Questions about the Mediatracker

[Soprah]

Hey,

I am learning the Mediatracker. Recently, I rendered a replay clip with high quality settings. The replay was 19 seconds long. When the rendering process was finished, I looked in the screenshots folder (where the rendered footage is stored) and I saw 2 "weird" things.

1) The clip was divided into several small pieces. Why?
2) Each little piece was 1000mb big. And each piece was only 2 seconds long Is that normal for high settings? I installed Maniaplanet on my SSD. Can I change the output-folder of my renders to an external hard-disk? And how?

I guess I'll come up with new questions about the Mediatracker so I'll keep this topic as a central place for my questions.

Greetings,
Soprah

[riolu]

1) Maniaplanet always splits video files when they exceed the size of 1GB.
2) Destination folder cannot be changed unfortunately (I hope such a feature gets added some day).

I assume you're using uncompressed frames to render the replays, which results in those huge file sizes. I recommend using a different codec such as x264vfw or Lagarith which offer the same good quality at reasonable file sizes.

[Soprah]

Thanks for the quick and helpful answer riolu

2) Indeed. If there isn't any solution to change the destination folder, then I'd probably have to install Maniaplanet on my 1TB hard-disk because there isn't much free space left on my SSD.

I am new to all those "video creating stuff". What kind of codec do you mean? I can't see any codec when I chose the rendering settings. Do you mean the final "data format"? I can chose "AVI / WebM" there while WebM offers a wide range of possibilities on "advanced parameters". But I can't see any codec, especially no "x264vfw" or "Lagarith".

Greetings,
Soprah

[Florenzius]

You choose your video-format -> Avi
Then you click the "render"-button and a small white window opens and there you can choose your codec like "Lagarith"

That should work

[riolu]

Codecs like the above mentioned ones have to be downloaded seperately.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/x264vfw/
https://lags.leetcode.net/codec.html