>

>

>  What do you mean exactly? I don't use ffmpeg because, as far as I know,

> it doesn't have H264 encoding (does it?) and most things use X264, and

> various different AAC encoders (Winamp and Nero are two I've seen). That,

> and it's all command line, which confuses me for doing many things.

>

> Basic quality settings would be nice. One thing StaxRip does is, if you

> pre-process it, it can gather info about the file, and say if you want "50%

> quality" (the recommended amount, which actually looks great), then it'll be

> this output size. The only thing; StaxRip is a bit weird, especially on the

> audio side and what files it works with.

>

> Sigh, I wish video encoding was easier. Input any video file, select

> cropping and new dimensions, select H264, and appropriate audio (so lower

> quality for a smaller file if needed) and go! :-)

>

> DVD ripping (*cough* my own DVD's thanks) have tons of great

> implementations, among them Handbreak is great on Mac software. Just nothing

> similar exists for file conversion as far as I've researched!

>

> (VirtualDub - limited accepted files, and doesn't do H264...bah! it's

> otherwise quite good!)

>

> Andrew

>

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