Gamecube/Wii Videos

[Nintendo Maniac]

Umm... you know you don't need to make the video 16:9 with black bars to make youtube activate HD... (it just ends up giving 4:3 sceen users a window-boxed video)

Here's an example video: YouTube - Cruis'n World Arcade - France HD
Set your screen to a 4:3 resolution and then hit fullscreen to see what I mean.

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[50CALBR]

Originally Posted by Nintendo Maniac

Umm... you know you don't need to make the video 16:9 with black bars to make youtube activate HD... (it just ends up giving 4:3 sceen users a window-boxed video)

Here's an example video: YouTube - Cruis'n World Arcade - France HD
Set your screen to a 4:3 resolution and then hit fullscreen to see what I mean.

But why would I do that when I can just crop it, Not all GC games are 4:3 so I can stay with the same resolution an not risk losing video quality through Compression when I encode it.

People with widescreen monitors won't notice any difference anyway.

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[Nintendo Maniac]

Huh? What does that have to do with anything? All YouTube needs is a video with a height greater than 720 and a width more than 1280. You could use some funky res like 1321x896 and it should still give you HD. I'm also pretty sure that youtube won't change the aspect ratio either. (hang on I'll try to find an example)

EDIT: here you go, a video with a 5:4 ratio (1280x1024 downscaled to 900x720): YouTube - Just be (HD version 1280X1024)

And people with widescreen would notice a difference since 720p is 16:9 and most widescreen monitors are 16:10. (though barely any with the bar at the bottom) This becomes much more noticable if the user (like me) downloads the video before watching (maybe because their CPU is too slow for HD in flash, but a media player is fine).

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[50CALBR]

Originally Posted by Nintendo Maniac

Couldn't you just render at a higher res, AKA 1280x960? That'd fufill YouTube's HD requirements of 720p or higher.

Again, Youtube HD will only display at the exact 1280x720 res, so capturing anything higher will result in a more "Rough" compression and a poorer quality video once uploaded. Anyway, I'm now uploading Dragons Lair 3D in 16:9 res

Any games you would like to see?

Learn More : Optimizing your video uploads - YouTube Help

Notice how it says a 4:3 video should be 640x480 (SD) and a High def video should be 1280x720.

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Last edited by 50CALBR; March 11th, 2009 at 05:37.. Reason: Automerged Doublepost

[Nintendo Maniac]

Oh, I get it - you don't like the resizeing of the video :P I figured the resizing would make up for the lack of anti-aliasing though...

Games? Uh... well, even though F-Zero GX isn't playable yet (runs though), it DOES have a widescreen option, though you'd need to manually stretch the video to make the widescreen fit.

Other than that, I think we should cover the typical Nintendo games that are currently lacking in HD videos (AKA Zelda TP, Metroid Prime 1/2, etc).

Speaking of Zelda TP, are you able to do Wii games as well?

EDIT: And screw what the "optimizing your video uploads" thing says :P That's just trying to be idiot-proof. Notice how that's SD 4:3 they're talking about? They make no mention of HD 4:3 (or non-16:9), probably because most HD VIDEOS are widescreen - but games stuck at 4:3 can be rendered into hi-res as well. Besides, there's that 5:4 video I linked to before that denies these so called "requirements."

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[50CALBR]

Originally Posted by Nintendo Maniac

Oh, I get it - you don't like the resizeing of the video :P I figured the resizing would make up for the lack of anti-aliasing though...

Games? Uh... well, even though F-Zero GX isn't playable yet (runs though), it DOES have a widescreen option, though you'd need to manually stretch the video to make the widescreen fit.

Other than that, I think we should cover the typical Nintendo games that are currently lacking in HD videos (AKA Zelda TP, Metroid Prime 1/2, etc).

Speaking of Zelda TP, are you able to do Wii games as well?

I have TP on GC, The Wii games I Have are:

RE:UC
No More Heroes (Slow, can't move )
Cooking Mama
SMG
Tales Of Symphonia: DOTNW
Tetsuko....something VS Capcom


I have RE 4 on GC and Wii, I have only ripped the GC version.

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And just to make you happy I'll try a 1280x1024 on the next one.....

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[Nintendo Maniac]

hmmm... other than SMG (which isn't exactly playable...), none of those are really my cup of tea. I guess it's back to GCN then :P

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[50CALBR]

Originally Posted by Nintendo Maniac

hmmm... other than SMG (which isn't exactly playable...), none of those are really my cup of tea. I guess it's back to GCN then :P

Hmmm, Just Tried 1280x1024, Dolphin had to run windowed for that res as my monitor is widescreen. Dolphin+Windowed+fraps=slooooooow. I did try 1024x768 though and that worked fine, That will not come up as HD on youtube though.

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[Dax]

NMH lets you move with a save btw..

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[Nintendo Maniac]

You can't select fullscreen? O_o And you can't go any higher than 1024x768? O___o

wtf did you do XD There should at least be SOMETHING, like 1360x1024 or 1600x1200.

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[50CALBR]

Originally Posted by Dax

NMH lets you move with a save btw..

Sweet, Will give it a go.


Also....BAH HUMBUG!, trying to convert these files to MP4 HD from Fraps and alot of them at about 60-70% come up with "Failed"....RAEG

Originally Posted by Nintendo Maniac

You can't select fullscreen? O_o And you can't go any higher than 1024x768? O___o

wtf did you do XD There should at least be SOMETHING, like 1360x1024 or 1600x1200.

It's weird, My monitor is widescreen up to 1920x1080, but dolphin will not let me run any 4:3 ratio (Apart from 1024x768) in full screen, It's only dolphin that does this.

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Last edited by 50CALBR; March 11th, 2009 at 06:11.. Reason: Automerged Doublepost

[Dax]

Do you have 4:3 enabled in the OGL plugin?

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[50CALBR]

Originally Posted by Dax

Do you have 4:3 enabled in the OGL plugin?

Nope, I wouldn't need to if I am running a 4:3 resolution.

New one.

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[Dax]

I guess I misread your post or something. Anyway, nice vid.

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[Nintendo Maniac]

RE4 in HD? yeeeeeeeees... want so very much... Now I just need the "WiiHD" and an HDTV and I'll be able to enjoy that goodness :P

EDIT: And that F-Zero GX vid in the next post is such a "DO WANT" for me... (I watched it like 20 times in a row XD)

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[50CALBR]

New one

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[koko-goal]

Nice ones Wskler.May i know what's your computer specs?

[50CALBR]

Originally Posted by koko-goal

Nice ones Wskler.May i know what's your computer specs?

Currently running an AMD Phenom (Quad) @ stock 2.5ghz
4Gig DDR2 800
ATi 4870

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[ector]

Originally Posted by 50CALBR

Sweet, Will give it a go.
It's weird, My monitor is widescreen up to 1920x1080, but dolphin will not let me run any 4:3 ratio (Apart from 1024x768) in full screen, It's only dolphin that does this.

That's really odd. will have to look into the resolution detection code.

[50CALBR]

And yet another

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