Who gives a shit about usability and putting the information up front when you can set eyeballs on fire with a half viewport-filling, already played-out parallax effect for no reason other than the fact that it's a hot trend right now.
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Who gives a shit about usability and putting the information up front when you can set eyeballs on fire with a half viewport-filling, already played-out parallax effect for no reason other than the fact that it's a hot trend right now.
Funny because Jeff wants to do more road shows. You're so dismissive and elitist. It's sad.
Giant Bomb World Tour: Settling the Score
Jeff in full Vince McMahon mode, inviting people to bring their email beef into the ring.
Fried Food
Banned
Fixed and still wrong. It is noticeably worse imo
No, but it would take longer to encode. 720p @ 4MB/s won't look great regardless of encoding method, but it can look far better than what they're doing now. They should drop the 720p @ 1.8MB/s option, as those look doubly bad. 960x540 @ that bitrate would be much better.
I'd rather they went to something like this:
640x360 @ 800 KB/s
960x540 @ 1.8MB/s
1280x720 @ 4MB/s
I think last time it was a week or so? My memory may be rusty but its typically quite a wait because they have to get back in the office and then start the editing/rendering process.
LurkerPrime
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The only time I saw the video quality go crazy was during a Dark Souls Too video (Part 2 I think) when they're near some spider webs. With the webs covering most of the screen, the video quality just obliterated itself as if it weren't allowed to display the glorious luminescense of a spider's webs. I'm assuming this issue was only in the finished video, because no one mentioned it while they were playing. I think I was watching it in HQ html5.
It's still using the same source video. I download them and watch locally.
yep. looks real bad.
vitaminwateryum
corporate swill
Usually it takes a few days, but it'll be streamed live through Twitch this year as well, so you might be able to get to it as soon as it's over.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
lol
infinityBCRT
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Jeff?
lol, so true. This is why I was okay with the finish.
StopMakingSense
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Huh, Ultimate Warrior died, damn.
Cannon Goose
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He also says moment weirdly.
Mole-ment.
Edit: They really do need to address their video encodes if they're going to keep doing 60fps content. I mean look at this crap just seconds into the Dark Souls 2 QL:
It's like crummy Youtube quality.
Oh god. I don't even want to hear "mole-ment" uttered.
He also says moment weirdly.
Mole-ment.
Edit: They really do need to address their video encodes if they're going to keep doing 60fps content. I mean look at this crap just seconds into the Dark Souls 2 QL:
It's like crummy Youtube quality.
Well he is spinning hte camera around in your screenshot. I've noticed that whenever games have a lot of webbing or nets the game has pixilation trying to display it.
No idea if thats the capture kit, video bitrate or whatever.
I reckon CBSi doesn't want to foot the bill for higher bitrate/1080p video. Gamespot doesn't have anything over 720p@4000 kbps either, going to 1080p would probably mean going to 7-8000kps. Its a shame, the one thing i thought Giant Bomb getting bought would have brought was higher quality videos and hosting.
He also says moment weirdly.
Mole-ment.
Edit: They really do need to address their video encodes if they're going to keep doing 60fps content. I mean look at this crap just seconds into the Dark Souls 2 QL:
It's like crummy Youtube quality.
He was spinning the camera around in a circle during that part.
Videos save file size by basically using the previous frame as a base to work off of for the next frame.
When the frames are changing a lot and frequently, you'll get blurry artifacting like you're seeing, but most of the video isn't going to be like that.
It's putting the video in the exact un-ideal situation for videos so of course in that instance it'll look bad.
Cannon Goose
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Okay yeah, it was pretty much a knee-jerk reaction considering it's the first thing I saw when I opened the video. You're right though, it's not representative of the overall quality of the video.
There is a Mixlr which is just a constant stream of Bombcast episodes.
It's also got a chat!
It's cool to just have running in the background if you enjoy listening to some old bombcasts.
It's also got a chat!
It's cool to just have running in the background if you enjoy listening to some old bombcasts.
NumberThree
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They should definitely increase the bitrate for 60 fps videos. 30 fps with the same bitrate seems to be fine.
Jeff addressed the 1080p/bitrate question on tumblr. Looks like most, if not the entirety, of their production pipeline would need to be upgraded. So unless ol' Moonves makes it rain, don't expect it any time soon.
TBH if someone is able to make a massive change to their video processor without telling anyone which then breaks shit, forget upgrades, they're probably just happy when things work.
TBH if someone is able to make a massive change to their video processor without telling anyone which then breaks shit, forget upgrades, they're probably just happy when things work.
Bandwidth costs too high to justify.
finsternIRL
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Here's me streaming some Battlestar Diaspora at 1920x1080p, downscaled to 1280x720p in the recorder and streamed at 5000kbps CBR and 60fps.
Particularly with the flak screen at 1:20ish looks crisp as fuck
Here's the same thing on mangled on Youtube, 2500kbps, 720p and 30fps
If my substandard gaming rig can pull this off live, a production machine like the linux box Vinny built shouldn't have too much of a problem with encoding it in a timely manner.
LackingSaint
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"Who do you think did it?"
"The Ceh-mahl."
"Is that his real name?"
"No, that's an alias."
"What's his real name?"
"The Ceh-mahl."
Jimmyfenix
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Ma man Jeff should consider coming to Scotland we are good people.
But without the audience how else are we going to get amazingly awkward moments like this?
Oh god I forgot about that haha
They haven't said, and they aren't running it.
I would expect that it's not being streamed, but there's always a chance.
ThreePiMatt
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I believe Jeff said it was in the same room as the Giant Bomb panel, and that room is being streamed.
Brewster's Wallet
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I agree, but I haven't watched the questions part of the panel for about 5 panels, so no that fussed.
ab.aeterno
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That was equal parts painful and embarrassing to watch when I first saw it. Not sure what goes through people's minds. But then, there was some super cringey audience stuff then too, like the guy who acted like he knew them well enough to make fun of Alex or shout fuck you.But without the audience how else are we going to get amazingly awkward moments like this?
I don't think storage space was ever an issue since they are hosted "in the cloud"... It's more about bandwidth costs.
While yes, your stream does look nice, half of the screen is basically a never changing chunk that is your spaceship,and the other half is a barely changing chunk that is 95% empty black space.
Videos are best when nothing on the screen is different from the frame before it (or from its keyframe) and your video has barely any difference between frames at all.
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