If someone is eager to be awesome, rescue all the single posts that have comments. That's gonna be a lot of work though and Google bans after a while. 

I'll try to see if I can bulk download from the google cache and throw it on some ftp... 

google doesn't seem to carry older copies, and wayback archive stops at the end of last year for some reason. 

I think MH is just busy with real life. Which is actually a good thing.

I also think he became more and more interested in experimenting with Direct3D 11 and Quake became more of a means to that end than an end in itself. I don't blame him, I just hope he is happy.

It might be that he got pissed at all the people wanting DirectQ bugfixes and stuff from him, when he would rather do other things.

Best wishes MH, in the unlikely case you're reading this. 

already works pretty damned well IMO, I use it as my main engine.

I thought he'd finished with it ages ago to be honest. I wish other engines would incorporate the map browser and other features from DirectQ. 

I know he's got a lot going on. Shame about the blog though. 

yeah, that blog was always really interesting to read. He was way beyond me in terms of rendering techniques. 

Does this look a little muddy? I used the in-game recording with FQ to make this video. I think the codec was xvid.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8BI4o-GhKE 

Maybe up the brightness a bit for recording though. 

Quake's blocky nature means there's not much detail lost even with low encoding quality.
I agree with the brightness thing though. Actually, I agree with that while playing too. 

Use gamma 0.7. Pixel textures require a higher bitrate than filtered ones but from the few pixels I could actually see in yours it seemed fine. I would highly recommend using H264 through x264 though, it is vastly superior to XviD. https://www.quaddicted.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=6 can give you some ideas but make sure to read through it all as it is more of a diary than a guide.

I simply use ffmpeg -i "$1" -acodec libmp3lame -ab 192k -vcodec libx264 -preset slow "$1.mkv" for 1280x720 captures and the quality seems good.

Capturing in full quality in-game and encoding it later on is best.

Alternatively to trying to figure out how to capture with Fitz, maybe just wait until christmas for something special :) 

That helps. I have ffmpeg but I had no idea howto configure it 

The bit rate on the actual movie file seems much higher but it becomes muddy when its on YouTube 

re-encodes everything you send it to arse crack quality :P Seriously I think their 720p bitrate is around 700k.

generally you will see better results the higher bitrate you give to youtube, but loss is unavoidable unfortunately :( 

Yeah the YouTube encoding is really not kind to a pixelated scene where the whole view is constantly moving. 

I thought the quality I got at the quaddicted channel is quite good?

Remember that if you don't need the "social" aspects of yt, archive.org is also there for you. 

 

http://www.youtube.com/QrackerJackQuake

Quake video collection including a toy surprise... the free ready-to-go eyecandy Qrack_HD engine.


So why resist the thrill of opening the toy surprise inside?

https://www.googledrive.com/host/0Bwq7b_oMH97HajJVRDh6Q2IwYzg/]GoogleDrive

http://www.adrive.com/public/peyFT5.html


88 videos (+/- 1 minute each)
- Full HD image (1920x1080)
- HD audio stereo (44khz)
- 4.5 hours
- 10 GB
- 1/2 million pictures (1.0368e+12 pixels)

1000 people
- players (clans)
- artists
- composers
- designers
- developers
- producers
- programmers
- coders

66 groups / musicians (84 songs)

31 map designers (52 maps)

30 quake servers

26 mods
- airquake
- airshot
- capture the flag (ctf)
- clan arena (ca)
- cooperative (coop)
- deathmatch (dm)
- deathmatch plus (dmp)
- easy / nightmare run
- free for all (ffa)
- freeze tag
- future vs fantasy (fvf)
- in the shadow (its)
- instagib
- king of the hill (koth)
- open quartz
- pain keep (pk)
- practice
- qball
- quake done quickest
- quakeworld (qw)
- runes
- rocket arena (ra)
- speedball
- team fortress (tf)
- twisted christmas
- undergate

8 projects (each)
- Baker (introduction)
- R00k (e1)
- Qrack (e7)
- Special (e9)
- Video (conclusion)

8 competitions / tournaments

7 countries
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Canada
- England
- France
- Holland
- USA

5 engines
- darkplaces (dp)
- engine x
- proquake (pq)
- proquake playsation portable
- qrack

Bugs

Eggs

Tricks


FULL DETAILS (100 pages)

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bwq7b_oMH97HNkg1NGFvaG9nRWM/edit?usp=sharing&pli=1


http://www.youtube.com/QrackerJackQuake

Qracker Jack Quake

S01
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlBYlgDrcSo&hd=1

S02
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW7zIxcDM9E&hd=1

S03
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qDmzBVglho&hd=1

S04
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY_huRpsUVc&hd=1

S05
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7Pp5CvWqb8&hd=1

S06
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhxisBI-edY&hd=1

S07
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXcXhVaJpd0&hd=1

S08
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ0xnEiMq8o&hd=1 

If I was in a room watching videos of Qracker Jack Quake - and there were two other people in the room with me - Hitler, and Osama Bin Laden - and there was a single gun sitting on a table with two bullets in the chamber...I'd take the gun and shoot myself in the head twice. 

 

Rejected as news because:

1. A Youtube channel is not news.

2. Broken links.

3. No useful information.

4. Post too long. 

The Qrack_HD pack contains copyrighted material: pak0.pak and pak1.pak, if not more. 

5. Gave me cancer. 

Some of the dumbest comments I've read in a while.