prower Posted January 13, 2018 (edited) Want to share a video preview of a level you've finished? Want to watch a demo while you're taking a dump at work? Fret no more, because the Doom LMP Uploader is here! This site allows you (yes! you) to upload LMPs for Doom and Doom 2 and have them automatically encoded and uploaded to YouTube. Wow! Here's a sample video to prove it really works! This is an extremely beta piece of software, so please let me know if you find any bugs. The source code is also available for those who are interested. FAQ What LMP formats are supported? For now, only classic Doom (2) v1.9 and Boom formatted LMPs are supported. LMPs recorded with prboom-plus should, in general, work. Does this support PWADs? Yes! PWADs will be automagically downloaded, so you can upload all your favorite demos of the venerable PRWRSVxx series. For demos recorded with prboom-plus, it will read right from the lmp metadata. Video recording in progress! How long does this take? Video recording typically takes somewhere between 1.5x and 2.0x the demo length (so a 10 minute demo will encode in between 15 and 20 minutes) if your LMP is the only one encoding at the time. Uploading to YouTube only takes a minute or two, in general. I want to upload a non-speedrun. Am I allowed? Yes! Most of the form is just metadata to populate the video title. What video resolution does this encode at? 1280x720 (aka 720p), which provides a balance between video quality and encoding speed. The full prboom-plus cap_videocommand variable is: x264 --preset fast -o output.mp4 --crf 20 --muxer mp4 --demuxer raw --input-csp rgb --input-depth 8 --input-res %wx%h --fps %r0 I found a bug in your buggy piece of crap. What do I do? You can either reply here, file a Github issue, or submit a pull request yourself! Go ahead and try it out! (I may or may not get a legit domain name at some point.) Edited January 13, 2018 by prower 33 Share this post Link to post
Memfis Posted January 13, 2018 Wow! Is something supposed to be visible when I click "Submit"? 0 Share this post Link to post
prower Posted January 13, 2018 (edited) 16 minutes ago, Memfis said: Wow! Is something supposed to be visible when I click "Submit"? Whoops, yes, it looks like you're submitting a run time that's not strictly HH:MM:SS format and I'm not handling that properly; try switching to 00:01:23 format (e.g.) for now, I'll fix it. edit: Should be fixed now, it will auto-adjust M:SS or MM:SS times to HH:MM:SS. Edited January 13, 2018 by prower 0 Share this post Link to post
prower Posted January 13, 2018 Just now, lirui1001 said: 1080p60fps? I originally wanted to, but 1080p60fps takes ages to encode; from my testing, approximately 10 times the length of the demo. Not really worth the increase in quality (IMO). 1 Share this post Link to post
Memfis Posted January 13, 2018 Hmm, for some reason it can't find any wads for me now. 0 Share this post Link to post
Mordeth Posted January 13, 2018 Holy fucking hell, it's prower. Welcome back, mate! 6 Share this post Link to post
prower Posted January 13, 2018 1 minute ago, Memfis said: Hmm, for some reason it can't find any wads for me now. I fixed an extremely stupid bug. Try again! 0 Share this post Link to post
prower Posted January 13, 2018 Just now, Mordeth said: Holy fucking hell, it's prower. Welcome back, mate! Hey Mord! Yep, very long time no see :) 0 Share this post Link to post
Linguica Posted January 13, 2018 Is this encoding on -veryfast or whatever? It looks somewhat blocky / smeary. Is it CBR or VBR? What bit rate is it aiming for? 1 Share this post Link to post
prower Posted January 13, 2018 (edited) Just now, Linguica said: Is this encoding on -veryfast or whatever? It looks somewhat blocky / smeary. Is it CBR or VBR? What bit rate is it aiming for? READ THE DAMN FAQ Yeah it's a tough balance between encoding time & visual quality. I can adjust it based on feedback. 0 Share this post Link to post
Linguica Posted January 13, 2018 No one ever reads anything. I don't know how much it would affect the encoding time but I bet changing CRF from 23 to, like, 20 would make it look noticeably cleaner. And since this is all cloud based the increased file size wouldn't make Youtube upload times appreciably longer, I wouldn't think. Maybe even 18 or 17 if you wanna get crazy with it. 0 Share this post Link to post
prower Posted January 13, 2018 Just now, Linguica said: No one ever reads anything. I don't know how much it would affect the encoding time but I bet changing CRF from 23 to, like, 20 would make it look noticeably cleaner. And since this is all cloud based the increased file size wouldn't make Youtube upload times appreciably longer, I wouldn't think. I just adjusted it to 20, we'll see how it works. The YT upload times aren't a big deal relative to the encoding times, you're right. 0 Share this post Link to post
Memfis Posted January 13, 2018 Yay! Not quite PRWRSV, but hopefully it's close enough. ;) 1 Share this post Link to post
prower Posted January 13, 2018 5 minutes ago, Memfis said: Yay! Not quite PRWRSV, but hopefully it's close enough. ;) Awesome! Believe it or not, this was one of the demos I used while testing :) 4 minutes ago, j4rio said: Why did Linguica fire you anyway? He's a big jerk. Someone tried to submit a demo for nova2, which is in Ports/megawads, which I foolishly left out of the resolution path; give it another try please. 0 Share this post Link to post
GarrettChan Posted January 13, 2018 (edited) Wait... what should I put into the PWAD place? It seems that BtSX and The Journey didn't work... I tried a Speed of Doom one and it works, so I guess they are not in the library? 0 Share this post Link to post
Memfis Posted January 13, 2018 This is really really cool. It takes me much longer time to process and upload a demo by myself, so a tool like this is a godsend. Some dream features (not sure if worth your time): - changing the midi volume - choosing a different soundfont - supplying a music wad when there is no soundtrack in the wad - adjusting gamma correction - switching between software and opengl 2 Share this post Link to post
prower Posted January 13, 2018 2 minutes ago, GarrettChan said: Wait... what should I put into the PWAD place? It seems that BtSX and The Journey didn't work... Heya, sorry, give it another try; I just fixed a problem where it wasn't looking in /megawads or /Ports/megawads for WADs. btsx_e1 and tj should both work now. 0 Share this post Link to post
GarrettChan Posted January 13, 2018 (edited) 4 minutes ago, prower said: Heya, sorry, give it another try; I just fixed a problem where it wasn't looking in /megawads or /Ports/megawads for WADs. btsx_e1 and tj should both work now. Thanks and let me try now. Can I request for UV -Fast or other categories? Recording status: In progress 3:07:19 PM - Downloading PWAD failed 3:07:19 PM - Failed to resolve PWADs 3:07:19 PM - Downloading PWAD in progress 3:07:19 PM - Resolving PWADs 3:07:19 PM - Recording queued Is this normal? BtSX's WAD was updated somewhat frequently, so I don't know whether this is the problem. 0 Share this post Link to post
prower Posted January 13, 2018 2 minutes ago, Memfis said: This is really really cool. It takes me much longer time to process and upload a demo by myself, so a tool like this is a godsend. Some dream features (not sure if worth your time): - changing the midi volume - choosing a different soundfont - supplying a music wad when there is no soundtrack in the wad - adjusting gamma correction - switching between software and opengl Supplying custom prboom parameters (to adjust sound, gamma correction, etc) is definitely possible! There's actually very partial support for music wads (or resource wads, like gothictx), but I haven't built out the UI for it; the backend should work with them, though. In fact if you have a prboom-plus demo with multiple wads in the metadata, it should pick them up. OpenGL is probably a no-go for now; the server is running on an AWS c5.large which is a CPU-optimized node with no graphics card. I guess I could attach an elastic GPU at some point in the future, but not sure how well that works. 0 Share this post Link to post
prower Posted January 13, 2018 11 minutes ago, GarrettChan said: Thanks and let me try now. Can I request for UV -Fast or other categories? Recording status: In progress 3:07:19 PM - Downloading PWAD failed 3:07:19 PM - Failed to resolve PWADs 3:07:19 PM - Downloading PWAD in progress 3:07:19 PM - Resolving PWADs 3:07:19 PM - Recording queued Is this normal? BtSX's WAD was updated somewhat frequently, so I don't know whether this is the problem. Oof, thanks for testing this out, this had/has a couple problems--one, the file size exceeded an internal limit that I wasn't aware of (easy to fix). Two, btsx_e1 breaks out into btsx_e1a and btsx_e1b, so you'll probably have to wait until I add multi-WAD support (and .deh support) to record BTSX demos--sorry about that. 1 Share this post Link to post
Reisal Posted January 13, 2018 I know 1080p@30 takes longer but I find it worth the extra time personally. 0 Share this post Link to post
GarrettChan Posted January 13, 2018 (edited) @prowerNot a problem. I guess the frequent updates of BtSX made a lot of problems. Another thing is how can I watch it again or search for the video's address after quitting? Since now the videos are unlisted. (BTW, after watching my tj run... it sucks!) 0 Share this post Link to post
prower Posted January 13, 2018 (edited) 21 minutes ago, GarrettChan said: @prowerNot a problem. I guess the frequent updates of BtSX made a lot of problems. Another thing is how can I watch it again or search for the video's address after quitting? Since now the videos are unlisted. (BTW, after watching my tj run... it sucks!) Haha, great question--right now there's no way to just view all runs or anything so either copy & paste the URL to somewhere you can find later, or change the number until you find your run :) Yeah, not great, I know. I'm planning on adding an "all runs" page soon. BTW, I figured what the heck, btsx is a pretty popular one so I coded in a special exception for it. It should work now (loading both files and the dehacked file), so give it a try. I also added UV -fast by your request! 1 Share this post Link to post
prower Posted January 13, 2018 @Linguica How do you feel about the encoding now with CRF 20? Looks better to me. Encoding time went up a bit, but probably worth it. 3 Share this post Link to post
GarrettChan Posted January 14, 2018 @prowerIt seems it still doesn't work. I'll drop the run here for you to test... and I found out it's actually a Pacifist run... so sorry for getting extra trouble adding new category I guess. b119p049.zip The video above is pretty good in my opinion. Probably we should upload something with Fireblu to see whether it's good because usually those type of textures with a lot of small lines and stuff will ruin the bitrate. 0 Share this post Link to post
Danfun64 Posted January 14, 2018 (edited) It's a shame Youtube doesn't supported 1200p or 2400p. I honestly would have liked the ability to see something like 320x200 --> 1600x1200, 640x400 --> 3200x2400, or maybe native 1600x1200. edit: Maybe 1600x1200 windowboxed to 1440p? Edited January 14, 2018 by Danfun64 0 Share this post Link to post
THEBaratusII Posted January 14, 2018 That's very cool, although I had to reupload the unlisted video to my channel, but still it works. Recorded a test .lmp file of me speedrunning MAP01 at skill 1 (yes, it's a test) :) 0 Share this post Link to post
