LP Update/Comment Thread

[IskatuMesk]

Sometimes, yes. It depends on how I am releasing and verifying stuff. There is a high probably that Dark Souls will go fast enough that this won't be necessary.

[Pr0nogo]

Alright.

One thing I'd like to know is how you end up constructing your reviews. What do you write or script before recording them? What in particular has helped you be more precise and less all over the place when speaking about the game? I plan on delivering a review of Flame Knives in a similar fashion, so I'd greatly appreciate knowing what you tend to do in that scenario. One thing I was considering is viewing key segments of the LP before recording, but since the verification process entails that already, that's probably a moot action.

[IskatuMesk]

In some circumstances I make very brief notes while verifying (one-liners). Otherwise reviews are generally recorded twice. I record once after I finished playing, and then once during or after verification. If I feel the need to record more then I record again as I am building the file. There are no scripts.

As for structure, I mostly focus on elements (audio etc) and then focus on the bigger subjects (like balance) afterwards. But I generally just speak whatever is on my mind.

[ArcCain]

I am loving Demon´s Soul´s so far, (seg 5), but I have a question, was Tony a intern? What is the story behind Tony? I most know. :3

[IskatuMesk]

Tony is responsible for diablo 3. And pretty much every other disgusting thing you can think of.

[ArcCain]

I see.

You know... the red Knight that you killed by dropping him in the stairs, he was guarding the mausoleum that the key goes to. Sorry man, my brother wanted me to tell you...

[mark_009_vn]

Tony is responsible for diablo 3. And pretty much every other disgusting thing you can think of.

But what about Peter, Johnson, Willson, and Vlad? Whatever happened to them?

[IskatuMesk]

ArcCain, I only upload the LP's when they are finished. So I already know that. :3

Mark, peter is Blizzard's lead buttbonker and is bad at everything.

As for the others... well, time will tell.

/edit

I've got a problem. I'm not seeing the Hunted videos in my recovered files. I've got Space Marine here (ugh), and a bunch of sc2 stuff I'm probably going to just delete, but no Hunted videos... hmmm.

[ArcCain]

XD :3

[Pr0nogo]

Did your hard drive LOL XD again?

[IskatuMesk]

Basically, I can't find a single Hunted video. So, either the files weren't on there (which would be weird because I can't find them elsewhere) or they got fragmented somehow and are amongst the some hundreds of broken, unrecoverable mkvs.

A chunk of my stock footage is recovered and functions, I might need to see if Mexico has some alternatives to help flesh out the bits I lost. Something to add to the goat coaster to-do list when I do a huge sweep for resources sometime soon.

I think I can recover the Space Marine LP, if it's even worth recovering. The rest that is already on the ftp (e.g. god of war) is just getting re-downloaded to waste canada's precious, limited bandwidth, because I am too lazy to re-sort it all.

So far the recovery operation is largely a failure.

[Pr0nogo]

Mesk, I'm getting some strange lag issues when I record with FRAPS. On my end, things are fine, but when I go review the video, the FRAPS recordings randomly slow down for no reason. The audio will occasionally black out entirely, or the video will freeze, or both. Is this something you encountered when recording Brood War?

Just for added info, I'm using VLC to verify the footage (forcing a 16:9 aspect ratio), my FRAPS is set to record at 59.99 FPS (is that how you uncap the FPS? I wasn't sure...), and it happened rarely before I began setting the FRAPS videos to go into my computer's hard drive. The problem worsened to intolerable levels later on, when I set it to place videos inside my external hard drive.

[IskatuMesk]

Watching unencoded fraps videos is enormously demanding on the hard drive and most players can't do it very well anyways. This is at 30fps, watching 60fps is twice as demanding. Encode them first.

External hard drives have much, much less bandwidth than internals unless you're using eSata or USB 3 and even then I doubt they are as fast due to the middle man.

By the way, recording 60fps is largely pointless because if you plan to youtube the videos it drops those extra frames anyways, and some games like BW are only 30fps anyways.

[Pr0nogo]

I did encode them.

Look at this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... 60#t=8114s

[IskatuMesk]

Well, for starters, I can't think of anytihng more wasteful than recording a 30 fps game @ 60fps.

Additionally, flash videos are entirely unplayable for me. I could download it, but I suspect the problem lays in one of two things.

1.) Recording to an external. At 60fps. If it's a USB 2.0 external, it will struggle to even hit 20mb/sec. This is not nearly enough bandwidth for a 60fps video of even lower scale resolutions.
2.) Something funny could be happening with the >30fps recording and BW. At the very least, you end up with dupe frames that get culled by youtube unpredictably because youtube is run by morons.

In short, try recording @ 30fps, see what happens.

Following that, stick to an internal drive without windows or the game on it to avoid I/O competition and fragmentation (yes, fragmentation is a huge performance killer when the drive head has to jump all over on a massive amount of bandwidth demand). Typically, though, it should be lagging while recording too.

And, finally, make sure fraps is not set to lock your FPS.

Also, never have the lossless RGB option on. It fucks everything up beyond hope.