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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Typhon_Paktu:SA on June 06, 2005, 02:05:47 am

Title: Need help
Post by: Typhon_Paktu:SA on June 06, 2005, 02:05:47 am

I am wondering.....


does anyne know how to record the movies played in freespace 2 ?

I hve an audio recorder, bit its ok for sertin things. I used to be able to record from winamp radeio but now they have adapted lol.
But I wonder if there is anything that i can use.




any suggestions would be appreciated.

Title: Need help
Post by: Admiral LSD on June 06, 2005, 02:18:39 am

If you're video card offers TV output and you have access to another computer which offers video input you could rig the two together and capture it that way though the quality would likely be shocking due to the appaling nature of PC graphics card video input and output hardware.
There are several tools that can capture your display but these too are limited in what they can capture being designed primarily to create demonstrations for training purposes.

Fraps (http://www.fraps.com/) looks as thougg it's designed for this purpose so may do what you want though I've never used it myself so I can't vouch for its quality.

Title: Need help
Post by: karajorma on June 06, 2005, 04:46:32 am

If you're actually after the cutscenes rather than ingame footage take a look here (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/freespace/movies.html)
The page is dedicated to getting the movies to work with FS2_Open but there's plenty of info in there on how to download or make your own avi copies of the cutscenes.

Title: Need help
Post by: achtung on June 06, 2005, 09:27:57 pm

I still havent got the cutscenes working :D

Title: Need help
Post by: Admiral LSD on June 06, 2005, 09:42:05 pm

LOL, what's the hold-up? MVE cutscenes worked in the icculus Linux port of FS1+2 :p

(To this day I still have no idea how he managed that. My best guess is that maybe the MVL code from D2x was adapted for the purpose)

Title: Need help
Post by: redmenace on June 06, 2005, 09:44:15 pm

a guy named return0 used the interplay mve player to rip off the decoding info and wrote his own decoder.

Title: Need help
Post by: achtung on June 06, 2005, 10:22:49 pm

Where are you suppose to put the .avi files anyway I stuck em in data/movies and then I tried the main folder but still nothing so yeah I did something wrong.

Title: Need help
Post by: karajorma on June 07, 2005, 04:51:11 am

Don't use 3.6.5. There's a bug in it that stops movies playing. Any newer build should work.

Title: Need help
Post by: Typhon_Paktu:SA on June 08, 2005, 01:43:39 am

Of fraps or a nouther prog ?

Title: Need help
Post by: Admiral LSD on June 08, 2005, 02:21:07 am

Of FS2_Open. kara was answering Swantz query about not being able to get the cutscenes working in FSO...I think.

Title: Need help
Post by: karajorma on June 08, 2005, 02:59:48 am

I was indeed :)