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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Lucika on April 21, 2011, 05:36:47 pm

Title: Resolution loss when converting .flv
Post by: Lucika on April 21, 2011, 05:36:47 pm

I am LPing Portal 2. Fraps killed me so I set up Livestream Procaster. On the site it says that the resolution is 768x432 - not really huge because I messed up the settings but it is usable. However, when I download the .flv file and convert it, it actually turns into something like a 320x200 file or so - which is junk. What can I do? Is it the conversion that screws something up?

Title: Re: Resolution loss when converting .flv
Post by: Thaeris on April 21, 2011, 07:00:00 pm

I have no idea what to tell you Lucika, but I was curious to see if there was any free video capture software out there besides the ubiquitous FRAPS. To that end, I looked to SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/search/?q=video+capture+software

For which, VirtualDub (http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualdub/) looks like something which might be worth trying. Here's their home site:

http://www.virtualdub.org/index.html

I think I might need to try this myself.

Title: Re: Resolution loss when converting .flv
Post by: Davros on April 23, 2011, 03:10:12 am

Im guessing your loosing res because the file is interlaced

Title: Re: Resolution loss when converting .flv
Post by: Lucika on April 23, 2011, 04:31:03 am

Possible... but since then I realized that the free version of the program produces horribly bad quality footage anyway, so I went back to Fraps and tweaked a bit...

...now I have audio desync.