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Manually creating, editting and viewing .mvi files

kiddac said:
How to view mvi files. Change the extension to mpg and windows media player will show them.
How to create your own still or animated mvi files. Just use an mpeg converter software whether online or on your desktop.
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Struggle with this on a mac - VLC nor Quicktime will play the file, so I'm guessing it's not encoding like a usual MPEG file, I can spin up a VM of Windows 7 and using media player and I see the logo flash briefly before getting the restart (so I guess I can see from that which logo it is, but I can't inspect it in any detail).

But isn't mpeg encoding a very variable affair? And I guess any standard tools I have for that on my mac aren't going to work as the players I have won't play the existing files.
 
I am also getting very stuttering animation. I am trying gif to mpg at the moment. Yet that small space scene graphic worked first time. I think your better with mpeg1 than mpeg2

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I will have a good play around with this tomorrow with a full blown video converter. I'll see what settings work or don't. size, bitrate, frame rate etc.
 
Tmpgenc is mentioned on a lot of forums of old for creating the mpegs. I remember using this years ago and didn't even realise it still existed. Had a quick play around with this for a few minutes last night. (just exist the wizard and do it manually though. wizard no good) Seems ok, I haven't found the perfect settings yet though. Have a dabble with this.

And Wivelden in answer to your question on my skin thread, I just created a backup and added the splash.bin to the zgemma/sh1 folder. I believe on VIX you have an update folder I remember reading you can just add it to that folder and just update that on its own. I Don't use vix so can't confirm that.
 
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Managed to flash just the splash.bin file and it worked. Set the bmp to 1280x720 but the picture was really blocky. Going to try a higher resolution but the file size is over 2mb now where sucumnsee's one was small file size for a huge resolution. Not sure how to reduce the file size..
 
splash.bin has to be 720 x 526 bmp.

I was having a mess about with tmpgenc video converter before. I managed to convert a gif to mpeg via an online converter. Then I ran it through tmpgenc and got a pretty good animation going on. The only problem is the animation doesn't loop. So once it plays once the animation stops. Probably can be used for some sort of glowing graphic animation, but I have now switched back to a static image.

Here are the settings to use for tmpgenc instead of using xorion bootlogo. The lower the frame rate the higher quality your picture will be. You can even go down to 1 frame a second for ultimate clarity. It will massively slow your boot down if you do this though. 4 or 6 frames work ok. 25fps is normal though.

Stream type: ES (video only)

video stream settings
Stream type: MPEG-1
Size: 1920 x 1080
Aspect ratio: 1:1
Framerate: 25fps
Rate: Constant Bit Rate
Bitrate: 12000
Motion: normal
 
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