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AthenaOfDelphi
26-02-2006, 12:59 PM
Hi all,

Since Dirk posted his vid, I think its a million times better than a static screen shot... alas, I have 0 clue how to capture rendered content and squirt it out to an AVI or WMV file using unDelphiX... can anyone shed any light on the subject for me please?

Many thanks

technomage
26-02-2006, 02:32 PM
Hi Athena

try

http://bero.0ok.de/page/index.php?p=31

It's a small app that will capture other windows to an avi file, not sure if it will work with directX, but it works with Opengl without any problems

Traveler
26-02-2006, 02:46 PM
Alternatively, you could also use VidShot Capturer (http://www.geovid.com/VidShot_Capturer/)

AthenaOfDelphi
26-02-2006, 03:06 PM
Thanks guys, Dirk pointed me in the direction of Fraps (I think), but I was wondering whether anyone had managed to build the functionality into their own software.

IaxFenris
26-02-2006, 03:11 PM
You could also try http://www.fraps.com/. It is Windows only and works with DirectX and OpenGL. As far as i know, the free version comes with a watermark on screen captures and videos and resolutions are limited.

Edit: I was too slow :)

JSoftware
27-02-2006, 10:06 AM
if you want ingame video capture inbuilt, which i don't think there'll be time for, you could rewrite NeHe's tutorial a bit

http://nehe.gamedev.net/data/lessons/lesson.asp?lesson=35

tux
27-02-2006, 12:32 PM
for the video i posted, i used fraps and windows movie maker, wmm gave much better results then virtualdub and divx6, but thats probably just the way i dont know how to use it ;)

cairnswm
27-02-2006, 12:48 PM
Create AVIs from static images (with Delphi Source)

http://www.bloodshed.net/avi.html

cairnswm
27-02-2006, 01:06 PM
Source code for the above is at:

http://www.bloodshed.net/delphi/avi15.zip

AthenaOfDelphi
27-02-2006, 01:33 PM
Hi guys,

Thanks for all the suggestions.

William, that looks to be just the ticket... when I get five minutes slack time or I need a change, I'm going to see if I can wrap that up in class to be included in our competition entry.

Thanks again for all the suggestions guys, much appreciated.

Robert Kosek
02-03-2006, 03:24 PM
Good suggestions guys, I've been trying to take video's lately, and Fraps doesn't do a good job at times.

Athena, if you want to encode your video to a WMV file get the Media Encoder (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5691ba02-e496-465a-bba9-b2f1182cdf24&displaylang=en&Hash=CHPM835) from Microsoft, it's free. Because your computer is a bit old, start the conversion before heading to bed. ;) My own video conversions, roughly 1024x768 30fps, on an AMD 2700XP took almost 15 minutes for a 1 minute video... but it was a lot smaller. You can get a trial of the DivX Converter (http://www.divx.com/divx/create/) for free, and it's only $20 to buy the whole Create Bundle.

I could volunteer to convert videos to DivX6 Pro, I got the DivX Create package during the 5 year promo (FREE!), and if you all have filesize issues and bandwidth problems check out FileFront's (http://signup.filefront.com/1) file hosting service. Just make certain you have no spaces in your username. It's pretty restricted, only 1gb or 10 hours upload time per file, sorry. :P Even if you don't have issues with filesize and hosting, check it out, it's a good deal.