Welcome to page 2.

To record a video you need one of the latest work in progress builds of ZSNES. Get them here: http://zsnes.ipherswipsite.com/

You will need a copy of mencoder. For Windows users, I recommend getting mencoder here: http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php
Place mencoder.exe in the same location as zsnesw.exe, you do not need any codecs or other movie programs installed.
Linux users, having mencoder in your path is fine.

If you want to compress the outputted audio, or compress it before it goes into the video as opposed to during, you will need a copy of LAME.
If you use Windows, you must get LAME from here: http://geocities.com/joecool22us/lame.zip
Any other copy of LAME for Windows will not work due to a bug in LAME.

Before you are able to dump an AVI, you must have recorded a movie first, it converts movies, it does not just dump video on the fly.

To play back movies, you'll either need the proper codecs or a video player with built in decoding of the video mode you selected.
I recommend getting mplayer which decodes anything created with mencoder. For Windows, you can get mplayer here: http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php You can download the GUI version.

Advanced users can edit zmovie.cfg and tweak the settings if they want, and even use something other than mencoder and LAME as long as it supports encoding via stdin and you set it up properly.

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I know that, but what happens if mencoder isn't able to encode in real-time? Does zsnes wait for it, or do frames get dropped, or what?



OK. I'll try it with msys, then, if that doesn't work, I'll try unxutils.

ZSNES, a game, a ZMV for that game, a raw video player or converter.

You worry too much. It'll take a while, but not frames get dropped. Just make sure you set frame skip to 0 in ZSNES.

2 pass 400 bit XviD:





http://nsrt.edgeemu.com/punchout.zip

They look great, Nach.

@Nach: Did you get the PM I sent you?

I got one with the words "Cool" "Test" and "Tonight". Is that what you're referring to?

Oops, I didn't send the message I thought I did. Anyway, I tested it, and it crashed whenever I hit the Record button in Movie Options.

Anonymous CVS seems to be WAY behind right now, so I can't try building it myself.

Update: I now have the source, built it myself, and it still crashes when pressing the record button. It creates the file then dies.

Strange I'll have to go check if one of my recent changes screwed up ZSNESW.

I decided to pit XviD and libavcodec head to head.

Guys, tell me which vid looks better, punchout2.avi or punchout3.avi.

http://nsrt.edgeemu.com/punchout2.zip

If you're having trouble, install mplayer or Media Player Classic with FFDShow.

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... e_id=84358
http://ffdshow.sourceforge.net/tikiwiki ... ticles.php

Whenever the recording option starts working again, I'm going to try a speed run for Prince of Persia. I don't think anybody's done that game yet.

Is the ZMV format stable yet?

I may add on an extra byte in last input field within chapters if I see it's not large enough to contain special controllers. Other than that, I don't plan on changing the format. So if you don't use chapters, you should be fine.
Unforunetly grinvader is away right now, and when he comes back, I'll have to make sure current format meets his approval. Probably will though.

i'm just going to say puchout2 because 3 wouldn't play, and i don't feel like getting another media player.

Like mentionned before, you need FFdshow installed.

punchout3.avi seems to clean up a little better than punchout2.avi.

I am somewhat deceived about that. VirtualDub doesn't seem to handle RAW video and it creates too large file. I think it's a bad idea.

Well, I can't get mkfifo to work. The GnuWin32 version tells me it can't create the file, even if I run it with Admin privilages, and the UnxUtils page says their version of mkfifo is a dummy. I'll have to post to the GnuWin32 mailing list or something

ZSNES, however, is now working nicely, and I can encode videos just fine with mencoder. There seems to be some issues with using fast-forward when dumping the video, but I'm not sure if that's on your list of things to work on or not.

As said in the readme, fast foward means frame skipping. If you want to skip frames while creating a movie, that's your problem.

I know. I guess I should've clarified what I meant:

1) While fast-forward is enabled, and the frame coutner is enabled, the frame counter is shown in the recorded movie. It is not shown when fast-forward is disabled.

2) Some way to dump movie data to disk as fast as possible would be nice.

BTW, you can do better with the XviD encodes if you add :vhq=4:hq_ac to the -xvidencopts section. :gmc works well for games with scrolling backgrounds (i.e., most of them). There's also :qpel, which can sometimes give a sharper image, at the cost of a higher bitrate.

Does this work with the Windows version of ZSNES? The screenshot looks like the Linux version.

Yes, it does work with the Windows version.

Hi, i'm new here

Well my problem is: I cannot find the "raw_video*()" functions in that file.

I have a zsnes wip 1.41 source code and my OS is win 2k3