Posted: 6/10/2007 10:19 PM
Post subject: look for converters from File.avi to file.smv
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Reiner
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Hello look for converters from file.avi to file.smv for Linux Debian/Ubuntu Can someone help me? My English is not perfect ;-) cu Reiner
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Posted: 6/10/2007 10:22 PM
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moozooh
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SMV file contains only the sequence of keypresses needed to reproduce the movie. There is no way to extract that information from AVI. Read Wikipedia or other open information sources.
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Posted: 6/10/2007 10:45 PM
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Why convert from avi to smv when you can just download the smv?!
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Posted: 6/10/2007 11:27 PM
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DeHackEd
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What you seek is impossible.
Posted: 6/11/2007 7:28 AM
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Reiner
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Hello It does not have AVI it can also MPEG or the like be, I wanted from Linux a film on more miniPlayer transfers only smv can. I believe that it tools under Windows give, which can do that. cu Reiner
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Posted: 6/11/2007 7:31 AM
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Bisqwit
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In that case, you are talking about some other SMV format. The SMV files we have here are of a 16-bit Nintendo game console emulator, Snes9X, 's playing log files. It has nothing to do with your filmplayer stuff. Sorry, we cannot help you.
Posted: 6/11/2007 9:06 PM
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DeHackEd
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I think your english is confusing me. Let's try this in a different way. You want to start with an AVI of a game. Or an MPEG. It is a movie file that can be viewed with a movie player, such as Windows Media Player or videolan. It will be turned into an SMV -- a video that can be played using snes9x and a copy of the game. This is impossible. It cannot be done by a computer.
Posted: 6/11/2007 9:26 PM
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WARNING!! This post will not help the original poster. This is a relevant tangent that I was just wondering about. Let's say the video was lossless and 60fps. Would it be possible (in theory) to "infer" the button presses to create such a movie? Start with the first frame of the lossless avi. Start a new recording session/savestate. Press a random button. If the frame of the lossless video matches the frame of the recording session, keep the button press, if not, load save-state and try again.
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Posted: 6/11/2007 9:30 PM
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ShadowWraith
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That would only work if there was a way of parsing the changes between each frame reliably, and there's no way to tell exactly what buttons were pressed when from watching a video file.
Posted: 6/11/2007 9:35 PM
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Reiner: http://tasvideos.org/ConvertingSMVToAVIInWindows.html#questions_and_answers_
Posted: 6/11/2007 10:28 PM
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DeHackEd
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(In response to the hypothetical problem of determining button presses from a lossless AVI) There's subtle stuff you can't tell. Luck manipulation becomes an issue when buttons are pressed outside of the visible range, like up/down in SMB when there's no pipe or vine. These accidents are not determined until the effect of luck becomes visible at which point it becomes necessary to rewind and try again. If a game has a pitch-black screen and the player must do something blind (??) then the program's hosed. Sounds like an NP-complete problem -- you could verify if a SMV/FCM/whatever matches an AVI very quickly, but determining what that buttonpress file looks like is virtually impossible.
Posted: 6/11/2007 10:40 PM
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DK64_MASTER
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Thanks for the responses ShadowWraith and DeHackEd. Of course a simple solution would be to record a lossless 60fps movie with the input display enabled :P.
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Posted: 6/11/2007 11:22 PM
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creaothceann
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Eh, you just have to enable "show pressed keys" before encoding the AVI. :)
Posted: 6/11/2007 11:38 PM
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creaothceann wrote:
Eh, you just have to enable "show pressed keys" before encoding the AVI. :)
Well, it can't be any old AVI, it has to show input on every frame.
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Posted: 6/12/2007 4:53 AM
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and display imformation about the random number seed... or something.
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Posted: 6/12/2007 6:25 AM
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It doesn't have to, it's either-or.