MAME recording question

[Blinge]

I've been recording a few inps on shmupmame v42. From there I playback the inp while using AVIwrite.

I play using direct draw, no bilinear filtering, triple buffering off.
However, when I use AVI write - it comes out looking like Direct 3D or bilinear filtering or something
(no, i don't know what i'm talking about)

It rather baffles me as I'm watching the inp playing as it records an avi, and it looks how i want it to. Yet the finished product is not the same. I can't find any settings in mameGUI for the avi-write.

Does anybody know what's going wrong here? Or how to access the right settings? I want the AVI looking like filterless direct draw with all dem chunky pixels

[Keade]

I think that aviwrite is always unfiltered.

My bet is that the game/driver original resolution is very low (320x240 for instance) and your video player resizing filter make it looks ugly.
Have you tried playing the video file the "1:1" way, with no scaling involved ?

[Doctor Butler]

It's best to record in the game's native-res and native framerate. The illusion of filtering might be due to a sub-standard res, like Kaede said.

Can you elaborate more on what's wrong with it; maybe a screencap, or something?

[Blinge]

I think that aviwrite is always unfiltered.

My bet is that the game/driver original resolution is very low (320x240 for instance) and your video player resizing filter make it looks ugly.
Have you tried playing the video file the "1:1" way, with no scaling involved ?

That's it! I am sucha idiort >_<

thankyou both.

Now i must pester you again.. do either of you have experience with encoding? My efforts with VirtualDub or Handbrake thus far either look like utter shite or have enormous filesizes (or both)

[BPzeBanshee]

I can't help much on instructional things but XVid is pretty good for compression to quality ratio.

[nasty_wolverine]

I have used avidemux and virtual dub with success before. Avidemux is pretty easy to use. also get the x264 codecs.

[Keade]

Yes, x264 is much better than Xvid.

There are countless programs available for encoding/muxing/whatever, but if you want a simple all-in-one program, the one people use at SDA (called "anri-chan") works pretty well.
MeGUI is another one which is easy to use.

[Ed Oscuro]

Yes, x264 is much better than Xvid.

Indeed. Xvid is so early '00s (maybe even late '90s).

[Blinge]

Alright, that's interesting! I'll give x264 a try next time.

Here's yesterday's effort using Xvid though, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYWFAUkJHSA

I'm happy enough with that, but maybe it's a better idea to resize the video so youtube sees it as a 480p

[Keade]

If it's for Youtube, better upload it in hi-res (2* or 3* base resolution like you did with Progear) because Youtube 240p, 360p display settings have a huge effect on resolution and overall bitrate (video+sound).
Also, please note it's no use uploading 50 or 60fps vids to Youtube yet, considering every video get re-encoded anyway and Youtube support for framerates >25/30fps is poor/nonexistent at the moment.

EDIT: grammar