Telephone cord tutorial

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Someone asked me to do a video tutorial for one of thoses curly telephone cords. If others are interested here it is (40Mb):

http://www.ibiblio.org/bvidtute/mytut/curly.mpg

GreyBeard

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I must say everyone of your tutorials I learn something from. Please make more. They are awesome.

JABayne

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what codec did you use for this? i cant get the video to work. Only the sound plays :frowning:

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mplayer output:

Playing test-0000.mpeg.
AVI file format detected.
VIDEO: [FMP4] 800x600 24bpp 10.000 fps 580.7 kbps (70.9 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
Software: Lavf50.5.0

Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 22050 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 32.0 kbit/4.54% (ratio: 4000->88200)
Selected audio codec: afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)

Opening video filter: [hue]
Opening video filter: [eq]

Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg’s libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)

Building audio filter chain for 22050Hz/2ch/s16le -> 0Hz/0ch/??..
alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: default
alsa: 22050 Hz/2 channels/4 bpf/30104 bytes buffer/Signed 16 bit Little Endian
AO: [alsa] 22050Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Building audio filter chain for 22050Hz/2ch/s16le -> 22050Hz/2ch/s16le…
Starting playback…
Plays fine here with xine, mplayer and vlc.

GreyBeard

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I’ll download this when I get home.
Your tuts are the best on this board I’ve seen.
I always go “Mkay?” for a while afterwards :slight_smile:
P

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i guess i didn’t have the FFmpeg codec. Thanks for that - very interesting tutorial :slight_smile: I’ll have to give it a shot

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This codec should do it: http://www.free-codecs.com/download/FFDShow.htm

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thank you, i have been looking for a version that worked all morning

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Excellent tutorial, thank you very much GreyBeard!
Works perfect with FFDShow and BSPlayer.

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Great tutorial. Loved it. Went ahead and watched your subsurfing one also.

Keep up the wonderful work.

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your tutorials are so good
please cane you help us with a car modeling tutorial

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doesn’t play in QT 7.1.2 or VLC, i’m on OSX.
so now what?

Jack

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It’s the divx codec try “divx mac” in google.

GreyBeard

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@Greybeard, i had a DivX codec, installed a new one but it still doesn’t work.
Included is a screenshot of the info in QT, seems to me there is something wrong with the file.I tried several downloads.

Jack

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I don’t know anything about macs. I seems to think its a mpeg 1 – All I can suggest is to try changing the file extension.

GreyBeard

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GreyBeard, wonderful tutorial. I suspect it’s going to be useful for a lot more than telephone cords. Thanks :slight_smile: .

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Very useful tutorial, thanks. To get it to play video and sound on a Mac I changed the extension to avi, then had to use ffmpegx to save it as DivX and played it with VLC. Hope this helps those with Macs.

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Hi, i’m a newbie using Blender 2.46.

When i tried to JOIN the nurb circles, the telephone cord gets “flatten” into 2 dimension.

Please help, thanks.

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Great tutorial. It’s “to the point”, relaxing to watch and the content is of a high quality.

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Great tutorial!
I just have one suggestion for future video tutorials: consider using osdHotkey or other similar keystroke display program. I find it very usefull in other blender video tuts that I’ve seen.
Best regards,
Jorge