TS4: Custom TV Channels
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INTRODUCTION: This Tutorial handles with the subject: The Sims 4 - Custom TV Channels My work
TUTORIAL PART 1: Preparing Custom Videos and Import using Package File Requirements
Install and configure required Tools
Working with VirtualDub
Convert the Audio Codec
Create the final AVI file
Search for the right Instance ID
Last preparations and create Package
Have Fun with your custom video
Additional Credits
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TUTORIAL PART 2: Editing TV Channels and Import using Package File Additional Requirements
Install and configure required Tools
Search for the right Instance ID
Working with the STBL Strings
Last steps and Packaging
Have Fun with your customized videoplaylist
Additional Credits
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TUTORIAL PART 3: Create custom TV Channels and Import using Package File Still in Progress |
TUTORIAL PART 4: Reserved for eventually tutorials which depend on "Creating Custom TV Channels" Reserved |
CURRENT ACHIEVEMENTS: Some informations about the current progress Interesting files
My thoughts about these files
Summary
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CHANGELOG: News, Updates and Announcements
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This is great work, thanks! Can't wait for part three!
To save a bit of time, you can combine steps 2 and 3 in Working with VirtualDub. Just setup the video once with the final VP60 video compression and MPEG3 audio compression settings and do the save AVI and save WAV in quick succession. At least that's been working for me so far, haven't seen a crash yet. |
Quote: Originally posted by scumbumbo
Thanks for this hint. I know the tutorial is very detailed and very long. I will reduce this soon, but at first I wanted to upload my achievements I thought about when I've used mods for the first time - it was for Sims 2 and I had no idea and don't understand, how the modders create so cool modifications. So wanted to provide a really detailed step-by-step guide which will work for all who had no experience in modding. |
Quote: Originally posted by Simser der Deutschen
Hey Simse.. first of all thank you very much for the step by step. It got me started in the whole modding community (and well, the reason why I even signed up here!) I'm having some issues though, and they are real weird ones. I've spent numerous hours on this but still no 100% success. I have some problem with Sims4 sometimes crashing when it's playing my custom video. I've made sure that the audio isn't VBR, I basically do everything you do with the difference that I cut out clips in another program before jumpin on VDub and the rest. Now the strange thing is I feel like I'm getting really mixed results. For whatever reason, and I have no idea what my final change is to make it work.. but sometimes I export a clip and it's happy and dandy, and then I export another clip using the same methods.. And it will crash. If I try to do it EXACTLY the same every time (and with that I mean, same amount of frames/length on the clip, same resolution, same fps etc) it's still pretty random if I get a crash or not. When it works... it works just like it's supposed to, every time.. the clips are looping their playlist and my sim is quite happy with the new entertainment values. I'm on Windows. I'm chopping up my clips to a mpeg4-container so vdub can read them. Vdub then converts the audio (to mp3 320kbps cbr 48khz stereo) and the video and then I run it through generic stream converter and vp6 converter that you supplied and out pops a .vp6 that I rename and then pack in s4pe. (No resource name on OK, tried with compressed on/off in S4PE because I noticed that Maxis doesn't put their AVIs compressed.). And it also runs fine when playing it from VLC. I've tried with sound and no sound, no difference. I'm pretty solid when it comes to computers being a system developer for about 8 years so I know mostly what I'm up to. Just basically wondering if you encountered any issues like this? And if you did, how did you solve it? I'm really starting to lose it here. The strange thing is that a clip that's 15-30 seconds long using 256x144 might crash. But then I might export a one minute long 256x144 clip and that particular time it works fine. I used the same methods and made a 30 sec clip, crash... I made a 15 sec clip.. crash.. I made a 13.200sec clip, it runs fine. Oh and I always use 15fps.. although 25fps have worked on a few occasions so I don't know if it could be the bitrate on the video itself that's making it crash? Any clue at all to what my problem could be? And again, great work, I've had good fun with this not counting the hours I've been pissed! Thanks in advance mate and fingers crossed that you had some kind of similar problem. |
Hey emanuel2k,
your issue seems to be really tricky At first: Before I've found the right things to do, my game only crashes on video playback. And it seems to crash for you too only if the video will be played in succession, right? I would say, this crash must depend on the audio stream. I've read a lot of threads for Sims 3 which handle with Custom Videos. And in Sims 3, the game mostly crashes on video playback because of an issue in the audio stream. In addition: As I've done in Part 1, it is possible to play the Sims 4 Intro on TV and also in succession - and the game won't crashing. The Video Stream of the Sims 4 Intro has the following params:
If your custom videos comply this condition, then we can assume that there is an issue with the audio stream. I know you spend a lot of time in this tricky issue, but could you really double check that you've done all right with the audio stream? If it solves the issue, or not - please reply. We will get it to work
Quote: Originally posted by emanuel2k
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@Simser der Deutschen , do you have permission to redistribute the software attached to post 1? Please ONLY (re)upload things here that 1. you have authored yourself and 2. are not available elsewhere for a good reason. Everything else, please use links instead.
Edit: I removed the attachment from post #2 as well as this makes no sense at all. Users are capable of finding the Tools thread I would think. |
Quote: Originally posted by plasticbox
Okay. I don't wanted to violate copyright, I wanted to eliminate the day, when some required download links are not available. Especially the VP6 Codec is very out to date, On2 was bought by Google and they deleted all downloads of the VP6 Codec from their server. I thought, when I provide the additional credits, and the detailed requirements, I'm right. I will update the Tutorial. [UPDATE] Finished working on the Tutorial. |
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Well, that leaves me out. I was hoping S4 didn't still use the illusive VP6 format, but they kept it. Even with the codec, VP6 format does NOT show up in my 'compression...' tab in VDub. I spent a full week, morning day and night trying to get it to show up when I attempted this for S3, so I can't make channels. Can't it be compressed to something else? VP6 is completely out of the question for me... |
Quote: Originally posted by AwfulArchdemon
Hey, i've got these issue too. But the reason for this was another software or something else. On my normal Windows 8 PC I also don't get it work to show the VP6 in compression. So I decided to create a virtual machine with Windows 8 Evaluation License in it, so I got a fresh win 8, and this works. Maybe you could try this, too. |
Got Windows 7. Don't even know wtf "So I decided to create a virtual machine with Windows 8 Evaluation License in it, so I got a fresh win 8, and this works" means... :-/ Feelin' like a newb over here...
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It took me a while to get everything working for this tutorial, but I finally got it and it does work. Thank you very much!
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Does VP6 have an equivalent? Another compression Sims 4 would recognize? VDub could care less if I have the VP6 Codec. It doesn't show up in 'Compression', and the more I ask about it, the more I find others with this problem.
Or maybe another program with a default VP6 compression, so I don't need to dl it separately and pray VDub recognizes it?? |
This is really a neat guide. Thank you so much.
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I found a working download for the VP6 0.08!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://files.planetcnc.ru/sg/video/VP6_Builder.rar
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Thank you for the link
I've added you to the Thanks-part
Quote: Originally posted by Appw0905
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Hi sorry to be such a pain.
I followed your tutorial and there's just a few things that I think I need help in. Firstly for some reason when I use vdub, the mpeg-3 section has no plugins found so there's nothing I can pick there. Alternatively I managed to successfully install LAME mp3 and that instead pops up which then I use the same settings you post in the tutorial, 48000 khz, 320 bits and 40kb. Everything else after that seems to go fine and I successfully create the package. The problem is when I play the custom video in the game, it plays once and when it's supposed to loop the game just completely crashes back to desktop. I was experimenting around and the section where you say to put the in command "fps 15, loop -1" etc, I decided to leave out the "loop/loope" commands and did the rest of the normal steps. So when I tested it in game, it didn't crash and was able to loop the video, but it was just very choppy and laggy. Is there something I'm doing wrong with the original steps or is the LAME mp3 plugin causing the problem? The only way I've managed to not let it crash to desktop is to remove the loop command lines when you first add it to the input in generic stream creator. Any help would be greatly appreciated. |
I know this hasn't had a reply in months but the two soundexchange.rar files wouldn't even extract kept getting an error that the archive is broken.
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@SimserderDeutschen
I was thinking about this FOR a very long TIME! THANK YOU SO MUCH! :D |
Hey Simser der Deutschen, I have the movie WORKING! BUT the problem is when the video ends. It crash to desktop. |
Back again, so I'm trying out the second tutorial but for some reason when I'm trying to export the data resources in s4pe, I keep getting an "unhandled exception" error.
Can anyone shed any light on this please? |
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