I can't seem to get encoding working with snes9x 1.51. snes9x just freezes at frame 293 every time (it hangs with zero cpu activity), then when I kill snes9x mencoder goes on to encode a tiny (8k) avi with nothing in it.
Doing exactly the same thing (but with an old-format smv of course) works with snes9x-improvement7.
Before I start I run:
As usual, I patched snes9x-1.51 for my own version before even attempting to use its built in AVI recording mechanism.
List of changes:
- Adds ignoreframes support
- Adds Blargg's NTSC filter support
- Reads snes9x.cfg from $HOME/.snes9x/ directory by default now
- Adds nesvideos-piece (Bisqwit's AVI recording mechanism)
- Adds tiletracker for creating GIF animations (not completely patched in yet)
http://bisqwit.iki.fi/src/snes9x-1.51-nesvideo-patch-bisqwit.txt.gz
Startup script example... (RUNSNES)
FLAGFILE="`pwd`/s.status"
# Which file do you want to place your audio and video in.
VIDEO_RESULT="`pwd`/test0.avi"
VIDEO="-ovc x264 -x264encopts crf=0:me=dia:turbo=2:frameref=4"
AUDIO="-oac mp3lame -lameopts mode=1:preset=71:aq=0"
VIDEO="$VIDEO -vf decimate=4:64:128:1 -nocache"
EXE="snes9x-1.51"
OPTS="-upanddown"
rm -f "$FLAGFILE"
VIDEO="mencoder \
- -o '$VIDEO_RESULT' \
-mc 0 \
NESVSETTINGS \
$VIDEO \
$AUDIO \
>&1 | tee mencoder.log"
$EXE $OPTS \
-videologcmd "$VIDEO" \
-autodemo "$1" "$2"
Thanks, but when I try to compile it I get:
"unix/nesvideos-piece.cc:14:16: gd.h: No such file or directory"
There isn't a file called gd.h in the patch, and both "locate gd.h" and "find -name gd.h" find nothing.
I assume this is some "gif drawing" package I don't have installed...
I assume this is some "gif drawing" package I don't have installed...
Yes, it is from libgd... tiletracker uses it for creating PNG files and nesvideos-piece uses it for reading the frames comprimising the logo animation.
Cool, I've got it to compile now, but how do I tell it when to end the video?
I end up just doing ctrl+c in the terminal it's running in, and it doesn't seem to produce "test0.avi".
it also complains about:
/home/bisqwit/povray/nesvlogov5/logo_256_224_fXXX.png: No such file or directory
(XXX counts up)
Could that be breaking it?
Was mencoder perhaps not found then? Judging from your previous example, try putting "~/MPlayer/mplayer/mencoder" where it says "mencoder".
Already tried that. I changed the snes9x bit to point to the right snes9x too.
I don't know what this "NESVSETTINGS" argument is that appears to be for mencoder, but it doesn't work either with or without it.
If I change the last line of your script to echo the command instead of running it I get:
Yes, to the point of unclarity.
NESVSETTINGS is a string that is substituted by the snes9x patch with the video and audio depth/resolution/bitness/rate settings relevant to that particular movie being encoded.
I can't spot anything particularly strange in your output, I would have to test it myself. But this patch is basically a backport... (forwardport?) of my patch for snes9x-1.43, just applied in snes9x-1.51. I haven't got a chance to much test it yet. Maybe there are errors in it.
I can't spot anything particularly strange in your output, I would have to test it myself. But this patch is basically a backport... (forwardport?) of my patch for snes9x-1.43, just applied in snes9x-1.51. I haven't got a chance to much test it yet. Maybe there are errors in it.
Ah well, thanks for the help anyway.
I might have a look at the patch and try figuring it out later this week.
Edit:
Forget that - the patch is huge! It'd take ages for me to figure out.
Edit2:
I changed VIDEO to:
VIDEO="touch /home/ajh02/called.txt"
and the file wasn't created
