Posted: 5/18/2016 7:19 PM
Post subject: x264vfw skipping lag frames? (Dolphin GCN)
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Hello, I'm just trying to make a basic encode to go along with my submission, and when I try to dump frames using the x264vfw codec, no frames of lag are in the .avi, making the video look much faster than it should. I followed the configuration directions here, but I'm still not sure whats going wrong. http://tasvideos.org/EncodingGuide/VideoDumping.html#Dolphin Anyone have any ideas?
Posted: 5/18/2016 7:21 PM
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What version of Dolphin are you using?
Posted: 5/18/2016 7:37 PM
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Dolphin 4.0-7840
Posted: 5/18/2016 7:38 PM
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theruseman wrote:
Dolphin 4.0-7840
Which game is it you're trying to dump? 4.0-7840 should be at least dumping most of the lag frames.
Posted: 5/18/2016 7:40 PM
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Pac-Man world 2. Dolphin does play the lag frames when I'm dumping the video, but when I play it back there arent any lag frames. Because of that I think its something in the codec settings
Posted: 5/18/2016 7:46 PM
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theruseman wrote:
Pac-Man world 2. Dolphin does play the lag frames when I'm dumping the video, but when I play it back there arent any lag frames. Because of that I think its something in the codec settings
Try using Lagarith Codec instead if you're looking to dump a lossless file.
Posted: 5/18/2016 7:49 PM
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I have tried that, but I'm running into an issue where it is extremely choppy for some segments. (Around 3 frames a second). I can post a vid if that will help with troubleshooting.
Posted: 5/18/2016 7:52 PM
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theruseman wrote:
I have tried that, but I'm running into an issue where it is extremely choppy for some segments. (Around 3 frames a second). I can post a vid if that will help with troubleshooting.
You can also try to dump with XviD to see if that works for you.
Posted: 5/18/2016 7:56 PM
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theruseman wrote:
I'm running into an issue where it is extremely choppy for some segments.
Do you mean in the actual dumped video, or are you talking about Dolphin itself while dumping video? If it's the latter, then that shouldn't have any effect on the actual video file.
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Posted: 5/18/2016 8:00 PM
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Installed xvid and now I have message "error dumping frames to .avi" before I've even selected the codec. The choppiness is in the playback of the video, there isnt actually any choppiness when I'm dumping the video itself in dolphin oddly enough. Around 15% uploaded so it might take a while.
Posted: 5/18/2016 8:04 PM
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Waited 5 minutes and the error message is gone. Can't complain. Testing xvid now.
Posted: 5/18/2016 8:07 PM
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xvid is BEAUTIFUL. Thanks for the help guys. :)
Posted: 5/19/2016 11:19 PM
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theruseman wrote:
The choppiness is in the playback of the video, there isnt actually any choppiness when I'm dumping the video itself in dolphin oddly enough.
This is probably because your computer isn't fast enough. Either in decoding speed (CPU) or I/O limited (HD). Honestly for best quality, you should be dumping to Lagarith, but I guess a temp encode to show people with Xvid is fine.