Jnes records game play to a data file which contains the state of the
NES plus your input. If you are just interested in capturing movies
for yourself or sharing them with people who have Jnes, this is the most efficient way.
However if you want to share your video on social media or
YouTube.com
you will need to convert your Jnes movie file to an AVI which contains
the video and audio. Additionally in order to
keep the file to a reasonable size it is necessary to compress it.
Click Save As and choose a location to store your AVI file
In the codec selection dialog pick "Xvid MPEG-4 Codec"
You may now Start playback
Advanced users may desire to click the the Configure button to change the
bitrate and other quality options. Generally speaking a bit-rate of 750K
is more than sufficient for rendering. If you are rendering for publishing I would suggest recording in Jnes and
then using a third-party program such as ffmpeg
to reduce the file size further. Once rendering starts be patient, it may take a while.
If you are short on time or XviD is not working, Cinepak Codec by Radius is included with
most versions of Microsoft Windows, and can be an alternative for short videos.
Known issue with XviD
Some versions of XviD may open a diagnostics window with frame encoding
information when you are recording. If this window is left open
it will crash Jnes once recording finishes, make sure you close it!
Hmm you might want to start up a thread on emutalk.net then and attach a picture of where your confusion is, the comments area isn't a great place for diagnosing problems
First things first, the movie recording is a great feature and a huge timesaver for me. It's extremely easy to use and it works.
My problem: While the recording feature works for me, when I play it back and do the actual recording, it quits when it's finished. Better explained, it will play the entire movie back as it's encoding. When the playback status reaches 100 percent, I get the "JNES has stopped working" message. It then forces it to shut down. My movie is still encoded and plays just fine as an .avi. It might just be a bug or something I have checked that I shouldn't have.
I'm running Vista 32-bit, JNES 1.0.1 and I'm using the basic options for the movie recording (I didn't change anything in the calc options.) I also have "Sleep with emulator in background" and "Limit FPS" checked.
Yep. It's encoding using the Xvid AVI option. What's weird is, is I thought that maybe it was the Xvid causing the problem but when I encode ZSNES movies using the same option, I don't have the problem. It seems to be just JNES and Xvid.
I will try another encoding option and see what happens. Maybe I just can't use Xvid and JNES together.
Ah, I was wondering if you messed around with it. I am recording videos tonight so I will test that and see what happens. I will post results when I'm finished.
Question, no matter which type of compression I choose, even none, I just get this weird creepy EEEEEE noise and a skeleton face. Am I going to die? (How do I make the compression work? I installed XVid) Thanks!
you have to record a video in jnes then use the steps described in this article to render it to an Avi file. you then upload this Avi file to youtube.com using their upload wizard
Hey, I have a problem with converting my video to a .avi file. I used the Xvid MPEG-4 Codec, but when I play the .avi file, there's only gameplay sound and no video. I opened the right game and followed all of your instruction. I even installed the 12.2 version of Xvid, but it still doesn't work. Any help? Thanks.
Hi Frank, I just tried the release on my laptop, unfortunately I don't have Xvid installed here but I used Cinepak Radius which is included with windows and I have audio. Sorry it is not working for you, perhaps you disabled audio accidently or the playback software you are using can't play raw pcm audio?
I have a frustrating problem with the avi rendering. All of it, whether it's Cinepak or Xvid, it's all nothing more than just black with audio. What's the deal with that? I played it in MPC-HD, VLC, and previewed in Sony Vegas. The file itself is nothing more than just the audio, with no video.
I have a frustrating problem with the avi rendering. All of it, whether it's Cinepak or Xvid, it's all nothing
Sorry for the late reply. I was able to reproduce this problem with the latest MPC, not sure what happened this did work once! Windows Media Player and Virtual Dub seem to have no problem with video playback. At a glance I can't say what is wrong but I'll look into it.
When I try to convert it to avi it goes really slowly should I install xvid?
That's the reality of compressing things, it's why the converting step is separate from recording.
I'm having issues with recording gameplay footage. I'll click:
File -> Capture -> Movie -> Record -> Save As
Then it'll say in the bottom left-hand corner of the emulator:
Recording movie: Castlev.jmv
I'll record for a few minutes (5 or so), then when I'm done I'll click again:
File -> Capture -> Movie
But it doesn't give me the option to "Stop Recording", meaning that it didn't start in the first place, but it still SAYS "Recording movie: Castlev.jmv" in the corner. But it doesn't do anything. There is no file saved anywhere in the folder for the recording that I thought I just made.
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