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[Spirit]

Just manually install the codecs you want. Again, I recommend capturing with H264 (x264) if you can. Nothing comes close to its quality. If you can use ffmpeg's presets, I use "slow". That leads to not completely insane sizes while maintaining very high quality images.

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I'm another H264 convert. Codec name is X264 with klite. I set it to "very fast" in the settings dialogue if recording in real-time.
FFDS with mjpeg set to 95% quality is also OK.

XVID is a good default because it works out-of-the-box and encodes pretty fast. But quality is not there yet...

[raithe]

Wanted to say thanks for the Awesome engine, really brings out the scale of some of the larger maps. Love it. Any chance of FakeCD (mp3) soundtracks support in future builds? Also a couple of bugs I noticed, if you're running fullscreen the game will crash to desktop on E2M5 right as the elevator comes out of the water. Menu is glitchy in windowed mode (bits stays on screen after closed). In Soul of Evil on the Devils Rift map when you activate the altar it goes to a cut scene showing a shambler being summoned, the game crashes to console with a rubble_01.mdl not precached message. This only happens if you're playing though the maps one after the other (rift is the 3rd counting the start) if you launch the map directly it usually works. Possibly related I get the occasional slew of "couldn't precache foo" messages when starting maps at times but it seems random and tricky to reproduce, though some mods do it more than others.

Thanks for the 8-bitty goodness, keep it coming.

[leileilol]

If there's going to be any fakecd at all, i'd recommend using DUMB w/OGG extension instead. This is something I tried (and failed) to do.

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[leileilol]

Engoo uses ASS for MIDI and DUMB for MOD, but it only loads and not plays. I chose DUMB because it was fast and it could also compile in DOS through DJGPP.

I would hijack the "cd" commands if there's no CD loaded (yeah, and good luck playing CD audio in Windows 7 anymore)

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[qbism]

...off-topic, but is there an audio utility to convert an audio track to mod or xm format? The software would compare sequences of audio, find matches, and slice it up. Good for repetitive music.
There are plenty of threads on the internet asking similar question with replies describing the difference between mp3 and mod formats. Yes, that's why it's hard.

[leileilol]

It's possible to load a WAV file in Modplug Player and save a module. No splitting and such, tho
I wouldn't do that as . (don't bother preaching s3m/it/xm to me - I enjoy working in strict limitations!)

[raithe]

Well you go really over to the pixelated side of music and convert from mp3->midi->mod...

I'll upload a save when I have a spare half-hour to run through the map.

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[leileilol]

[mh]

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OK, maybe will add SOME asm back. Wish gcc could handle that nice inline syntax.