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> three current versions of Virtua Racing, for the Genesis SVP cart chip,
> Sega 32X, and Sega Saturn.
>
> http://users4.ev1.net/~sheath/VRCompare.htm
> http://users4.ev1.net/~sheath/ -> Comparisons -> Virtua Racing
>
> All of the movie files are in .wmv format, I apologize to anybody who
> cannot view this format, but the accuracy was so much higher, and the
> file size so much lower than MPEG2 files, it just had to be done.
> Comments and suggestions are welcome.
>

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>
>
> Shame be unto thou....but then again, my PC is done, and rocks....so more power
> to you. ;)

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> I am about to start messing with my All in Wonder card...going to do a complete
> MK Fatality demo using MK1-3 on MATv2, MK Gold, MK Trilogy, MK:DA and MK:D.

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> Bel

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> --
> Whip XXX Gaming: http://www.whipassgaming.com/
>
> "...we traveled together...east, always into the east."
> - Marius, Diablo II
>
>

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> I've finished a page for viewing screenshots and movie files of
> all
> three current versions of Virtua Racing, for the Genesis SVP cart
> chip, Sega 32X, and Sega Saturn.
>
> http://users4.ev1.net/~sheath/VRCompare.htm
> http://users4.ev1.net/~sheath/ -> Comparisons -> Virtua Racing
>
> All of the movie files are in .wmv format, I apologize to anybody
> who
> cannot view this format, but the accuracy was so much higher, and the
> file size so much lower than MPEG2 files, it just had to be done.
> Comments and suggestions are welcome.
>

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> Scott H <sheathx013@yahoo.com> wrote in
> news:9GBCd.25928$tG3.15834@trnddc02:
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>
>
>
> Divx.

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>
> Man, I fiddled with MPEG2 versions of each file for the better part of a
> day, and ended up with interlace tearing, or artifacts, regardless, I
> just had to do them wmv, you have to believe me!
>
> ;)
>

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>
>
> Sounds awesome! I think it'll probably be a while before I do another
> update like I've done this week, and it'll be great to see the activity.
>

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>
> I'll look into it if you can point me in the right direction. The
> software I'm using doesn't support it, so it's outside of what I've been
> testing. I've been recording in MPEG 2 at 702x480 with the highest
> quality audio ATI MMC would allow, then converting it with One Stop
> Soft's video converter, which I've found to be very efficient file size
> wise. Neither program supports Divx though.
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>
>
> Yeah, that's the problem I'd imagine that you'd run into dealing with Divx.
> Though, that Dr. Divx thing is supposed to be able to encode the video...so
> maybe you could record it, then convert it when you're done editing? It's
> $30....I wouldn't mind trying it out, as the Divx codec is available for all
> operating OS's out there...seems there's even a demo for it. Might give this
> a shot at the house at some point. My only real issue with Divx is that over
> half the time, when I'm on some site that offers Divx video, it never seems
> to work. WMP, QT, or whatever always seem to say something like "missing
> codec" or some bullshit like that...

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> Bel
> --
> Whip XXX Gaming: http://www.whipassgaming.com/
>
> "...we traveled together...east, always into the east."
> - Marius, Diablo II
>
>

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>
>
> Well, the WMV encoder is actually pretty good, gives off some great quality...just
> doesn't make it accessible to everyone out there. With WMP out on Mac OSX, and with
> it actually not being too bad at all, you don't loose out on too many people viewing.

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>
>
>
> Yeah, I'm on overload myself, just thinking of everything I'd love to do now that I
> can record video and such. So many things I'd love to do...

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> Bel
> --
> Whip XXX Gaming: http://www.whipassgaming.com/
>
> "...we traveled together...east, always into the east."
> - Marius, Diablo II
>
>

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> I've finished a page for viewing screenshots and movie files of all
>three current versions of Virtua Racing, for the Genesis SVP cart chip,
>Sega 32X, and Sega Saturn.
>
>http://users4.ev1.net/~sheath/VRCompare.htm
>http://users4.ev1.net/~sheath/ -> Comparisons -> Virtua Racing
>
> All of the movie files are in .wmv format, I apologize to anybody who
>cannot view this format, but the accuracy was so much higher, and the
>file size so much lower than MPEG2 files, it just had to be done.
>Comments and suggestions are welcome.

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>
> graphical comparisons aside, the 32X version was far and away the
> best.
>

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>
> the megadrive/genesis was most technically impressive.
>

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>
> the saturn one was just plain awful. guess thats what you get when you
> let Time Warner do the job......
>

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>
> Man, even blowing it up to full screen it looks just like it does in ATI
> MMC playing straight off the system. And I just noticed that the
> conversion actually downgraded the resolution to 320x240, but it looks
> better than MPEG 2 at 702x480, that's pretty danged good. MPEG2 was
> also more time consuming, because when I converted it to save file
> space, the image quality darkened so much that I was going to have to go
> into Ulead Videostudio to brighten it, which takes about 10 minutes a
> video. WMV's going to be the way to go for the time being.....
>

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>
>
> You don't even have storage space limits anymore, you lucky dog. ;)
>

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>
> Yeah, that's been my problem as well. Anybody who wanted to use it
> would have to then go find the codec to make it work, and then it still
> may not work. You and I having the same problem with viewing DIVX seems
> like a pretty good indicator that most viewers aren't going to have any
> better luck.
>

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>
>
> As I am just getting started on the whole video recording, and I am guessing you are using
> an All in Wonder card as well, I may harass you for what you are finding are the best
> settings for quality. I've been messing around with it, mostly trying to get around a sound
> issue I was having, but have since conquered that and have been playing around with the
> settings lately.

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>
>
>
> Well, I do have limits....they are just *way* higher than my previous limits. ;)

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> Bel
>
> --
> Whip XXX Gaming: http://www.whipassgaming.com/
>
> "...we traveled together...east, always into the east."
> - Marius, Diablo II
>
>

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>
>
> Agreed.
>
>
>
>
> Indeed...and the fastest of the bunch, due to the lower framerate.
>
>
>
>
> Yeah, it *should* have been near-perfect...plus the extras, but man, they somehow
> managed to XXXX that one up, and bad.

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> Bel
> --
> Whip XXX Gaming: http://www.whipassgaming.com/
>
> "...we traveled together...east, always into the east."
> - Marius, Diablo II
>
>

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>
> I'm glad I have it, just for the framerate, draw distance and light
> sourcing on the cars. But when it comes to playability, I stick to the
> 32X version. You just can't have a good racer if you can't do a quick
> restart of a race after screwing up, it just breaks the flow up too
> much. ;)
>

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>
> Not a problem, if you're sending e-mails and I don't reply right away,
> it's because I'm not getting them. Overall though, I set the video to
> highest quality for DVD recording, which is 720x480 resolution and the
> highest bit depth audio, and then I use OSS video converter on the same
> resolution, but 128 for the audio bitrate. I find that Shrinks MPEG2s
> down to almost a third their size. For wmv files, Windows Media 8 best
> quality based VBR for broadband is what I set it to, and that's the
> quality of the videos I have on my site right now.

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> Joe Ottoson wrote:
anybody[vbcol=seagreen]
>
> I'll look into it if you can point me in the right direction. The
> software I'm using doesn't support it, so it's outside of what I've

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> testing. I've been recording in MPEG 2 at 702x480 with the highest
> quality audio ATI MMC would allow, then converting it with One Stop
> Soft's video converter, which I've found to be very efficient file

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> wise. Neither program supports Divx though.
>
>

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>
> Yeah, that's the problem I'd imagine that you'd run into dealing with
> Divx. Though, that Dr. Divx thing is supposed to be able to encode the
> video...so maybe you could record it, then convert it when you're done
> editing? It's $30....I wouldn't mind trying it out, as the Divx codec
> is available for all operating OS's out there...seems there's even a
> demo for it. Might give this a shot at the house at some point. My
> only real issue with Divx is that over half the time, when I'm on some
> site that offers Divx video, it never seems to work. WMP, QT, or
> whatever always seem to say something like "missing codec" or some
> bullshit like that...