Widescreen Gaming Forum

We are looking to expand our media offerings, in both screens and videos. If you are interested in being part of the WSGF Gallery or helping us to showcase widescreen gaming through videos, please send me a PM or email.

Speaking of, is there any solution to recording in triple widescreen resolutions? Both Fraps and Xfire can take screenshots but are limited when recording video because they do not support resolutions above a certain range.

I got no problem with Fraps and 5256x1050. Fraps v3.2.2

ps: Think posting here is not a good idea

Ibrin, I would like to post my Eyefinity video & screens of The Darkmod.

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I'd be more than happy to contribute! As far as video is concerned, I typically record in Afterburner's "lossless" codec with the resulting file sloppily engorged with gigabytes. What format are you requesting for video? What fps / ratio to actual pixels?

Sorry for not replying sooner. Been hella busy with a behind-the-scenes site overhaul.

I generally upload to YouTube in H.264 at 1080p. If you're doing a multi-mon video, I'd like to start doing some 4k videos like Skid. I can give you an FTP to upload to.

I am obviously new here but been around for a bit - love FPS games and my triple monitors to game on, though some games scale well and others do not. I would be happy to contribute some videos or screenshots - just need some direction as to what you are looking for and in what format, codec, file size, etc.

Here are the games I currently have:
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
COD: Black Ops
COD: Modern Warfare
COD: Modern Warfare 2
Crysis
Crysis Warhead
Crysis 2
Far Cry 2
FEAR
FEAR XP
FEAR 2
Halo
Halo 2
RAGE

On Pre-Order:
BF3
CODMW3

Playing on a rig that loves to tear up FPS games with full eye candy!

PM me and let me know if I may be of assistance.

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I am obviously new here but been around for a bit - love FPS games and my triple monitors to game on, though some games scale well and others do not. I would be happy to contribute some videos or screenshots - just need some direction as to what you are looking for and in what format, codec, file size, etc.

Hi The1stCAV, welcome to WSGF. Any contribution is welcome at WSGF :twothumb , you can check the screenshot galleries we already have here - http://widescreengamingforum.com/galleries , you can check a mini-tutorial here - http://widescreengamingforum.com/article/how-create-gallery , videos can be uploaded to youtube and then posted in this sub-forum - http://widescreengamingforum.com/forums/gaming/youtube-links , cheers .

Is there anyway to make Afterburners MJPG format work in Adobe Premiere? It plays in VLC but in Premiere all that shows up when I import the file is audio. The uncompressed format works but the file sizes are ridiculous.

Fraps just crashes any game I try recording with on a triple screen resolutions. Dxtory doesn't work correctly at high resolutions for me either. There was one other one I tried but I can't remember the name which didn't work either.

I don't understand what I'm doing wrong =( I've reformatted countless times trying to figure this all out but nothing seems to work correctly on my system, it's incredibly frustrating.

Sorry if this isn't the right thread for this, if it isn't could someone point me in the right direction on a thread where people might be discussing this and the software and methods they use? Thanks.

Is there anyway to make Afterburners MJPG format work in Adobe Premiere? It plays in VLC but in Premiere all that shows up when I import the file is audio. The uncompressed format works but the file sizes are ridiculous.

Fraps just crashes any game I try recording with on a triple screen resolutions. Dxtory doesn't work correctly at high resolutions for me either. There was one other one I tried but I can't remember the name which didn't work either.

I don't understand what I'm doing wrong =( I've reformatted countless times trying to figure this all out but nothing seems to work correctly on my system, it's incredibly frustrating.

Sorry if this isn't the right thread for this, if it isn't could someone point me in the right direction on a thread where people might be discussing this and the software and methods they use? Thanks.

I was experiencing Fraps crashing games after upgrading to a triple monitor setup as well. After reinstalling Fraps with the latest version it fixed it. Not sure why it fixed it, but it might be worth trying again. Make sure your graphics drivers are updated too, and run the DirectX re-distributable installer just in case there's some missing DirectX files.

MJPG's, not sure, maybe re-encode them first with a different codec that's smaller and compatible with Premiere?

thats because most encoders don't support resolutions bigger than 4000 pixel wide.

I tried encoding a video (recorded with afterburner, MJPG 6048*1080) into H264 because that's smaller. 95% of encoding Software didn't work! But 4000*720 works fine!
but hey. 6048*1080 wont Work on Youtube! 4096 wide is the maximum.

And if you have problems with Premiere, go to the official support Forum! (and absolutly don't go to MSI Afterburner Support forum! You'll only get instant banned)

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How do you make multi-monitor videos spans more than one screen in youtube? I run my desktop in Eyefinity all the time, and if I watch most EF/NV Surround videos and click the full screen button, the video spans across my screens, but never with my videos. No matter if i put my browser to fullscreen first, and no matter which resolution i select on the youtube player.

I made mine Fraps, and converted to .mp4 using Handbrake. Resolution is correct, with no crops or letterboxing, which i confirmed with Mediainfo. Shoudl I use another editor? Is there a setting in YT's Video Manager I'm not seeing?

should be working without any settings! can you Link a Video of yours that doesnt work?

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This same thing happens to mine as well and I've never found a fix. It has to do with the settings of the program you are using to encode the video though.

I assume whatever your using to encode is trying to encode to 720p or 1080p or to a You Tube compatible output? If that's the case it'll probably be encoded to a final resolution 1920x1080 or 1280x720, which has an aspect ratio of 16:9. You need to find an encoder that will let you maintain the original aspect ratio.

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Well i removed the video. I used Handbrake, and Mediainfo said it was half my correct Eyefinity resolution, and it plays properly in MPC-HC. I guess i"ll try another format and/or encoder.

Is there a way to view the Youtube videos full screen on 2-3 monitors? I cant seem to figure out how to do it

You need to have a video like the ones Skid produces. They are full-res for multi-mon. Click the quality option for "original" quality. Then go full-screen.

Evening, coup,e of questions -

1. What app do you use to capture in-game footage? I have used fraps but lack of compression and multiple videos files makes almost unusable.
2. what app do you use to compress the video down before uploading to YT.
3. Looking at your YT channel and noticed the 'chase the sun' video ihas the 2160p option available, how were you able to do this as a recent video(http://youtu.be/B_TpGQLoIjg) I recorded at the same 5140*1050 as you just appears green when I select 2160p on youtube.

1. Fraps or Dxtory, whichever works best at the time.
2. Depending on the video I'm making, ether AVISynth with MeGUI using X264, or Adobe Premiere and whatever encoder the Media Encoder uses.
3. It's "Race the Sun" and that's because You Tube is not capable of processing videos beyond a 4K resolution, the encoding just fails and the video turns green, so make sure you stay within the 4K resolution limit (4096).

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To clarify, you need to encode the video to a width of no more than 4096, using an Aspect Ratio Calculator you can work out the right resolution to keep the right aspect ratio when shrinking the video down.
Example:- 5140x1050 = 4096x837 to keep the aspect ratio as close as possible to the original.


I find also that XSplit Broadcaster can also be of some use to capture to 4k resolutions and even allows you to setup a custom resolution of say 4096x837 and output to .mp4 ready for youtube uploading, i think it even has a youtube plugin for live streaming but ive not worked this out yet.
Note xplit will not capture 3D/Directx content you will need DXTory to capture the DirectX output and convert it into a stream format that XSplit can pickup to then capture.

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1. grand Ill give this a try and I fraps too cumbersome.
2. I shall download these and give them a try.
3. ah, cool thanks.

Thanks for the info.

Yes, I had too problems with 4K videos on youtube. Like @Delphium and @Skid said before, you need to stay on 4K resolution and not going further. I realised that after 5-6 failed videos )
I tried two months ago to upload a video, calculated aspect ratio with the calculator, but still getting error that the resolution is to big.

Youtube changed the maximum Resolution!
There is no "Original" quality anymore but 2160p(4k) so all videos will be reduced to 3840x2160 pixel no matter what!
Right click on "Statistics" shows the resolution. in this case 3840*686 pixel the original i uploaded was 4090*720p
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjqz9BDbayc

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Does that mean that Youtube will now accept videos of say 5760x1080 resolution, and then scale them down to 2160p or does one still need to stick to the 4096pixels width when uploading?

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Now thats a good question!
I'll test that when i'm back home.
The good thing of 3840x686 pixel is that's roughly 2MP, same as 1920x1080 so the filesize is small

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