To crop out borders, use MeGui's AVS Script Creator.

Give MeGui the video file, select crop, and start cropping. You can use Auto-Crop, but it is not always perfect (sometimes will eat more than needed). Just adjust accordingly. Then go to the script(? Can't remember. Not on XP. It is one of the taps) and copy and paste the crop script

After cropping, maybe resize the video to a system's native resolution (for SNES, it will be 256x224)

Responded in [Accepted] Popeye The Sailor Man: Tale of the Sea Hag (SNES)

Like I have a clue on how to do that Jon

Responded in [Accepted] Popeye The Sailor Man: Tale of the Sea Hag (SNES)

We accepted the Popeye longplay, but please don't forget to crop black borders in subsequent longplays ;-)

Responded in [Accepted] Popeye The Sailor Man: Tale of the Sea Hag (SNES)

hellou!

yes i remembered too late, right after uploading this movie. next time i will insert titles, sorry!

thanks alot!

Responded in [Accepted] Vollgas (Full Throttle) (GERMAN)

The Vollgas longplay was accepted, but please add the required signature at the start of your longplays in the future, otherwise we probably won't accept them.

Refer to this tutorial for more details.

Responded in [Accepted] Vollgas (Full Throttle) (GERMAN)

Thanks for re-submitting.
Sorry for the inconvenience.

Responded in [Rejected] Double Dragon V (SNES)

ok i get it thanks. i mean really?

Responded in [Rejected] Double Dragon V (SNES)

This longplay was rejected because it did not meet the following requirements:

=> Longplays of "older" consoles need to have their resolution doubled with no smoothing.
=> The video was encoded in an unnecessary high resolution of 1024x896.
Longplays on the chosen platform should be 512x448.
[img width=260]http://www.longplays.org/../../images/rejected_resolutiontoohi.png[/img]


You can refer to the attached screenshot for evidence.


Here are some pieces of advice to help fix the errors:

Double check our requirement FAQ.
Refer to our encoding FAQ for details on how to properly capture/encode longplays.
Feel free to join our IRC channel for specific help.

Hope to hear from you soon. ;-)

Responded in [Rejected] Double Dragon V (SNES)

This longplay was rejected because it did not meet the following requirements:

=> The required signature is missing from the video or is not properly formatted.
[img width=260]http://www.longplays.org/../../images/rejected_signature.png[/img]

=> Longplays of "older" consoles need to have their resolution doubled with no smoothing.
In this case, the submitted video was 160x144, and needed to be 320x288.
[img width=260]http://www.longplays.org/../../images/rejected_resolutiontoolow.png[/img]

=> Video quality was unsufficient. Compression was set too high.
[img width=260]http://www.longplays.org/../../images/rejected_compression.png[/img]

=> Texts in the game were garbled. Emulation issue? Bad ROM dump?

=> Oh, yeah! I almost forgot: the longplay is incomplete. You didn't reach the end of the game.

You can refer to the attached screenshot for evidence.


Here are some pieces of advice to help fix the errors:

You need to do the MeGUI / mkvmerge GUI part in the following FAQ:
http://www.longplays.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=264

Feel free to join our IRC channel for specific help.

Hope to hear from you soon. ;-)

Responded in [Rejected] Pokemon Crystal (GBC)

This longplay was rejected because it did not meet the following requirements:

=> The required signature is missing from the video or is not properly formatted.
[img width=260]http://www.longplays.org/../../images/rejected_signature.png[/img]

=> Longplays of "older" consoles need to have their resolution doubled with no smoothing.
=> The video was encoded in an unnecessary high resolution of 640x480.
Longplays on the chosen platform should be 512x448.
[img width=260]http://www.longplays.org/../../images/rejected_resolutiontoohi.png[/img]

=> Video was blurry, either because of a rescale operation or poor video capture method.
[img width=260]http://www.longplays.org/../../images/rejected_blur.png[/img]

You can refer to the attached screenshot for evidence.


Here are some pieces of advice to help fix the errors:

You need to do the MeGUI / mkvmerge GUI part in the following FAQ (note the PointResize part):
http://www.longplays.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=264

Feel free to join our IRC channel for specific help.

Hope to hear from you soon. ;-)

Responded in [Rejected] Track & Field (NES)

Congrats for you first longplay Kimu-Kun, keep up the good work

Responded in [Accepted] Cocoron

It's not just you, I tried to remux it with the megui thing, but megui did not want to do that for me, for some reason :-( I think JonL remuxed it, but he hasn't uploaded it yet, which would explain why the time on the video is 10 seconds longer on youtube than in vlc etc.. (That is why i tried remuxing it in the first place...)

Responded in [Accepted] Cocoron

I dunno if it is me...

The one I downloaded from this site won't play on DivX Player, yet it will in VLC. (dunno why I have the DivX player in the first place.)

When I uploaded it to YouTube, the audio desynced. Yet...the audio is in sync when I played in VLC.

Was mkvmerge used to make the file?

I'm going to remux to fix the audio desync and upload it to YouTube.

Responded in [Accepted] Cocoron

Yes, it is a learning process :-) We keep learning something new every time you know, trying slightly different settings in megui etc to maximize the quality of the videos.

Responded in [Accepted] Cocoron

@Geekmeister: I'll keep that in mind for the future longplays. As I say, I have a long way to go.

Responded in [Accepted] Cocoron

Good job anyway Kimu-kun! Nice to see your first longplay!

Responded in [Accepted] Cocoron

Now, we are going to accept this video under some doubts, it is a bit too compressed, and there are some deinterlacing issues in it. In the future try not to compress the video as much, and avoid deinterlacing it please.
Keep in mind that filesize is not an issue here :-P But quality is...

Responded in [Accepted] Cocoron

This longplay was rejected because it did not meet the following requirements:

=> The required signature is missing from the video or is not properly formatted.
[img width=260]http://www.longplays.org/../../images/rejected_signature.png[/img]

=> Longplays of "older" consoles need to have their resolution doubled with no smoothing.
In this case, the submitted video was 256x224, and needed to be 512x448.
[img width=260]http://www.longplays.org/../../images/rejected_resolutiontoolow.png[/img]

Apart from those minor points to fix, the longplay is good and will be accepted.
You need to do the MeGUI / mkvmerge GUI part in the following FAQ:
http://www.longplays.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=264

Feel free to join our IRC channel for specific help.

Hope to hear from you soon. ;-)

Responded in [Rejected] Power Blade 2 (NES)

This longplay was rejected because it did not meet the following requirements:

=> The video was encoded in an unnecessarily high resolution of 800x600. This resolution is neither a native console resolution nor a multiple of any native resolution.
As this game clearly does not support HD, the only accepted resolution is 720x480, also known as 480p.
[img width=260]http://www.longplays.org/../../images/rejected_resolutiontoohi.png[/img]

You can refer to the attached screenshot for evidence.

We strongly advise you to seek the guidance of video wizards (ScHlAuChi, RickyC and others) on our IRC channel.

Responded in [Rejected] Mega Man 10 (Wii)