Video Quality for Video Files For Warzone 2100

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Video Quality for Video Files For Warzone 2100

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I downloaded Warzone 2100 video files and used it.......it looked liked it was low quality or did it come this way?

I'm playing on 1280x800 resolution
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ncys1 wrote:I downloaded Warzone 2100 video files and used it.......it looked liked it was low quality or did it come this way?

I'm playing on 1280x800 resolution
This was covered in great detail a couple of months ago in this thread: Cut Scenes

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It's lower quality, partially because we don't have the resources to host a high quality version, partially because no one bothers reencoding it.

Seriously, I would love if someone would go and reencode the original high-quality videos for us. Any takers?
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The video files are OGG files and I just tried no matter what I just can't enhance the quality without adding alot of size
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ncys1 wrote:The video files are OGG files and I just tried no matter what I just can't enhance the quality without adding alot of size
OGG is NOT the file format of the original FMV / Cut-Scenes.
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This was covered in great detail a couple of months ago in this thread: Cut Scenes

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Yeah, and I'd really appreciate if one of you went and reencoded the originals with Thusnelda.
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ncys1 wrote:The video files are OGG files and I just tried no matter what I just can't enhance the quality without adding alot of size
In short, get this:
sequences_avi.tar.lzma - http://download.gna.org/warzone/videos/ ... i.tar.lzma
(hope you have a TON of HD space)
Then re-encode with Thusnelda, and whatever filters you want...

I would do just devastation for testing, then you can compare it to what I have done:
devastation-1600k-320x240.ogg - http://download.gna.org/warzone/videos/ ... 20x240.ogg

And see how good we can get it.
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not at home this week, but downloaded the sequences, extracted the lzma, currently extracting the tar (what a compression-ratio O_O of the lzma ), downloaded ffmpeg2theora-0.24-thusnelda experimental encoder and give it a try

it's the only encoder for windows i was able to find :stare:
if it's not the right one then leave a note, i'll look heere before starting encoding next week
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Buginator wrote:In short, get this:
sequences_avi.tar.lzma - http://download.gna.org/warzone/videos/ ... i.tar.lzma
I think at least some of the files are broken.
Thyranim wrote:not at home this week, but downloaded the sequences, extracted the lzma, currently extracting the tar (what a compression-ratio O_O of the lzma ), downloaded ffmpeg2theora-0.24-thusnelda experimental encoder and give it a try
The AVIs are basically a collection of completely uncompressed BMPs, so compression is very good. But as I said, the AVIs may be broken. Can you check the size of devastation.avi, it should be ~230 MB?
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cybersphinx wrote:Can you check the size of devastation.avi, it should be ~230 MB?
435 MB and broken sound :rolleyes:
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is there another source where i can download them?
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For those of us who are lucky enough to still have them on disk. Would you be able to let us use the videos off of the disk. I'm assuming that they would be higher quality than they are now.
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Zarel wrote:It's lower quality, partially because we don't have the resources to host a high quality version, partially because no one bothers reencoding it.

Seriously, I would love if someone would go and reencode the original high-quality videos for us. Any takers?
I can help.

I have the original CDs and also, a recording program named Fraps, so when I'm finished moving and I get my things back, which may be early September, I'll see what I can do. I have the hard-drive space to do it.

If you're worried about the size of videos, I have a program named VirtualDub, which I use to compress videos. I'll need some input from you guys on what the quality and file size should be.

By the way, I may need permission from the creators of Warzone before I use their files (unless you guys took care of that already).
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Arreon wrote:I have the original CDs and also, a recording program named Fraps, so when I'm finished moving and I get my things back, which may be early September, I'll see what I can do. I have the hard-drive space to do it.
We already have the RPLs extracted into AVIs. I think our AVIs are incomplete, so feel free to re-record them. Just make sure you match their original framerate and audio quality.

The harder and more important part is still to convert that output into .ogg files, though. Encoded with Thusnelda. At reasonably high quality.
Arreon wrote:If you're worried about the size of videos, I have a program named VirtualDub, which I use to compress videos. I'll need some input from you guys on what the quality and file size should be.
If we just wanted them compressed with VirtualDub, I would've done it myself (it's not exactly hard to do). It needs to be an ogg file encoded with Thusnelda.
Arreon wrote:By the way, I may need permission from the creators of Warzone before I use their files (unless you guys took care of that already).
We've had permission for ages now.
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so now we have to convert from rpl to ogg ... hmmm ....

i'm currently downloading the rpl-archive and give it a try...
will have to take a look if it's possible for me to open them *LOL*

i'll leave an update ;)
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