Campaign Creations

Mucky wrote:

WB wrote: we actively look for the witch. haven't died once by her hand.

Have you played on expert? She kills the person who startles her with one hit.

H.264 is alright, but for the modest file-size reduction, it takes a significant amount more CPU

Doctor Doack wrote:

H.264 is alright, but for the modest file-size reduction, it takes a significant amount more CPU

Um, no one is running on pentium 2's, anymore. If my old Athlon 2500 XP could run these videos fine, so you can you, so can the other guy, so can everyone. That's not even a concern.

h264/mpeg-4 is pretty much the standard on big releases these days. Virtually all new anime releases use it. As for compatibility, ffdshow is all you need to my knowledge. Xvid needs the xvid codec, divx needs the divx codec, it's no difference.

I'm using x264 because of the quality and size returns. 400mb for a video that looks better than a 750mb video? Yeah, that's cool. I can play it fine, that's all I care about. People bitch that my files are too big, I offer them a smaller video, they bitch some more? Well, they can fuck themselves if that's the case. I've been using Xvid for years and I've always found h264 to deliver superior results. You're free to prove me wrong - There's a 400mb mb h264 video in my Epic Video Guide thread, the HoMM5 month 1. If you can make it smaller with xvid and completely retain the quality, I'll be very surprised. Otherwise your words are meaningless to me. It takes five seconds to grab ffdshow.

Xvid was the standard a few years ago and it's still widely used, but as far as major projects go, they tend to use h264, or Xvid with h264 CC, whatever the hell that is. I'm just using what works. h264 works, everyone besides Herc can view it. *shrug* I don't even know what's wrong with herc's computer. I tried to help him fix it but he doesn't want to use VLC so I guess he's on his own.

The minimum resolution I use for my videos is 640x480, anyway. I like high rez, if I can record it. With HoMM5 I really can't because it performs like complete ass with the latest patch. With other games, like l4d, they'll be high rez, and xvid videos with high rez tend to be huge. I constantly get whined at because the files are "big". What the hell do you want me to do?


Hell, if you really want me to, I can make two versions for each video - Xvid and h264. God knows SA and CC have the bandwidth to have 10 versions, each twice as large.

Hercanic wrote: Dear Lavarinth:
VLC is teh suckz0r.


Dear IstakuMesk:
As I mentioned over AIM, even the most updated FFDshow did nothing. Gogo make it in a more universal format! =oP

WB wrote: Yes. Once she killed 2 of the other guys, but we got her down in time. Took a lot of planning, we were lucky to spot her, and I had the hunting rifle, we all had molotovs, and it was at the end with the chain gun. And it still cost us 2 dead folk, I didn't die though.