Compressing Texmaster Videos for Youtube

What do you use to compress the 100mb avi replays from TExmaster so that it can be uploaded to Youtube?

 

I use an Xvid codec, set usually to around 600-1000kbps quality.

 

Oh wow, nice timing. I was just thinking about that and wanted to hear some thoughts on it as well.

 

if you're looking for a good editor/compressor, try Avidemux

 

Same here.

My NES emulator generates 60 fps as well. I convert it to 30 fps without dropping frames by combining pairs of frames with an Avisynth script. If I remember correctly, the script looks something like this:

Code:

AviSource("nestopia-out.avi")
Overlay(SelectEven(), SelectOdd(), opacity=0.5)

 

How do I use this one? I downloaded it but I don't know how to use it to compress videos.

 

But Texmaster already has the ability to compress videos? It should detect the codecs automatically. Or are you on Linux/Mac?

For editing raw videos and avi files I use VirtualDub. Maybe not as powerful as other software, but reasonably easy to use.

 

to compress with Avidemux, start the program, load the video, select and configure video/audio/format on the left side of the window, and click on save to compress the video. if you just want to see it work you don't need to configure the compression options, just choose the video and audio codecs you want to use. some combinations of codecs won't work together so you just have to mess around until you find some that do. then i would take the codec advice that others here have given for good results.

you might want to leave the audio uncompressed because it won't be very large anyway. to do this choose "copy" from the audio list.

 

Yup, I used Texmaster but the resulting file for my 7minute game is 108mb. Is there anyway to produce an output with less file size?

 

If you go on "configure" you should be able to set a lower quality (providing you're not on full frames), which would therefore give you a lower file size.

 

Is Arika still doing DMCA takedowns of Texmaster videos posted on Youtube? A quick search just now revealed two, including the one that Milkolate just posted.

 

The last three videos on KevinDDR's channel are of Texmaster. I see Texmaster's HUD in this video of his and five of its related videos.

 

Kevin doesn't use "tetris" or even "texmaster" in the videos he still has up.

 

I've censored the titles of all of mine. As far as I know they also can't touch videos on Facebook.

 

Oh! So should I remove my video?

 

no, but you should probably change the title and remove texmaster from the tags.

 

Judging from how many other Texmaster (and Heboris, etc...) videos that show up in the related videos for mine ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuXOSIinHWQ ) it seems a few of us just put "this fan game video will be flagged" as tags.

For me, I just reenecode the Texmaster output as 640x480 using MEncoder and upload it as-is (probably near-lossless). Upload time for me doesn't really matter and it tends to fare a lot better.

Although I would definitely be very interested in your 30FPS combining method if I knew how to do it in MEncoder...

 

The best way to upload to YouTube currently is to upload 480x360 or 480 pixel wide video (which is the highest resolution supported by YouTube in the High Quality link) with AAC audio and H.264 video in the MP4 format. This closely matches what they actually use, and should give good quality when people use the High Quality link or put &fmt=18 after their urls. If you want to upload in HD, make sure to have video that is at least 1280 pixels wide. Otherwise any video will be resized to 480 pixels wide. So if you want 4x3 aspect ratio HD video upload at 1280x960 resolution, or 1280x720 if you want a widescreen video. Again, use AAC with H.264 in MP4. Like previously suggested, Avidemux can convert video, or I've used MediaCoder (http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/) in the past for my videos, which is more of a straight transcoding tool with lots of options.
Specifically, for 480x360 video in MediaCoder I used FAAC for audio at 160 average bitrate, and x264 at 2000 in Bitrate-based mode. Even then, Youtube transcodes the video down a bit, but I figure it's better to give them a little too much bitrate then too little. Now that I think about it, 1000 would probably be enough for video bitrate, especially for Tetris, but I suppose it depends on the subject matter. If there's a lot of moving stuff then higher would be safer so as not to overcompress. Or Quality mode could be used, though I haven't tried it myself and am not sure what kind of bitrates are generated using different quality settings.

 

...and linking to those search-avoiding videos on a publicly-viewable, probably-logged-by-who-knows-which-company web forum is doing exactly...?