DuckStation has horrible FMVs!

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nomadspy2020

Discussion Starter · 26 d ago

Been using ePSXe forever and since it's old emulator thinking it lacks features, I've decided to switch to Duck but no matter what settings I use the FMVs have these horrible lines all over them. Like blocks in a grid. No matter what ENCODER DITHERING or whatever it's turned on or off SOFTWARE and HARDWARE same thing. In ePSXe they play perfectly fine. Any solution to this?? Somebody posted this problem on Reddit but no solution there and they are telling him it's YouTube compression but ITS NOT. It's how are FMVs supposed to look on PS1 and ePSXe. https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroArch/comments/qn7vxi You can check his both screenshots for comparison.

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FoxSevent

· #2 · 26 d ago

Have you tried enabling chroma smoothing? Literally the setting to smoothe out color gradient in FMVs.

nomadspy2020

Discussion Starter · #3 · 26 d ago

FoxSevent said:
Have you tried enabling chroma smoothing? Literally the setting to smoothe out color gradient in FMVs.

It's enabled by default for me. No luck.

FoxSevent

· #4 · 26 d ago

Not much else then that you can do other than play around with filters and shaders since it's just a 240p 24fps video file, you probably have some bilinear filter applied in ePSXe.

spotanjo3

· #5 · 26 d ago (Edited)

nomadspy2020 said:
Been using ePSXe forever and since it's old emulator thinking it lacks features, I've decided to switch to Duck but no matter what settings I use the FMVs have these horrible lines all over them. Like blocks in a grid. No matter what ENCODER DITHERING or whatever it's turned on or off SOFTWARE and HARDWARE same thing. In ePSXe they play perfectly fine. Any solution to this?? Somebody posted this problem on Reddit but no solution there and they are telling him it's YouTube compression but ITS NOT. It's how are FMVs supposed to look on PS1 and ePSXe. https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroArch/comments/qn7vxi You can check his both screenshots for comparison.

Your information from reddit was 2 YEARS AGO. Have you tried an improvement version of Duckstation recently ? I haven't tried it, thought. If not much of improvement, all you can do is contact Duckstation developer at duckstation github then.

FoxSevent said:
Not much else then that you can do other than play around with filters and shaders since it's just a 240p 24fps video file, you probably have some bilinear filter applied in ePSXe.

If you noticed his posted referring to REDDIT was actually 2 years ago. Dont you find it so suspicious or a confusion why he would post it in here ? SHRUGS

nomadspy2020

Discussion Starter · #6 · 26 d ago

spotanjo3 said:
Your information from reddit was 2 YEARS AGO. Have you tried an improvement version of Duckstation recently ? I haven't tried it, thought. If not much of improvement, all you can do is contact Duckstation developer at duckstation github then.

If you noticed his posted referring to REDDIT was actually 2 years ago. Dont you find it so suspicious or a confusion why he would post it in here ? SHRUGS

I see it's from two years ago but since I was using the latest version of duckstation I didn't think there was much improvement on the issue anyway. Had no idea there is another developer version other than the official one.

spotanjo3

· #7 · 26 d ago

Can you show us your offical version of Duckstation and the latest one ? And the picture of the problem ? No, there is only one developer of this Duckstation version.. He was and is still working with RetroArch and its core as well.

nomadspy2020

Discussion Starter · #8 · 26 d ago

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Font Screenshot Technology Software Terrestrial plant

Here is the first screen of Duckstation you can notice it on the tire, it's like the whole image is in vertical slices

Vehicle Gesture Car Flash photography Tints and shades

And ePSXe perfectly fine

Gesture Grey Vehicle Tints and shades Automotive tire

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spotanjo3

· #9 · 25 d ago (Edited)

I highly recommend you to report it to Duckstation developer at github. If you didnt register at Github.. Please do it so because it is very helpful. He is very active and reply alot over there. Here:

github.com

Pull requests · stenzek/duckstation

Fast PlayStation 1 emulator for x86-64/AArch32/AArch64 - Pull requests · stenzek/duckstation

github.com

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nomadspy2020

Discussion Starter · #10 · 25 d ago

Thank you! Will absolutely do this!

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spotanjo3

· #11 · 25 d ago

nomadspy2020 said:
Thank you! Will absolutely do this!

No problem! If you like it. Please click "Like". Hope it is works out for you soon. ^_^

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nomadspy2020

Discussion Starter · #12 · 24 d ago

Okay turns out I'm stupid and have no idea how GitHub works. The UI is super convoluted and confusing for me. Don't know how to contact the guy :/

spotanjo3

· #13 · 23 d ago

Did you sign up Github first ? Register it then go to duckstation github and there you see: Pull requests. Click it then click New Pull requests then comment on it and you will get an answer from the developer. ^_^

nomadspy2020

Discussion Starter · #14 · 23 d ago

Registered but there is no place to comment when I click new Pull request, that's the problem. Don't get it how this works.

spotanjo3

· #15 · 23 d ago

Okay.. instead of Pull requests.. Click Issues. You should be able to comment on it.

vivi9

· #16 · 23 d ago

I fail to see what's the issue here. Also, i'm pretty sure you can't open issues anymore, i think Sten got tired of that. There's a reason the Discord was set to private.

Anyway, you need to compare against real hardware, not against ePSXe.

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nomadspy2020

Discussion Starter · #17 · 23 d ago

vivi9 said:
I fail to see what's the issue here. Also, i'm pretty sure you can't open issues anymore, i think Sten got tired of that. There's a reason the Discord was set to private.

Anyway, you need to compare against real hardware, not against ePSXe.

The issue is these digital artifact vertical lines all over the FMVs which are not present in ePSXe or the real hardware. No matter what settings Duckstation uses there is no way to get rid of them. They are clearly visible even on the original resolution and aspect ratio. Other than that the emulator is perfect, games run and look amazing but the cutscenes are a deal breaker.

vivi9

· #18 · 23 d ago

Well, i did some testing comparing against Mednafen and the "vertical slices" are indeed more pronounced on Duckstation no matter the settings/renderer.

Good luck contacting the dev about this.

spotanjo3

· #19 · 23 d ago

Yeah, he set Discord to private and I am with him in Discord. He hate noobs who dont know what they are doing. Well, I just found out that issues was disabled so there is nothing you can do about it. Sorry.

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nomadspy2020

Discussion Starter · #20 · 23 d ago

spotanjo3 said:
Yeah, he set Discord to private and I am with him in Discord. He hate noobs who dont know what they are doing. Well, I just found out that issues was disabled so there is nothing you can do about it. Sorry.

Understandable then. Not the biggest issue ever.

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