mencoder.exe missing

poof · Post by **poof** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 7:41 am

Im trying to record video, and went through the steps listed in the zmv to avi thread, placing gmplayer.exe (which for some reason is referred to as mencoder.exe) in the same folder as zsnes.exe and yet when i try to dump my recorded movie it gives "mencoder.exe is missing press space bar to continue" and nothing gets outputted. Ive tried having them both open at the same time and still nothing. Running xpSP2 and zsnes v1.51.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 7:43 am

gmplayer.exe is the GUI version of the MPlayer.

You need to download the non-GUI version of MPlayer that contains mencoder.exe in it.

poof · Post by **poof** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 7:53 am

oh, it would help if that was posted in the guide, there are 5 different version to pick from and none with any descriptions. thanks.

poof · Post by **poof** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 7:57 am

One more quick question, why is it the quality is like a 5th of what it looks like in the emulator? is there any way to get an equivalent quality?

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 8:04 am

poof wrote:oh, it would help if that was posted in the guide, there are 5 different version to pick from and none with any descriptions. thanks.

Maybe, but considering that mencoder is mainly a command line app, it should be a tad obvious (at least trying out the other downloads would make it apparent).

poof wrote:One more quick question, why is it the quality is like a 5th of what it looks like in the emulator? is there any way to get an equivalent quality?

That depends what dumping option you are using, and it generally depends on the game (XVid or X264 are usually the better options, the latter being better IIRC). Games like F-Zero look terrible since there's a ton of stuff on the screen being updated frequently.

You can also tweak zmovie.cfg for your own curiousity.

blueblaster · Post by **blueblaster** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 7:53 pm

Usually xvid or x264 provide the best quality that zsnes can output through recording. zmovie.cfg has some options you can modify and you can easily look up switches by googling for the mencoder documentation. If your looking to upload your videos to youtube, then make sure you encode the video at 30fps (use -ofps 30) otherwise the sound will be somewhat garbled and sound funky.

OryNider · Post by **OryNider** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 2:02 pm

Here is a link to mencoder.exe compiled with mingw32:
ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases ... 1.0rc2.zip

See: http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/3206 ... ost2031174

Ory.

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Wed Nov 10, 2010 9:06 pm

these last two guys really win. i mean, how can i not listen to the flashing sig?

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Thu Nov 11, 2010 3:26 am

Especially the last guy, bumping a 2-years-dead thread.

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