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Posted: 2/12/2019 3:22 PM

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aiqiyou wrote:

Removed myself of the authors.

But what's the reason?

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Posted: 2/11/2019 10:55 PM

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Your best bet would be making a movie that we can't so easily beat.

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Posted: 2/11/2019 7:59 PM

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Posted: 2/11/2019 6:21 PM

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The safest way is just following the official instructions. If that's not available, going for the most common CPU speed of that era is also safe. I wish the table gave some insight about popularity.

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Posted: 2/11/2019 5:54 PM

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First of all, I don't think "Media" is the right name if we want it to be official. That's way too broad. If we use "Mass Media" instead, it becomes clearer what we're trying to show. And even then, the text on the page should inform us that this page (or these pages) collect appearances of TASing and TASers in mass media. Make use of wiki lists instead of forced linebreaks. Why do you put "GamesDoneQuick/" so many times? AGDQ/SGDQ is already there. Then, you have 2 bots, those would be 2 items in the list, and then all the GDQs would be a TASBot's sublist. Personally, I'd bold all mass media source names.

MESHUGGAH wrote:

- Contains many non-TASVideos TASers under TASers

Split them into TASVideos TASers and Other TASers.

MESHUGGAH wrote:

- Contains TASes not available on TASVideos at the moment under TASes

You seem to be showing Games there, not individual TASes.

MESHUGGAH wrote:

- Divide pages in to subpages? (Media/TASers, Media/Movies, Media...) and names?

Movies, Bots, TASers, and Games seem to need to be on subpages. Also I believe Interviews should be a subpage of MassMedia.

MESHUGGAH wrote:

1. Where should this page located?

http://tasvideos.org/MassMedia.html

MESHUGGAH wrote:

2. Where should this page mentioned? - Somewhere in Wiki: SiteHistory (see #5) - End/bottom of Wiki: WelcomeToTASVideos (see #4)

Seems to be relevant in lots of places. I'd leave that for later.

MESHUGGAH wrote:

3. Should I make subpages to exclude non-TASVideos TASers and TASes? - Especially that most of them refer to a youtube video, not uploaded by TASVideosChannel - Also this way it should be easier to navigate

Having them as 2 groups on the same page should be handy enough.

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Posted: 2/11/2019 3:09 PM

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Cyorter wrote:

I have a problem, in the mame-rr 0.139-v0.1beta I try to playback a movie but after unpausing it instantly stop playback due to "out of sync" and I don't know what's wrong :/ Command-Line utilized: mame-rr splatterj -playback movie.mar

It means the movie was started while unpaused. Remove the playback parameter, unpause the emulator, and load the movie using Ctrl+R.

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Posted: 2/10/2019 6:55 PM

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Can't be proven without whoring the hell out of vp9 arguments. The main difference from intended vp9 use is that corporations have encoding farms and want to save on traffic. So I do believe they spend more cpu-power on crushing the filesize than we can afford. And they do save money through this, while we gain absolutely nothing either way. This is several times more true for AV1, which saves 30% more filesize than vp9, but takes years to encode.

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Posted: 2/10/2019 3:39 PM

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Brief testing shows that reducing the quality down to what we use for primary runs twice as fast as x264, but produces a file that's 1.5 times bigger. Lack of detailed docs didn't help. I mostly used this command on SMW "game end glitch":

ffmpeg -i smw.avs -b:v 0 -crf 40 -g 600 -row-mt 1 -c:v vp9 -an smw.webm

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Posted: 2/10/2019 9:00 AM

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c-square wrote:

I'm not certain this is what you're asking, but there are three published runs that are considered "overclocked" by the table I posted last, and by the current rules would require being recreated from scratch to improve them:

How does gameplay change between the divider that was used and the one that should be used?

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Posted: 2/10/2019 8:34 AM

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Mitjitsu wrote:

If it's a movie I'm particular eager to see or learn how things were done I'll watch it on emulator. Otherwise I'll watch or wait for an encode.

The question is about published movies :P

Cyorter wrote:

I don't care quality, I just want to watch, but if you suggest it, I can download Matroska encodes when watching in my PC :D

Yeah, for the sake of experiment, try watching it on your usual devices and see if they handle MKV.

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Posted: 2/10/2019 12:19 AM

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Cyorter wrote:

3: Download MP4 for use internet once and watch the times I want (based in how much I liked the movie)... or for watch later.

Why not download the MKV? It has better quality.

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Posted: 2/9/2019 11:56 PM

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It would fully depend on how meaningful each sub-game is for TASing. As a start, try checking them against this:

Does it ever end?
Does it increase in difficulty?
Does new content appear as you progress?
Does the manual say anything about your goal?
Is it less trivial than simply pressing a few buttons to win?

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Posted: 2/9/2019 11:45 PM

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Cyorter wrote:

My primary is Movie file in Emulator and secondary MP4 compatibility. I have a very limited internet and I can't watch in YouTube and less if 360p or higher. Thank god movie files are very small sized.

And you don't download the standard definition files either, right? Just watch in the browser?

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Posted: 2/9/2019 11:29 PM
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Please tell what is your primary way to watch published movies. If you use several methods, vote for the most commonly used one, and mention which is which in the post. Also, please tell why you're using that method, and why you don't use other methods. For streams, specify if you use the tasvideos embedded player option, watch directly on the hosting site, or download and watch locally.

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Posted: 2/9/2019 11:27 PM

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That's not what I'm asking at all. I don't mean incompatible with a movie, but incompatible with the perfectly legitimate architecture.

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Posted: 2/9/2019 9:19 PM

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TheWinslinator wrote:

@Memory Right, there would certainly not be any clear ending for this game, as you can keep playing for as long as you want, but i thought the first bullet point under the score guidelines, "There is no better way of defining full completion in the game" would best fit this game's case.

That one point doesn't mean all other points don't apply. Here's the whole text:

Maximum points or score is allowed as a full-completion category, provided that:
There is no better way of defining full completion in the game.
The maximum score is easily defined and absolute - it must not be possible to gain a higher score, even theoretically. It must be definable without being dependent on precise time, speed, or similar requirements.
The maximum score is limited by not being able to gain any more points, not by hitting a score cap or overflow. If it is possible to score points infinitely, score cannot be used to define full completion.

So this movie (and its improved version) doesn't count as full completion. Now does it count as fastest completion? The game doesn't have an ending, therefore we look at this:

Is the game still playable after you reach max score?
Is there any notion of difficulty and new content?

TheWinslinator wrote:

In reference to your argument on completing a single game, there's actually three other card games you can play besides Blackjack, would winning one game of each be a more suitable goal or is that still too trivial?

If each sub-game is offered independently and there's no global goal like in [2425] SNES Vegas Stakes by hero of the day in 02:43.20, we count those as modes and they work as independent games, and each of them is judged against the common rules. Some of them may be acceptable. And you can also make a movie that plays all the acceptable sub-games in one go. But first we'd have to know if they are acceptable.

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Posted: 2/9/2019 2:54 PM

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Publishing a run that's already been properly obsoleted by a new submission, and claiming "that's the current Contra TAS record", doesn't feel perfectly right either.

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Posted: 2/9/2019 2:46 PM

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c-square wrote:

I'd like the option to be able to submit an improvement to a run using the same CPU Divider setting as the currently published run, even if it is higher than the game was intended to run on. Otherwise, none of the work done previously would be reusable, and all work would have to be done from scratch.

How incompatible does the old divider have to be to require this clause in the first place? If a compatible machine was available back then, it's a pro. If the gameplay doesn't change, it's a pro.

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Posted: 2/8/2019 11:36 PM

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Moved your draft here: http://tasvideos.org/EmulatorResources/JPC/CPUDividers.html

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Posted: 2/8/2019 2:52 PM

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We will update this warning appropriately when there's the reference table. What's the grandfather clause again?

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Posted: 2/7/2019 8:36 PM

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I tried the first "level" on mame-rr. The pattern that one has to repeat is simply "button 1, blank, button 3". Spikestuff used a different ROM version, so his input doesn't sync right away on the version Mihoru used. If I align by the guy with a gun and hit the same frame as Spikestuff, I start too early in this version. But if I start on the next frame, it works and I get the same in-game time. Mihoru starts at frame 2022. Should be started at frame 2017. 5 frames lost to absolutely nothing while all that's needed is repeating 2 buttons. Skipped right to the 4-way race. Spikestuff's time in Bizhawk+MAME:

My time in MAME-RR:

Mihoru's time in MAME-RR:

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Posted: 2/7/2019 5:26 PM

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Makes sense to me. Good thing delaying the judgment is really easy.

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Posted: 2/7/2019 5:14 PM

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I improved the wording. As written in the edit note: "We can't draw the line based on amount of variations of some option. Really wide ranges may be explicitly supported. And non-arbitrary modes may be unintended. So instead, make sure the option is intended for normal play." Now this is in line with the rule about in-game codes BTW. http://tasvideos.org/MovieRules.html#PcGameEnvironmentMustBeLegitimate

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Posted: 2/6/2019 3:28 PM

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<feos>      yeah okay. this question appears in different forms every once in a while. it takes looking at actual gba to tell how accurate the pallete is
<EZGames69> I mean looking at dkc2 specifically (not the title screen but actual movie), Bizhawk GBA pallet is super dark
<feos>      super dark is subjective
<EZGames69> With vivid it makes it at least watchable without increasing the brightness
<EZGames69> Maybe im just so used to vivid
<EZGames69> Also how do we get a screenshot of gba?  The only method I can think of is on a game cube with the game boy player
<feos>      screenshot of internal gba image won't help
<feos>      you have to actually look at the thing
<feos>      and then we're entring the grey area
<EZGames69> Right
<feos>      like lack of crt artifacts in encodes that are supposed to represent the authentic TV look
<feos>      (we force 4:3 after all)
<feos>      lack of those artifacts leads to n64 looking like shit at native res

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Posted: 2/6/2019 3:05 PM

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HappyLee wrote:

Nobody seems to have tested x265 either, after I brought that up 3 years ago. HEVC is way popular now than VP9, and I've been using x265 for my The Simpsons encodes, and the result is much better than x264.

See my link, HEVC seems to be way heavier to decode. But since you're already using it, would you have time for some tests? The thing we're looking for is faster encoding speed while maintaining the same quality (whatever bitrate it'd be), or smaller file size while maintaining the same encoding speed. From what I've read, x265 isn't so advantageous for what we do (primary 10bit encode only; 512kb has to be paranoidally compatible, and YT doesn't care how we encode, we only aim for speed with it)

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