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Off-Topic Discussion => Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: Krelus on October 08, 2008, 11:40:32 pm

Title: Video Capture
Post by: Krelus on October 08, 2008, 11:40:32 pm

Does anyone know of a decent free video capture program, in particular one that's compatible with FS2 SCP? The XFire built-in program doesn't quite cut the mustard, and it's incompatible with FS2. And I'm too cheap to shell out $30 for FRAPS.

Title: Re: Video Capture
Post by: BloodEagle on October 09, 2008, 12:24:48 am

Camstudio is free, but it isn't very kind to machines that aren't nuclear powered.

Title: Re: Video Capture
Post by: Krelus on October 09, 2008, 03:21:25 pm

Gah, you weren't kidding about the "nuclear powered" thing. FRAPS is suddenly not looking so bad.

Title: Re: Video Capture
Post by: Backslash on October 10, 2008, 01:50:49 am

There's also Taksi (http://taksi.sourceforge.net/)... may only need a hydroelectric powered machine.  Your mileage may vary.  At least there's options...

Title: Re: Video Capture
Post by: Krelus on October 10, 2008, 08:47:57 am

Actually, I found an alternate solution... I haxxored into my XFire client so that it's compatible with FS2 :3 Which is awesome, since XFire's vidcap program doesn't cause much slowdown at all. I will try that second program, though!

Title: Re: Video Capture
Post by: JGZinv on October 10, 2008, 12:35:10 pm

Mind sharing what hax you preformed to get it working?

Title: Re: Video Capture
Post by: Krelus on October 10, 2008, 01:53:40 pm

http://www.xfire.com/xf/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=1489218&highlight=fs2#1489218

Title: Re: Video Capture
Post by: CP5670 on October 10, 2008, 02:11:29 pm

I was messing around with such programs last year and tried to make some game videos (mainly FS2 and Deus Ex), but didn't really follow up on it.

Windows Media Encoder is free and may work. I think I eventually got decent movies out of that, after spending a lot of time experimenting with the settings.

Title: Re: Video Capture
Post by: Krelus on October 10, 2008, 10:10:38 pm

http://www.xfire.com/video/30b6e/

I made this with the XFire recorder... Now that I managed to get the sound capture to work, it seems to work well enough for my purposes. The aforementioned audio problem was the reason I was dissatisfied with XFire, and now that it's fixed I have no complaints. It even compresses and uploads the files automatically. I'll let you guys be the judges.

Title: Re: Video Capture
Post by: Androgeos Exeunt on October 14, 2008, 01:51:07 am

Fraps works pretty well on my computer.

If you want to know what Camstudio does to a computer - my family's - that has 256 MB RAM and is running a game that has very low system requirements, see this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_CXGi4pZlU).

Compare that to this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LSKXcYCnJk). Same computer, same game. Only this time, I used Fraps.