Posted: 3/26/2010 10:57 PM
Post subject: Recording AVI on Gens 11a
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SonicGenisis
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I have looked at some posts asking how to record avi files on gens, however i am unsure about something. Do i need to record new movie then start avi dump?, or do i just start avi dump.
Posted: 3/26/2010 11:05 PM
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What are you trying to do, exactly? If you are just recording your normal game play, you can start AVI dump at any time. If you are recording an AVI of a movie file, pause the emulator, start playback of the movie, then start the AVI dump.
Posted: 3/26/2010 11:08 PM
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On a side note, be sure that you have the appropriate video codecs installed, specifically, ffdshow. This should allow you to dump high quality AVIs, better than the standard codecs supplied with default Windows installations. I suggest using the lossless H.264 codec if you plan to process the video further. The Camstudio codec is also a good dumping codec if you wish to engage in further processing, but it is only really useful for if you plan to make High Definition videos.
Posted: 3/26/2010 11:08 PM
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sgrunt wrote:
What are you trying to do, exactly? If you are just recording your normal game play, you can start AVI dump at any time. If you are recording an AVI of a movie file, pause the emulator, start playback of the movie, then start the AVI dump.
What i am trying to do is do a test to get everything right so once i have recorded the movie i am trying to play it on Windows Media Player but it will not let me
Posted: 3/26/2010 11:10 PM
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If you are having issues playing back the movie, can you tell us what codec you are dumping the AVI to?
Posted: 3/26/2010 11:15 PM
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you do not need to do "record new movie" at all for AVI recording. "Record new movie" starts recording your input for later playback, and is totally unrelated to AVI recording. If you wish to make an AVI recording of an input movie, you will either have to start the movie playing first or set "Sync AVI with Movie" in tools->avi.
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Posted: 3/26/2010 11:17 PM
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upthorn wrote:
you do not need to do "record new movie" at all for AVI recording. "Record new movie" starts recording your input for later playback, and is totally unrelated to AVI recording. If you wish to make an AVI recording of an input movie, you will either have to start the movie playing first or set "Sync AVI with Movie" in tools->avi.
Oh thanks its fine now
Flygon wrote:
On a side note, be sure that you have the appropriate video codecs installed, specifically, ffdshow. This should allow you to dump high quality AVIs, better than the standard codecs supplied with default Windows installations. I suggest using the lossless H.264 codec if you plan to process the video further. The Camstudio codec is also a good dumping codec if you wish to engage in further processing, but it is only really useful for if you plan to make High Definition videos.
So when it asks me what i want to use to compress the file i use the ffdshow? (If i only want to view the video on my computer not upload to internet)
Posted: 3/27/2010 12:09 AM
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You want to configure ffdshow, basically, when you are asked to select a codec, click the configuration button and select H.264 lossless as the Encoder, this should allow for perfect image quality, since you don't want to put it on the Internet (YouTube dislikes H.264 lossless).
Posted: 3/27/2010 2:04 AM
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Flygon wrote:
On a side note, be sure that you have the appropriate video codecs installed, specifically, ffdshow. This should allow you to dump high quality AVIs, better than the standard codecs supplied with default Windows installations.
That ffdshow is outdated. The ffdshow you want is from here: http://www.free-codecs.com/FFDshow_download.htm
Posted: 3/27/2010 4:06 AM
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Aktan wrote:
That ffdshow is outdated. The ffdshow you want is from here: http://www.free-codecs.com/FFDshow_download.htm
The official page for those builds is http://ffdshow-tryouts.sourceforge.net, and you can find the associated downloads at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow-tryout/files/.