Video formats?

[Rattlehead]

I've been thinking about making video guides on how to beat bosses in games and uploading them to Youtube. I've started with FFIV Advance, but I'm wondering which format is the best choice for recording. VisualBoy Advance records in .avi format, and the sub-formats (which confuse me royally) are these:

Microsoft RLE
Microsoft Video 1
Intel IYUV Codec
Cinepak Codec by Radius
DivX 6.8 Codec (2 Logical CPUs)
DivX 6.8 YV12 Decoder
MainConcept DV Codec 2.0.4
XviD MPEG-4 Codec
Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec v1
Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec v2
Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec v3
Full Frames (Uncompressed)The "Full Frames" option is out of the question, because the last video I recorded (5 minutes worth) took up about 1.5 GB of hard drive space. I'm also wondering what's up with this "bitrate" nonsense when configuring a codec. There's "video bitrate" and "audio bitrate", and I dunno what a good amount for a Youtube video is. Another thing is that I usually convert the .avi files to .mpg files to save a bit of space. Can someone explain this crap to me?

[D--]

Realistically speaking, anything you upload to YouTube will be raped into FLV format, which is fugly. I do not think it will make any significant difference which you pick, aside from the upload payload.

Full frames is like saving 60 true-color bitmaps per second. It has absolutely no compression. Great if you are shooting raw video for some kind of film, or if you are going to be processing the same data 100 times and want no quality loss between processes, but ass for anything else.

[Haoie]

FLV may not be 'pretty', but it's accessible and well compressed. And most importantly, isn't a bitch on slow net connections to download.

And if you want people to view your guides, wouldn't it be best to use something accessible?

[Rattlehead]

Question = not answered.

Which codec should I use for good video and audio, and what should I set the video bitrate to...so it is not too shitty-looking? I usually set the audio to 128 kbps.

[The 9th Sage]

Question = not answered.

Which codec should I use for good video and audio, and what should I set the video bitrate to...so it is not too shitty-looking? I usually set the audio to 128 kbps.

I'd probably use Xvid or DivX (almost the same thing). MPEG 4 can be good as well. As far as actual bitrates, I would have to get back to you. My brain is kind of fried at the moment.

[Iconoclast]

The two most supported video bitrates are 8 b/px and 24 b/px. For old-school games I'd use 8 of course.

I just tested from a small collection of supported codecs here back when I published AVI files; the most popular ones I found to give good results were the Intel ones and Radius Cinepak Codec for your purpose. You probably need to experiment there.

[Rattlehead]

The two most supported video bitrates are 8 b/px and 24 b/px. For old-school games I'd use 8 of course.

I just tested from a small collection of supported codecs here back when I published AVI files; the most popular ones I found to give good results were the Intel ones and Radius Cinepak Codec for your purpose. You probably need to experiment there.

Thank you. I'll try 'em as soon as I can get my computer to boot up. It's royally fucked-up right now, due to me deleting Ubuntu Linux off of it. It is still trying to open the OS selection prompt at boot-up. The only way to fix it (that I know of) is to run Vista in safe mode. I need to find out which function key to press during boot.

[ToastyCheesy]

F8?

you ARE talking about vista's OS boot menu...right?

[Rattlehead]

F8?

you ARE talking about vista's OS boot menu...right?


NOT ANYMORE, HAHAHA!


I tried my Vista restore disk...wouldn't work. Now, my computer is a HP (which is important for this story). My stepmom had an old Gateway laptop which ran XP. While looking through a stack of CDs, I found a XP restore disk. Seeing as how I'd lose a bunch of data, I used a Ubuntu Live CD (an OS that can be ran via CD drive at boot-up) and 2 SD cards to salvage what I could. I popped in the XP disk, ran it at boot-up, and it amazingly worked! I am missing a HUGE amount of drivers, though. If I can get my WLAN's driver, then XP'll download the rest. :D

[ToastyCheesy]

If I can get my WLAN's driver, then XP'll download the rest. :D

I had the same trouble downgrading a friend's HP machine to XP.

Setup was also giving me the BSOD, it ends up it was a problem with his RAID configuration.

HP doesn't like to support any of their new computers with drivers for Windows XP, only Windows Vista.

anyways, if it's the same WLAN that came with your computer (you didn't change it), try this (ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib/software7/COL16161/pv-42855-1/sp26807.exe).

[Rattlehead]

I had the same trouble downgrading a friend's HP machine to XP.

Setup was also giving me the BSOD, it ends up it was a problem with his RAID configuration.

HP doesn't like to support any of their new computers with drivers for Windows XP, only Windows Vista.

anyways, if it's the same WLAN that came with your computer (you didn't change it), try this (ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib/software7/COL16161/pv-42855-1/sp26807.exe).

Actually, Realtek is the company that made my wireless card. I just downloaded the driver from their website onto a SD Card via my sister's laptop, and put it onto my computer.

[ToastyCheesy]

hmm... okay. did you have to look at the actual hardware to get that? Most HP computers I work with use "Generic" wifi

[Rattlehead]

hmm... okay. did you have to look at the actual hardware to get that? Most HP computers I work with use "Generic" wifi

When I installed Windows XP, there was a catch: The recovery disk was to a laptop, which was manufactured by Gateway. So even though my computer's case says HP, the System Information says that I own a Gateway. That, and that recovery disk was ancient.