Dreamcast 4XM video testing

[Ian Micheal]

https://web.archive.org/web/20041216010 ... ultimedia/ this was what we used in the old days great trailers and encoded for low end systems of the time in 2000

[-drez01-]

Encoded a full 1.4 hour movie. Sadly it is 1.5 gigs on lowest bitrate. Took 80 hours +

Oh well guess it will be for GDEMU only..
Secret title coming soon!

[Ian Micheal]

Encoded a full 1.4 hour movie. Sadly it is 1.5 gigs on lowest bitrate. Took 80 hours +
29068604-5065-4631-9C2D-01318249B1E5.jpeg
Oh well guess it will be for GDEMU only..
Secret title coming soon!

that is about what i said it would take 80 hours plus lmao.. If it worked on serial port sd never tried it might you can make up to 4gb iso that works..

[Cass]

Encoded a full 1.4 hour movie. Sadly it is 1.5 gigs on lowest bitrate. Took 80 hours +
29068604-5065-4631-9C2D-01318249B1E5.jpeg
Oh well guess it will be for GDEMU only..
Secret title coming soon!

The first full 4xm encoded movie on Dreamcast after 80 hours of torture :p - history making stuff drez01.

[-drez01-]

Unfortunately the lowest bitrate really hurt the audio, as it combines both for total bitrate. Pops and cracks are frequent. After reviewing footage I don’t think it is watchable...

[SMiTH]

Unfortunately the lowest bitrate really hurt the audio, as it combines both for total bitrate. Pops and cracks are frequent. After reviewing footage I don’t think it is watchable...

Awesome work drez01.
When I tried to split The Outsiders movie into 4 parts, I ran into some issues as well.
After converting each .avi to 4xm, the video would run great for about 3min before it would freeze and then only play audio.

I really wish there was a way to find optimal settings for 4xm.
The format is capable of great quality video.
For that matter, it would be really nice if someone could create a new 4xm converter.
More than likely that is impossible?

[MastaG]

Unfortunately the lowest bitrate really hurt the audio, as it combines both for total bitrate. Pops and cracks are frequent. After reviewing footage I don’t think it is watchable...

Whats the picture quality like?
Is it better than VCD/DCDivX?

Isnt there some sweetspot for setting the bitrate?
GDI's can be as large as you want like?
For GDEmu/DreamShell users.

[-drez01-]

With the lowest bitrate for 4xm @ 640x480 I think it looks the same as a high bitrate 320x240 TBH. Not good, but tolerable. I started it again at the default bitrate because it will never fit on 1 or 2 CD's anyway. So I thought I would show off what the DC could do, instead of making everyone question the point of it. I am hoping it will be under 4 gigs but I dunno, it will be close..

[Scrivani]

Its cool, the point is just for fun and discovery, dreamcast life dudes

[Ian Micheal]

Unfortunately the lowest bitrate really hurt the audio, as it combines both for total bitrate. Pops and cracks are frequent. After reviewing footage I don’t think it is watchable...

Whats the picture quality like?
Is it better than VCD/DCDivX?

Isnt there some sweetspot for setting the bitrate?
GDI's can be as large as you want like?
For GDEmu/DreamShell users.

it's dvd qualty right done correct but you need 5 or 6 cdrs a movie.. It's not dvd bitrate so your not trying to do that..
Much better then VCD or DCDivX ..

640x480

4X MOVIE®, by 4X Technologies
1. Who are 4X Technologies ?
4X Technologies develop highly technical but easy to master professional tools aimed at the
producers and developers of multimedia items. 4X MOVIE is the most effective video compression
solution on the market and meets the whole range of your needs, whether you are a developer,
audiovisual producer or advertiser.
2. Video compression with 4X MOVIE
4X MOVIE is a video compression and decompression tool, which enables you to compress and
retrieve (digital) video sequences with Broadcast quality on most of the platforms (including 95% of
the PCs installed in the world). In addition to the visual quality of the compressed video material,
4X MOVIE is very simple to use thanks to its user-friendly tools
Who is designed 4X Movie® for?
For every professional user of digital videos:
- Game developers
- Multimedia applications developers
- BtoB and BtoC Communication agencies.
a) Quality
- Can compress in any resolution
- DVD quality from a 640*480 video at 25 frames/sec.
- 100% perfect reproduction both of real and computer-generated images
b) Performance
- The fastest software decompression
- Ex 1 : a 640*480 video at 25 frames/sec on a Pentium 166 MHz
- Ex 2 : a 1024*768 video at 50 frames/sec on a Pentium III 600 MHz
- Ex 3 : a 640*480 video at 60 frames/sec on the Dreamcast (SEGA).
c) Circulate your products to the masses
- On PC, MAC, Dreamcast, PS2 platforms
- On any supports: CD, DVD, GD ROM,…
- In different languages: up to 7 simultaneous languages
on a single 4X Movie file





taking using 5 to 6 cdr's per movie

slow ass seek time on cdr is your only limiting factor here can make very HQ not bit rate it's fast compression read the doc's and info i posted..