Anything better than Fraps ?

[Zenoth]

I wanted to record my first game-play moments in a game, and it recorded indeed, but little did I know that it was taking more than 8 GB for a mere 8 to 10 minutes of play. I had just around 7.5 GB of free space left, so I decided to delete the whole thing since it wasn't complete up to the point where I stopped the recording.

I expected something in the range of perhaps 4 or 5 GB, maybe less, but 8 or 9 GB for 10 minutes ? I recorded with the "Half Size" option, and I recorded the sounds as well, at 29.97 FPS. Is there any other such recording software that will take up significantly less Disk space when compared to Fraps whatever long the recording can be ? Anything that will compress the recording as it records, at least minimally ?

 

[jmmtn4aj]

I think compressing it at the same time would be a little too taxing on the CPU, especially if you're recording a CPU intensive game like those running on the Source engine. Best solution is a big internal hard drive just for recording videos. And compression later..

 

[jonmcc33]

Originally posted by: jmmtn4aj
I think compressing it at the same time would be a little too taxing on the CPU, especially if you're recording a CPU intensive game like those running on the Source engine. Best solution is a big internal hard drive just for recording videos. And compression later..

Get a dual core rig, set the affinity. No excuses. FYI, FRAPS does use a codec to compress, it's hardly a raw AVI capture. It still uses up the CPU when capturing.

 

[montypythizzle]

Usually the sound sucks with Fraps.

 

[Zenoth]

So ... is there anything else than Fraps to record game-play ?

 

[Gunslinger08]

Originally posted by: jonmcc33

Originally posted by: jmmtn4aj
I think compressing it at the same time would be a little too taxing on the CPU, especially if you're recording a CPU intensive game like those running on the Source engine. Best solution is a big internal hard drive just for recording videos. And compression later..

Get a dual core rig, set the affinity. No excuses. FYI, FRAPS does use a codec to compress, it's hardly a raw AVI capture. It still uses up the CPU when capturing.

Yeah, 8 gigs for 10 minutes is actually pretty decent compression when you consider a 1680x1050x32bit color image is about 6.7 megs per frame. Even at 25 fps, that's 168 megs per second or 10 gigs per minute.

 

[Zenoth]

Ok ... I finally managed to do some cleaning in my files, and I freed some space. I've done compressing my three-parts video. After Fraps was finished, it was an 11GB video (in three parts as I said, each parts around 3.9GB). Now, I'm using VirtualDub, and DivX compression method. Each parts ended up at around 170MB size, for a total of around 480MB.

Now ... I need to know how I can compress the already compressed video from 480MB to 100MB so I can post it on YouTube ... (stupid limits).

 

[jonmcc33]

Originally posted by: montypythizzle
Usually the sound sucks with Fraps.

I've never had a problem with it. I have an Audigy2 that has the option to record "What U Hear" and it's always good. I think it's a hardware issue more than anything, not related to the software at all.

Originally posted by: Zenoth
So ... is there anything else than Fraps to record game-play ?

Not that I know of.

Originally posted by: Zenoth
Ok ... I finally managed to do some cleaning in my files, and I freed some space. I've done compressing my three-parts video. After Fraps was finished, it was an 11GB video (in three parts as I said, each parts around 3.9GB). Now, I'm using VirtualDub, and DivX compression method. Each parts ended up at around 170MB size, for a total of around 480MB.

Now ... I need to know how I can compress the already compressed video from 480MB to 100MB so I can post it on YouTube ... (stupid limits).

Since it's going on YouTube with it's crap video quality why not compress it to a WMV?

I did that for my video here: http://media.putfile.com/BF2-Air-Superiority

 

[Zenoth]

The YouTube video quality, especially compared to Google Video's, isn't bad at all. And I wouldn't say that your BF2 video is of "good" quality either, not that I'm saying that your piloting skills are bad mind you (by the way, if it was indeed you piloting in BF2 I wouldn't want to be on the enemy side, were you playing with a Joystick ?).

I could care less in fact about YouTube videos' "bad quality", it's just the limit of 100MB that kills me for now. I've asked on another discussion forum about all this and of course a guy comes in and suggest me to use another codec. Like you do, you suggest me Windows Media format right ? WMV. Well, in VirtualDub I can see dozens of codecs, like FFDShow and MPEG-4 for example, and tons of "Intel" ones, and others like WMV ... so out of them all, is there a "best one" ?