ParasiteX

A coffee maker installed in the captain's chair wouldnt be such a bad idea maybe It will add to the realism a bit Edit Pugwash: I have removed the images from your Profile signature as you have failed to do so as per my PM. [ 12-20-2003, 08:55 AM: Message edited by: Pugwash ]

Will there be an tutorial. Been a while since i played BC and the thought of reading the 150+ page manual again gives me hives. Doesnt have to be a highly detailed tutorial just something so you can quicky get aquinted with the controls and functions. It will also make it easier for totaly new players to get into the game as its quite advanced.

NIIIICE! The graphics looks extremly improved. How will fighter movement be like is it simelar to WC or more like Elite 2 or something in between. Havent played BC for a while my 2.0V is collecting dust in a shelf somewhere. Definatly gonna buy this one when it comes out. Im very impressed by the WMV format didnt think it was this good. gonna do some experimenting with it.

Hmmm naice i havent played around with WMV but thats a pretty nice size. Usually you can have as low as 700-800kbs bitrate with DivX without any noticible loss of quality but to have it this low then the source video has to be very HQ. To get em as small as possible u have to do multible encoding passes. The more passes you do the better the end quality and size. With HQ source Videos u only need about 2-3 passes for optimal quality. I calculated that to encode an 2:50 min video with DivX to 31MB u must have used about 1400-1500bit rate wich is a bit high. I myself Use 900kbs on stuff i encode. I once saw someone who encoded an 23min anime to less than 100MB without any compression artifacts. My computer usually takes about 2 hours per pass to encode a 23 min video and about 10 hours if im gonna use smoothing and sharpening filters .

Recording stuff without compression really sucks up HD space especially at 800*600. im amazed its only 4 GB. 31MB is pretty nice size what codec did you use.

I can make an 30 min movie to about 175-200MB using 640*480 resulution. using anyithing higher than that will result in massive CPU usage. Heres an screenshot of an anime i encoded a while back.

I recommend using DivX. You get smaller files and much better quality than mpeg. Thou it requires more CPU to play and encode but gets em really small. I recomend using VirtualDub as well. If u like u can send the recorded movie to me and ill encode it takes me about a day to encode a movie.