Animated Screensavers

Malixx

@mrjordaaany Yeah I cheated, in reality it's a screensaver for the second Advance Wars, sadly I can't find any artwork of the first Advance Wars in good quality!

Malixx

UPDATE (15/07/2018):

Added Metroid screensaver.
Added Metroid 2: Return of Samus screensaver.
Added Metroid Fusion screensaver.
Added Super Smash Bros. screensaver.

SuperFromND

Noticed that the file sizes are a bit on the large side. Have you tried out Handbrake, by chance? Really helps with compressing video without losing much quality.

Malixx

@supercatfooz I'm using Adobe Media Encoder CC in H264, I thought it couldn't be lighter than it is (I tried 720p but its kinda the same) I will try Handbrake when I can, but does it really reduce that much?

SuperFromND

@malixx From my experience, yes. Haven't tried it with your clips yet, though.

Edit: Tried it with your Smash Bros. wallpaper. Default settings compressed it from 37MB to just 7.

Hyruleslink

Hmm. When I was downloading from YouTube at 1080p, they were only around 3-4mb.

SuperFromND

@hyruleslink That's because YouTube uploads aren't lossless. YouTube videos get compressed quite a bit for the sake of storing more videos on their servers without having to buy tons of new ones.

Malixx

@supercatfooz Not bad! Thank you, I didn't had the time to try it out, I hope the quality is still good.

Malixx

@hyruleslink Finally I will keep uploading them on YouTube and eventually in the future I will make the files smaller anyway :)

DarishZone

Sorry Malixx, your previous 1080p videos was on 13mb side. There's a chance to back to that size? New videos are almost 4x bigger.

Malixx

@darishzone I will do as soon as I find the right settings on Media Encoder CC (if anyone can help btw, I'm taking any advice!), using Handbrake like suggested @SuperCatFooz makes the task tedious for me due to the multiple renders I must do :(

DarishZone

@malixx said in Animated Screensavers:

@darishzone I will do as soon as I find the right settings on Media Encoder CC (if anyone can help btw, I'm taking any advice!), using Handbrake like suggested @SuperCatFooz makes the task tedious for me due to the multiple renders I must do :(

Thank you! With your tutorial i managed to get videos working, so they play random when screensaver is activated, it is so great but my PI3B is stressed, menu became clunky and unresponsive. I'm afraid the video size is too big. I will also check if 720p videos could improve performance.

Malixx

@darishzone I have made some tweaks and I can go down to 6,95 Mo and the quality is not that bad, maybe I will stick to it.

https://mega.nz/#!GCYGBKDJ!x8os-2iBtdGqfE6s5P5_zxrniNErj9pqUeoTMnTKqSw

DarishZone

Seems good man. Meanwhile i've tried YT videos, downloaded via jdownloader at 1080p, size is around 10mb each, some quality loss but acceptable. But the set lacks your latest works.

Seems a LOT better with 10mb videos.

Malixx

@darishzone Can you post the details of the video files you end up with? (Right click > Proprieties > Details > Video > Bitrates, Framerate...) Maybe I can reproduce your process without the download from YT, or should I stick with the 6.95 Mo like in my previous post?

DarishZone

@malixx said in Animated Screensavers:

@darishzone Can you post the details of the video files you end up with? (Right click > Proprieties > Details > Video > Bitrates, Framerate...) Maybe I can reproduce your process without the download from YT, or should I stick with the 6.95 Mo like in my previous post?

Sure, tested 1 hour of screensaver rolling and menu still snappy, while with 40mb videos start to became unresponsive and laggy.
I've found that some videos are in fact around 5mb.
Here's files info
Dimension: 1920x1080
Codec: H.264, AAC
Color profile: HD (1-1-1)
Lenght: 30
Birate: 2482
Framerate: 30

Malixx

@darishzone Ok thank you! It's pretty close from the test I made :)

Malixx

UPDATE (19/07/2018):
I have made some changes to all screensavers:

All files rare now under 10 Mo.
The videos are starting and fading away the same way.
They have now moving and slightly bigger logos.
They are 32 seconds long so the cut to another screensaver isn't too brutal.
Minor graphic updates in some old screensavers.

DarishZone

Great, can't wait to test them. I've already noticed you improved all screensavers, bigger logos and more dynamism (?). For example, i don't like so much the new SF2 one with white Capcom logo, but now thankfully you removed it.
Still disappointed i don't have Tomb Raider artwork screensaver yet :/

Edit: Videos works like a charm, thank you!

Malixx

Hey guys, I think I have some issues.

With the new video format of 32 seconds and the Swap Video set to 31s the black screen between screensavers are at least 5 seconds long!

But when I change Swap Video to 30s it's fine, but its too soon for the fade away...

Is it me only or should I cut the videos back to 30 seconds? (But if I remember correctly, it was the same before)