Recording Movies?

[leghk]

I've just upgraded to enough RAM to try out that ALT-A feature, but although it seems to be recording (a lot of drive activity, slowed performance in-game) I don't see anything in the filesystem as a result. I'm using ALT-A again to end recording. Am I missing something?

[Pluribus]

Yes, Take a look for a tremendous number of png files in your eClient directory :-)

[leghk]

I thought of that one too - but I don't see any new files anyplace. Although, after I've done an ALT-A, wait a bit then ALT-A again, the next ALT-C capture is like Frame1135.png. No other frames were saved, though.

[leghk]

I thought of that one too - but I don't see any new files anyplace. Although, after I've done an ALT-A, wait a bit then ALT-A again, the next ALT-C capture is like Frame1135.png. No other frames were saved, though.

I'm going to resurrect my ancient thread here (I think this originally was posted in Jan 2004!) because even though I'm on a PowerMac now, I see this same problem trying to record a movie.

To try to be very explicit about this, Alt-C captures work as expected. Frame numbers increment with each capture as expected. Alt-A animation captures, however, leave no captured images in the directory, but if I start Alt-A for a while, then stop it and do Alt-C again, I get a normal single frame capture numbered AS IF the animation sequence had recorded. So for example, in a clean situation, I can capture a frame to get Frame0001.png, and again to get Frame002.png, run Alt-A for a while, press it again to stop, then Alt-C and find Frame0176.png. No intevening frames. 1, 2, 176.

Last time I was running Linux at home (Fedora 2 Intel) this was still happening as well, back around April or May of this year. That machine is headless now so I can't try it there, but I can try at work on Suse 9.3 Intel.

Edit: Just after posting this, I thought that perhaps my normal 1280xWhatever resolution was swamping the drive's throughput, and tried using the default 800x600 window - no difference. On the Mac, nothing showed up under /Users/mylogin/Documents/eGenesis, where single frame screen captures appear just fine.

[Pluribus]

Well, I confirmed that it isnt working... However, that is common code so it probably doesnt work on Windows either :-) I will look at it...

-Ron

[Pluribus]

Try this...

ALT-A to start movie capture....
ALT-C to write them out... (and stop the capture)

There is a bug with ALT-A start and ALT-A to finish (It never frees the ram used by the snapshots... it is being fixed now)

That is what I get for trying to remember little used undocumented ALT-commands :-)

[leghk]

Cool, that works. A nice pile of Clip00FrameXXXX.png files appears. Interesting that doing it this way doesn't affect the FrameXXXX.png screen shot numbering either (which it should not, of course).

[Pluribus]

Now... That said... the client wont overwrite screenshots, but it WILL overwrite movie clips... You are warned :-)