Hi,

I compiled the latest stable from svn and made an installer out of it.
Till now it is only tested with openSUSE 11.1. If you want to give it a try, please post here. And ... Yes, you don't have to uninstall the official client.

Improvements:

• "!leaf_replaced"-bug fixed see here
• Running on oja or bdroad without beeing stuck .
• Integrated movierecorder

You can either download the PlaneShift Client as a simple archive or install it.

The simple way (recommended)

You download the archive here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7IERXLHM
And extract it's contents anywhere you like on your system.

The advanced way

EDIT: While the mirror isn't available, you can download it here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EBH6W3G4
To install download the package: http://mirror.psde.de/util/ps_package/planeshift-0.4.03-3.x86.package (md5sum: 2d9fb99a536e766972bf083b8222efa5)
And install it. A manual can be found here: http://autopackage.sunsite.dk/docs/howto-install/

If you install the package system-wide, it will be put in /usr/share/planeshift/ or /usr/local/share/planeshift/.
If you install it for you only, it will be put in /home/<user>/.local/share/planeshift/

For both ways:

If you already have the official client installed, you can just copy the content of the "art" folder into the art folder of the new client.
In the client-folder are the following executables:

psclient	The Client itself.
pssetup	The Options Editor
psupdater	The Updater
pslaunch	A fusion of the Options Editor and thd Updater. It's an experimantal version!

About the movierecorder

The movierecorder can controlled as following:

Key	Description
CTRL+R	start/stop recording
CTRL+P	pause recording

The keys and the options for the movierecorder can be changed in data/config/movierecorder.cfg

Everytime you start recording, a new file named like "crystal001.nuv" will be created in the planeshift-folder.
These files can be converted with "mencoder" from the "MPlayer program".
To convert one of these files in an avi-movie type this:
$ mencoder crystal001.nuv -o my_movie.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1600

Or use the following command to convert a .nuv-file into a mpg file with a resolution of 720:576 pixel
$ mencoder crystal001.nuv -o crystal001.mpg -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd -ovc lavc -vf scale=720:576,harddup -srate 48000 \
   -af lavcresample=48000 -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=5000:keyint=15:trell:\
mbd=2:precmp=2:subcmp=2:cmp=2:dia=-10:predia=-10:cbp:mv0:vqmin=1:lmin=1:dc=10:acodec=ac3:abitrate=200:aspect=4/3 -ofps 25

More information on converting can be found in the mencode guide.

Hope I could help some people with this.  

mooner

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