Posted: 12/20/2013 2:13 PM
Post subject: Help with Fceux
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Krumstone
Joined: 12/19/2013
Posts: 5
I'm not sure if I'm asking this in the correct place, but I got here from the fceux.com site. I've been searching everywhere looking for a way to get an AVI video with FCEUX. It seems pretty simple, but I don't have the necessary menu items for this task. I only have File, Options, Emulation and Movie. I'm missing NES, Config, Tools and Debug. I tried to build it from source with no success. I'd appreciate any pointers. Thanks a lot.
Posted: 12/20/2013 2:26 PM
Post subject: Re: Help with Fceux
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Ilari
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Krumstone wrote:
I'm not sure if I'm asking this in the correct place, but I got here from the fceux.com site. I've been searching everywhere looking for a way to get an AVI video with FCEUX. It seems pretty simple, but I don't have the necessary menu items for this task. I only have File, Options, Emulation and Movie. I'm missing NES, Config, Tools and Debug. I tried to build it from source with no success. I'd appreciate any pointers. Thanks a lot.
Is this on Linux or some other unix-like? Here's the contents of template command I use for video dumping from from FCEUX: 
src/fceux --videolog "mencoder - -o foo.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=ffv1:format=bgr32 -oac pcm -noskip -nocache -mc 0 -aspect 4/3 NESVSETTINGS" --playmov bar.fm2 qux.nes
Foo, bar and qux are metasyntatic, NESVSETTINGS is literial (the emulator itself replaces it with some settings). And apparently video dumping disables speed throttle, so it is only useful for capturing movies into AVI.
Posted: 12/20/2013 3:01 PM
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Krumstone
Joined: 12/19/2013
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Yes, this is on ArchLinux. I will try what you suggest Although I'd really like to know why those menu items are missing, since for what I've read they should be active in the GUI out of the box. If not, i haven't found anything throwing some light on it. By the way, thanks a lot for your suggestion
Posted: 12/20/2013 3:05 PM
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Ilari
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Krumstone wrote:
Although I'd really like to know why those menu items are missing, since for what I've read they should be active in the GUI out of the box.
The "SDL" version is missing some features the Win32 version has (other than maybe video capture, it should run in Wine).
Posted: 12/30/2013 8:47 PM
Post subject: Re: Help with Fceux
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punkrockguy318
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Krumstone wrote:
I'm not sure if I'm asking this in the correct place, but I got here from the fceux.com site. I've been searching everywhere looking for a way to get an AVI video with FCEUX. It seems pretty simple, but I don't have the necessary menu items for this task. I only have File, Options, Emulation and Movie. I'm missing NES, Config, Tools and Debug. I tried to build it from source with no success. I'd appreciate any pointers. Thanks a lot.
While both the SDL and win32 version of fceux utilize a common emu core, the applications themselves are separate. The debugger and other features were written specifically for windows and would not work with the SDL version. A debugger for the SDL port would be awesome but someone would need to write it from scratch.
** FceuX SDL Developer/Maintainer ** get the latest source http://sourceforge.net/p/fceultra/code/