Hi all, > On Friday, 13 June 2008 at 0:19, bugs buggy wrote: >> I haven't done much with video stuff, but I used ffmpeg with a >> bitrate >> of 2400K, and used the 'double sized' video (as in, it skips ever >> other scanline to make the FMV appear bigger than it is), so while >> the > > Skip every other line means inserting black lines, or doubling the > lines? Inserting black lines will increase the needed bitrate way too > much (if you want to do that, rather do it after decoding the video), > and doubling the lines won't really make it look different, will it? > (And also can be done as post-processing, rather than eating bits > unnecessarily.)
I agree here. Doing it in software *after* we have de-compressed the video is the way to go. A lot of games, however, did use this technique of adding in alternate black lines. Namely, early C&C and TA spring to mind. It does work. Regards, Freddie. _______________________________________________ Warzone-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/warzone-dev
