30 seconds of SD 480P and all its glory. Playback video was pretty bad. I uploaded to twitter, but after watching the replay on tv.. didnt bother checking the quality.. it was pretty bad. I dont know whats going on.. the first few times I captured gameplay .. it was pretty good in BOTW.. but in Mario Kart yeks.
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Nintendo Switch Update Ver. 4.0.0 Live! Some video capture, transfer profiles/saves
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Is the 1% really people getting rid of their Switch? If so, where does the people who have started playthroughs on a game on some other user's console end up?
I doubt they will, unless that old Tegra has hardware based H.265 encoders, it'll be a huge stress on it.
Shame.
I just recorded some portable mode footage of Splatoon 2 to microSD and played it on my laptop. This guy here is spot on with its tech specs.
Just tried it with my Pulse Elites, good stuff.
Yeah 720p ... in Mario Kart .. something was up. Not just blurry but like on your phone awhen you lose WiFi and video playback switches from 1080p to 480p on YouTube.. very noticeable.
This was coming from the switch itself .. not uploaded.
Like I said. BOTW was fine.. 720p
ArtificialIntelligence
Member
I doubt they will, unless that old Tegra has hardware based H.265 encoders, it'll be a huge stress on it.
Shame.
Taken from Nvidia Page :
Tegra X1 also supports decode of 10-bit color-depth 4K H.265 60 fps video streams. This enables Tegra X1 products to stream a wide selection 4K content from services such as Netflix. Tegra X1 supports 4K 60 fps local and external displays with support for HDMI 2.0 interfaces and HDCP 2.2 copy protection. On the encode side, Tegra X1 supports encode of 4K video at 30 fps in H.264, H.265 and VP8 formats.
You have 2 options:Yes, it's working like that.
On one hand, MEGATON!.
On the other, now I know I spent so much money on games I played for 2 hours
. play the heck out of those games now
. Mourne your losses and remind yourself about those games when you are about to buy another one
It seems like different games record at different quality. More proof that this is not a system wide feature just not enabled for the rest of the games, but a game specific one.
test_account
XP-39C²
I have to admit that i dont know that much about how this works, but doesnt it have to keep a buffer while recording? Its not constantly saving and deleting a video file from the internal memory? And having a bigger buffer requires more of the hardware. If it was to manually set the record button, it should be able to go for hourse (as long as theres enough space to save the video).
Diprosalic
Banned
i would assume it's for privacy purposes. like you can't just check your friends data and see that he played splatoon for 2 hours yesterday or something like that. dunno, that's the best i could come up with.
Check my post history.
Sniffynose
Member
Here's my issue. We can't backup our saves and now we have some junk constantly saving video on a solid state drive (select games but still) I'll flip my shit if I lose my saves over a garbage 30s video "feature".. Streaming culture ftw
What the fuck are you talking about
1- The Switch doesn't have a SSD, it has a flash memory
2- Of course that's not going constantly into the flash memory or the SD card,that would be absurd and would mess with the loading times and it would be a mess on this platform. Since they are just 20 MB videos, they are clearly going into RAM (until you decide to save them). It doesn't make sense to make it any other way, if it was like you described they could make the videos 15 min long if they wanted to.
It's a good practice to know what you are talking about.
TwiztidElf
Member
Dammit. The patch seems to have introduced a problem for me.
I'm getting random screen flickering in docked mode. Haven't tried handheld yet.
Started happening while playing Picross S, but then it was also in the home screen.
I tried sleep mode/wake up. Same problem.
Tried a complete power cycle. Same problem.
Tried power cycling both my Switch and TV. Same problem (but it took a while to come back).
FE Warriors is tomorrow.
I'm getting random screen flickering in docked mode. Haven't tried handheld yet.
Started happening while playing Picross S, but then it was also in the home screen.
I tried sleep mode/wake up. Same problem.
Tried a complete power cycle. Same problem.
Tried power cycling both my Switch and TV. Same problem (but it took a while to come back).
FE Warriors is tomorrow.
Sniffynose
Member
Flash is solid state drive (nand). Anyways since we both don't know how it's being implemented no point getting your nuts all tied up over it lmfao
jts
...hate me...
It's also out of my depth, technically speaking. Intuitively I feel like it could just continuously write to storage memory - and yes, dismiss that file if it wasn't saved, because other recording methods on other devices (from capture to actual filming) almost never were limited by the RAM amount.
I do wonder if one of the concerns of that longer recording method, is too many writes on the microSD which could limit its lifespan.
We'll see, but anyway this is already cool.
No, an SSD is not the same as an eMMC.
And let me understand this properly: You can assume the (completely absurd) theory that the files are being written constantly on the internal memory and complain about how it will damage your savedata and doing some strange old man yells at cloud rant about streaming culture but I can't point out how absurd that would be because then I'm going nuts.
Sure man, you do you. I don't need to prove you that it's going to RAM, some of the people trying to crack the console open who investigate the whole OS will probably investigate this feature soon and you will see it for yourself, no point in losing my time really
Sniffynose
Member
My dad can beat up your dad! Nand memory chips make up both solid state drives and the storage in the switch but let's get tied up on nomiclature since your uncle works at Nintendo and designed it amirite?
Might want a little less shit in your morning cornflakes boss.
Considering I own 4 switches I don't really need the asshole defence force jumping in on legit concerns over bullshit like game recording on an already battery starved device.
plagiarize
Banned
Flash memory is solid state, but solid state drive is a specific thing that has integrated circuitry to go with the solid state memory.
Its maybe nitpicking to point out, because it doesn't counter your point about how something like a constantly streaming video file being a bad thing to have continually recording to solid state memory. It still true though.
I'd argue the biggest evidence for this being done in ram is the number of seconds it takes to actually save the video once you hold down the screen shot button. If it was already on the flash memory it wouldn't take so long I don't think.
You need to spend less time in 4chan and try to not get so salty when someone points out you're wrong.
Haha just saw the edit calling me "asshole". Good riddance! As I already said, no need to lose more of my time. And pointing out you're wrong is not being a defence force.
Sniffynose
Member
Oh I know, just some people clearly can't have bad speak about their brands or something without jumping down throats. I hate these forums for this very reason. Things get pretentious as hell over the stupidest things sadly.
Sniffynose
Member
You need to spend less time in 4chan and try to not get so salty when someone points out you're wrong.
Haha just saw the edit calling me "asshole". Good riddance! As I already said, no need to lose more of my time. And pointing out you're wrong is not being a defence force.
Hey if you are the defence force then you earned that badge lol.
1: we know the hard drive is solid state (who fucking cares if it's nand or any other non spinning format.) You knew what I was saying.
2: We both have no clue how it's implemented so being all dickish about it makes you look ridiculous.
3: I've already wasted too much time here so I'll see myself out before you need a safe space or some shit.
Dude was just pointing out that your concerns with the recording video add-on doesn't stand. I don't see where it's Nintendo defense force, really. More tech talk than anything else.
If anyone's on the defensive here, it's you, like, really hard. :lol
legendofjelda
Member
This got my hopes up, but I don't notice any improvements on mine, unfortunately. Not that I tested before the update.
Herb Alpert
Banned
are the 8bitdo controllers still supported? I'd like to buy a SFC30 pro but I'm really afraid an update would break the compatibility...
I didn't even know that was possible in this update, is it just one save at a time you're transferring, unlinked to an account? Either way that would be the 0.01%. The use of save transfers is extremely minimal. 99% is about fair I'd say.
Not that I personally am being critical of this. It's a step in the right direction, and as long as Nintendo keeps going with this, good on em! I also think the 30 seconds is perfectly acceptable. Give the PS4's lack lustre annual update, having several updates like this in 6 months is pretty good in my books.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
new icons
oh my~
ALSO HOLY SHIT THIS MEANS THERE'S AN OFFICIAL ART OF KASS WHERE IS IT
oh my~
ALSO HOLY SHIT THIS MEANS THERE'S AN OFFICIAL ART OF KASS WHERE IS IT
plagiarize
Banned
The clues (short clip size, time taken to save the clip) point to the buffering video being held in RAM, but whatever.
El Pescado
Member
new icons
oh my~
ALSO HOLY SHIT THIS MEANS THERE'S AN OFFICIAL ART OF KASS WHERE IS IT
More importantly, where is that first render of Link from? I thought it was Twilight Princess at first glance, but its not.
It's 720p30. Unfortunately Twitter compresses the fuck out of videos so it looks terrible.
I uploaded a 1080p60 video of Pokkén onto Twitter last week. It got compressed to shit and looks like ass.
new icons
oh my~
ALSO HOLY SHIT THIS MEANS THERE'S AN OFFICIAL ART OF KASS WHERE IS IT
Why would anyone pick that bird thing? All he did was to play that same song over and over again.
Minsc
Gold Member
This update sounded promising at first, but now I'm completely disappointed.
No save backup, super useless for me.
Video recording is completely botched, bad quality and short duration. Meanwhile my phone can record unlimited at 1080p while playing games, and any game at all at that. And the video editing features on the phone are also miles above, cutting and splitting at any point, mixing clips, adding effects and transitions between cuts, etc.
No save backup, super useless for me.
Video recording is completely botched, bad quality and short duration. Meanwhile my phone can record unlimited at 1080p while playing games, and any game at all at that. And the video editing features on the phone are also miles above, cutting and splitting at any point, mixing clips, adding effects and transitions between cuts, etc.
I was curious about the claims that MK8 clips had less quality than other games, so I analyzed a clip from both games. They appear to be pretty much identical. (Left is Zelda, right is MK8)
I'm thinking maybe the drop in quality is because MK8 is a much more fast paced game than, for example, Zelda, and in fast moving scenes a low bitrate is a lot more harmful to quality than in slow paced scenes. The more pixels are changing and moving and the more dramatic these changes are, the more the low bitrate will be apparent.
Quality sucks tbh, but it is what it is. I guess they can optimise the RAM usage of the OS and maybe record at a sightly higher bitrate if it doesn't impact performance, or just use the extra RAM to store larger (longer) files. I sure hope so. This feature is currently in the "better than nothing" territory, it's kind of bad, but I'm still gonna use it a lot lol.
I'm thinking maybe the drop in quality is because MK8 is a much more fast paced game than, for example, Zelda, and in fast moving scenes a low bitrate is a lot more harmful to quality than in slow paced scenes. The more pixels are changing and moving and the more dramatic these changes are, the more the low bitrate will be apparent.
Quality sucks tbh, but it is what it is. I guess they can optimise the RAM usage of the OS and maybe record at a sightly higher bitrate if it doesn't impact performance, or just use the extra RAM to store larger (longer) files. I sure hope so. This feature is currently in the "better than nothing" territory, it's kind of bad, but I'm still gonna use it a lot lol.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
fabricated backlash
Member
Smash?
Is he a Tumblr meme or something?
Minsc
Gold Member
It's not a backup, because your save becomes deleted from the first switch, it's just the ability to move a save over. So whether you have 1 switch or 1,000, you'll still only have 1 save.
Uh, I didn't even bother uploading it yet tho? I'm saying it looked terrible playing natively on my Switch. No way it's 720p. 720p looks rough, but not that rough.
Before Twilight Princess HD was revealed, some new 3D renders of Link were spotted in various promotional materials. It seems they've decided TP Link's look is the default look and these 3D renders of him are of the generic Link.
I am just hopeful this is step one, with cloud saves being step two in 2018.