7.2 Video quality is beyond terrible

I'm trying Dolphin 7.2.   I've read through the forums here and saw solutions for previous versions of dolphin that involved editing your header.inc.php file and changing the FFMPEG render settings.   I've tried the ones I've seen when using the search, and all that does is makes the video rendering fail.    I know I've entered them properly it's as simple as editing a php file and replacing a line of code.

 

I did a test with a video that i screen-recorded of a facebook page.   When i play the video on my pc I can view the text written on the page fine, when i upload it to dophin, it becomes a garbled unreadable pixelated mess.    My question is does anything know the settings on the header.inc.php file to fix this in 7.2?  The forum posts I've found all give fixes for 7.1 and previous but when I use them on 7.2 it makes the video rendering fail.  I would like to use h264 if possible I think it's more efficient and saves bandwidth.  Heck I render the files with the H264 codec.  

 

This has nothing to do with recording video through dolphin, this is when I upload videos to it on the video page.   It converts them into an unreadable mess.  

Quote · 20 Sep 2015

I researched this more and determined something interesting.   It generates the M4V file perfectly, however the WEBM file is nothing more than a garbled mess.  I notice people saying "it's the video you uploaded", in this case it obviously isn't, the m4v and the webm are like two different worlds when it comes to quality.

 

Here's the M4V direct link:

http://www.facebookrejects.com/30.m4v

 

Now here is the webm file generated in the same process, which is horrific quality:

http://www.facebookrejects.com/30.webm

 

It also seems that the webm file is generated at a lower resolution than the M4v file, what would cause that?  If  it was a setting I changed shouldn't it affect both files?

 

What I have to do in the meantime is take the same file, render it on my own PC to webm format, and then upload it and rename it something like 30.webm then I get the right quality and the video displays fine. 

 

 

Quote · 21 Sep 2015

The quality is ok, the problem is in the resolution, you need to increase it in flash/modules/video/inc/constants.inc.php file:

if(!defined("VIDEO_SIZE_4_3")) define("VIDEO_SIZE_4_3", "480x360");
if(!defined("VIDEO_SIZE_16_9")) define("VIDEO_SIZE_16_9", "640x360");

change to:

if(!defined("VIDEO_SIZE_4_3")) define("VIDEO_SIZE_4_3", "1440x1080");
if(!defined("VIDEO_SIZE_16_9")) define("VIDEO_SIZE_16_9", "1920x1080");

Also you will probably need to change bitrate from 512 to 1024 or 2048:

Dolphin admin panel > Modules > Flash Apps > Video Player > Settings > Coverting Video BitrRate kb

Please note:

- Only newly converted video will be affected:

- It will increase video loading time

- It will affect on performance of your server

- It will affect users with older hardware and low bandwidth in a bad way

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Quote · 21 Sep 2015
 
 
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