Works fine for me. It said it had playback issues for about two seconds before playing though, for whatever reason. It was lying.
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Ninja Snarl PMy helmet is my burden.Ninja Snarl: Gone, but not forgotten.Registered Userregular
edited August 2010
For those who may be interested, I just started my Crysis LP. It's not in the list yet, but trust me, it's going on. It also features a wonderful dumb mistake in which I didn't have my sound balanced and thus my voice is too loud. Yay.
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Zen VulgarityWhat a lovely day for teaSecret British ThreadRegistered Userregular
edited August 2010
I endorse anything Josh does
Helloween should LP more so I can hear his sexy voice
Any particular reason why you're using blip and viddler?
1) youtube, quite frankly, has a shit encoding rate and their video quality sucks
2) they have a ten minute time limit on uploads
3) they don't allow you to download the source video (even Viddler, which sucks balls, allows you to download the source (time-limited)
4) the youtube LP community sucks and we (me and my co-commentator) don't want to be associated with their generally shit quality
5) helloween and klyka have creepy fucking fans, I would prefer to not have creepy fucking fans
me and my co-commentator talked it over, and we both feel that the only real upside to having videos on youtube would be increased views, which personally isn't worth the association
also from a selfish perspective it's a whole lot of extra work, for me, for negligible gain. just to upload to youtube would mean cutting every video i upload to thirds, with ugly as hell cuts and such
now if you're talking about another video site than youtube, I'm always interested in finding other hosts. I was considering WeGame, but i dunno
As weird as this whole thing is (Why do people put videos of themselves on the Internet.. browsing the Internet?) He didn't seem to take it too badly. Honestly if they actually improved due to the RP's criticisms, I'd give them props for that.
... and most importantly i'm bringing along a friend to co-comment on the LP with me. he's a really funny as hell dude irl and we've known each other for years so the LP should be better because of it. also i know I can't carry an LP by myself, I'm frankly not that funny irl
That's the sound of the bar being set really high. I'm him. I'm the co-commentator. I'm a living, breathing, posting human being. This is important because we'll be recording some commentary over the next few days. All I know about Allan Wake so far is that it's a horror game that takes place in a series of dark forests, so this whole thing in going to be an experience.
I'll say that one of my concerns is that an LP of a horror game does not work well with voice commentary, especially multiple commentators.
Helloween kinda gets away with it because at least we're watching him experience the scary game for the first time, not to mention he has amusing reactions, but the experience still isn't the same.
Just kind of throwing that out there. Not saying you can't or shouldn't do it.
RentI'm always rightFuckin' deal with itRegistered Userregular
edited August 2010
woah hey you showed up, thanks ES
and yeah, that's a good point that something me and Earwig Squad discussed, Adus. We're gonna try and maintain the atmosphere of the game as best as we can, but sacrifices will have to be made
Also most of the game's atmosphere is conveyed via its cutscenes/dialogue, which is stuff we won't be commentating over
Finally in regards to comparisons between Helloween, that's a good point. It's also why I asked Earwig to go into this LP completely blind to the game; I've barely described it to him past the bullet points on the back of the box. As far as I'm aware, all he knows is "horror game in dark forests", which that isn't really a true statement
anyways i'm going to sleep now, i've been editing and researching all night
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PaperLuigi44My amazement is at maximum capacity.Registered Userregular
edited August 2010
Well, you do appear to be putting a lot of effort in preperation for this LP, Rent, and it's good to see your co-commentator pop up, since I was wondering about that.
and yeah, that's a good point that something me and Earwig Squad discussed, Adus. We're gonna try and maintain the atmosphere of the game as best as we can, but sacrifices will have to be made
Also most of the game's atmosphere is conveyed via its cutscenes/dialogue, which is stuff we won't be commentating over
Finally in regards to comparisons between Helloween, that's a good point. It's also why I asked Earwig to go into this LP completely blind to the game; I've barely described it to him past the bullet points on the back of the box. As far as I'm aware, all he knows is "horror game in dark forests", which that isn't really a true statement
anyways i'm going to sleep now, i've been editing and researching all night
I think that would be fine. If thats all he knows it should be damn funny. A good example of this would be the 'bear' bit from Condemned.
And yeah mate, youtube lets you do 15 mins right now. But tbh, better choice not to. The quality is quite shocking. I tried to fo a few videos in HD, but their 'HD' is bloody useless.
So 15 minute videos have worse quality? Do you have any examples?
I did 15 min videos and did not notice a difference in quality.
I am however thinking about stopping HD recording/encoding/uploading cause it takes SO much time on my shitty connection and YouTube uploads just LOVE to fail on me.
Dropping HD would probably get me to start LPing again,so I guess I'll do it.
Klyka, you DO realise that the only reason your LPs get any views is that YT fanboys are having a circle jerk over the HD quality of your videos, right? You might as well just stop doing LPs.
Okay, srs now: If you want to go back to standard YT video quality, do it. As long as it means more LPs (and, hopefully, longer sets? :P) and the quality of the commentary doesn't decline I don't see a reason not to do it.
And Helloween, you still need to make a thread for Singularity, link it here and change your YouTube page accordingly. Just as a reminder :P Also, again thank you for LPing a game I would stop playing after the first 20 minutes. I don't like having to stop twice per level to change my underpants.
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KlykaDO you have anySPARE BATTERIES?Registered Userregular
edited August 2010
Hehe, I already decided to stop the HD thing.
Seriously, 1 hour to encode per video, then 2 1/2 per video to upload only to have it fail like 3 times in a row?
Fuck that noise.
I know it's a lot of effort, but I recently saw that Uncharted 1 LP where there were two audio tracks, one where they talk over the cinematics and another where they are muted during them.
Honestly, I won't mind talking through cinematics if there are pauses in dialogue for a witty rejoinder or subtitles.
I know it's a lot of effort, but I recently saw that Uncharted 1 LP where there were two audio tracks, one where they talk over the cinematics and another where they are muted during them.
Honestly, I won't mind talking through cinematics if there are pauses in dialogue for a witty rejoinder or subtitles.
Yeah, chip and ironicus are strong inspirations for the lp style I want to emulate.
unfortunately I don't feel confident at all at this point doing dual commentary, I'm not even 100% positive I know how it's done
but yeah
I strongly considered doing dual commentary
the only real issue with it is in order to listen to it, people would have to download the source video, which is obviously a fraction of the viewing audience
further, the audience for LPs at SA is much, much larger than at PA so that problem is somewhat circumvented by the high viewership numbers there
I'll pose it in the thread, but if I do it and it's only for like, 14 people or however much download the source video it quite frankly won't be worth the time investment
I actually meant HD is bad quality on youtube, not the 15 mins thing. Thats bad typing on my part.
The thing is,if you upload a REEEEEEALLY high quality video to YouTube, like their 2GB limit or something, then you can end up with a really nice HD video.
It's just not really worth it,haha.
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Ninja Snarl PMy helmet is my burden.Ninja Snarl: Gone, but not forgotten.Registered Userregular
edited August 2010
I've been posting 1920x1080 HD vids to Youtube for the Crysis LP and even those are only about 600 MB a pop for the raw file. 2 GB would be a ridiculous and completely unnecessary waste of time and bandwidth. However, not many games would benefit much from the 1080 HD video like Crysis does and it doesn't hurt that Crysis actually uses a pretty decent color palette.
But more importantly, I haven't had an upload fail on me in months and it only takes me about 40 minutes to upload each video. I don't think I could tolerate having a set take 7-10 hours to upload along with having to restart uploads as well. That kind of thing drives me absolutely out of my mind.
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Those are Obs' words in the comic. I was being totally sarcastic.
I didn't just mean the comic, either.
how in the blue fuck do you do this
I'm not seeing this on blip...
ed: I'm fucking retarded nevermind thanks Adus. again.
sorry to bump but if someone else could check that this link works okay that'd be great (it works fine for me)
Helloween should LP more so I can hear his sexy voice
The video is all choppy/laggy/displays rather less frames per second than it should. The audio is fine, though.
This is a result of doing the 'rename mp4 to flv' trick.
Anyway, it works fine now Rent, and looks really good. So much so that I'm reuploading all my GTA4 videos using that trick.
that's weird...are you streaming it or preloading it? if the former i think that's on blip's shitty ass streamer, but i'll look into it
thanks dude
(seriously thanks for the help man)
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Chip is "Belldurk"
Probably because they don't have time limits.
1) youtube, quite frankly, has a shit encoding rate and their video quality sucks
2) they have a ten minute time limit on uploads
3) they don't allow you to download the source video (even Viddler, which sucks balls, allows you to download the source (time-limited)
4) the youtube LP community sucks and we (me and my co-commentator) don't want to be associated with their generally shit quality
5) helloween and klyka have creepy fucking fans, I would prefer to not have creepy fucking fans
me and my co-commentator talked it over, and we both feel that the only real upside to having videos on youtube would be increased views, which personally isn't worth the association
also from a selfish perspective it's a whole lot of extra work, for me, for negligible gain. just to upload to youtube would mean cutting every video i upload to thirds, with ugly as hell cuts and such
now if you're talking about another video site than youtube, I'm always interested in finding other hosts. I was considering WeGame, but i dunno
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As weird as this whole thing is (Why do people put videos of themselves on the Internet.. browsing the Internet?) He didn't seem to take it too badly. Honestly if they actually improved due to the RP's criticisms, I'd give them props for that.
just. you. wait
That's the sound of the bar being set really high. I'm him. I'm the co-commentator. I'm a living, breathing, posting human being. This is important because we'll be recording some commentary over the next few days. All I know about Allan Wake so far is that it's a horror game that takes place in a series of dark forests, so this whole thing in going to be an experience.
Helloween kinda gets away with it because at least we're watching him experience the scary game for the first time, not to mention he has amusing reactions, but the experience still isn't the same.
Just kind of throwing that out there. Not saying you can't or shouldn't do it.
and yeah, that's a good point that something me and Earwig Squad discussed, Adus. We're gonna try and maintain the atmosphere of the game as best as we can, but sacrifices will have to be made
Also most of the game's atmosphere is conveyed via its cutscenes/dialogue, which is stuff we won't be commentating over
Finally in regards to comparisons between Helloween, that's a good point. It's also why I asked Earwig to go into this LP completely blind to the game; I've barely described it to him past the bullet points on the back of the box. As far as I'm aware, all he knows is "horror game in dark forests", which that isn't really a true statement
anyways i'm going to sleep now, i've been editing and researching all night
So consider me optimistic going into your LP.
I think that would be fine. If thats all he knows it should be damn funny. A good example of this would be the 'bear' bit from Condemned.
And yeah mate, youtube lets you do 15 mins right now. But tbh, better choice not to. The quality is quite shocking. I tried to fo a few videos in HD, but their 'HD' is bloody useless.
Youtube Channel!
I did 15 min videos and did not notice a difference in quality.
I am however thinking about stopping HD recording/encoding/uploading cause it takes SO much time on my shitty connection and YouTube uploads just LOVE to fail on me.
Dropping HD would probably get me to start LPing again,so I guess I'll do it.
Okay, srs now: If you want to go back to standard YT video quality, do it. As long as it means more LPs (and, hopefully, longer sets? :P) and the quality of the commentary doesn't decline I don't see a reason not to do it.
And Helloween, you still need to make a thread for Singularity, link it here and change your YouTube page accordingly. Just as a reminder :P Also, again thank you for LPing a game I would stop playing after the first 20 minutes. I don't like having to stop twice per level to change my underpants.
Seriously, 1 hour to encode per video, then 2 1/2 per video to upload only to have it fail like 3 times in a row?
Fuck that noise.
Honestly, I won't mind talking through cinematics if there are pauses in dialogue for a witty rejoinder or subtitles.
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And considering you seem to purposely be choosing deliciously brown next gen games, we don't really need HD. We need content, dammit.
I only just saw that there are finally videos past Metro 2033 and Moon Boots with sexy German girls and boys.
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Yeah, chip and ironicus are strong inspirations for the lp style I want to emulate.
unfortunately I don't feel confident at all at this point doing dual commentary, I'm not even 100% positive I know how it's done
but yeah
I strongly considered doing dual commentary
the only real issue with it is in order to listen to it, people would have to download the source video, which is obviously a fraction of the viewing audience
further, the audience for LPs at SA is much, much larger than at PA so that problem is somewhat circumvented by the high viewership numbers there
I'll pose it in the thread, but if I do it and it's only for like, 14 people or however much download the source video it quite frankly won't be worth the time investment
Youtube Channel!
The thing is,if you upload a REEEEEEALLY high quality video to YouTube, like their 2GB limit or something, then you can end up with a really nice HD video.
It's just not really worth it,haha.
But more importantly, I haven't had an upload fail on me in months and it only takes me about 40 minutes to upload each video. I don't think I could tolerate having a set take 7-10 hours to upload along with having to restart uploads as well. That kind of thing drives me absolutely out of my mind.