Can you Play a ZSNES video file with something Else?

ThunderMan EX · Post by **ThunderMan EX** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 1:29 am

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Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 1:34 am

Nope. Best you can do right now is use the new raw movie dump option in the latest WIP versions, but you have to encode the raw file, and you still don't get sound.

Soul Colossus · Post by **Soul Colossus** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 3:34 am

If you're really desperate for sound, you could hook your sound cards output to the audio-in then sync it up with your editing software.. though I'm not sure how good that would sound.

Hyos · Post by **Hyos** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 3:55 am

You could just record it with Sound Recorder (comes with Windows) or any other recording software without needing to jack anything in cable/hardware-wise. I thought this was common knowledge that you could do that. However, getting the RAW video in sync with the recorded sound requires quite a bit of video/sound editing knowledge. If you're good computer-wise it woulod take you a few day to learn everything and then get your finished video that can be played in every player.

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 4:05 am

Eh, not really. The basic tools are pretty easy to use. You'd encode with mencoder (you could use an example command line from the raw dumping thread), then roughly cut the audio with Audacity or something, then mux and adjust timing with VirtualDub.

I'd say a couple of hours of learning if you really are good with computers. The hardest part is the trial and error required to get the audio close enough to in sync to sound right.

Soul Colossus · Post by **Soul Colossus** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 7:00 am

I think VirtualDub lets you change the delay in msec of the audio that's in the file you're working on, so that should make it a little easier. I'm not entirely sure if that feature exists, though.

Speaking of Vdub, when I used it to edit/re-encde the file mencoder outputed, it stuck WARNING: BFRAME NOT DECOD (decoded?) as the first frame, and it did it every time I saved the avi using VirtualDub. Still haven't figured out how to get rid of it. See: http://www.stoofoo.net/chatty.x?id=976265

Hm, that link above reminds me of the example mencoder command line parameters used to convert the raw video dump into xvid/avi. It specifies an incorrect aspect ratio, but when I tried changing it, it gave me an error. Mencoder has to be more un-userfriendly as VirtualDub. I'm very good computer-wise and after a few days of learning to use VirtualDub and about encoding in xvid, there's still a fuckton of shit that is far beyond me.

Post by **Agozer** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 12:09 pm

Soul Colossus wrote:I'm very good computer-wise and after a few days of learning to use VirtualDub and about encoding in xvid, there's still a fuckton of shit that is far beyond me.

Same here. I've done a lot of encoding with VirtualDub, bu so of the stuff just goes way past my head.

Which reminds me, I need to get VDub back in track, since the last time I did anything with it was roughly a year ago.

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 2:45 pm

Soul Colossus wrote:I think VirtualDub lets you change the delay in msec of the audio that's in the file you're working on, so that should make it a little easier. I'm not entirely sure if that feature exists, though.

Yes, that's what I was thinking of. If you had to cut it exactly it would be a pain in the ass.

Speaking of Vdub, when I used it to edit/re-encde the file mencoder outputed, it stuck WARNING: BFRAME NOT DECOD (decoded?) as the first frame, and it did it every time I saved the avi using VirtualDub. Still haven't figured out how to get rid of it. See: http://www.stoofoo.net/chatty.x?id=976265

I think that means you have either an old version of VDub or an old version of XVid. I forget exactly how to solve that. Maybe the packed b frames option?