[Higher bitrate video cutscene mod] Work in progress

[Vanosea]

So, as you guys have realized how much the PC's video cutscene suck, we decided to make a mod to replaced these horrible videos to as close to the PS4's as possible. It is a work in progress so the quality may not closely match the PS4's version but it is definitely close.

Thanks to 百合 姫's amazing work (she does all the PS4 recording, encoding it to wmv and all the magic jazz) that this is possible. I hold no credit in this project.

Click here[drive.google.com] to download the mod.

Place it into the "BLUE REFLECTION\DATA\x64\Movie" folder

Also, like I previously mentioned, since this is a work in progress, please report of any issue with the video playback. It's really helpful into bringing the mod into perfection. I also made a guide to optimize your framerate and configure your graphical settings (small it may be but better than nothing) here.

PS: The mod has a 60fps version now (with the help of interpolation magic!) and can be found in this Link[drive.google.com].

Cheers :3
Cutscene fixed:

• Opening Video*
  
• Opening Song*
  
• Hinako's Yuzu's and Lime's Transformation Video*

* : 60fps version available.

[Vanosea]

Ursprungligen skrivet av KyuKyu-chan:

Does it help with cutscene crushing? My game crashes on videos in full screen, this is really frustrating.

Did you quote crushing from KT's post? Or is it actually an intentional typo? But to answer seriously, if it crashes for you, it has something to do with a software on your pc causing the crash.

[KyuKyu]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Vanosea:

Ursprungligen skrivet av KyuKyu-chan:

Does it help with cutscene crushing? My game crashes on videos in full screen, this is really frustrating.

Did you quote crushing from KT's post? Or is it actually an intentional typo? But to answer seriously, if it crashes for you, it has something to do with a software on your pc causing the crash.

That was a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ typo :D

I dunno, everything else works fine, I even stress tested my PC just to be sure. I saw people having similar problems here, so I asked. Gotta try the mod now, thanks for your hard work.

[Vanosea]

I don't think the mod will help with the crushing (heh, pun intended :3), but do report on your findings. All feedback is appreciated.

[KyuKyu]

So I've read Kaldaien's post on it, seems like the crashing occures becuse window loses focus with .fmv video playing. I don't know how it happens though, I have 0 overlays and fullscreen mode on,

[Chouchers]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Vanosea:

So, as you guys have realized how much the PC's video cutscene suck, we decided to make a mod to replaced these horrible videos to as close to the PS4's as possible. It is a work in progress so the quality may not closely match the PS4's version but it is definitely close.

Thanks to 百合 姫's amazing work (she does all the PS4 recording, encoding it to wmv and all the magic jazz) that this is possible. I hold no credit in this project.

Click here[drive.google.com] to download the mod.

Place it into the "BLUE REFLECTION\DATA\x64\Movie" folder

Also, like I previously mentioned, since this is a work in progress, please report of any issue with the video playback. It's really helpful into bringing the mod into perfection. I also made a guide to optimize your framerate and configure your graphical settings (small it may be but better than nothing) here.

Cheers :3
Cutscene fixed:

• Opening Video
  
• Opening Song
  
• Hinako's Yuzu's and Lime's Transformation Video

It works and look good but very bad performance run slow motion 9fps on gtx1050.

[Vanosea]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Chouchers:

It works and look good but very bad performance run slow motion 9fps on gtx1050.

Can you be more specific with your setup? Like what resolution you ran the game at, windowed or fullscreen, or your framerate cap. Since the cutscene runs fine even on my i7-6500u GT940m @1080p fullscreen.

[Chouchers]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Vanosea:

Ursprungligen skrivet av Chouchers:

It works and look good but very bad performance run slow motion 9fps on gtx1050.

Can you be more specific with your setup? Like what resolution you ran the game at, windowed or fullscreen, or your framerate cap. Since the cutscene runs fine even on my i7-6500u GT940m @1080p fullscreen.

Windows 10
i3-6100
GTX1050
8GB DDR4
I'm running at 1080p 60hz fullscreen
Now movie slowmotion something must be wrong like bug was trigger my gpu idle 5% usage I don't think this running normal.

[=(VR)= blindfold]

I think that a better option its encode them to 60 FPS, even 720p would looks better at 60FPS than a 1080p at normal framerate.

I have the Nier Automata scenes encoded to 60 FPS and they looks gorgeus, you can do it using Vidsquish, have a look Vidsquish demo guys (Nier spoilers warning):


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orI1E7Yk6Wk&feature=youtu.be


720p at 60FPS is the prefect spot for this to not kill the VC-1 bandwidth but still having a smooth experience.

[百合 姫]

Ursprungligen skrivet av =(VR)= blindfold:

I think that a better option its encode them to 60 FPS, even 720p would looks better at 60FPS than a 1080p at normal framerate.

Videos are 30fps on the PS4. My goal is fidelity to the original source. Motion compensated frame interpolation (and spatial upscaling) is left as an exercise for the reader.

I don't think Vidsquish supports WMV, having looked at the tools that are packed inside (and no, ffmpeg doesn't count - the files it creates are broken).

I'm using Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 Pro, if there are better WMV compression tools, I'm interested.

I'm converting from lossless FFV1/PCM AVI files (the only lossless format I can get Expression Encoder to accept), which are converted from 4:2:2 lossless MP4/PCM capture.

[=(VR)= blindfold]

Ursprungligen skrivet av 百合 姫:

Ursprungligen skrivet av =(VR)= blindfold:

I think that a better option its encode them to 60 FPS, even 720p would looks better at 60FPS than a 1080p at normal framerate.

Videos are 30fps on the PS4. My goal is fidelity to the original source. Motion compensated frame interpolation is left as an exercise for the reader.

I´m good with 30fps but if you can do it try it and have a look to the quality loose, then make a decision or just share both.

Interpolation these days are top noch, I´m just watching anime rigth now intepolated in realtime, not ecoded, just to save space and even so the quality loose its minimal compared to the gains obtained of see it at 60fps.

[Chouchers]

Ursprungligen skrivet av =(VR)= blindfold:

720p would looks better at 60FPS than a 1080p at normal framerate.

Frame rate has no effect on graphics no matter 720p or 1080p.
720p 60fps looks hell lot worst then 1080p 30fps.

720p 60fps
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1159012473
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUohpJlTjeI&feature=youtu.be

1080p 30fps
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1159021491
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLQn7BVxKTc&feature=youtu.be

[百合 姫]

Ursprungligen skrivet av =(VR)= blindfold:

Ursprungligen skrivet av 百合 姫:

Videos are 30fps on the PS4. My goal is fidelity to the original source. Motion compensated frame interpolation is left as an exercise for the reader.

I´m good with 30fps but if you can do it try it and have a look to the quality loose, then make a decision or just share both.

Interpolation these days are top noch, I´m just watching anime rigth now intepolated in realtime, not ecoded, just to save space and even so the quality loose its minimal compared to the gains obtained of see it at 60fps.

I could, but I'm not even sure the engine could handle it. Switching from wmv to mp4 is enough to get the game to crash, and that's a pretty big compression efficiency loss. There are mp4 samples in the video folder linked above that demonstrate 10000kbit/s is barely sufficient, if properly encoded, even for the transformation sequences.

If you're interested, show me that the game engine supports 60fps videos -- without affecting stability -- and I'll consider it. (I don't have a copy of the PC version of the game)

Though I haven't run vidsquish yet, it seems like it is using ffmpeg's -minterpolate for motion interpolation. Is this considered state of the art, or is there a vapoursynth / AVISynth filter that's better?

[=(VR)= blindfold]

Oh I see, dont worry then.

Just focus on make those videos available then we can try some things.

[=(VR)= blindfold]

Ursprungligen skrivet av 百合 姫:

Though I haven't run vidsquish yet, it seems like it is using ffmpeg's -minterpolate for motion interpolation. Is this considered state of the art, or is there a vapoursynth / AVISynth filter that's better?

vidsquish uses ffmpeg but I dont know the insides, maybe its using AVISynth too.

[General Plastro]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Chouchers:

Ursprungligen skrivet av =(VR)= blindfold:

720p would looks better at 60FPS than a 1080p at normal framerate.

Frame rate has no effect on graphics no matter 720p or 1080p.
720p 60fps looks hell lot worst then 1080p 30fps.

720p 60fps
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1159012473
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUohpJlTjeI&feature=youtu.be

1080p 30fps
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1159021491
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLQn7BVxKTc&feature=youtu.be

Mate, just remove V-Sync and most of your problems will be gone, both cutscene and some of the "lag", since thats the rather bad v-sync the game uses (both PS4 and PC).

To remove it, use your GPU configuration tool (Nvidia Control Panel, in your case).