ZMV ->MPG

Darktux · Post by **Darktux** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 6:24 pm

How to convert a ZSNES video to a more known format?

Post by **Nach** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 6:31 pm

What you ask is like asking to turn a text document into an audio file.

Use some program that records video and audio in action.

Ichinisan · Post by **Ichinisan** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 6:32 pm

This feature will be included in a future version of ZSNES. However, you should not expect your current ZMV's to work properly on any future version.

Kagerato · Post by **Kagerato** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 6:37 pm

Short answer: You can't.

Long answer: ZMVs are simply a savestate and a set of actions (button presses). Without ZSNES, ZMVs are nothing because the emulation is the core of ZMV functionality. The only way to create a real movie (a set of bitmap frames) out of a ZMV is to record the output of ZSNES via software.

There's tons of screen capture software out there, a good bit of which does video. I haven't been able to capture anything too impressive with the freeware or trial products. Additionally, I do not have the money to shell out for these numerous commercial programs.

For now, you're pretty much on your own. You can go hunting for a commercial product which will capture the display at full speed (with sound is another feat altogether), or you can wait until the planned internal ZSNES capture is completed.

If you're a programmer or know one who's willing, enlist them to work on a better freeware display capture software.

Darktux · Post by **Darktux** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 7:09 pm

Thanks

Is there one of the software for linux?

jdratlif · Post by **jdratlif** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 9:15 pm

You should look at these programs (mupen64 and snes9x). Both of them claim they can record their movies to AVI format. Though this will not help you with ZSNES, it might be a place to start.

(edit: of course, this would all be useless unless you're willing to look at their code and maybe write a patch for zsnes -- my comment only makes sense if you're a programmer).

This will of course not encode current ZMV files into AVI or any other format. But maybe one day this will be added to zsnes as well.

I've never used it, so I have no idea how well it works. I've just read about it in their respective readmes.

michael flatley · Post by **michael flatley** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 4:49 am

I haven't come across any software (even commercial...) that will capture ZSNES at a consistent framerate. I just don't think any external tool will be able to do this. I'm patiently waiting for the ZSNES team to develop an AVI export feature. Pagefault even demonstrated the feature in action quite a while back, I don't know why it hasn't been placed in the current WIP's. I'll take a broken feature that only works with some games over no AVI export at all.

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 5:09 am

michael flatley wrote:I haven't come across any software (even commercial...) that will capture ZSNES at a consistent framerate. I just don't think any external tool will be able to do this. I'm patiently waiting for the ZSNES team to develop an AVI export feature. Pagefault even demonstrated the feature in action quite a while back, I don't know why it hasn't been placed in the current WIP's. I'll take a broken feature that only works with some games over no AVI export at all.

He was very busy during the summer so he had no time. Not sure about right now...

Post by **Nach** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 10:01 am

Darktux wrote:Thanks

Is there one of the software for linux?

Look on Bisqwit's website http://bisqwit.iki.fi

He has a patch for X somewhere that allows him to record video, it's how he puts out all those NES, SNES, and Genesis videos.

Post by **pagefault** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 8:28 pm

I've been too busy to continue working on it. Right now the plan is to release what we have done in CVS as a seperate release and then work on a new release based on what we have already. This way the entire team can get back into a release mode and do more frequent updates (1-2 months). Things will get done faster since there will be a lot more motivation to get things done.

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 11:09 pm

pagefault wrote:I've been too busy to continue working on it. Right now the plan is to release what we have done in CVS as a seperate release and then work on a new release based on what we have already. This way the entire team can get back into a release mode and do more frequent updates (1-2 months). Things will get done faster since there will be a lot more motivation to get things done.

That's good to hear.

Dmog · Post by **Dmog** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 12:04 am

Nach wrote:What you ask is like asking to turn a text document into an audio file.

Dunno about that. All I know is that it's perfectly feasable. VirtuaNes has precisely such a feature. Convert virtuanes movies (i.e: inputs records) to a standard avi.And since VMZs are basically like ZMVs there's no reason it couldn't be done.

I don't remember if the avi feature pagefault thinkered with was a zmv to avi converter or a simple avi capture function (on-the-fly/realtime capture in other words)

edit:

Long answer: ZMVs are simply a savestate and a set of actions (button presses). Without ZSNES, ZMVs are nothing because the emulation is the core of ZMV functionality

Needless to say, a zmv to avi converter WOULD require zsnes to do all the work.That goes without saying. But it would definitely be possible.

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 12:58 am

ZSNES and VirtuaNes are different emulators. So they work differently.

Magus` · Post by **Magus`** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 1:12 am

snkcube wrote:ZSNES and VirtuaNes are different emulators. So they work differently.

Seriously?

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 1:43 am

Well, Im just guessing.

Post by **Nach** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 6:18 pm

Dmog wrote:
Nach wrote:What you ask is like asking to turn a text document into an audio file.
Dunno about that. All I know is that it's perfectly feasable.

I didn't say it wasn't possible or not feasable. Snes9x does it to. The fact remains it's like turning text into audio, and you need the program that could read the particular text document to have a convert to audio option.

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ZMV ->MPG

ZMV ->MPG

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