sda capture blog

sumi-chan

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 02:56:19 -0600

tonight saw the successful launch of my virtual multithreading solution, sumi-chan.

diy ds

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:12:27 -0600

it's been almost eighteen months since i posted the ds recording guidelines, and now the first ds run has been submitted to sda.

framerate decimation hell (or: deflickering revisited)

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:28:13 -0600

i'm encoding the ocarina of time 100% run for the third time right now (second time was due to a bad statid).

mac mini

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:08:00 -0600

so i bought a "top of the line" mac mini.

anri-chan and total independence

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 19:12:29 -0600

it's been over two years since m2k2sda became monetarily self-sufficient.

time for lossy nmf

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:11:58 -0600

[20:53:11] i've decided i'm never using lossless nmf again

generic.avs grows stronger

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:31:36 -0600

tonight i finally got automatic (well, almost) d working in generic.avs (the script from which all other sda scripts are created).

just set "false" to "true" on line 7 to enable d1 (d4 is default). pal autodetection remains in from the last version, which i can't remember if i posted here or not. change "false" to "true" on line 23 to enable the statid (after you've finished filling out the trim(), for example).

additionally, you'll need to change all occurrences of "dx" to your project name, which should be the same as your index and ac3 basenames. you also may need to change your drive letter (i use p: for my project drive). finally, watch out for the path to the sda logo pngs in the statid subroutines (and, obviously, the LoadPlugin()s at the very top!). all the other options from lines 10-19 depend on the input video source and desired output quality.

enjoy!

more memory is always better

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 13:25:43 -0600

big thanks to radix for maxing out v5 with 3 gb (it only had 1 gb before) ram this xmas.

more automation

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:59:26 -0600

in the spirit of ballofsnow's megui-like batch files for sda, i've created a similar xvid.bat. this batch uses the vdub.exe command line driver to encode xvid videos loading m1.vcf, m2.vcf and l.vcf -- mq first pass, mq second pass and lq third pass, respectively.

the input syntax for this batch varies slightly from the others due to the need to insert LQ in varying places in the filename depending on whether the run is segmented or not. to help me remember it (and to speed up master batch creation), i've also created a generic.bat.

flickerbat ii

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:27:05 -0600

more work on the deflickering problem followed the previous entry.

flickerbat

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:28:48 -0600

this entry is long overdue. i will now describe in detail what i know about the so-called deflickering problem and present my attempts at solving it to date.

codecs++;

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 13:20:18 -0600

joining me this month are the windows build of xvid from koepi.org and a patched ffmpeg build that transcodes to flv.

destiny

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 00:00:36 -0600

i like how i don't have to question anymore whether or not i'm really dedicated to sda--obviously, if i weren't dedicated, i wouldn't still be here.

vm heaven

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 11:37:55 -0600

with the help of parallels desktop for mac, i've successfully doubled my studio's cpu capacity. running windoze xp as a guest os inside the virtual machine on my macbook, i appear to be encoding using x264 with little to no speed penalty. (windoze is essential to my encoding process because, among other reasons, i am dependent on avisynth and its filters, specifically mvbob().)

katamari hell

Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:51:58 -0600

over the past week or so i have been trying unsuccessfully to capture and encode the latest runs on the katamari damacy series of games.