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Paintball 2: The Game => Paintball 2 Discussion => Topic started by: ViciouZ on July 15, 2007, 02:14:45 PM
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Don't use this, it's shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
I've spent the best part of today making a special script for the generation of DP movie makers that has sprung up recently. Due to the fact FRAPS takes a user to operate, and many retries to get the perfect shot, I've created an alternative, which does not require a user to control the process. Using default settings, this script will convert a dm2 file to a XviD .avi file at a selectable fps, resolution and bitrate, good settings for making a youtube video. You can leave this on and go out, there is no need to stop/start recording.
Features:
- User-independent conversion
- Good output format for YouTube
- Free
- Relatively easy-to-use
- Can be used on a PC without DP installed
Known Bugs:
How to use
- Run the easy installer.
- Place demo in %dir%\dp\pball\demos
- Place required map %dir%\dp\pball\maps
- Place any extra required files in respective folders
- Run DP2Demo2AVI from the start menu or desktop shortcut.
Contents of package:
- Paintball2 Build016 stripped down w/ custom settings
- mencoder from mplayerhq.hu
- XviD codec from xvid.org
- lame_enc
- soundcapture by bleucanard
Planned Features:
- Queuing/Multiple file conversions
Changeable export settings
Notes
All required files must be in directory or missing textures/sfx will appear in the conversion.
DO NOT RUN MULTIPLE CONVERSIONS AT ONCE.
Downloads:
http://www.viciouz.co.uk/other/dp2demo2avi_0.5b.exe [20MB installer file]
Enjoy! Feedback, criticism, and bug reports welcomed.
UPDATED FOR 0.5
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Neat idea, if you learn how to add GUIs, will you remaster all the DP* stuff? I'd love to see it.
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V,
Have you checked the licensing of all of those progies?
Just checking..
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V,
Have you checked the licensing of all of those progies?
Just checking..
Yep. Mencoder, DP & XviD = open source, PictView32 and MAKEAVI.EXE are reditributable freeware.
Neat idea, if you learn how to add GUIs, will you remaster all the DP* stuff? I'd love to see it.
I'm working on it.
Anyway, for people who want to use this app, you might as well wait til tomorrow because i just worked out a fix that could reduce encoding time by up to 25%.
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I've spent the best part of today making a special script for the generation of DP movie makers that has sprung up recently. Due to the fact FRAPS takes a user to operate, and many retries to get the perfect shot, I've created an alternative, which does not require a user to control the process. Using default settings, this script will convert a dm2 file to 320x240 XviD .avi file at 30fps, good settings for making a youtube video. You can leave this on and go out, there is no need to stop/start recording.
default settings? where can I change those?
I went ahead and tried it, the AVI file looks good, but very low resolution and no sound. And, major problem: it only converted about half of the demo ... ::(
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The settings will be changeable in v0.2. Basically, if the resolution was 640x480, you'd need a pretty darn new PC with 40GB free space to use it.
I don't know about the half the demo problem... did you close the window half-way through? Did the window freeze at any point? Does the file skip about? Did you run out of disk space? You may have hit the animdump file limit. Try recreating the error please.
Unless jitspoe makes a sound dump feature soon, I don't really see how sound will be recordable without windows getting in the way. I'll see what I can do.
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Cant you run some background process that records sounds?
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Yeah, but as I said, windows will get in the way, so If i was
watching porn listening to the levellers while it worked, the sound would be fooked up.
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That doesn't seem to accurately answer his question... But I understand.
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Oh, no, I understood. I just didnt read the last sentence of the post before mine :P
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Try adding the scale filter, e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video
VDec: vo config request - 320 x 240 (preferred colorspace: BGR 24-bit)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
VDec: using BGR 24-bit as output csp (no 0)
Opening video filter: [flip]
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
SwScaler: using unscaled bgr24 -> yuv420p special converter
Opening video filter: [expand]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 0, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
videocodec: XviD (320x240 fourcc=44495658 [XVID])
xvid: par=0/0 (vga11), displayed=320x240, sampled=320x240
xvid: CBR Rate Control -- bitrate=1024kbit/s
Selected video codec: [rawbgr24flip] vfm: raw (RAW BGR24)
==========================================================================
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
Writing header...
ODML: vprp aspect is 4:3.
Writing header...
ODML: vprp aspect is 4:3.
but those probably don't have much to do with the shortened encoding. I tried encoding the same demo again - again only half of it was converted. 17 GB space left, that shouldnt be the problem.
Could you convert a larger demo please and check the values during the encoding?
I had 28,000 anim jpg files for a 15 minute demo, animdump limit?... no idea what else I could do. Maybe I'll try another demo tomorrow.
Oh, and I didn't touch the stuff while it was converting. Btw, does it make use of multiple CPUs?
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I tried it with a 20min demo and worked perfectly.
The only thing is that it takes REALLY to much time.
I'm pretty sure it take more than half an hour.
Anyway, Good job.
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Currently, It only uses 1 CPU. I've also discovered a large flaw and it should cut encoding time by a quarter. No idea what the problem is with yours, b00n. (sadly.)
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well, today I tried a different demo (double the size, ~1 MB), and... first it put more than 30 GB on my disk and then it didnt even make the AVI
I hope you can fix that.
Oh, btw, this time it opened the game in Fullscreen (1280x1024) first, and then I went in the settings and changed it to 640x480, so that probably explains the amount of data. But why did it open in fullscreen?
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No idea at all. Were you using the paintball2.exe file at any point?
I am uploading now a new version which reduces encoding time 80% and includes sound and changeable settings! :D :D :D :D :D
edit:
Version 0.4!
Smaller, slicker, easier, quicker, customisable and less stuff to go wrong! Plus super-buggy sound.
http://www.viciouz.co.uk/other/dp2demo2avi_0.4.exe
b00nlander: try this one.
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I did not touch a single file, and not paintball2.exe
looks like your bunch of programs thrown together are still quite buggy ^^
and reducing filesize would be better than reducing encoding time :P
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and reducing filesize would be better than reducing encoding time :P
The game dumps in TGA... if jits could make it dump jpgs, then this would be even less likely to go wrong.
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Reading anim40355.tga ooooooooooooooooo
Writing .\jpg\anim40355.jpg ooooooooooooooooo
Frames converted.
Encoding to XviD...
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 9 -> 8
SwScaler: BICUBIC scaler, from yuv422p to yuv420p using MMX2
SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal luminance scaling
SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal chrominance scaling
SwScaler: using 1-tap MMX "scaler" for vertical scaling (YV12 like)
SwScaler: 640x480 -> 640x480
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
it did, in fact, create the demo. but only 2/3 of it, because after that, some maximum for the TGA files was reached if I remember correctly. Also, the movie's quality is bad because of the jpg files :P can you not increase the jpg's quality or convert to something better? I'd rather have a larger than a bad quality movie (or at least have a choice :P)
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The max TGAs is like 9,999. Wow.
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It's actually mencoder's jpg encoding, the older way takes much longer but hads better quality. Use 0.2.
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It's actually mencoder's jpg encoding, the older way takes much longer but hads better quality. Use 0.2.
0.2 ? u only released 0.1 and 0.4 :/
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I meant 0.1. Thanks for pointing that out.
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The max TGAs is like 9,999. Wow.
???
looks like I had more than 40,000 in the last run, doesn't it?
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My bad, must be 99k? Wow, still sooooooo many.
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Now 0.5 is out! New stuff:
- Built in size estimator
- Less buggy sound
- Better quality video
- Cut encoding time 20%
- Less funk-ugly interface
- Fixed "It just doesn't work" problem for some users
Check 1st post for download link.
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Installation: The sites and title is "DP2Demo2AVI 0.2". Only on the Readme site it is "DP2DEMo2AVI 0.5 by ViciouZ".
And the script doesnt work on my computer :(
It convert somethink, but there is no output file.
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Can you paste a log please? I really don't understand the unwillingness of this bleeding script to work on other people's PCs.
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Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
success: format: 16 data: 0x0 - 0x0
File not found: 'capture.mp3'
Failed to open capture.mp3.
Cannot open audio stream: capture.mp3
============ Sorry, this file format is not recognized/supported =============
=== If this file is an AVI, ASF or MPEG stream, please contact the author! ===
Cannot open demuxer.
Exiting...
The system cannot find the file specified.
Could Not Find C:\Programme\DP2Demo2AVI\dp\pball\animdump\test1.dm2.avi
C:\Programme\DP2Demo2AVI\dp\pball\animdump\capture.mp3
The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.
Encoding complete.
Press any key to continue . . .
no video output was generated, but the audio file is there...
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What did you set the audio to?
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as I posted, the audio file was generated, but obviously not found (or some other error caused the same error message)
I didnt change anything of the audio settings
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OK, Version 0.5b:
- Small bugfix
- Updated installer
- 100x less buggy sound
- Bitrate control
Also, who would prefer pre-selected options to specify your own bitrate?
1ST post updated
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PB2DEMO2AVI will now open a paintball game window.
Please do not close the window, it will close automatically.
Drücken Sie eine beliebige Taste . . .
Dumping Frames...
Frames dumped.
Die Syntax für den Dateinamen, Verzeichnisnamen oder die Datenträgerbezeichnung
ist falsch.
Die Syntax für den Dateinamen, Verzeichnisnamen oder die Datenträgerbezeichnung
ist falsch.
Die Syntax für den Dateinamen, Verzeichnisnamen oder die Datenträgerbezeichnung
ist falsch.
Die Syntax für den Dateinamen, Verzeichnisnamen oder die Datenträgerbezeichnung
ist falsch.
Die Syntax für den Dateinamen, Verzeichnisnamen oder die Datenträgerbezeichnung
ist falsch.
Die Syntax für den Dateinamen, Verzeichnisnamen oder die Datenträgerbezeichnung
ist falsch.
Encoding to XviD...
MEncoder 1.0rc1-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU @ 2.40GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Step
ping: 7)
CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
success: format: 16 data: 0x0 - 0x0
MF file format detected.
[mf] search expr: *.tga
[mf] number of files: 1427 (5708)
VIDEO: [MTGA] 640x480 24bpp 25.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
Audio file file format detected.
[V] filefmt:65536 fourcc:0x4147544D size:640x480 fps:25.00 ftime:=0.0400
xvid: using library version 1.1.0 (build xvid-1.1.0)
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mtga] TGA Images decoder
Selected video codec: [mtga] vfm: mtga (TGA image decoder)
==========================================================================
audiocodec: framecopy (format=55 chans=2 rate=44100 bits=16 B/s=8000 sample-0)
VDec: vo config request - 640 x 480 (preferred colorspace: BGR 24-bit)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
VDec: using BGR 24-bit as output csp (no 1)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
SwScaler: using unscaled bgr24 -> yuv420p special converter
videocodec: XviD (640x480 fourcc=44495658 [XVID])
xvid: par=0/0 (vga11), displayed=640x480, sampled=640x480
xvid: CBR Rate Control -- bitrate=1000kbit/s
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
Writing header...
ODML: vprp aspect is 4:3.
Setting audio delay to 0.052s.
Writing header...
ODML: vprp aspect is 4:3.
Setting audio delay to 0.052s.
Pos: 57.0s 1427f (100%) 10.59fps Trem: 0min 7mb A-V:0.041 [1058:63]
Flushing video frames
Writing index...
Writing header...
ODML: vprp aspect is 4:3.
Setting audio delay to 0.052s.
Video stream: 1057.390 kbit/s (132173 B/s) size: 7544477 bytes 57.080 secs 1
427 frames
Audio stream: 64.000 kbit/s (7999 B/s) size: 460173 bytes 57.522 secs
Syntaxfehler.
Encoding complete.
Drücken Sie eine beliebige Taste . . .
Log from v0.5
0.5b doesn't compile anythink. It only rec what i say (in TS) :P
PS: There are tga, mp3 and avi files in this folder "C:\Program Files (x86)\DP2Demo2AVI\dp\pball\animdump", but everythink will be deleted after all.
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I realised the problem, it was the huge gaping fact that I didn't include the sound folder.
I am so dumb.
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V,
What did you use to write this?
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To write what? Convert.bat? 2 days and notepad.exe :-/
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To write what? Convert.bat? 2 days and notepad.exe :-/
I think he meant language, everything can be written in notepad.
But then again, language is pretty obvious.
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Yeah, batch script0rz.
The 0.5b with sound should be uploaded now, just go to the same address as normal 0.5b.
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Notepad sucks! Get SciTE! http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
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Notepad sucks! Get SciTE! http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
I preferr Notepad++, I believe they both use Scintilla, but Notepad++ seems more active and complete to me.
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0.5b2 dont work.
The soundtool only record, what i say with my headset. The tool from 0.5 was better.
And thats all. Everythink else was skipped.
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You do actually have to turn the volume up in the included paintball2.exe ;-D
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And what u changed, that the video is skipped?
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I didn't change anything with the video. All I did was add the sound folder.
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Between 0.5 and 0.5b?
Both 0.5b versions dont work.
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they do for me
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I preferr Notepad++, I believe they both use Scintilla, but Notepad++ seems more active and complete to me.
They do, and Notepad++ has more features, but I hate how it looks >_> I don't need most of the features anyway, though. The only thing I desire in any programming editor, though, is well written FTP support. I haven't seen a light editor with that functionality; all of them use the same thread for the GUI and what else to do the transfer. I want to be able to continue editing as it saves too.
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Can someone upload the output of a short demo?
I don't have a windows system with a decent 3d card to run this myself. How is the sound capture in terms of sync with video capture. It would not be too difficult to hack in some aviexport code which produces a .tga or .jpg image for each frame like what's found in many other games. There are plenty of opensource/freeware tools that are able to turn these into an .avi. The benefit of this is a constant (and adjustable) framerate, and the ability to do post-engine graphic transformations like adjust colours or light levels before the images are actually encoded. I think that keygrip2, combined with an aviexport-like video source and some commercial editing software could produce some very high quality videos.
After stumbling across a few hidden gems this morning while looking for something else, I plan on going home tonight and putting together a quick proof of concept which I hope will completely change the way PB2 is "watched".
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Can someone upload the output of a short demo?
I don't have a windows system with a decent 3d card to run this myself. How is the sound capture in terms of sync with video capture. It would not be too difficult to hack in some aviexport code which produces a .tga or .jpg image for each frame like what's found in many other games. There are plenty of opensource/freeware tools that are able to turn these into an .avi. The benefit of this is a constant (and adjustable) framerate, and the ability to do post-engine graphic transformations like adjust colours or light levels before the images are actually encoded. I think that keygrip2, combined with an aviexport-like video source and some commercial editing software could produce some very high quality videos.
After stumbling across a few hidden gems this morning while looking for something else, I plan on going home tonight and putting together a quick proof of concept which I hope will completely change the way PB2 is "watched".
1. The game does export TGAs for each frame, this is how my tool works.
2. It uses freeware tools to turn them into an AVI already.
3. It already has an adjustable framerate.
4. Pre-encoding graphic transformations are possible with this.
5. All of the above should be obvious if you read the whole thread.
And, err, the linux bit may be fixed soon.
edit2: The sync is good as long as the settings are within easy reach of the performance of the computer.
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Bain, I have tried this tool, used 25fps, resolution 800x600 at 4096kb/s, which produced a very nice demo (over 300mb for 11 Minutes, so I will not upload it). Have yet to change to 2048kb/s and check the if its cutting down enough on size to allow for the lower quality. someday.
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5. All of the above should be obvious if you read the whole thread.
I just knew that you first attempt used Fraps, and wasn't aware that you were using frame dumps in later versions. Are the frame dumps native to DP or are you using another program to take captures at x fps?
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Native to DP, and no dp2demo2avi versions have used FRAPS by the way.
cl_animdump 1
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ok i downloaded this and tried it out. output folder is empty. i dont know much about kb/s and all that jazz so i just pressed enter when that option came up. i set the recording length to 20min(may have been too long) didnt hear any sound at all. and was wondering if i could add my texture and pic folders to the program? or would that disturb something? anyways i will mess with it some more tonight after i get home from school. really anxious to see the output of this.
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The output folder is empty because you didn't supply a bitrate, and no sound because the sound was turned off by default. I'm making a build with various updates right now so those problems will be solved. And yes, you can add your texture and pic folders to the program.
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yah i dont know what bitrate is good so i put 10(laugh) and it worked but on the playback it played like it was in fast forward could this be because of the bitrate? i have no idea what to use for that.
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2048kb/s
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Was your computer actually reaching whatever FPS you set it to? If not, that is why it is fast forwarding.
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cool program viciouz. keep up the good work.
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To be honest, I never thought I'd get praise from a 20ID member, Honorary or otherwise. Thanks. I'll keep it up. sk89q and me have a little suprise planned for you all :P
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some reason my post was deleted or i never posted it and was just dreaming. but i set it to 200 fps( because thats what i get on average ) and it recorded with 40 and less. it was a 17 min demo and played as a 2 min video. and quality was horrible. so i dont know ill mess with it a bit more and see what happens.
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OK, for FPS, 200 is insane, put more like 20, because it's what you want out, not what you get. For bitrate, a good place to start is 1024kb/s. And you should probably keep the resolution down.
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yah i had the resolution at what you recommended ill try it again in a few.
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I compared 1024 kb/sec to 2048 kb/sec and 20 fps to 30...
..and my conclusion: You will have a good output if you set 1024 kb/sec and 20 fps.
Ps: better now magal? =P I had added stuff later to it so it got confusing
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bahaha playah makes everything so confusing
:D