Is there a program that turns AVI files to WMV or whatever format Quick Time uses? Also what's a good codec I can compress a file too besides DivX?
Just some questions
- Thread starter Confusednewbie1552
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I'm trying to make videos of my games, but here are the problems I'm having with FRAPS and I hope you guys can find me a better program:
1: Fraps only captures the video for 30 seconds.
2: Fraps makes it into AVI.
3: I use VirtualDUB to compress it, but the file is still enormous and the quality is worse.
4: I'd like to find a better program that can take videos longer and/or some program that compresses AVI to WMV or the format Quick Time uses. If there is no program that does this, i'd like to find a codec that's playable on other computers via Windows Media Player, is a small file, and still has good video quality.
1: Fraps only captures the video for 30 seconds.
2: Fraps makes it into AVI.
3: I use VirtualDUB to compress it, but the file is still enormous and the quality is worse.
4: I'd like to find a better program that can take videos longer and/or some program that compresses AVI to WMV or the format Quick Time uses. If there is no program that does this, i'd like to find a codec that's playable on other computers via Windows Media Player, is a small file, and still has good video quality.
Jeff7
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I know nothing of FRAPS, but I can offer a bit of info on the Quicktime thing. Might not be what you want either. Ulead Videostudio can output to .MOV format. But it's $100. I think that Quicktime is a somewhat proprietary format, or at least Apple has some legal wing over top of it. You probably need a license to output to it, and free software can't do that, otherwise it wouldn't be free. 
Note though, Xvid, Divx, and Quicktime are all variants of the same thing - MPEG-4.
Virtualdub - what compressor are you using for video? It's going to be a huge file if you leave it at default (raw frames, uncompressed). Install Xvid and use that to compress the video file. You can get really good quality and small files. Granted, using heavy compression can make the process incredibly slow - I converted a movie to Xvid recently using the best possible quality (Quarterpel, motion quantization, chroma motion, all the quality settings I could find), and it processed 3 frames per second on a 2GHz Thoroughbred XP-M. The output though looked the same as the original.
Note though, Xvid, Divx, and Quicktime are all variants of the same thing - MPEG-4.
Virtualdub - what compressor are you using for video? It's going to be a huge file if you leave it at default (raw frames, uncompressed). Install Xvid and use that to compress the video file. You can get really good quality and small files. Granted, using heavy compression can make the process incredibly slow - I converted a movie to Xvid recently using the best possible quality (Quarterpel, motion quantization, chroma motion, all the quality settings I could find), and it processed 3 frames per second on a 2GHz Thoroughbred XP-M. The output though looked the same as the original.
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