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Cutscene format limitation

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Post by marcop000 » Sat Jan 16, 2021 10:03 am

Hi Jeremy,

I these days I'am working with PopoPirat to create a new hi res updated cutscene.

The idea is create cutscenes at 60 FPS with 4 times the standard resolution (640x480).

I already knwon that the avaliable formats are: avi, mp4, snm.

Unfortunatenly I found some limits on each format:

1) mp4:

Can play at 60 FPS but if the first cuscene is in mp4, don't play the next. Apart this for internal cuscene ex: "Briefroom.mp4" there is short black screen pause not present in snm or avi, that is a bit annoying.

2) avi

Play the 60 FPS cutscene at 15 FPS.

3) snm

Play the 60 FPS in slow motion.


We can convert the cutscene in all of these formats but with these limitation we can't create a updated cutscenes.

There is a way to solve the problem ?

Thanks !
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Post by Forceflow » Sat Jan 16, 2021 10:50 am

Always a good idea to tag the people you want to react to it.
@JeremyaFr can you help here?
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Post by JeremyaFr » Sat Jan 16, 2021 12:38 pm

Hello,
The behavior where only the first video is played is a bug.

Here is a fix:

EDIT: link removed
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Post by PopoPirat » Sat Jan 16, 2021 1:31 pm

JeremyaFr wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 16, 2021 12:38 pm
 Hello,
The behavior where only the first video is played is a bug.

Here is a fix:


TgSmush_WIP_2101161334.zip
fantastic, thanks! And hi by the way :D
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Post by Ace Antilles » Sat Jan 16, 2021 2:16 pm

@marcelo999 @PopoPirat
The playable formats are .snm, .znm, .avi, .wmv and .mp4.

- snm and znm files are played with the original dll.
- avi files with a resolution <= 640x480 are played using AVIFile functions (Isildur's code).
- other avi files and wmv files are played using DirectShow.
- mp4 files are player using Media Foundation
WMV videos have been used by someone else and seem to work fine.
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Post by marcop000 » Sat Jan 16, 2021 2:31 pm

Many thanks to all !!

@JeremyaFr

In the meantime can you check this:

https://forums.xwaupgrade.com/viewtopic ... 33&t=13232

Thanks !
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Post by marcop000 » Sat Jan 16, 2021 3:09 pm

Hi @Ace Antilles,

I have updated the cutscene mixed in the menu:

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/fold ... v1UnLn1MmD

Now are in 60 FPS, but becouse the game menu is 640x480 I have keeped the resolution, but the result is similar to a higher resolution becouse I have removed the noise and add more shapness.

The files are in .wmv format.

The only compromise is that at the end there is short pause.

For the rest of cutscene: @PopoPirat is working to upascale.

Please leave your comment.

Thanks !
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