[sigtau]

...and no one else can get these from Theora to something that YouTube can take?

[mjn.mixael]

I'll put em up on Youtube soon.

[darkdaej]

I tried doing so when the ancients monologues were first remade but youtube didn't like my 1080p .ogg files and they just did not work properly.

Also.


The 1080p videos work well on VLC Media Player, but I've been experiencing some slight lag when the cutscenes show up during gameplay.  I'm currently downloading the 720p versions to see if I have the same issues.

If so, i'll file a bug report so we could figure out what causes the slowdowns.

[WhiteFox]

Hm.. With the newest VLC-Player i have some Problems with the "Endgame" in the 720p and 1080p - Version.
Its a little bit laggy on showing the explosions in subspace on the Lucifer and it is lagging after the Destruction of the Lucifer on the "Flyby" from the Fighters.

i have downloaded both Files a few times, same Problem - same Scene, same Time.

System:  Intel Core2Duo 2x2,6ghz  with ATI Radeon HD 5770

[MatthTheGeek]

VLC isn't exactly the most performant video viewer evar.

[Satellight]

Hm.. With the newest VLC-Player i have some Problems with the "Endgame" in the 720p and 1080p - Version.
Its a little bit laggy on showing the explosions in subspace on the Lucifer and it is lagging after the Destruction of the Lucifer on the "Flyby" from the Fighters.

I have the same problem, but I don't know what player I can use. After all, VLC is the most compatible one...
I thought it was my old A64 3500+ , but even with my new i5 760 + HD 5850, it's the same... Snif.

EDIT : VLC is the most compatible player I know, but i'm open to suggestion !

[MatthTheGeek]

Yes, VLC is the most compatible, definitely. But not the most performant.

[[Wolf]Maverick]

@Satellight
Use mediaplayer classic, im my opinion by far the best player

[asyikarea51]

On MPC-HC and VLC the Endgame 1080p video lags in the places WhiteFox mentioned plus 1 more for me, somewhere around the part where the Ursa flies next to the Lucifer with the camera panning to the subspace tunnel end. In game the video lags a lot worse, the audio runs faster than the video towards the end of the clip as said video lags wholesale LOL

I'll just assume it as this system unable to take it (or maybe something isn't configured properly somewhere, but I'm assuming the former anyway) =\

[mjn.mixael]

If your computer can't handle the video, it WILL lag in places where there is a lot of movement. IE: Large camera pans, multiple explosions or ships flying on screen...

Try a lower res.

Even the 480p ones are an improvement in resolution (and compression) over the originals.

[Satellight]

...but even with my new i5 760 + HD 5850, it's the same [lag] ... Snif.

MPC HC crashes for me in Endgame 1080. I think it's a codec's problem more than performance issue.

[mjn.mixael]

Even my rig can't handle the 1080s in FSO... It's not the codec, it's FSO/performance.

Now maybe the codec isn't as efficient as we would like either...

[Kolgena]

Anyone know if FFdshow works in concordance with FSO? I think their codecs are pretty decent in performance.

[mjn.mixael]

This has been discussed here

[Yueh]

Usually I'm able to figure things out for myself but I seem to have hit a brick wall here.

The cutscenes look fine when played in VLC but in game they are horribly pixelated with colour banding looking like I'm working on an old 386 machine or something. The old cut scenes are also pretty bad but I always just thought this was normal but looking at it now they look slightly worse on my machine than the low res you-tube copies of the original scenes.

Is this a problem or is this how it's supposed to look in game?

I'm not usually a stickler for perfection in graphics but these are so bad I find myself looking at the blocky shapes in the shading than he whole picture. The artifacting around the 'the great war' lettering in the intro is almost as big as the letters themselves. It's really distracting.

Is it possible something in the video player built into my copy of FSO is not working right? I can't find any settings in the launcher that would suggest they would affect this. All the other graphics options are maxed out.

My screen is 1680 x1050. Could it be screwing things up in scaling from 480 or 1080 to 1050? I've tried the 480 & 1080 res versions and I'm dowloading the 720 ones. I think I downloaded the upgraded video files that were released a year or two ago.  I didn't notice any difference then either but I thought that was just how it was supposed to look as I couldn't exactly remember how they originally looked.

[Mobius]

Mixael, I would like to take a screenshot showing the exploding Lucifer and use it in a WIP INFASA presentation thread. Would you kindly give me the permission to do that?

Mobius: Sure go ahead.

As promised.

[CommanderDJ]

I'd just like to say that what you've done so far is amazing. You're doing this out of the kindness of your heart and in your spare time, and for that I am grateful (along with the rest of HLP). Keep it up.

CommanderDJ

[Lukeskywalkie]

Hmmm.... Are the 720p videos really in the 20-40 mb range?  That seems small.  I'm also having filter issues with said files, despite resolving, and helping others to resolve, said problems several months ago...

Will continue troubleshooting.  ITMT, could someone post the filesizes for the versions you've downloaded, for verification?

[WhiteFox]

I dont think its an Performance-Problem.
Since an Update of VLC i cant play the 1080-Version of Endgame.

I think (remember: some other People has the Same problem on the same Part of the Video)  theres some Problem on en- or decoding.
I remember on my older PCs, if i burned a CD and unzipped an Archive-File on Result my burned CD wasnt working.  Only if i burned the CD without doing anything other there was an perfect CD.

What im trying to tell: isnt that Possible that the Files has been damaged ?


@ Lukeskywalkie:
Ancients 1  on 1080 on my PC -> 97.73 MB
Ancients 2  on 1080 on my PC -> 91.24 MB
Ancients 3  on 1080 on my PC -> 11.86 MB  (You are right, it looks very small !)
Ancients 4  on 1080 on my PC -> 170.13 MB  (Okay, thats a Big one ! )
Ancients 5  on 1080 on my PC -> 33.19 MB (A little small size, too)
Endgame on  1080 on my PC -> 121.09 MB (This is okay, for this Vid, i think)

[WhiteFox]

Some new Update since July, mjn.mixael ?