BG vids lag in 3.9, not in 4.0?

[AceJay]

Just wondering if this is normal, and if there is a way to fix 3.9 so it doesn't lag when I play BGVids/Movies.

For the record, the 4.0 I was playing on was a CVS from here:

[SM4][Theme]Optical[WIP]

I'm using his beta theme.

Also, is there a way to reset the offset for every song to its' default?

[sharksoda]

3.9 was overall much slower than 4 is. Messier codebase, etc.

You might be able to reduce the lag using 16bit color on the movies in 3.9 or a lower resolution, but other than that I don't think you can do anything about it.

[GameFreak19911991]

Eh?

My videos lag in 4.0, but not 3.9.

[sharksoda]

Weird, it's almost always the other way around.

[GameFreak19911991]

Originally Posted by shakesoda

Weird, it's almost always the other way around.

I don't know what it is exactly. I have the exact same setting on 4.0 that I have in 3.9 (sans the display ratio, I run 4 at 16:9, but what would that do?)

[ZanasoBayncuh]

Originally Posted by AceJay

Just wondering if this is normal, and if there is a way to fix 3.9 so it doesn't lag when I play BGVids/Movies.

For the record, the 4.0 I was playing on was a CVS from here:

[SM4][Theme]Optical[WIP]

I'm using his beta theme.

Also, is there a way to reset the offset for every song to its' default?

Originally Posted by GameFreak19911991

Eh?

My videos lag in 4.0, but not 3.9.

Originally Posted by shakesoda

Weird, it's almost always the other way around.

Originally Posted by GameFreak19911991

I don't know what it is exactly. I have the exact same setting on 4.0 that I have in 3.9 (sans the display ratio, I run 4 at 16:9, but what would that do?)

Anyone who's worked with videos can explain this phenomenon... codecs and video types. AVIs and MPGs are the only two types that StepMania can use... but seriously... there are thousands of types of both of those. For instance, videos that are too high res, the wrong AVI/MPG base (codec issues), etc.

For instance, I use a conversion process that leaves the videos rather small, yet still retaining a very decent amount of their quality, ending in an AVI codec known as ZMPEG-4. This type runs like magic on 3.95 and, to my current knowledge, won't run at all on 3.9 (makes it crash). No idea if it will run on 4.0. Now, different codecs will run just fine on the other ones, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if standard Divx or XVID codecs run perfectly on all of them. But there can be common factors that makes a video lag on all of them like odd display ratios (uncommon i.e. not 4:3 or 16:9), or videos of super high frame rate (should be below 60, preferably), or videos of retardedly high res (believe it or not, 480x360 should be just fine).

I could go on about this forever, but that is the basis of this problem.

NOTE: I don't use that codec because I don't know any better, I use it for size/quality, among other reasons.

[sharksoda]

I didn't think of codecs at all...

Only the DivX 5 codec currently has issues in 4, and it's a windows specific bug in FFMPEG. ZMPEG-4 works flawlessly in 4.

Theora should also work great, I haven't tried it much so I can't provide any more details on that.