Is it possible to create smaller-than-full-screen video? I always get 400,240 when using video:getSize(). The file size also doesn't seem to be smaller than a fullscreen video (which is weird, since you'd expect the black bars on the side to compress.
Source and resulting files: gravity_express_test250x240.zip (1.6 MB)
Visually, I get what I want when using "scale to fit inside", but I'm after smaller filesizes, ofcourse.
I used both the 1bivideo mac app and the web encoder by @hteumeuleu. Same result, or am I missing something?
For both I used "scale to fit inside", which already indicates that this isn't what I'm looking for. I don't want any scaling for my 250x240 video.
I have the portable command-line version of the encoder working now using ffmpeg, will get that cleaned up and the source posted as soon as I can get all the other more important stuff taken care of.
Another advantage not mentioned is that the audio is converted to wav in this version, which is compatible with he sdk. Great for protyping, altough for optimization you'll probably want to convert the audio yourself, to 22khz for example
I used this to create a the pdv and pda files but they crash the playorama app when I try to load it with them installed. The pdv created by the web version is twice as big, and has no audio but it loads and runs fine. Any ideas?
It was my newby error. The default resolution on the app (256x144) was not right for the PlayDate. I initially ran it without changing any settings. Once I figured out the resolution was wrong everything worked great.
Well thank you for this! That is indeed an edge case I didn't take into account. (Especially since 1bitvideo.app didn't allow for different video sizes initially so I didn't even think about this.) I just pushed a fix to Playorama for this: Release v1.0.1 · hteumeuleu/playorama · GitHub
Is there any chance there could be an online conversion tool or simple command line/program for pc? I'm admittedly no coder but I would love to have all the homestarrunner episodes on my playdate but quite frankly have no clue how to work this sort of coder end stuff, I'm an art guy haha
A while back I started converting the core to a command-line tool that platform-specific applications could put a UI around.. I hope to get back to that some day, though there's plenty of higher priority stuff on my plate right now.
Can you explain to me the difference between Stuki, Atkinson, Sierra, Sierra Lite and so on? What's the most ideal format? and what's the smallest size? I am running into two issues as well.
I am trying to convert a movie I produced to PDV, but the original size is 69mb MP4, compressed. Yet it exports as PDV at 212MB. Why is that?
Problem 2: Audio format to PVA doesn't seem to translate well to the playdate. There's alot of base in the project so I tried to minimize that but the audio comes out unreasonably static-like. What's a viable format for audio before converting to PVA?
Thank you for this! I found myself somewhere stuck between Atkinson and Stuki, on one hand I like the Clariry of Stuki, but on the other I like the harsher contrast between shadows in Atkinson
Another thing that I have a question about is just simply playing a .pdv file after encoding it. Do I have to load it onto the Playdate just to see it? Or is there a .pdv emulator or codec?
