Webcam feature

[zanzibar]

Look there for -> Movie recording in CS. It do works well (I used it successfully on Linux). Remember to prepare a lot of free space on disk before recording.

Cool.  I'll have to try it out later.  This could be ~very~ useful.

[ThomPhoenix]

I don't think the right dll is packed with PS. But the tutorial says that if you just copy it into the right folder, it should work. I searched a bit and PS already includes the movie recorder config file. This is it's content:
; Key bindings
MovieRecorder.Keys.Record = alt-r
MovieRecorder.Keys.Pause = alt-p

; format of the screenshot filename
; the rightmost string of digits is automatically replaced with a number
MovieRecorder.Capture.FilenameFormat = /this/crystal000.nuv

; Frames per second of the captured movie
MovieRecorder.Capture.FPS = 33.33
; Keep 'real' time in sync with fake time.
; If disabled, everything is rendered at maximum speed - tho the app only
; sees the 'faked' time. Thus everything appears sped up. Useful if you want
; to render a self-running demo to a movie.
MovieRecorder.Capture.Throttle = true

; Quality factor for RTJpeg compression (from 0 to 1)
MovieRecorder.Capture.RTJpegQuality = 1.0

; Size of the captured video, 0x0 to disable rescaling
MovieRecorder.Capture.Width = 0
MovieRecorder.Capture.Height = 0

; Enable LZO lossless compression
MovieRecorder.Capture.UseLZO = true

; Disable RTJpeg lossy compression
MovieRecorder.Capture.UseRTJpeg = false

; Disable the nonstandard RGB format
MovieRecorder.Capture.UseRGB = false

You can also use the movie recorder with an existing binary without any recompilation. Just place the movie recorder plugin in the application's library directory.

So if someone would dive into CS's SVN and compile that dll we could all be happily recording in PS? 

[DaveG]

I have the DLL and could compile it in optimized mode if anyone wanted it, however I'm having issues getting the bizzare NuppelVideo codec to work on Windows.  MPlayer just wants to yell at me, and I can't seem to find the codec anywhere else.  :/

[neko kyouran]

Media Player is just a piece of crap to begin with.  Try, http://www.videolan.org/vlc/  and see it works.

[DaveG]

Oh, I don't use Windows Media Player.  (the MPlayer I was refering to is the open-source thing listed on the CS site)  Yeah, it's garbage.    I use Zoom Player, with vitually ever codec I ever need installed.  I checked the features list for VLC, and they don't have NuppelVideo/NUV1 listed either.  It seems to be a rather obscure codec.

[neko kyouran]

Ah, had me worried for a second there.     Hmm, never came accross a codec it couldn't handle, I'll have to submit something to see if they will work on getting that one to be supported as well. 

Edit:  Checked with VLC, their forums show it being supported as of April last year.  Build number - 0.8.2~20050414.  I got it installed in home if you got a vid to play.  Shoot me an email and we'll see what hapens. 

[Wired_Crawler]

I have the DLL and could compile it in optimized mode if anyone wanted it, however I'm having issues getting the bizzare NuppelVideo codec to work on Windows.  MPlayer just wants to yell at me, and I can't seem to find the codec anywhere else.  :/

Hmm... Mplayer handles NUV internally, You should not need any additional codecs.

Try -> Avidemux2 to transcode NuppelVideo to anything else.

[ThomPhoenix]

The CS team should change to another format, NuppelVideo is pretty much dead, even the official website doesn't exist anymore.

[Bereror]

You can download the CrystalSpace movierecorder plugin from here: movierecorder.zip. Unpack it into the Planeshift directory and also add this line to the end of the psclient.cfg file:

Code: [Select]

System.Plugins.iMovieRecorder = crystalspace.utilities.movierecorder

It does something, but I couldn't get it working properly. The best I got was 3 frames in a 2.6 MB file, but nothing more.

[DaveG]

Yep, pretty much what happened when I tried it.

[Wired_Crawler]

Maybe you have the same problem, which I have on Linux. It looks like Alt-r combination activates an auto-repeat future with very high rate. The result is like you pressed Alt-r many times very quickly. I end up with several small files on disk. The workaround is to press and hold Alt-r and release it after a second or so, If you are lucky recording will remain active

Ah, it was not like this several versions of CS ago, previously alt-r was working corretly.

[ThomPhoenix]

I'm going to fiddle with the settings, I just tried this in-game and I got terrible lag. Then I checked the files I had 6 (?) and one was even 309 MB, while I only used it for a few seconds

Well, none of the small 2 MB like files worked. The 309 MB file did work, but it contained only 5 secs of gamplay, so this has very bad compression. 

Hmm, I just tried some other settings, but that was no good. After only a few secs of filming, I had 46 files consuming 1,2 GB.

[Wired_Crawler]

If You haven't seen that: Recordings from Einnol and Alleri wedding.

Clip 1 originally had 480MB (~1300 frames), clip 2 - almost 900MB (~1100 frames). The default framerate at playback time is always 33¹/₃ fps (at least on my computer). It was not real, so I arbitrarily changed it to 20fps for clip 1 and 15 fps for clip 2 - I tried to be close to average fps I was getting in game.

Yes, compression is inefficient, but picture can be captured almost in real time. Almost, because during recording your moves are significantly slower (bullet time effect ), and some frames are surely lost. Look at tails of fenkis on clip 2 - they are almost motionless (strobe effect ?).