Howto: Multimedia on displays...

[Jamhot]

Originally Posted by Legends

Fraps seems to be a good one, unfortunately it only allows me to record 30 seconds at a time (trial version).

Still looking for a better one I guess.

Thanks anyway guys

Just buy it ya tight git!

Jamhot

P.S. I now have over 10k peds worth of EntropiaTV clips available for colonists screens for FREE just pm me if you want stuff added to your display. JamhotTV the #1 colonist run TV Channel in entropiauniverse!

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[Shard-Angel]

Here is a thread I had started a few days back:

Signs, Screens, Displays! Oh my!

Here is EU's official documentation: Advertising.

This should come in handy for all those questions.

[avg123]

From a US perspective, 60 USD to upload a video?

YouTube is free.

[Queen]

Thanks for the informative post. i would give +rep but it seems i cant give any rep to this post

Originally Posted by BlueBoy

Search words: display kbp video rate stream music movie multimedia sign

Hi ladies and gents!

I’m really not sure if this is the place to put this thread but I hope so. I have been searching the forum for some tips on the new “display” signs but never saw any so now when I have experimented some on my own I just put what I was learning here. Please feel free to correct or add experience.

The final result is too be watched at The House of Lords HQ at Billton Tower 3, 6B.

Screen of use: Reon-W Display (PC) (it is a 1:2 ratio)

Movie info
Size: 512x256 px
Fps: 12 fps
Sound: 22khz, 32bit
Filesize: 40MB
Format: AVI cinepak compression, keyfram every 3rd frame.

The journey
First thing I did was downloading the Bink software from RAD Game Tools. Although I have been working with video a long time a go it was not exactly clear too me what to do when I first opened the program. But I recommend opening the radvideo.exe file. From there you can find the file you wish to convert and then you press the Bink Video button with the label “Bink it””.

Since I already in the movie creating stage had the ratio and size adapted to my sign size I didn’t had to use that much settings here. So my tip is to make as much preparation as possible before entering the Bink program.

Settings I used was “Compress to a data rate” which made a nice quality when put to 80 000 bytes. Allong with the “Compress audio settings” 16-bit/Stereo it was still a little too big (14MB). But very nice quality though. The downside was the price for upload that was about 507 ped. Since it was my first try (and more of a test) I didn’t want to put that much ped into it. But if you want quality that was the settings.

Instead I used “Compress to a data rate” 30 000 bytes and the 8bit/Stereo settings. I make no secret of the lack of quality on the video but on a little sign it was not that bad. And the cost for the upload then went down to 217 ped. 43.32 ped from that price is the value of the video and will return to me if/when I delete it.

Now I repaired my sign to the 90% TT value (on my sign it was 316 ped TT) that is needed for making changes on it (note that the content still will play under the 90% TT value just that no changes can be made.)

I now putted my sign on the wall (it took 15 items places) and activated it. It works like any other sign or commercial add terminal. The movie will show under the backgrounds but this you will notice if you hit preview now and then during the making. And NOTE that I think you have to place sequences that match your movies length so the whole movie is shown! I put in three alike sequences (one was not able to reach over the whole movie length for some reason) with the soc internet address on it (in a very small font size tho). You can just leave the sequences blank if you like but be sure the "Duration" of the sequences all together is the length of your movie.

When done I pressed the ok button and was notified a 17,6 ped fee was charged.. but not from the ped card but from the TT value of the sign. So I got some money “back” on that one.

To sum up the hardest work was making the movie and then convert it too a nice format that was acceptable but not to expensive. Now when I know how to do I (and hopefully you too) can use a better compression in the Bink software.

Cost:
Sign: 120 ped
Repair of sign: 311 ped
Upload fee: 217 ped
Sign fee: -17.6 ped (since it was taken of the repair of the sign)
Total: 630,4 ped

The final result is too be watched at The House of Lords HQ at Billton Tower 3, 6B.

And again please feel free to correct me or post your own experiences from multimedia signs here!

Over and out!
/OZ

[Dextar]

Interesting, all of this!

In RL I am a musician and dabble in video production.

I also have a fairly good DAW recording system (Cuebase with Presonus Soundcard and lots of insturments and mics and such)

I would love to put this stuff to use for EU.

Where can I get more info on media creation in EU?

Thanks in advance.

Dex