Resizing ingame screens (image and movie)

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This is to branch off from Aali's thread which has the tool (palmer) we use to extract the images and place them back into the game.

On images:

Fractals seems to be the best for resizing them with minimal loss of quality and when used with a basic sharpen filter makes for impressive results when compared with usual resizing method.  

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Fractals:  http://www.ononesoftware.com/detail.php?prodLine_id=2

Fractals with sharpen:
http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg129/SeiferAlmasy2008/new-fractals-smartsharpenonly.png

*note I went a bit overboard with sharpen here, would need to be a bit less

Fractals without sharpen
http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg129/SeiferAlmasy2008/new.png

Old Method:
http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg129/SeiferAlmasy2008/new-oldmethodenlargement.png

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Movies:

For optimal quality, movies should be extracted from the PSX game (since FF7 PC simply reencoded the MOV and STR)

The PSX resolution is 320*224 which is pretty crap.  Finding the optimal method to resize to 4X and get best quality will be a harder task.  At the moment a program was submitted to me called "Video Enhancer"  I am now running tests and will have upload file shortly.

There is an example below.  Unfortunately I have run into a problem.  Some of the video's have a heavy amount of pixellation that stays there in the resize
 
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Whoa, looks really good. Much better than I expected, and definitely better than the original movie files.
 
Hmm i'm gonna add this to my replacement FMV's, There was no sound though. Might be an issue with WMP though.
 
Hmm i'm gonna add this to my replacement FMV's, There was no sound though. Might be an issue with WMP though.
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I didn't add sound to it....and it is onlya  section of the full FMV ;)  just for testing purpose.  Sound is peanuts anyway, 224 Kbit will be more than enough at AAC compared to 3000-4000 for video
 
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Too bad that we don't know how to replace the backgrounds yet. Your method for them looks very promising too.
 
Too bad that we don't know how to replace the backgrounds yet. Your method for them looks very promising too.
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Aali is working on that program "palmer" and I have every confidence he will make it work with uploading images too :)
 
Hmm i'm gonna add this to my replacement FMV's, There was no sound though. Might be an issue with WMP though.
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I didn't add sound to it....and it is onlya  section of the full FMV ;)  just for testing purpose.  Sound is peanuts anyway, 224 Kbit will be more than enough at AAC compared to 3000-4000 for video
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Well i'll add it once we get sound on there haha, I'd love to help, But if any programs you guys are using costs money, We're outta luck, I'm poor haha

Noob Alert: How do you extract the videos from the PSX? tried just moving it from disc to folder, But it's giving me errors
 
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A tool called PSXMC, freeware edition.

Converts to any codec.  Lagarith is the best option here as it is lossless encoding and much better than Huffyuv.  If my reencodings get approval I will do the lot.  But need aalis advice and peoples input.


I am using heavy duty stuff here also....like Sony vegas / fractals.
 
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A tool called PSXMC, freeware edition.

Converts to any codec.  Lagarith is the best option here as it is lossless encoding and much better than Huffyuv.  If my reencodings get approval I will do the lot.  But need aalis advice and peoples input.


I am using heavy duty stuff here also....like Sony vegas / fractals.
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understandable. Soon i'll be adding you to my list of people who have changed the face of FF7 :-)

Dumb question i'm sure, But is Sony Vegas freeware/opensourced?
 
No vegas is an expensive program by Sony :)  Like all things there are ways around paying but I am not short of money and so I pretty much always pay for software
 
No vegas is an expensive program by Sony :)  Like all things there are ways around paying but I am not short of money and so I pretty much always pay for software
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Guess i am limited in my ability to help outside of testing. Damn you job market! :cry:

Well, either something is wrong with my disc, Or this program hates 64 bit because i can't get it to even read the CD :x
 
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I use vista 64 bit....  the settings in PSXMC have to be set properly or it won't see the drive
 
Oh, well i feel stupid haha.. How do i configure it?

Still don't see the setting you told me to use with the codec though, i only have AVI and CSTR
 
psx MC options > DRIVE tab > uncheck use ASPI.  Make sure you are using SPTI and select your drive.

restart program.

Select media with open option or scan drive
 
psx MC options > DRIVE tab > uncheck use ASPI.  Make sure you are using SPTI and select your drive.

restart program.

Select media with open option or scan drive
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Alright got that, But i still don't see the lossless codec you're talking about, unless it's the uncompressed.

Also, There are some files (STR0001-STR008 for example) that won't play. I'm sure i did something wrong.
 
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The installer did it all for me....  there is a main installer there
 
Didn't know that was 64 bit haha Whoops

Any idea why STR0001-0008 don't load up? Or is it always like that?
 
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