Movie output resolution

rpgedgar · Post by **rpgedgar** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 6:08 pm

I tried outputting to avi and it gave me a really small resolution (something like 240x240). Can I change it to be something higher?

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:02 pm

You could change it to something higher, but the size will increase... and it's not that beneficial as you are better off streching the image with your media player instead.

If you still need to increase the resolution, you will have to edit zmovie.cfg with Notepad or whatever text editor you wish.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:46 pm

Or use VirtualDubMod, AviSynth, ... if you want to re-encode the file.

Btw. it's probably 256x224, and should be stretched horizontally to a 4:3 size.

Post by **Nach** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:46 pm

creaothceann wrote:Or use VirtualDubMod, AviSynth, ... if you want to re-encode the file.

Btw. it's probably 256x224, and should be stretched horizontally to a 4:3 size.

From zmovie.cfg:
md_merge="$md_prog $md_other $md_smode -force-avi-aspect 4:3 -ovc copy -o merged.avi $md_file"

Of course if your player doesn't support aspect ratios...

rpgedgar · Post by **rpgedgar** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 1:30 am

Can I output to a specified resolution of my choice? The size now is way too small and I need the resolution to be better quality.

Post by **grinvader** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 6:15 am

It's SNES, dude. There's no better quality.

Postprocess the original resolution is all you can do.

Post by **Nach** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 8:00 am

rpgedgar wrote:Can I output to a specified resolution of my choice? The size now is way too small and I need the resolution to be better quality.

You can edit the movie encoding file (zmovie.cfg) and pass which ever rescaling options you want to MEncoder to enlarge the video. We've discussed this elsewhere, use the search function wisely, and have it display the posts you need.

denzilla · Post by **denzilla** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 8:37 pm

Have any of you tried Kega with the encoder he uses? I wish ZSNES had something like that

paulguy · Post by **paulguy** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 3:19 am

denzilla wrote:Have any of you tried Kega with the encoder he uses? I wish ZSNES had something like that

Mencoder is very capable. A bit more difficult to use than other encoders but very powerful and a decent performer with most codecs. You could just dump to raw... I believe there's an option for that, then do whatever you want to it afterwards in a different encoder, but as has been said, you can't get any more quality/resolution out of the SNES than that...unless it's a high-res game, which zsnes can't dump.

denzilla · Post by **denzilla** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 6:01 pm

It must've been the encoder settings I was using with ZSNES cause the output from Kega looked exactly like I was playing the game live.