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I've done the same with some music videos as well!galaxygod wrote:loving this tool! i converted some of my music videos but i noticed that your converter added a white screen at the very end that says something like "we are proud to present" and it flashes twice before ending
An easy solution would be to replace the 256x256px PVRs (SOFTDEC.PVR and WARNER.PVR) inside of "bin\sfd_player\movie" with a PVR of the same size that contains nothing but solid black. Obviously modifying the executable could take it further and remove the call to display one or both of those textures, but that's more effort than is necessary for something like this.alexfree wrote:I've done the same with some music videos as well!galaxygod wrote:loving this tool! i converted some of my music videos but i noticed that your converter added a white screen at the very end that says something like "we are proud to present" and it flashes twice before ending
About the whitescreen, that is just how the old SFD_Player works, I didn't make it, just modified it. I might be able to remove this in a few ways in a new version.
This is great info! I will credit you for this in the next release. So I can just make a black pvr and replace those pvrs which are the ones that generate the end of video message.ateam wrote:An easy solution would be to replace the 256x256px PVRs (SOFTDEC.PVR and WARNER.PVR) inside of "bin\sfd_player\movie" with a PVR of the same size that contains nothing but solid black. Obviously modifying the executable could take it further and remove the call to display one or both of those textures, but that's more effort than is necessary for something like this.alexfree wrote:I've done the same with some music videos as well!galaxygod wrote:loving this tool! i converted some of my music videos but i noticed that your converter added a white screen at the very end that says something like "we are proud to present" and it flashes twice before ending
About the whitescreen, that is just how the old SFD_Player works, I didn't make it, just modified it. I might be able to remove this in a few ways in a new version.
EDIT: If you need help rendering those textures, let me know. It’s very easy, but if you don’t know where to start, you may get stuck. I’m more than happy to lend a hand!
The only thing you might need to do is ensure your new PVR matches the specifications of the originals. Some DC games/applications are programmed in a more "forgiving" way when it comes to this, so if it doesn't work at first (or causes crashes), try rendering your texture to match the original.alexfree wrote:This is great info! I will credit you for this in the next release. So I can just make a black pvr and replace those pvrs which are the ones that generate the end of video message.
I just did this successfully, it works. I think however a white texture would be better. At the end of the video, the executable displays WARNER.PVR, scrolls into white, displays SOFTDEC.PVR, scrolls into white, then black (order of pvrs might be wrong in my description but doesn't matter as both of them need to be replaced by the same texture for what we want). The black texture still is kind of jarring.ateam wrote:The only thing you might need to do is ensure your new PVR matches the specifications of the originals. Some DC games/applications are programmed in a more "forgiving" way when it comes to this, so if it doesn't work at first (or causes crashes), try rendering your texture to match the original.alexfree wrote:This is great info! I will credit you for this in the next release. So I can just make a black pvr and replace those pvrs which are the ones that generate the end of video message.
. I will include this script and another one which merges multiple files into one for the opposite effect (think multiple episodes of a short show or multiple music videos).Nice! To be honest with you, I didn’t test your utility before suggesting this, so I had no idea about the fade-to-white. Glad to see you’ve got it working, though!alexfree wrote:I just did this successfully, it works. I think however a white texture would be better. At the end of the video, the executable displays WARNER.PVR, scrolls into white, displays SOFTDEC.PVR, scrolls into white, then black (order of pvrs might be wrong in my description but doesn't matter as both of them need to be replaced by the same texture for what we want). The black texture still is kind of jarring.
I also have made a script that splits long media files into specified time intervels, i.e. 25 minute splits. I just watched a movie with 3 CD-Rs
Edit: The white texture is perfect!
Again, thanks for pointing me in the right direction.ateam wrote:Nice! To be honest with you, I didn’t test your utility before suggesting this, so I had no idea about the fade-to-white. Glad to see you’ve got it working, though!alexfree wrote:I just did this successfully, it works. I think however a white texture would be better. At the end of the video, the executable displays WARNER.PVR, scrolls into white, displays SOFTDEC.PVR, scrolls into white, then black (order of pvrs might be wrong in my description but doesn't matter as both of them need to be replaced by the same texture for what we want). The black texture still is kind of jarring.
I also have made a script that splits long media files into specified time intervels, i.e. 25 minute splits. I just watched a movie with 3 CD-Rs
Edit: The white texture is perfect!
By the way, are you familiar with the “Project Berkley” bonus disc that shipped with Virtua Fighter 3tb in Japan? It’s a 30-minute-or-so Yu Suzuki interview about Shenmue, stored as a single SFD played back by a simple executable. It doesn’t feature any playback controls (if I recall correctly), but I thought you might be interested in looking at it. I’m not saying there’s any advantage to changing your utility to leverage this player instead of the one you’ve got, but it’s still cool to play around with.
You can grab the GDI here: https://archive.org/download/tosecdcmul ... 002%5D.zip