Is reencoding a recording of a game game related enough?

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Nov 6, 2010 21:11
I feel like entering an angry bar and trying to get any sense from the chaos...
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Nov 6, 2010 21:07
The relationship from Gaming to both Math and LaTeX is not a part of his argument.
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Nov 7, 2010 16:52
Done. I don't get enough opportunities to approvedly use the mass comment obliterator.
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Nov 6, 2010 21:59
@badp I love how none of those numbered points cover topicality
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Nov 6, 2010 21:25
If you get insufficient answers to a question, it's perfectly fine to alter the question so long as you aren't attempting to invalidate the answers on the wide scope
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Nov 6, 2010 21:14
@TomWij there's nothing wrong with changing the scope of the question to make it on-topic
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Nov 6, 2010 21:02
That said, my responsible job, since I'm still reading up, includes making sure that if it doesn't belong here, that I don't dump it in the wrong place.
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Nov 7, 2010 16:53
Next time, I'll do it while shouting "FATAL ATTACK! HEART-ATTACK INDUCING SEXY STRIKE!"
Nov 7, 2010 15:03
Fine. For the sake of kittens, I give up. Star this message, celebrate, do something, I don't know, impress me.
Nov 7, 2010 14:20
Your perspective is always worth a lot, @GraceNote
Nov 7, 2010 14:20
+1 for Whack-A-Site
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Nov 7, 2010 12:36
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Q: Video conversion question

OakThere is a controversy regarding badp's What is the simplest way to re-encode Fraps recordings to something more sensible? question, as evident both in that question's comments and in chat room created explicitly for that question. As there appears to be no conclusion reached in chat, this meta-...

Nov 7, 2010 12:14
It doesn't help you record.
Nov 6, 2010 23:04
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Nov 6, 2010 22:14
Why did I even ask on Gaming, then?
Nov 6, 2010 22:13
That's your entire argument!
Nov 6, 2010 22:08
@badp Honestly? Yes.
Nov 6, 2010 22:02
1. Is this a question gamers have? Yes, pirating is done by a lot of gamers.
2. Is there value for Gaming to have this question on site? Yes, because it would help expose more games to more people and thus allow more people to participate.
3. Is this question objectively answerable? Yes, I asked it.
Nov 6, 2010 21:45
And look what we're discussing here, codecs et al... Are we discussing Gaming? No.
Nov 6, 2010 21:36
@GraceNote I think it is. Explicitly asking people to enumerate the steps in a "how to" question, in my opinion, does not change the question. I also took care to comment on existing answers.
Nov 6, 2010 21:27
@TomWij Do you ever plan to let me finish talking?
Nov 6, 2010 21:13
@ArdaXi That's the whole point. I'm the asker. If it doesn't work for me, it doesn't darn work for me.
Nov 6, 2010 21:09
a gamer won't be looking at SU to get an answer for this question and he'll never find it, because he'll be using different words to say exactly the same @ArdaXi. Duplication across the network is not an issue, as long as it fits both sites
Nov 6, 2010 21:06
@badp I think Arda's trying to say that Gaming's relationship to Encoding is like Maths' relationship to LaTeX
Nov 6, 2010 21:02
Migration occurs when something doesn't belong somewhere, not when it could do better somewhere else
Nov 6, 2010 20:59
for the person who comes to our sites, they don't care that you say it's about transcoding, they say: I want my Fraps on friggin youtube
Nov 6, 2010 20:57
I think fraps is software ONLY used for making screen recordings with games
Nov 6, 2010 20:57
anyone on SU would tell you to use Camtasia
Nov 6, 2010 20:51
Compression is an user preference.
Nov 6, 2010 17:39
Your question cannot be answered by an expert on gaming only.
Nov 6, 2010 15:44
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Q: What is the simplest way to re-encode Fraps recordings to something more sensible?

badpI took a quick FRAPS recording showing this clever answer at work. The output was a 54 seconds long 424×240 video for a mere 138 MBs, or 45 minutes of upload on my link. Now, as long as the video takes a reasonable amount of time to upload, I'm fine with just getting the process done in backgro...