(old) ZMV to AVI video conversion [[archive me]]

Post by **Nach** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 12:26 am

Welcome to page 4.

To record a video you need one of the latest work in progress builds of ZSNES. Get them here: http://zsnes.ipherswipsite.com/

You will need a copy of mencoder. For Windows users, I recommend getting mencoder here: http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php
Place mencoder.exe in the same location as zsnesw.exe, you do not need any codecs or other movie programs installed.
Linux users, having mencoder in your path is fine.

If you want to compress the outputted audio, or compress it before it goes into the video as opposed to during, you will need a copy of LAME.
If you use Windows, you must get LAME from here: http://geocities.com/joecool22us/lame.zip
Any other copy of LAME for Windows will not work due to a bug in LAME.

Before you are able to dump an AVI, you must have recorded a movie first, it converts movies, it does not just dump video on the fly.

To play back movies, you'll either need the proper codecs or a video player with built in decoding of the video mode you selected.
I recommend getting mplayer which decodes anything created with mencoder. For Windows, you can get mplayer here: http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php You can download the GUI version.

Advanced users can edit zmovie.cfg and tweak the settings if they want, and even use something other than mencoder and LAME as long as it supports encoding via stdin and you set it up properly.

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I am pleased to announce that thanks to some help from Bisqwit and DeHackEd, I have added audio dumping to ZSNES!

Currently only works at Stereo 32KHz (if you want to make it work for other stuff, then please submit code).

The audio is also in a wav file as uncompressed PCM, so anything should be able to play it.

I also fixed up raw dumping in a couple of situations.

Post by **Agozer** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 12:36 am

Ooh, this is something. Excellent work you three.

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 2:34 am

Wow, truly amazing. A big congrats to you three.

LDAWG · Post by **LDAWG** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 5:22 am

OK, this rules!
I'm thinking custom ringtones for my Moto RAZR !!!

Aerdan · Post by **Aerdan** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:39 am

Please to be shutting up with the suckup posts already.

They sicken me.

Go find something more constructive to do with your time, like playing games and/or actually using the features our local representative of God gave you.

Post by **Agozer** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 10:56 am

Shut the hell up Aerdan. Since when was it wrong to congratulate someone for a work well done?

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 2:03 pm

Yay!

Great news.

Post by **Nach** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:06 pm

Behold:

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./zsnes -mc -md -zm 0 /mnt/E/new/Euro/SFA2.smc & mencoder -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo format=0x42475220:w=256:h=223:size=228352:fps=50 -mc 0 -oac copy -ovc x264 -x264encopts qp_constant=35 -o temp.avi ~/.zsnes/rawvideo.bin && mencoder -mc 0 -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=48 -ovc copy -o sfa2e.avi -audiofile ~/.zsnes/pcmaudio.wav temp.avi

http://nsrt.edgeemu.com/sfa2evid.rar

Requires x264 video codec.
Windows users can get x264 codec here http://x264.nl/
Although I recommend mplayer: http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32/ or ftp://ftp5.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/release ... 050928.zip

Post by **pagefault** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:13 pm

Nice work guys. Now get working on my taxes.

Post by **Nach** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:24 pm

Okay got an NTSC video together. 62.5 FPS... We'll see if we can bring that closer to 60.

http://nsrt.edgeemu.com/ssf2uvid.rar

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./zsnes -mc -md -zm 1 /mnt/D/roms/nintendo/snes/ssf2.fig & mencoder -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo format=0x42475220:w=256:h=223:size=228352:fps=62.5 -mc 0 -oac copy -ovc x264 -x264encopts qp_constant=35 -o temp.avi ~/.zsnes/rawvideo.bin && mencoder -mc 0 -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=48 -ovc copy -o ssf2u.avi -audiofile ~/.zsnes/pcmaudio.wav temp.avi

Aerdan · Post by **Aerdan** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:29 pm

Agozer wrote:Shut the hell up Aerdan. Since when was it wrong to congratulate someone for a work well done?

You missed the irony in the post, apparently.

Go reread the last line.

Post by **Agozer** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:40 pm

Aerdan wrote:
Agozer wrote:Shut the hell up Aerdan. Since when was it wrong to congratulate someone for a work well done?
You missed the irony in the post, apparently.

Go reread the last line.

Ah, right.

I can see the irony now.

Shinrin · Post by **Shinrin** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:07 pm

you can also view these videos with Video Lan Connect.

anyway nice video's guys keep up the good work.

Post by **Nach** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 8:53 pm

Okay I redid the last video.

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./zsnes -mc -md -zm 1 /mnt/D/roms/nintendo/snes/ssf2.fig & mencoder -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo format=0x42475220:w=256:h=223:size=228352:fps=59.925093633 -mc 0 -oac copy -ovc x264 -x264encopts qp_constant=25 -o temp.avi ~/.zsnes/rawvideo.bin && mencoder -mc 0 -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=48 -ovc copy -o ssf2u.avi -audiofile ~/.zsnes/pcmaudio.wav temp.avi

So 59.925093633 FPS recording. Anyone have an issue with this?

http://nsrt.edgeemu.com/ssf2vid2.rar

I also upped the quality on this vid so it looks quite good, what do you think?

Edit:
After reversing the exact ZSNES NTSC frame rate which is is 59.9487437186 and Bisqwit helping to create an algorithm to get sample generation perfect, we should have perfect NTSC videos now

I also upped the ratio to 256x224.

Here's what you need to encode now:

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./zsnes -mc -md -zm 1 /mnt/D/roms/nintendo/snes/ssf2.fig & mencoder -aspect 4/3 -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo format=0x42475220:w=256:h=224:size=229376:fps=59.9487437186 -mc 0 -oac copy -ovc x264 -x264encopts qp_constant=25 -o temp.avi ~/.zsnes/rawvideo.bin && mencoder -mc 0 -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:preset=48 -ovc copy -o ssf2.avi -audiofile ~/.zsnes/pcmaudio.wav temp.avi

Maybe one of these days I'll figure out how to generate an AVI header so you don't need to specify the exact details yourself.

http://nsrt.edgeemu.com/ssf2good.rar

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 2:24 am

The video in the second link seems fine. No problems so far.

SquareHead · Post by **SquareHead** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 9:35 am

Nach wrote: Here's what you need to encode now:
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./zsnes -mc -md -zm 1 /mnt/D/roms/nintendo/snes/ssf2.fig & mencoder -aspect 4/3 -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo format=0x42475220:w=256:h=224:size=229376:fps=59.9487437186 -mc 0 -oac copy -ovc x264 -x264encopts qp_constant=25 -o temp.avi ~/.zsnes/rawvideo.bin && mencoder -mc 0 -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:preset=48 -ovc copy -o ssf2.avi -audiofile ~/.zsnes/pcmaudio.wav temp.avi 
Maybe one of these days I'll figure out how to generate an AVI header so you don't need to specify the exact details yourself.

http://nsrt.edgeemu.com/ssf2good.rar

Damn you and your mencoder skillz.

I have yet to really figure the damned thing out, and here in 1 line, you are capturing the output from zsnes, compressing the video, and audio streams, and then muxing them together in a final file.

Post by **Nach** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 3:33 am

And now ZSNES can use mencoder internally to make life easier!

Make sure mencoder is in your path before using the new uncompressed AVI, ffv1, or x264.

Windows WIP:
http://nsrt.edgeemu.com/zsnesw-mov.zip

Get precompiled mencoder binaries for Windows here:
http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php

Place mencoder in your path when using.

The more adventurous can edit zmovie.cfg.

If you have trouble playing outputted movies, get codecs here:
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_L ... c_Pack.htm

Please let me know how it goes.

Post by **Agozer** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 1:32 pm

Oooh, X264 Lossless option. Thanks a bunch Nach.

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 1:41 pm

does it matter wich version of mencoder is used?

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 1:45 pm

Ideally, you probably want to use the latest version.

Post by **Nach** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 1:48 pm

franpa_9 wrote:does it matter wich version of mencoder is used?

Use one from the site I gave you. Download the one for your CPU.

Anyone test this out yet?

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 4:10 am

http://web.aanet.com.au/Student_WebZone ... /video.avi

i tried x264 and uncompressed avi and uncompressed avi recorded better but i needed a codec to play the file.

the link is to a movie of mario bros 1 level 1 in the x264 format avi. (it works but has a slow frame rate)

is it possible to make it so mencoder doesnt steal focus away from zsnes while recording?

Post by **Nach** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 5:04 am

franpa_9 wrote:http://web.aanet.com.au/Student_WebZone ... /video.avi

Too many dropped frames. Set max frame skip to 0 before recording.

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 5:20 am

http://web.aanet.com.au/Student_WebZone ... /video.avi

fixed the video... it now works properly and is 2.5mb approx. (thanks nach) now if only we could have sound at the same time. (without mergeing a sperate sound file into the movie manually)

Starman Ghost · Post by **Starman Ghost** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 5:26 am

This is driving me nuts. How can I get the stupid h264 whatever codec to work with wmp?