I did not blog (HALO 3) .

whats the big deal it's another FPS. (Halo 3) I did not stand in line in the midle of the night to buy it " (Halo 3) are any other video game". I did not pay x amount of $$ and find a scratched gamed CD. Wow that would of sucked. I did not buy an XBox-360 and have it over heat on me and then turn into a big brick. quality control - big corporation ? I did not buy the Hype. It's always something or another. * The next trend or fad is just around the corner. ************************************************ (Black Sheep and the Troll beast) ( Short story ) Let the Black sheep live in the dark tethered to the belly of the Troll Beast. That black sheep lived under the darkness of the beast. The sheep scavenged at the feet of their master. The sheep became slow and twisted and scared of the things that lived in the light. The Beast kept his Black Sheep tethered by the throat to a chain around his waist. He kept this chain tethered tightly to control the Black Sheep. The Black sheep would stumble about in the darkness they often bumped into one another in the dark and trip and fell over one another causing great chaos. This chaos was fueled by their fear of the unknown. In darkness without light the Black sheep could not see clearly. ************************************************* (to be continued ?).

FFMPEG : cmp 2 test on dvp642

WARDCRAFT: I tried a couple more setting on (Phillips dvp640) divx DVD player to see if they would work. --
-- NOTE using ffmpeg: final video will be 352x240 ntsc cif - div3 avi and it will play on this divx DVD player (Phillips dvp640) but the player is junk and will probably brake on me any day . Do a Google search on the player and on Phillips they do not have a good track record. --

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ffmpeg -i *.avi -vcodec msmpeg4 -ab 128 -b 592 -bufsize 4096 -mbd 2 -precmp 0 -cmp 2 -subcmp 2 -s 320x208 -padtop 16 -padbottom 16 -padleft 16 -padright 16 -t 00:24:04.6 new-DIV3--[at512ab96]msmpeg4.AVI
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-- The video did not scale well on my computer but it did scale well on my TV. - I padded the video so that the divx player on my TV would not cut of the sub tittles. -
- "what is cmp 2"
- Comparison Function for Motion estimation. I tried using cmp and I think it made the video look a little better. -
- cmp 0 = default *
* cmp 2 = handamard = anime ? *
* cmp 3 = dct =? and good for live action I think.*
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* subcomp 2 ? Is good for anime, acording to some video site I read.*
* "subcomp 2 good for anime." -*
* precmp 0 - is the default and fastest . 0 is sufficient for precmp. I don't know why it's just something I read online. -*
* mbd 2*
* mbd 2 = High Quality Macroblock Decision Algorithem. mbd 2 is the same as vhq.*
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* mbd 1 is faster but not the best quality.*
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* THE video I tested on my player was 352x240 ntsc and it looked OK.*
* The final video size ended up at 126MB . -*
* I all so test 640x480 video . playback looked good but my computer is slow 800mhz so I'm not going to code a lot of video at 640x480.