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Offline luke83

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Re: Youtube videos
« Reply #15 on: October 16, 2012, 10:43:12 am »
some one complained about the video quality also , i may re-make this tutorial  ( i will most likely make another one going over the same stuff )
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Re: Youtube videos
« Reply #16 on: October 16, 2012, 11:29:08 am »
What are you using for recording that? recordmydesktop? I see you're using linux.

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Re: Youtube videos
« Reply #17 on: October 16, 2012, 12:05:37 pm »
Yep Record my desktop , its the only one i could find that works , so now to work out How to improve the video quality ?

Follow up question , how do you know i am using Linux?

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Re: Youtube videos
« Reply #18 on: October 16, 2012, 12:19:13 pm »
Can see the Ubuntu title bar above your Windows screen, so looks like you're using a VM  ;D

I'm afraid I can't really help with screen capturing on Linux. I use FRAPS and CamStudio on Windows

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Re: Youtube videos
« Reply #19 on: October 16, 2012, 12:43:57 pm »
Luke, does file created by recordmydekstop had better quality? I've used it and i think it does good quality. Have you tried changing some settings?
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Re: Youtube videos
« Reply #20 on: October 16, 2012, 12:47:30 pm »
I have used Cam studios at work , compared to this "Record my desktop" its awesome.

"Luke, does file created by recordmydekstop had better quality? I've used it and i think it does good quality." I think it slighly better then the Youtube video version , not sure why it would loose quality though.

I cant see any options in "Record my desktop to improve quality :(


I just made a QUICK video making a small Mapblock in the jungle setting again, this time i changed my screen resolution of the VM - waiting to see if its any better or not?

UPDATE: Just remembered you can change the FONT size in windows control panel, Now the text is very clear but the page VM looks so very ugly :P

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Re: Youtube videos
« Reply #21 on: October 16, 2012, 12:50:51 pm »
What codec (+settings) are you using? It might be the codec you've got set up.

You could try with "Uncompressed Frames", which will give you a massive (and I do mean MASSIVE) file, but it would record in crisp quality, then you could use something like VLC to convert the video to an MP4 for YouTube upload

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Re: Youtube videos
« Reply #22 on: October 16, 2012, 12:53:35 pm »
You're using recordmydesktop or gtk-recordmydekstop?

Gtk version has nice window, where you can change setting, pick which window to record, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP8ycfUF3ZQ&feature=related

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Re: Youtube videos
« Reply #23 on: October 16, 2012, 01:05:39 pm »
Just normal "recordmydesktop" .

 i have tweaked some settings in my video edit software "oneshot video editor" and i also recorded my VM in a different Resolution  as soons as its working i will upload it and make it private so you guys can give me some more feedback.

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Re: Youtube videos
« Reply #24 on: October 16, 2012, 01:15:07 pm »
Here are available options:

https://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/manpage.php

As for openshot, i managed to get not so bad quality by encoding to mpeg2 in hd resolution and uploading to youtube.

As for private video, just prepare small sample - one minute or so.

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Re: Youtube videos
« Reply #25 on: October 16, 2012, 03:04:40 pm »
Youtube always does reencoding on its end, so your uploaded video will always have less quality than the original, although the better the original, the less noticable it'll be. Here are some guidelines: https://support.google.com/youtube/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=guide.cs&guide=1728585

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Re: Youtube videos
« Reply #26 on: October 17, 2012, 08:51:17 am »
Well i made that video again lastnight with full audio commentary only to discover today the sound stopped 5 mins in , i really need to find some better software >:(

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Re: Youtube videos
« Reply #27 on: October 17, 2012, 09:07:30 am »
It might be related to using virtual machine - it uses some part of machine resources. You might want to try OpenXcom version compiled for linux. I can send you one.

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Re: Youtube videos
« Reply #28 on: October 17, 2012, 09:14:37 am »
Thanks for the offer , i would not mind trying a Linux Version of Openxcom , its been SOOOOOOOO long since i have  ;)

Biggest problem i have is all the Mod tools are Windows based and  i have not had much luck getting WINE to handle them :P


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Re: Youtube videos
« Reply #29 on: October 17, 2012, 10:03:45 am »
Have you tried running the Windows version of CamStudio inside the VM? I have no idea if that would work, but might be worth a go