request: think of using free open source file formats :)

[ghost]

Just a request (if interested) for the future...

You could improve your website by only using free open source file formats in following places:

• https://www.progettosnaps.net/softwareresources/

Don't use proprietary RAR compression (for the dats)

• https://www.progettosnaps.net/videosnaps/ and https://www.progettosnaps.net/softwareresources/

1. Don't use proprietary MP4 container.

free open source alternatives:

• Matroska: https://www.matroska.org/index.html
• WebM: https://www.webmproject.org/
• OGG: https://xiph.org/ogg/

2. Don't use proprietary H264 video codec and MPEG AAC audio codec.

free open source alternatives:

audio:

• vorbis: https://xiph.org/vorbis/
• opus: https://www.opus-codec.org/
• FLAC: https://xiph.org/flac/

video:

• theora: https://www.theora.org/
• VP9: https://www.webmproject.org/vp9/

A good combination is a OGG container using Theora video and Vorbis audio. You can edit the source material using this editor

https://www.openshot.org/

OpenShot screenshot.

Any conversion (if needed) by this tool

https://handbrake.fr/

The result is a file that plays on each platform, including mobile platforms.

https://xiph.org

The Xiph.Org Foundation is a non-profit corporation dedicated to protecting the foundations of Internet multimedia from control by private interests. Our purpose is to support and develop free, open protocols and software to serve the public, developer and business markets.

[ghost]

BTW: FLAC for ripping your audio CD collection is fantastic. You should check it! It's unbeatable for lossless compression and a wide hardware support.

https://xiph.org/flac/

[ghost]

Is it something like this you use to record MAME or do you use -aviwrite of MAME?

https://obsproject.com/

[AntoPISA]

Something I can do, but for example as far as videos are concerned, I don't produce them (I only run the games), the rest is produced by MAME; it is motoschifo from http://adb.arcadeitalia.net/ who is in charge of video production and conversion, I will talk to him about that soon.

OBS Studio is really good and I use it on my PC, as does HandBrake.

[ghost]

But you let MAME save them using -aviwrite and this is used as input for the conversion?

[AntoPISA]

Yes, that's exactly the command.