- Aug 16, 2023
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Ok so... after converting all the videos in this game to av1 10bit crf 30 preset 8 for massive space savings (83% smaller reduction! it is ridiculously huge reduction. I decided to keep their resolution. while there is no noticeable loss in quality for going down to 720p. which saves 90%+ of size, I was concerned about potential compatibility issues so I decided to leave it at 1080p)
no noticeable change to visual.
I was getting black screen when trying to play them in game.
A bit of digging later and I found that dev has not updated the renpy engine since 2021. This game files state it is running on renpy 7.4.9 copyrighted 2021
v7.4.9 was released on oct 7. 2021
v7.6.0 added AV1 support on may 14th 2023
and current version of engine is v8.3.2
I mean, you could still save some decent space by converting all those VP8 and mpeg1 files to VP9 without updating the game engine.
but nowhere near as much as you can with AV1 and there is no reason to not upgrade the engine.
so dev really needs to get his act together and update the base renpy engine to latest version.
so he can then recompress all the videos to AV1 and the pictures to AVIF
if anyone wants. here are the converted video files
being super v0.20c-light version movies converted to AV1 10bit crf30 preset8.7z
I should note that the .mpg files are actually .webm files, I just renamed them to .mpg which is simply lying.
This avoids the need to edit the scripts to change all the filenames.
In vast majority of programs lying about the extension works just fine as the extension is only used to determine which program runs a file. the actual contents of the file are examined to determine what kind of file it is.
but since the engine does not support av1 I could not confirm it really does not matter what the extension is called so long as the files are really valid webm files.
no noticeable change to visual.
I was getting black screen when trying to play them in game.
A bit of digging later and I found that dev has not updated the renpy engine since 2021. This game files state it is running on renpy 7.4.9 copyrighted 2021
v7.4.9 was released on oct 7. 2021
You must be registered to see the links
v7.6.0 added AV1 support on may 14th 2023
You must be registered to see the links
and current version of engine is v8.3.2
You must be registered to see the links
I mean, you could still save some decent space by converting all those VP8 and mpeg1 files to VP9 without updating the game engine.
but nowhere near as much as you can with AV1 and there is no reason to not upgrade the engine.
so dev really needs to get his act together and update the base renpy engine to latest version.
so he can then recompress all the videos to AV1 and the pictures to AVIF
if anyone wants. here are the converted video files
being super v0.20c-light version movies converted to AV1 10bit crf30 preset8.7z
You must be registered to see the links
I should note that the .mpg files are actually .webm files, I just renamed them to .mpg which is simply lying.
This avoids the need to edit the scripts to change all the filenames.
In vast majority of programs lying about the extension works just fine as the extension is only used to determine which program runs a file. the actual contents of the file are examined to determine what kind of file it is.
but since the engine does not support av1 I could not confirm it really does not matter what the extension is called so long as the files are really valid webm files.
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