Emulator Issues #9941
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FFV1 Full Resolution Frame Dumping on 6x Native (and up) generates empty AVI file
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Description
Game Name?
Star Fox Adventures (GC)
Game ID? (right click the game in the game list, properties, info tab)
GSAE01
MD5 Hash? (right click the game in the game list, properties, info tab, MD5 Hash: Compute)
afb0306454b581e37a62170fdfd1de09
What's the problem? Describe what went wrong.
I was attempting to use the newly-added feature to record gameplay at the internal resolution, rather than the visually output resolution on the screen, as described:
Here: https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2016/12/01/dolphin-progress-report-november-2016/
And Here: https://dolphin-emu.org/download/dev/0212741574548fa95593e0e9d9451feca45ab83d/
When attempting to do a Frame Dump with both "Frame Dumps Use FFV1" and "Full Resolution Frame Dumps", some resolutions generate an empty AVI file. The file appears to only contain header information, but no actual frames.
Internal Resolutions, up to and including "5x Native (3200x2640)", will record correctly to an AVI file with frame data. However, higher options "6x Native (3840x3168) for 4k", "7x Native (4480x3696)", "8x Native (5120x4224) for 5k", and the undocumented 12 option, will produce an empty AVI file, containing only header information. This does not happen when using the lossy option (whatever the default for the newer FFMPEG backend uses).
What steps will reproduce the problem?
- Run any game (Wii or GameCube)
- In Graphics Configuration, enable "Full Resolution Frame Dumps" and "Frame Dumps Use FFV1"
- Set the Internal Resolution to 6x or higher
- Dump Frames for a few seconds-worth of gameplay
- Stop Dumping Frames
- Observe that the output file 'framedump0.avi' is only about 6kb in size
Which versions of Dolphin did you test on? Does using an older version of Dolphin solve your issue? If yes, which versions of Dolphin used to work?
5.0-1444 - 7192789c1162e2deb5923151d05158f459448ab9
Latest, as of time of writing. It exhibits the issue.
5.0-1374 - 0212741574548fa95593e0e9d9451feca45ab83d
Same issue. This was the first version to have the "Full Resolution Frame Dumps".
Since both the first relevant version and the current version exhibit the issue, it is unlikely any previous versions of Dolphin did not have this issue.
What are your PC specifications? (CPU, GPU, Operating System, more)
SYSTEM
OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
Version 10.0.10240 Build 10240
System Manufacturer Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Model Z87X-UD4H
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz, 3401 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 32.0 GB
Total Physical Memory 31.9 GB
GPU
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760
Is there any other relevant information? (e.g. logs, screenshots,
configuration files)
It is very obvious when the issue is happening, as the game does not slow down nearly as much during the recording process at 6x and higher resolutions. It's as if the encoder gives up early.
This is not game-specific, the issue was observed with more than one game.
This issue occurred both in the Vulkan and OpenGL backends. It appears that DirectX backends do not have a "Full Resolution Frame Dumps" option.
No errors appeared in the logs for any of this.
I have attached one such empty AVI file to this issue.
(Note: The descriptions of the resolutions in the UI do not correspond to what is actually recorded. For example, the "5x Native (3200x2640)" option actually creates a video with a 4279x2640 resolution for "Force 16:9", and 3209x2640 for "Force 4:3" under the Aspect Ratio option.)
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