[PiG] Ponch

here's another Atari's Adventure

Why don't you try and find out. It's not going to take much to find out is it?

I stand corrected

Nope it seems to be built into MTA not to allow more than one connection at a time from the same IP address. Unless (and I don't know if this will work or not because I've never tried it), but you could try and run one of the computers through an anonymous proxy. That might give the other computer another IP address to work from. give it a try...

Not a movie but an old BBC series called "The Prisoner". You could call it a really long movie in a way, because it's about 17 1 hour episodes... "I am NOT a number... I am a FREE man!" "The Prisoner" [link]

And that has what to do with a car handling config file? This has gone way off topic... I'll start the replies again:

How would you like people to help you? If you wish [PiG] to arrest them then I suggest you PM [PiG] Pusher... Otherwise please tell us what you want people to do about this... [PiG] Officer Frank "Ponch" Poncherello

Sweet can't wait to see it. I'll wait till you put on the smaller version. I would grab the bigger one but then net at work was running real slow earlier today and was going to take AGES... DON'T ZIP IT WOLF IT'S ALLREADY COMPRESSED! that's why it was almost the same size... Looking forward to seeing it

3,2,1....admin there's warez talk here!!!! Zomlan are you aware that you are partaking in illegal activities talkig about cracked versions of programs. Wize up or the cops will come knocking on your mothers door... not cool...

Don't forget to check out my tutorial on encoding if you're new to this kinda stuff http://forum.mtavc.com/viewtopic.php?t=5463

Thanks for the feedback so far It's best to get the latest divx (5.1.1) as there as heaps of improvements to the compression and to the image quality. Still the same settings. Plus as the pic above says: "it's twice as fast as their last release". That means less time waiting to encode

Don't zip your movies. It's allready compressed! And you can't really get good image quality with a low bitrate with windows movie maker. In fact I don't really like the quality at any bitrate. Too many artifacts for my likings. Stick with Divx or Vidx or similar...

You MUST play commander keen!!!

[PiG] Officer Frank "Ponch" Poncherello's Video Compression for the Web Tutorial. From looking around for MTA videos on the forums I've found that a lot of people seem to be using poor compression ratios for their videos and end up with HUGE files. And now with the MTA video competition on its way I thought I would be good idea to post a tutorial for people who want to cram their masterpice into the smallest file size possible. Please note that I'm not going to cover editing of the footage you record or how to attach an audio file to your footage. (I've got links down below for that if you need to know how to do it.) This tutorial is an addition to Thargore's Newbie Guide. Found here... https://forum.multitheftauto.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=2651 PLEASE NOTE: I AM NOT EXPLAINING HOW TO CAPTURE YOUR FOOTAGE. I AM EXPLAINING HOW TO ENCODE PROPERLY! You can make videos very small and not lose too much image quality if you know what you are doing. When you publish videos to the net you need to compress your video according to what the target market's requirements are. There is no point making a video at full resolution or at partial compression when the end viewer is only going to view the file once or twice. With this tutorial I'm hoping I can show some budding directors how to prepare their video for the web with optimal image quality and sound with the smallest file size possile. Tools: Fraps 3.2.2 (http://www.fraps.com) Divx 5.X.X (http://www.divx.com) VirtualDub (http://www.virtualdub.org) Part #1: Video Resolution and FPS When making a video there is no need to bother recording it a full resolution of your game. You will loose most of the image quality when compressing anyway. A good place to start at would be to set your game at 640x480x16bbp and then set FRAPS to record at half-size with no audio (you're going to replace this with music, right?). This will give you a final destination resolution of 320x240x16bbp. Before you start telling me how crappy those settings are, let me remind you that we are making this video for a WEB based audience amd are aiming for a SMALL file size. With these settings Fraps will have the least effect on the game playing itself and you will not loose many ingame FPS So goto this screen from within fraps and change the settings. (N.B. this image show the default settings!) Don't forget to change the default 'hotkey' to something more convenient. You are now ready to capture your video to your harddrive. At these settings each minute takes about 100Mb on your drive, so make sure you have enough space to record! Once you've finished recording your footage you can now go and edit what you have and once you've done that, it's time to compress your masterpiece. You can edit with a bunch of tools available on the net. Just search google for a free video edit suite. In fact, if you want, VirtualDub CAN edit video and add the music for you; it will just take a bit longer to figure out than say an expensive program like Adobe's Premier. Goto this site http://www.virtualdub.org/ if you want to find out how. Like I said I wasn't going to go into detail here... Part #2: Compression There are many codecs out there for compressing. With Windows Media format, DivX and XviD being the most common these days. Personally I prefer DivX over the others because it seems to be the most common one people have installed and I also find it the easiest to use and install. Right, first of all open VirtualDub and then open up your edited video that you want compressed. Now you need to setup the video compression settings for the movie... You'll be prompted with a screen asking which codec you which to use. For my tutorial choose DivX... Click OK and be greeted by the DivX main screen. This is the where you set all the required codec settings. These are DivX's default settings. They give a pretty good picture quality as defaults but this won't be good enough to get the small file size we want. The encoding bitrate is the main setting we want to change to have the most effect on the overall filesize. Don't worry about the other DivX options as these are for making advanced changed to you video. (if you want to learn more about this goto http://www.divx.com). I'll explain more about the bitrate in a second, just click ok and we'll look at it again later... Next we have to setup your audio compression. (I take it you've already got your music attacted to your video, If you don't go to http://www.virtualdub.org to find out how). N.B. VirtualDub only handles raw WAV files as input sound, so we have to set VirtualDub to full audio processing mode to allow the program to compress the audio. Now choose compression from the dropdown menu... Now we are faced with a screen similar to the codec choice screen but for audio codecs. Now choose an audio compression. Don't choose the best quality. We are trying to make our video as small as possible remember? I find "56KB/s 22.5KHz stereo" to be the smallest acceptable size vs quality. Anything lower than this starts adding many artifacts to the sound signal. Now we have got the smallest acceptable size for audio encoding we can now start to mess around with the video encoding bitrate. Click "Ok" to close the windows and go back to the main VirtualDub screen. Now we are going to render a test AVI of your work. This will encode your footage along with the audio to a nicely compressed AVI on your drive. Now go to your newly encoded file and check the filesize and the quality of the image. If the filesize is too large you will need to go back to the DivX codec page in VirtualDub and reduce the encoding rate and re-encode the file again. Keep doing this until your file reaches the size you want. If possible, don't be afraid to reduce the encoding rate as much as you can. With DivX there seems to be not much difference in image quality when you start reducing it quite a bit compared to a slightly higher bitrate. Personally I have managed to encode something for a friend at 150kb/s and it looked the same as it did at 300kb/s! But I don't think you need to do any bitrate that drastic yet, unless your footage is extremely long. If you have encoded your footage (in your opinion) at the lowest acceptable bitrate and the file size it just off what you wanted, you can still pull some tricks out of the bag with DivX to make the file a wee bit smaller. Goto DivX's second page and you'll have a bunch of options available to you. The settings we want to mess with is 'Psychovisual Enhancement' and 'Pre Processing Source'. 'Psychovisual Enhancement' removes all the data the eye is not going to notice is missing, hence dropping the amount of information required per frame. If you are going to use this, try the different setting available as each one has a slightly different effect on your video. Re-encode serveral times to see the difference it makes.. ask yourself: is it worth quality of the picture to get the smaller filesize? (I'd say in most cases - YES!) The next setting is 'Pre Processing Source'. This is simply a noise filter for your video. Basically the more detail the video source has the more data is going to be required to encode it. Using this setting removes 'loose' pixels in the image that aren't 100% required. Set this to light to start of with as it has a big impact on your final encoding's image quality. Setting this to max can make the image look a bit washed out but it does make a big impact on the final file size. I hope this has been some help to people. Just remember you want to aim for a small file size. Who wants to bother downloading a 100Mb file only to find out it's crap? I'd much rather prefer the small convinient filesizes whether the end result is good or bad. No one is going to judge you because you encoded your file with a low bitrate. Just remember you can encode a 2 hour movie onto a single 700MB disk at near DVD quality at full resolution. That's about 6 MB per minute. If you want to encode your video for the web then you'll be wanting to do this at about 1-3 MB per minute. Might not look like you're at the movies, but hey, it does the job... [PiG] Officer Frank "Ponch" Poncherello EDIT: slight correction... "56kb/s 44.1Khz stereo" has been changed to "56kb/s 22.5Khz stereo" under the audio compression section. Your ears won't realize the difference but you harddrive will.

71Megs no thanks. Sorry I can't be bothered downloading something that big. Make it a bit smaller! I would love to see tho...

This is great! I've been working on a movie for the last week and a bit and it's almost done Can't wait to see some of the others... just a few more days and I should have finished my masterpiece Edit: "Yes I'll enter!!!!!" UPDATE: Here it is! http://www.thegamersalliance.com/videos/MTAVC_[PiG]_Ponch_Final.avi NB You'll have to copy and paste my link as it won't hyperlink because the forum is reading my gang tag ([PiG]) as a metatag and won't display the link properly... - Divx 5.1.1 - 6.2 MB Enjoy...

Just keep banning them with the admin tool. After a while they'll get bored with having to reconnect. Just don't be nasty when you ban them or they will keep coming back to your server. Just to piss you off. Just give them a couple of warnings to sort out their shit and if they don't...ban them Personally I wouldn't bother banning a whole IP range. It'll make your fingers bleed typing in all those IP addresses... just as easy to ban them as they come to your server...it's only a mouse click

Oh commander keen. Those where the days of REAL game play doesn't beat PONG tho. With it's high definition graphics and easy to use interface. For kids of all ages...

Planet of the Apes: Get your hands off me you damn dirty ape...

I'm sorry too. I take it back. I don't drink coffee. Maybe I should start I thought you were trying to piss me off sorry again...

No that's NOT what I was saying! Yes it does matter, but every component in your machine matters. Even if your machine is made up of the most expensive super fast components, even then the slowest components are still going to be your system's bottle neck. GET IT? So when you want to upgrade your machine you upgrade the slowest part to get the most out of an upgrade. Jesus can't anyone understand F*CKING ENGLISH? Dude, I still have a TRS-80 lying around somewhere. I bet you've never even seen one. I know my computers. I know how they work. In fact I work with them every day. You guys seem to think you know everything but if you can't understand what I am saying in children's English then you are DUMBER THAN I THOUGHT! I thought my last post what dumbed down enough so a mentally crippled child could understand it. No, obviously not. So I can easily say that I can't leave it to people who know what they are talking about because the people saying it DON'T HAVE A CLUE! I know what I am talking about. I've been f*cking with computers since 1979 and it's my f*cking job! My TRS-80 was actually my first 'desktop' computer Why can't people on these forums be a bit more constructive rather than spell checking other people's post and criticizing what people have to say if they are trying to help. As to the stupidity of the replies to my posts. YOU ARE F*CKING RETARDS. Read the words in the post properly, THEN make a constructive comment instead of trying to F*CK me off. Or start learning your A B C's To all those who think they know everything: You don't know everything. Even I don't know everything.

You're a real no brainer ay? Do you understand what people even are saying when they are leaving a post True? I was trying to explain that if you've got, for example, a piece of shit ati rage128 card and a 3Ghz cpu the video card is still gonna perform as it's maximum capabilites allow. having a 3Ghz processer of going to make no diffecence because the video card is a slow piece of shit. You're not gonna get 100Fps if it can only do 25. Can't turn shit into gold. It is! What a dumb thing to say. If it is reading off the drive then the rest of the computer is going to recieve the data as fast as the drive will go. If a hardrive is better than then rest of a crappy computer then Each component in a system could potentially bottle neck the data flow. That's why a computer is only as fast as it's slowest components. As for the floppy drive - if you where running a game of a floppy drive do you think that it's gonna load as fast as the compter can handle? No. It loads as fast as the floppy drive allows. Like I said in a nother post True if you're not helping shut up and let people who are trying to help say their thing instead of trying to stick your finger up their ass for trying. If you're gonna post do it constructively instead of being a dick about it. Officer Frank "Ponch" Poncherello

It's just the lag of the game. (that's if you mean skipping round the screen when you say quirky)

just reinstall VC.

bummer...