Posted: 9/21/2007 3:14 AM
Post subject: Encoding Bigame AVIs
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Ash_Williams
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Joined: 6/2/2006
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Sorry if this has been explained elsewhere, but I have been searching for quite some time and have not been able to find anything on this. How do people encode those bigame, or in some cases quadgame avi files? Is each individual avi saved separately, and then combined at the end into one dual movie? If this is the case, what program can do this? I have tried mencoder but have had no luck trying to figure out the command line options. I downloaded a GUI front end for it and have not been able to get that to work either. I'm using Windows XP FYI. Thanks in advance for any help with this!
Posted: 9/21/2007 7:58 AM
Post subject: Re: Encoding Bigame AVIs
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Bisqwit
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I do it by recording each movie into raw files (no codec, just raw RGB & PCM data), and then using a custom program to splice those raw files into a merged file, and then encode that normally using mencoder. The source code of that splicing program is here: http://bisqwit.iki.fi/kala/sidebyside.cc DeHackEd has a slightly different version; my version has a logo in each individual movie but DeHacked's has a larger one shared over the component videos.
Posted: 9/21/2007 8:00 AM
Post subject: Re: Encoding Bigame AVIs
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Xkeeper
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Bisqwit wrote:
DeHackEd has a slightly different version; my version has a logo in each individual movie but DeHacked's has a larger one shared over the component videos.
This could always be changed by just having a larger logo split into half, one for gameA and one for gameB. :P
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Posted: 9/22/2007 3:53 AM
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Ash_Williams
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Thanks Bisqwit, I got this to compile under cygwin. I appreciate your help. You definitely saved me many many hours of searching/work