Background Creation Guide for the Qoob PRO BiOS

[brakken]

Background Creation Guide
for the
Qoob Pro BiOS

Originally Written by JohnnyTwoHats
and Edited by Brakken

- 2005 -

[ Requirements ]

Qoob Pro BiOS v1.3a (for non-transparent text) Here
Qoob Pro BiOS v1.3b+ (for transparent text) Here
TMPGEnc (free or registered version) Official Site - Alternate Site
TMPGEnc Qoob Template (below)
Text Position Templates
Photoshop, Corel Draw or MS Paint

[ General Information ]

The Text Position Templates are 640x480x32bit and the end result you're looking for is a MPEG1 I-Frame 640x480 image. So just make any image, save it as either JPEG or Bitmap (BMP) and then convert it with TMPGEnc.

[ Converting Your Image ]

Unzip TMPGEnc to an appropriate directory (it doesn't require installing) and then copy the template QoobBackground.mcf to the TMPGEnc Template directory.

(1)Start up TMPGEnc

(2) If you haven't run TMPGEnc before, a dialog box will initially come up. Select the "Do not show this dialog again at start up." checkbox and click ok.

(3) You will initially be faced with the project wizard. Cancel this to get to the main interface. If it asks you whether you want to reset the project, click ok.

(4) Click the ES (Video only) radio button.

(5) Click browse next to the "Video source" text box and select your *.bmp or *.jpg background file.

(6) Now click the "Load" button in the bottom right corner and select the QoobBackground.mcf template.

(7) If you wish, you can change the output file name and directory path, but this is not necessary (by default it just uses the path and filename of the image file and appends the extension m1v).

(8) Click the top left "Start" button and your *.m1v file will be encoded.

[Cedy_NL]

cool, i will try it soon to make one myself. I guess i can also make some changes in other backgrounds..right?

[poopdedoop]

why would you wanna change other bg's? the only thing i would do is remove any text that i didn't want on it...

[einstein14]

thanks for this guide.
I will try to explain you how to convert a jpeg into qoob background compatible file using linux.

My ditribution (and teh best one) is gentoo so i will explain you how to install needed software under a gentoo system and you will have to adapt the text for your distribution.

you need two software:
-imagemagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/)
-mjpegtools (http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/)

under gentoo you just have to use this commande (as root) to install them:

emerge -uv imagemagick mjpegtools

now open a new file with you favorite text editor and write:

#need imagemagick mjpegtools
#remove the extension
F=${1%.*}
#convert the jpeg picture into a ppm one with the good dimension
convert -resize 640x480! "$1" "$F.ppm"
#make the mpeg file
ppmtoy4m "$F.ppm" | mpeg2enc -o "$F.m1v"

save it has jpeg2qoob.sh

you have to add execute privilege to this script. You can dothis with this line:

chmod 755 jpeg2qoob.sh

So when you want to convert a jpeg to a qoob background just launch:

jpeg2qoob.sh /place/where/your/image/is.jpg

and you will get /place/where/your/image/is.m1v

now you can copy the .m1v file under your windows partition and reboot your computer (/me is waiting for a linux qoobflash)


All feedback is welcome

[Xboxmodder999]

Linux seems a little complicated for me

[TerraChros]

I'll make them for anybody who needs me too, just PM me with requests

[pixelhub]

How can you make the m1v file better quality, so it is like the original image?

When the m1v file is made it is fuzzy compared to the jpeg

[brakken]

Well, if you're viewing it on a tv (non-hdtv) it'll of course be a little fuzzy, but if you are viewing the image using an mpeg player (m1v = mpeg) then you're doing something wrong. Try using the older version of the app, which I will upload when I get a chance (just check it's version history).

hope that helps

[ochentay4]

hi i need help with this: i have made 2 qoob background and i dont understand the procedure to post them here!

[brakken]

Upload all Skinz here -> http://nintenskinz.tehskeen.com/

[ochentay4]

Originally Posted by brakken

Well, you've gotten as far as registering an account and found the Qoob background instruction thread.

Once you've followed the instructions in this thread you'll end up with a jpeg and an m1v image file. Please ZIP these two files together and then go to our downloads section, pick the qoob background, pick upload, fill in a description and upload the ZIP file. When you're done you'll be presented with a page that gives a link to your file.

Next copy this link and then go to the image gallery, pick the qoob background contest and then upload. Next upload your JPEG image and in the description paste the link from your uploaded ZIP file.

Once this is done you should motivate some of your friends to register and then vote on the images.

pixelhub - JPEG -> MPEG (m1v) conversion just is that way. You could try using a TIFF or an uncompressed image format for conversion purposes and this may increase the end results. Let me know

ok ive done it but imnot sure if its ok thanks!

[brakken]

Everything in your entries looks perfect. Good luck!

[phazer]

Hi people!
How can I edit the position of the text of the background?
I downloaded the qoob template, but how should I use the photoshop files included?