ID:134763
 Oct 9 2005, 7:57 am
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The new BYONDCam could record things going BYOND and save them into a certain format. After this other players can see what you saw while playing if they run the file. It would open up another DS window and you couldnt do anything except for a few multimedia options. This could be useful for showing strategies or more. There would be a certain section for movies and they would be categorized.
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Oct 9 2005, 8:06 am
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DeathAwaitsU
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You can pretty much do it right now. You get an external video recording program and record what's happening on the BYOND screen. Then using Cinematics you can play it on the screen.
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there are also many 'screen recording' programs out there for free. google is your friend! or try snapfiles.com
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I have used external programs to try recording and they are complete crap. Low quality video (As in not just bad quality images, it records complete crap, it will even like blend frames together and stuff), they don't record sounds right, and they have little to no settings.
The problem with recording a video straight from the screen is it would be HUGE. Highest quality using the external programs produced me like a 2 gigabyte file in just a couple of minutes. Anything lower quality with the external programs, which I half blame on my own computer (and the other half on the recording program that should be able to still do it correctly), turned into complete and utter crap for image quality and sound. If they have a good way to do it, it would be a very nice feature, but I'd put this at the very bottom of the upcomming features list... I'm much more for bug fixes, graphics upgrades, control upgrades, and sound upgrades than I am for video capture. | |
Kunark, it's worth noting that the video codec you use to encode the video of the screencap session has alot to do with filesize and/or picture quality...
And yes, I don't think this would go to the top of the todo list, by any means. | |