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Alright, i have some 60fps videos that are in a format that i can't view without a player for them. I'd like to make them into a more convenient format (MP4, AVI, MPG, etc). Sadly however, my current conversion software can only convert a max speed of 30FPS, resulting in some wonky audio/video distortion.

Basically I'd like some input on some free conversion software that might meet these requirements.

I'm gonna post this here since it seems to have more to do with games, and would probably get answered faster in a sub-forum about games...

I need to be able to record gameplay on my PC in relatively good quality. I currently use FRAPS (unlicensed) but it tends to eat FPS and the videos tend to be of horrible quality (Less than 5 FPS, and the audio rarely syncs to the gameplay). Are there any good free recording programs? Or at least some that are good and cost less than $40?

So Guillermo Del Toro And James Cameron are going to recreate one of HP Lovecraft's best stories in 3D. With Guillermo directing, and Cameron Producing.


So any thoughts? Could it be a flop, The greatest thing ever, or drive everyone who sees it insane?

Sources (there's a lot of them): http://english.ohmygore.com/guillermo-del-toro-james-cameron-and-at-the-moutains-of-madness-news-uk-7356.html
http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2010/07/29/guillermo-del-toro-finally-arrives-at-the-mountains-of-madness-best-movie-news-of-the-year/

literally just search google and it turns up a lot

So seeing as summer is finally here, me and a friend have been working on gathering a party for D2: LOD. I was hoping that some Bay12 people might be interested in joining in the fun. It shouldn't really matter what class you play, but I'd like to have at least 1 auradin.

The Group thus far;
1 Summonmancer (Lvl 55 power leveling himself for hell)
1 Dragoon (Lvl 26 this is me, i lost my previous character when my computer was stolen)
  or Poisonmancer (my alt)
(Mayhap) 1 Elemental Druid (Lvl 66 last i played)
(Mayhap) 1 Paladin
(Mayhap) 1 other unknown character

We will likely be playing on the weekends (probably Saturdays), probably around 12AM - 8PM  East Coast US Time
I will place the server info when we have it up

This has been suggested before, but to the extent of my searches they are short, and don't dive into detail. So here's my thoughts:

Wooden constructs: These would be most vulnerable to my system, Any unit with an Axe can destroy a wooden construct. Units of different strengths would have different speeds of cutting through walls, doors, etc. Axes would also speed up the deconstruction of wooden walls.

Branching off, Units above size 4 can kick down wooden doors, while units above size 10 have a chance of splintering the wood causing (possibly) deadly splinters to fly into anyone nearby. A unit with an axe, or a catapult shot would also have a chance of splintering the door. what the doors is hinged to has an effect on the Splintering, loam, soil, and sand walls would always give way and never splinter the door. Doors built into stone walls may splinter, doors built into metal ore walls would have a greater chance, and doors built into adamant walls, and metal would ALWAYS splinter.

The same goes for other wooden constructs, excluding walls, where only a catapult may splinter them.

Stone Constructs: These would be a lot harder to destroy,a unit sizes 5-10 would need a hammer, or siege machine to destroy, units size 11+ can kick it down with enough force. Stone doors and walls would have an effect different from splinter, instead causing dust, pebbles or even chunks of rocks to fly everywhere, Dust would reduce the sight range of dwarves, causing ranged weapons to have a small chance of hitting someone. Pebbles would cause minor bruises and might cause tiny dents in armor. Small chunks may cause minor breaking of limbs of an unarmored person and dent armor. Large chunks may break or mangle limbs, kill, knock out, or suffocate armored or unarmored personnel, with armored more likely to suffocate, or be knocked out, and an unarmored person directly killed.

(large and small chunks may only be caused my heavy siege equipment, or megabeasts)

Metal Constructs: Largely indestructible, needing multiple siege shots to puncture or break a wall, and multiple walls being nearly indestructible. Metal doors could slowly be knocked down with maces and hammers, units size 30+ have a chance of knocking down a door. Metal based megabeasts would not be stopped by walls, instead either melding into the wall/door, or absorbing it. metal doors and walls have a very small chance when hit or destroyed to send metal chips flying out causing cuts, and have possibility of internal damage. in any other case causing metal spikes to appear where to wall was, with a possibility of causing cuts to unarmored personnel moving through the tile.

Adamantine is invulnerable to most attacks, only attacks with sufficient force, and proper material can damage the walls. Also while being the one of the lightest metals in the game, a megabeast, or creature may have enough strength to rip a construct from it's foundation and toss it.

VERMIN: Vermin would take a larger step from gnawing on barrels, and may chew on walls and doors. insect vermin like termites may slowly destroy wooden constructs, rain may also cause slow rot and decay of wooden constructs, if not properly protected.

Racial Differences: Different races would use different walls, with different heights.
Elves use walls of trees and thick foliage that quickly regrows and is incredibly thick and hard to cut, but however VERY weak to fire. may also fall apart or become weaker if the village druid is slain
Humans Use standard stone walls, nothing special, early settlements may use wooden palisades.
Dwarves Also use stone walls but due to mighty dwarvern stoneworking they are stronger than their human counterparts.
Kobolds and Animal peoplesmay use simple wooden fences and sloppy wooden palisades, very poor construction and may be knocked over by small creatures.
UNDEAD(if they ever rise as a Civ) would use decrepit stone walls, with iron reinforcement (if possible) to compensate for their warlike nature.

EDIT: ADAMANTINE REVISION
EDIT2: VERMIN+RACES

Whaddya think?

Alright playing medieval 2:total war kingdoms (Third age total War mod)

Just beat my alltime high score for number of prisoners captured in one battle(originally around 800 now 1076)

AND I CAN'T REMEBER HOW TO TAKE SCREENSHOTS!

Alright, I'm having a recurring problem with my current fort, the goblins, no matter how many losses they have ALWAYS come back the next season to get slaughtered again. Normally this wouldn't be a problem but my stockpiles are overflowing with corpses causing the butchers shop to leak miasma from the meat industry, clean up is also a problem, thier meltable iron gear is a welcome offering, but loads of useless small clothes pile up everywhere, making the map look cluttered and slightly reducing FPS.

And on top of all that it takes many of my professional dwarves away from thier jobs, to dump HUGE amounts of small goods. Also as mentioned above, the goblins return next season just to get killed again, usually right after clean up is finished...


well now down to the point, i need an easy system that can quickly destroy goblin sieges, killing them, destroying thier clothes, and saving thier armor for easy access. I'm not all that good with pumps and mechanics in general, and any attepmt to mass move magma often leads to a magma flood...
So if anyone can help with this, maybe draw me up a blueprint of some sort for this project, it would be greatly appreciated...


I have Magma, Bauxite (needs to be imported), Endless Iron/Steel, and Sand.