Subman1 Flying a Cobra Gunship (after a few beers) in Armed Assault

[SUBMAN1]

In case anyone wants to know what Armed Assault looks like, I figured I'd do a little convoy attack mission and fly around one of the main islands a little (though you will only get to see a fraction of the entire land mass). For fun, I land the helo and take out the last Ural by hand (M-4, 3 round burst).

http://files-upload.com/412530/Subman1Armed_Assault_Cobra.avi.html

I recorded this last night after I upgraded my recording station. I still need to buy a KVM switch I think though since I need to cut down the # of monitors in my room from 5 down to 3. I have no more room the way things are going.

By the way, let me know what you think of the video quality. Most recordings that I see on line seem to have some choppy FPS, but I attempted to maintain full FPS throughout here. The system frame rate doesn't seem to conflict with the 29.97 (NTSC) frame rate of the capture box.

If anyone has a laptop on their desk, you can turn it into an additional monitor for your system with this little proggy - http://www.maxivista.com/

-S

[Chock]

Tried to watch it (even though I do already have ARMA), but it doesn't seem to want to display online with a buffered feed, so I tried the old 'right click save target as', and it's a 288Mb file that would take almost 2 hours to download on my 9 meg broadband, so I guess that site has limited bandwidth for downloads. I'd like to see it, but not THAT much!
Did you take it with FRAPS? whenever I do that, I import the FRAPS footage into a video editing program and save it in some compressed format, and that tends to get rid of the choppiness that FRAPS can sometimes engender things with (and if anything will give you choppy FPS, it's that PMDG 747). That's how this one was done, and despite youtube's compression and 100 meg upload limit, this thing can still be viewed full screen at reasonably decent quality (you may already have seen this one BTW, I think the original file I uploaded to youtube was about 71 meg, which, at exactly 5 mins long, would work out at about 70 meg less than your 15 minute chopper attack):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efl_sjJY6Go

:D Chock

[STEED]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efl_sjJY6Go

:D Chock

A tribute to the mile high club. :shifty:

[SUBMAN1]

Tried to watch it (even though I do already have ARMA), but it doesn't seem to want to display online with a buffered feed, so I tried the old 'right click save target as', and it's a 288Mb file that would take almost 2 hours to download on my 9 meg broadband, so I guess that site has limited bandwidth for downloads. I'd like to see it, but not THAT much!
Did you take it with FRAPS? whenever I do that, I import the FRAPS footage into a video editing program and save it in some compressed format, and that tends to get rid of the choppiness that FRAPS can sometimes engender things with (and if anything will give you choppy FPS, it's that PMDG 747). That's how this one was done, and despite youtube's compression and 100 meg upload limit, this thing can still be viewed full screen at reasonably decent quality (you may already have seen this one BTW, I think the original file I uploaded to youtube was about 71 meg, which, at exactly 5 mins long, would work out at about 70 meg less than your 15 minute chopper attack):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efl_sjJY6Go

:D Chock
Something is wrong with your inet connection is that is the case. I estimate 4.4 minutes to download on a 288 MB file on a 9 MB connect??? Not 2 hours. It is that large on purpose - high quality. Youtube makes things look kind of ugly in my book.

Anyway, no - I used a hacked/modded Tivo turned Linux box to do the job. I prefer a dedicated system instead of eating CPU cycles in an already machine stressing game! :D

Your vid is pretty funny though!

-S

PS. Here is a map incase you ever get it downloaded to bring things into perspective:

PPS. THis was encoded with XVid ver 1.1.3 (A brand new rev) - http://www.xvidmovies.com/codec/

http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/9200/convoyattackmapjb7.jpg

[SUBMAN1]

...and despite youtube's compression and 100 meg upload limit, this thing can still be viewed full screen at reasonably decent quality (you may already have seen this one BTW, I think the original file I uploaded to youtube was about 71 meg, which, at exactly 5 mins long, would work out at about 70 meg less than your 15 minute chopper attack):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efl_sjJY6Go

:D Chock

Just looked at the actual flv of your once 70 MB youtube vid - It has a lot compression blocks, and little detail. This is fine for the type of vid it is though. It won't work for trying to pick out small details on the ground from the cockpit of a helo, so I really can't use it. I can see why the compression blocks exist - they compressed it to less than 11.5 MB (I downloaded it to analyze). On my vid, you wouldn't even be able to see any swaying grass, and you wouldn't even be able to see a single guy on the ground if I did this (Its already hard to see them at 640x480 - any less and you will have no idea what I was shooting at) so I am stuck using the higher resolution and higher bitrate. Maybe I shouldn't tell you, but the source file I used was originally 1.8 GB! :D


My efforts to preserve as much detail as possible:

I left full recorded detail, used a 8 tap resizer (Alpha code still, but it works fine without error) to match NTSC spec, wrote an AVISynth script for it and ran it through a deinterlacer, so the AVI is progressive frame, and followed up with cropping it to exact size - no black borders. I then loaded it in VirtualDUB, and set up for a 2 pass compression using a quantiziser setting of 2 for both I and P frames, and a setting of q 4 for B frames (VHQ is also set for B frames). I opted to leave global motion compensation off and quarter pixel off to keep it compatible with standard DivX.

For the audio, I took the MPEG-1 stream, had to manually line up the audio with the frames (it didn't transfer right when re-building the ty stream) and converted it to a VBR (VBR old of course - Besweet engine) MP3 stream using a setting of Q100, and then muxed it in using Nandub.

The point is, if I popped this on YouTube - this quality is gone. Nothing I can do about it. It is lost forever and anything tiny won't even see show up.

See my delimma? Besides, if anyone has an interest in ArmA, then they will spend the 5 min it takes do download it, if you know what I mean.

-S