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Geek Culture / Converting videos to MPEG1 or WMV - problems!

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Leander
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Posted: 23rd Oct 2007 17:43 Edited at: 23rd Oct 2007 17:43
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Hi.

I'm currently working on a game with Multimedia Fusion 2.
The intro animation (like EA Games, EA Sports etc.) is a video, 10 seconds long.

The video is implemented in the game and it must run on ALL computers with WinXP. Therefore, I can't use videos encoded with DivX for example.

The possibilites of the default WinXP without any additional codecs are limited. WMV works. MPEG 1 works. MPEG 2 doesn't.

My video runs well as MPEG 2. Or PAL DVD (whatever codec). I have to convert it to WMV or MPEG 1. And I can also directly export it from Ulead Video Studio as MPEG 1 or WMV. I've tried for days and haven't found a solution yet.

WMV -> it's ok but it is too small. I need it in 720x576.
MPEG 1 -> there's slight flickering.

Any ideas?

http://www.llcp.at/temp/video.zip

Here is the video, two versions. You can take either. I'd be thankful if you could have a look and tell me how I can get a WMV in 720x576 or MPEG 1 in good quality, without flickering.



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David R
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Posted: 23rd Oct 2007 17:53
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Any post about codecs and videos in games just makes me instantaneously think 'Bink', but obviously that doesn't help in this case :/


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Posted: 23rd Oct 2007 17:54
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Why not just use AVI (not DivX encoded ones)?
I'm fairly certain that Windows can play standard AVI files.

If not, simply add DivX to the installation process - detect if it's already installed, and if not, prompt saying "DivX needs to be installed to view video sequences within this game", and then everything should work

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Leander
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Posted: 23rd Oct 2007 18:17
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Avi could work but there is no single "avi" format. You have to choose a special coded, such as Indeovideo, Intel video, Microsoft RLE etc.

The problem is that Ulead Video Studio can only export it to a version too new for default WinXP.

And no, installing DivX only for 10 seconds of intro (LLCP) is not good.

MPEG 1 didn't flicker with another fx effect, maybe I should do without the current effect. Hm.



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Posted: 23rd Oct 2007 18:55
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Uncompressed AVI could do it, but 10 seconds could be very very steep size-wise


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Leander
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The game will be around 8 MB so a 10 second intro should be 1 MB the most.



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