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Welcome to the Speed Demos Archive Knowledge Base. Here you will find information related to speedrunning and video capture. Also be sure to check out the FAQ!

Current Contents

• Do everything for me! Automated encoding with Anri-chan
• General advice, tips & tricks
• Glossary of terms
• List of dimensions and framerates

Getting Started: Recording a...

• Console game
• PC game
• Game Boy, Game Boy Color, or Game Boy Advance game
• Nintendo DS game
• PSP game
• Save Managers

Media

• VHS Info
• DVD Info
• Recording Medium
• Recovering data from unfinalized DVDs

Capture

• Video Capture Devices
• Analog Capture (game consoles)
• Digital Capture (PC games)
• Mac Capture
• Using DScaler with your capture card

Editing

• AviSynth
• Fixing Progressive Audio Desync
• Subtitles
• Audio Commentary
• Splitting / Appending

Compressing

• H.264 / AAC with MeGUI
• Xvid / MP3 with MeGUI
• H.264 / AAC / Xvid / MP3 automation with CLI and batch files
• Lossless Codecs
• Variable Frame Rate MP4

Rules

• Verification Guidelines
• Super Game Boy timing
• What is TAS?

Other Pages

• Extended Description of SDA
• SMPlayer: a media player recommended by SDA
• Bitrate Calculator
• Enabling Encryption in BitTorrent Clients
• VLC in Vista
• Video hosting services
• Famster
• Amu-chan
• PC Runs Collection

Old

• Old Recording FAQ (large)