Recording video from screen

Vsk · Post by **Vsk** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 7:55 pm

I need to record a video from a game play,

What program do you recommend for doin this?.
I know there is fraps but the last time I used it, it generated me a hughe file and even with a low fps and low resolution (if I high this last ones, the size is gonna be even bigger)

So, what program free do you recommend for doing this and generated witha real time fps (if posible)..

Thanks in advance for your help.

JP · Post by JP » Fri Mar 14, 2008 8:00 pm

Yeah fraps sucks pretty hard i've found.. A couple of years back i managed to get a fairly good video out of fraps but when i try and make a video now with the same application it's at a terrible frame rate...

But to be honest recording in realtime is a costly thing to do, especially when there's a game taking up lots of processor time as well...

I've been trying to capture footage of my PS3 game using a HDMI capture card but the results suck... as it's HD the file size is HUGE for even very short clips and compressing gives pretty bad results and the frame rate is pretty jerky.. I'm just gonna setup a video camera to film the screen instead next time

Halifax · Post by **Halifax** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 8:04 pm

Hmm that really is odd. RAGE (Rockstar) engine seems to do some really good recording.

I guess if you really wanted in-game recording, then you could use a AVI lib to write sucessive images captured from the screen into the AVI.

JP · Post by JP » Fri Mar 14, 2008 8:06 pm

Yeah i imagine the best solution is pretty much coding the support into your app as then it doesn't require another app to be running which would save a certain amount of processor time....

Vsk · Post by **Vsk** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 8:29 pm

Thanks, I just try fraps again and I obtain real time 30 secons with 100 mb

. I will see if I can later compress that video.

But I remember that some day year ago one friend show me a resident evil 2 from playstation 1 video that he had made by using his recorder type (vhs?) machine. And last several minutes.

I don't know why this ist done know but with the computer.

It is just took the exit from the video output to sme recorder right?

JP · Post by JP » Fri Mar 14, 2008 8:54 pm

When i was compressing my fraps videos before i just used windows movie maker which makes the job really simple and tells you before compression how small the end video is likely to be which is pretty useful so you don't have to do loads of trial and error compressions!

MasterGod · Post by **MasterGod** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 9:04 pm

fraps for capture and VirtualDub for compression does a great job here...

EDIT:
Something I've captured some time ago this way:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzTvrQyMnR0

bitplane · Post by **bitplane** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 12:21 pm

I also use fraps, it's pretty cheap and although the videos are quite large, you can quickly recompress them in virtualdub. other options are camstudio and taksi.

Right click on avi-> open with virtualdub.exe
video menu-> full processing mode
video menu-> compression -> choose xvid
(if recorded with camstudio or something with high frame rate): video menu-> frame rate -> 30fps
(only with even sized captures) video menu -> filters -> 2:1 reduction high quality
audio menu -> full processing mode
audio menu -> compression -> mp3
file menu -> save as avi

FuzzYspo0N · Post by **FuzzYspo0N** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:29 pm

http://camstudio.org/

open source, free, win.

agi_shi · Post by **agi_shi** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:10 pm

FRAPS is the best recorder out there for real-time. It's speed impact on the application is negligible. You can't expect it to produce "small" (read: not extremely gigantic) files since it stores uncompressed data - like mentioned, use VirtualDub and Xvid or DivX to compress it. You're sort of comparing BMP files to JPEG files here...

twilight17 · Post by **twilight17** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:29 pm

Hey Agi_Shi.. are you Nullsquared from Ogre Forums?
and also
Agi_Shi from Newton forums?

JP · Post by JP » Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:34 pm

negligible? Completely kills the fps on my apps

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 9:08 pm

he's agi_shi from ogre forum. i saw his physics demo there last time.

twilight17 · Post by **twilight17** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:44 pm

Virion wrote:he's agi_shi from ogre forum. i saw his physics demo there last time.

No hes Nullsquared on the Ogre forum :::::
http://www.ogre3d.org/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... 310#276310

Halifax · Post by **Halifax** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:38 am

Wow I would not expect those type of actions by a person that I thought so high of previously. Really, nullsquared never struck me to be that type of person, but I guess I was wrong.

Really, it's stupid to go outside your "normal" forum and assume a different name; furthermore, it makes it appear as though you are trying to escape something.