In case you didn't know, since the previous update of maniaplanet it is again (since using .bik movies was broken) possible to have movies on your billboard. I decided to make a showcase of it and here it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DRCceFS3f0
Since previous maniaplanet update it is again possible to have your own movies on the billboards. The restriction is that they have to be in .webm format.
The good news is that they work again.
The bad news is that, like in some previous maniaplanet update while movies where still in .bik format, that when you combine movies like i did in the above example and start a race, the movies are out of sync. They only run in sync when in the trackeditor you open up the saved track and look at the billboard. As soon as you start to validate the track, they are out of sync.Please fix this synchronisation Nadeo, in the last versions of maniaplanet were .bik files where still allowed, the synchronisation also worked...
<edit> i noticed that after a while the video tends to speed up ..., please fix this too Nadeo
</edit>Proces to create this:
- Original movie: 148MB, 1509 frames, 30fps, 720P, WEBM format
- Converted into 1509 individual jpg's with FreeVideoToJPGConverter
- Divided those 1509 into 37725 smaller jpg's (with a selfmade program)
- Stiched 25x1509 files into 25 uncompressed AVI movies, 3.9 GB total (With another selfmade program)
- Converted AVI files to WEBM using ffmpeg resulting in 25 webm files, 20.8 MB total
- pointed each billboard to a separate webm movie
- made this movie while in the editor with NVIDIA shadowplay
To create your own webm movie for use as avatar or billboard movie, download ffmpeg (freeware) and use the following command:
<complete path to ffmpeg.exe>ffmpeg.exe -i <path to movie to convert><existing moviename> -c:v libvpx -crf 10 -b:v <BITRATE>K <path to resulting moviename><resulting moviename>
example command:
c:\ffmpeg\bin\ffmpeg.exe -i c:\ffmpeg\data\demo.avi -c:v libvpx -crf 10 -b:v 150K c:\webm\demo.webm
*experimenting with the bitrate can learn you about the size of the resulting movie
5o5 Smurf
