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I recently had occasion to make this picture:

...which I did by tediously taking a screenshot, pressing Alt+F12 6 times (aiming for 10fps for a GIF) and taking another screenshot, etc...

It'd be good to be able to automate this. I think recording directly to animated GIF, or AVI, or some ancient, more suitable format like FLI would be somewhat unnecessary since hundreds of numbered files are quite easy to process into any target format, and those other formats would be a lot more work :) So, I'd want to specify a frameskip value (maybe just in meka.cfg) and then record/stop recording like a VGM or WAV. It might be an interesting way to see what happens when the disk space runs out, too...

you can use Camtasia to record videos from your screen.
I used it with Gens to show people a glitch in Sonic 3 & Knuckles, and it works fine.
http://www.techsmith.com/ <-- software here
http://rapidshare.de/files/22030588/Untitled.rar.html <-- sample of clip here

of course quality is customizable (this specific clip sucks), and it allows to save in several formats, including gif.
it's shareware, but don't tell me that you can't find a patch on the internet. (and if you can't, send me a PM :lol: )

but maybe this wasn't your point, you want to add a video recorder directly in Meka...

It would be great if Meka could capture game play and record it as video.

I would be interested in this, especially because my Camtasia Studio trial ran out (not paying $300 US for it).

Well, the implementation I described is a quick-hack version, especially when it outputs a million files and Windows explodes when you open the directory; and would require somewhat more work to output AVI or GIF; but then we should all have tools that can do that for us. I'm just not sure how it'd play with frameskipping.

A more in-depth approach might be to take DosBox's code for outputting ZMVB format AVIs...

CRV wrote

I would be interested in this, especially because my Camtasia Studio trial ran out (not paying $300 US for it).

CLICK HERE

No one wants to pay 0.01$ for it

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Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 8984 Location: London	Recording "videos" Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 9:27 am
	I recently had occasion to make this picture: ...which I did by tediously taking a screenshot, pressing Alt+F12 6 times (aiming for 10fps for a GIF) and taking another screenshot, etc... It'd be good to be able to automate this. I think recording directly to animated GIF, or AVI, or some ancient, more suitable format like FLI would be somewhat unnecessary since hundreds of numbered files are quite easy to process into any target format, and those other formats would be a lot more work :) So, I'd want to specify a frameskip value (maybe just in meka.cfg) and then record/stop recording like a VGM or WAV. It might be an interesting way to see what happens when the disk space runs out, too...

Tom Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 788 Location: italy	Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 2:24 am
Tom Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 788 Location: italy	you can use Camtasia to record videos from your screen. I used it with Gens to show people a glitch in Sonic 3 & Knuckles, and it works fine. http://www.techsmith.com/ <-- software here http://rapidshare.de/files/22030588/Untitled.rar.html <-- sample of clip here of course quality is customizable (this specific clip sucks), and it allows to save in several formats, including gif. it's shareware, but don't tell me that you can't find a patch on the internet. (and if you can't, send me a PM :lol: ) but maybe this wasn't your point, you want to add a video recorder directly in Meka...

Mieio Guest	Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 5:04 am
Mieio Guest	It would be great if Meka could capture game play and record it as video.

CRV Joined: 02 Jan 2005 Posts: 562	Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 11:12 am
CRV Joined: 02 Jan 2005 Posts: 562	I would be interested in this, especially because my Camtasia Studio trial ran out (not paying $300 US for it).

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 8984 Location: London	Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 11:26 am
	Well, the implementation I described is a quick-hack version, especially when it outputs a million files and Windows explodes when you open the directory; and would require somewhat more work to output AVI or GIF; but then we should all have tools that can do that for us. I'm just not sure how it'd play with frameskipping. A more in-depth approach might be to take DosBox's code for outputting ZMVB format AVIs...

Tom Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 788 Location: italy	Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 1:48 pm
Tom Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 788 Location: italy	CRV wrote I would be interested in this, especially because my Camtasia Studio trial ran out (not paying $300 US for it). CLICK HERE No one wants to pay 0.01$ for it

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