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I'm trying to put a recorded video I took with a SNES emulator on a blog, but the file came out in SMV format. Well, I don't know anything about SMV (this is my first time to do this), but I wanna put this video up on YouTube, and I'm not sure how to convert it. Can anyone provide some insight?

Thanks in advance.

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Isn't SMV actually just a recording of the data the emulator is "seeing?" In other words, I think that it's something that's machine-readable and not video player-viewable. You want a proper video capture device like Fraps to properly record video, I think.

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Ahhh, I see. I didn't know. Like I said, this is the first time I've ever tried to do this and when I saw the SMV file I was a little surprised.

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Climhazzard is the timeless evil robot who runs some of the cool stuff at CoN (mostly logging chat, since there are no quizzes at the moment), all the while watching and waiting for his moment to take over the world. -Tiddles

Yea if the SMV was taken using the emulator "movie record" function, then it is not a true video file. It is really just like a savestate and a really long button combination; when you play it, is just loads the state and then inputs the button combination with the same timing as when you recorded it. Understandably, this is not of any use outside of the emulator and ROM in question.

What you CAN do is use the SNES9x emulator and record it as an AVI file. I think that you can load the ROM, start recording as AVI, and then play the movie file (SMV) and it will record it as an AVI which can be uploaded to youtube or whatever.

Of course, I could be entirely wrong with this, but that is how I seem to remember it when I looked it up previously.

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Quote (Caesar @ 27th April 2009 21:12)

Yea if the SMV was taken using the emulator "movie record" function, then it is not a true video file.  It is really just like a savestate and a really long button combination; when you play it, is just loads the state and then inputs the button combination with the same timing as when you recorded it.  Understandably, this is not of any use outside of the emulator and ROM in question.

What you CAN do is use the SNES9x emulator and record it as an AVI file.  I think that you can load the ROM, start recording as AVI, and then play the movie file (SMV) and it will record it as an AVI which can be uploaded to youtube or whatever.

Of course, I could be entirely wrong with this, but that is how I seem to remember it when I looked it up previously.

Actually what's odd about that is, I tried to use the SMV to watch what I recorded with the emulator but the directional buttons come up short on the commands. I played StarFox for SNES and the arwing crashed into things that I flew around and then crashed and died when that actually NEVER happened in my original play through, so with my emulator, I don't think it's going to be possible to play it and then record the replay with AVI (unless I want a really jacked up version of what happened during my play through).

This post has been edited by Sephiroth on 28th April 2009 06:06

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Climhazzard is the timeless evil robot who runs some of the cool stuff at CoN (mostly logging chat, since there are no quizzes at the moment), all the while watching and waiting for his moment to take over the world. -Tiddles

That's probably true, Sephiroth, because the instructions that are saved in the SMV are not saved in real-time. For action-based games, there's a good chance that the instructions are saved a few frames away from where you actually input the instruction, because of the way the protocol works.

Seems to me that you need to just give up on the SMV try and spend the few bucks on Fraps.

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R51 is likely very correct.

StarFox is generally really bad at being emulated due to all the latency issues. There was a ton of lag present when playing it on the SNES, and when you emulate it, weird things happen. Sometimes it played at the true speed, others at the slower laggy speed, and sometimes it finds a speed in between. If your movie file is recording in real time then there is almost certainly no chance of it playing back correctly.

I am unsure about the whole thing. I have hacked movie files before, and they seem to just be a sequence of button presses but I thought that this was just data for each frame of the movie file. If each frame holds keypress detection bits, as I think they do, then real time/latency issues shouldn't be there.

Either way, you are still better off just recording AVI straight while you play, or try an alternative as R51 suggested.

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Quote (Caesar @ 28th April 2009 15:21)

StarFox is generally really bad at being emulated due to all the latency issues. There was a ton of lag present when playing it on the SNES, and when you emulate it, weird things happen. Sometimes it played at the true speed, others at the slower laggy speed, and sometimes it finds a speed in between. If your movie file is recording in real time then there is almost certainly no chance of it playing back correctly.

I would say this is the likely cause. Emulator movie files generally work and sync very well, but Starfox does have major emulation timing issues, which I believe have a lot to do with how much work gets offloaded to the Super FX and the synchronisation between that and the main CPU.

This is probably one of those things that would get fixed by one of those new emulator cores that are perpetually a year or two away.

Well, thanks for all the help guys, and for clearing up some things that I'm ignorant on. I just went ahead and got fraps Now I need to figure out how to use it for what I want, haha. I'll leave the thread open in case anyone else has something they would like to add. Maybe you guys have some suggestions for fraps. Again, this is all new to me. Thanks a bunch.

Edit

Hmm... Fraps seems to work fine on my N64 emulator, but not on my SNES emulator. Any suggestions?

This post has been edited by Sephiroth on 28th April 2009 20:30

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Climhazzard is the timeless evil robot who runs some of the cool stuff at CoN (mostly logging chat, since there are no quizzes at the moment), all the while watching and waiting for his moment to take over the world. -Tiddles

What's fraps?

And also, from downloading and trying to watch them, I've had generally bad experiences with emu movie files produced through ZSNES (I think they're ZMV files), though I've had generally better experiences with files produced through SNES9x.

This post has been edited by Glenn Magus Harvey on 29th April 2009 19:24

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I have SNES9x. Fraps is the recording and screen shot software that R51 recommended. It works great and runs smooth for Project 64, and does what I need it to, but for some reason I can't get SNES9x to even recognize that I have Fraps open.

This post has been edited by Sephiroth on 29th April 2009 21:32

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Climhazzard is the timeless evil robot who runs some of the cool stuff at CoN (mostly logging chat, since there are no quizzes at the moment), all the while watching and waiting for his moment to take over the world. -Tiddles

Is Fraps freeware? How does it compare to CamStudio? I've been using CamStudio for my screen-recording purposes; I've made a Let's Play video using it.

Frankly, these days, I just try to find whatever gameplay video I need on the web somewhere, due to the unreliability of emulation movies. The only thing I've tried to find and haven't found is a video of the Birdo battle from SMRPG in which someone successfully summons Eggbert.

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Quote (Glenn Magus Harvey @ 30th April 2009 01:04)

Is Fraps freeware? How does it compare to CamStudio? I've been using CamStudio for my screen-recording purposes; I've made a Let's Play video using it.

Fraps isn't free. You can DL a free version of it, but it only records for 30 seconds, not the whole time you're playing. I had to get the registered version in order to do what I needed to. As far as Cam Studio goes; I don't have any experience with it. I've never used it before. How much does it cost?
Like I said, Fraps works great for what I need it to, except that I can't get it to work with SNES9x. I'd like to record a couple of things from it.

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Climhazzard is the timeless evil robot who runs some of the cool stuff at CoN (mostly logging chat, since there are no quizzes at the moment), all the while watching and waiting for his moment to take over the world. -Tiddles

CamStudio is freeware (and open-source as well).

Why can't you get Fraps to work with SNES9x? I don't know how Fraps works, but I know CamStudio records any area of the screen of your choosing (you can just drag out a rectangle with your mouse). Which means that it's not only useful for standard shapes like square (Game Boy) or 4:3 rectangle (anything TV-sized) but also unusual shapes like vertical 2x[4:3] (DS).

This post has been edited by Glenn Magus Harvey on 2nd May 2009 20:58

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Quote (Glenn Magus Harvey @ 2nd May 2009 09:23)

Why can't you get Fraps to work with SNES9x?

I'm not really sure. One program is not recognizing the other, I guess (although, I'm not sure which one). Fraps is a video game screen shot/recording software so far as I can tell, and it doesn't give me the option of recording anywhere on the screen. It just records the game when I open it, and for some reason it recognizes project64 fine. I'm not sure what the big difference in the two systems is. I'll try CamStudio when I get the time, and let you know how it works out. Thanks.

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Climhazzard is the timeless evil robot who runs some of the cool stuff at CoN (mostly logging chat, since there are no quizzes at the moment), all the while watching and waiting for his moment to take over the world. -Tiddles