zmv->avi

michael flatley · Post by **michael flatley** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 3:27 am

Well, fraps was almost working with ZSNES a long while back. It would capture a little over half of the requested 30fps. I didn't find this satisfactory. Now a new version of ZSNES is out and I thought I'd try it with fraps again. Neither version 2.3.3 or 2.5.0 of fraps work at all with ZSNES 1.4 now. Anyone else having this problem?

BTW, it's been several months so I thought I'd ask this question again. Will zmv->avi support be implemented in ZSNES. If so, when?

ReRuss · Post by **ReRuss** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 3:40 am

Umm , ZMV is like a save state with button pressed timings. There's NO video there.

Far as I can tell fraps works fine with ZSNES 1.40 , but Fraps videos are kinda bloated.

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 4:15 am

Same thing here as mf. Fraps 2.5.0 doesn't even seem to detect ZSNES 1.40.

Haven't tried earlier versions of ZSNES, but Fraps 2.5.0 seems to be quite a bit faster than old versions, so I thought I'd give it a shot.

michael flatley · Post by **michael flatley** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 5:15 am

"Umm , ZMV is like a save state with button pressed timings. There's NO video there."

That's the point. You have a ZMV which is only viewable in ZSNES. A zmv->avi tool would take the zmv and its corresponding output and turn it into something most everyone could see.

You sure fraps is working with 1.4? What version of fraps do you have? And your config settings? Thanks.

ReRuss · Post by **ReRuss** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 5:25 am

What you're wanting is somthing to load ZMV (zsnes (I left my brains in the womb)) and wanting it to output as (AVI)... Doubt it's gonna happen soon.

Fraps - 2.3.3 - 2.5.0

Magus` · Post by **Magus`** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 6:01 am

ZMV isn't outputting shit. Hell, it's INPUTTING key strokes.

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 6:16 am

Magus` wrote:ZMV isn't outputting shit. Hell, it's INPUTTING key strokes.

And the point of that reply was?

Post by **grinvader** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 7:45 am

@flatley: I wonder why you posted this thread when you could have checked the sticky.

If there's anything new on the matter, that's where it'll be posted.

michael flatley · Post by **michael flatley** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 7:48 am

Dudes, this isn't a hard concept to understand. Sure, a ZMV is a file that sends keystrokes to the emulator. But the end result is basically a movie of an emulated scene. If we take the frames produced by the emulation of the ZMV we have a vid. Got it? This has all been talked about before, a proof of concept was presented by one of the devs, and another (IMHO inferior) emulator already has this feature. I'm just wondering why fraps no longer works with ZSNES and if the devs will release a zmv->avi feature. I'm trying to create a speedrun avi and with current utilities my vid either runs at 15fps or drops odd frames. I don't want either of these things...

michael flatley · Post by **michael flatley** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 8:06 am

Holy shit I just got fraps working and it doesn't skip a frame. OMFG sweet. For some reason all of these settings work together. They didn't before but now they do. It's all thanks to fraps now offering 60fps capture mode. Case closed for me...

ZSNES:
auto frame rate
max frameskip 0
vsync
tripple buffering

FRAPS:
60fps

Starman Ghost · Post by **Starman Ghost** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 8:11 am

michael flatley wrote: Case closed for me...

Finally.

Post by **grinvader** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 8:16 am

Good. Does that mean you'll get on that Super Metroid movie ?

Records are 0:47 minutes for 100% and 0:27 for 24%. The author of the latter (Terimakasih) thinks less than 27 minutes for an any% is impossible.
Which is really easy to admit when you watch his run.

Starman Ghost · Post by **Starman Ghost** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 8:17 am

grinvader wrote:Records are 0:47 minutes for 100% and 0:27 for 24%. The author of the latter (Terimakasih) thinks less than 27 minutes for an any% is impossible.
Which is really easy to admit when you watch his run.

Linkage please

Post by **grinvader** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 8:24 am

The 00:47 100% run is in a fat ~300MB divx file. I tried to find the original SMV, to no avail.
Grab it at this page.

The 00:27 24% run is available at Bisqwit's site, either 157MB avi file via BT, or small smv file via HTTP (requires snes9x 1.43WIP1).

michael flatley · Post by **michael flatley** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 8:46 am

Yes working on vid this instant. Run will most definitely beat 47 minutes. In fact I will probably smash that record.

Post by **grinvader** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 8:47 am

Awesome.

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 5:02 pm

michael flatley wrote:Holy shit I just got fraps workings

What did you have to do?

michael flatley · Post by **michael flatley** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 3:32 am

Read the rest of the post you quoted...

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 4:18 am

michael flatley wrote:Read the rest of the post you quoted...

My bad. I had the FPS counter disabled and I thought it still wasn't working.

*Goes to amend the zmv->avi thread

michael flatley · Post by **michael flatley** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 4:27 am

I had forgotten tripple buffering needs to be enabled. Without it fraps won't work with ZSNES. I'm still running into slight problems because Adobe Premiere doesn't support a 60 fps timecode. I used to know the workaround to this but I've since forgotten.

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 4:30 am

Thanks so much, I'm sure a lot of people will be happy now.

Tallgeese · Post by **Tallgeese** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 4:46 am

Yeah, because MAYBE Flatley will finally shut up.

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daPope · Post by **daPope** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 12:14 am

Big thanks to michael flatley!