Recording

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• kamishizuka

  December 2009

  FRAPS, or any other screen recorder app out there.
  
  .rec files are just a recording of all the data T2 processes during a game, and only T2 cares about what's in the file. To my knowledge, you can't "convert" .rec to anything else.
• Waldred

  December 2009

  I was told there was possibly a way to actually convert them, but I guess screen capture is the most common. I was hoping for a conversion solution, but I guess it's not worth it. Thanks for the input.
• BBlakhart

  December 2009

  Hi
  For the rec data to be converted to anything else, a t2 engine would have to render it first, I am just guessing here the rec data is likely bitstream in nature.
• Phantom139

  December 2009

  from console_end.cs
  

  function recordMovie(%movieName, %fps)
  {
     $timeAdvance = 1000 / %fps;
     $screenGrabThread = schedule("movieGrabScreen(" @ %movieName @ ", 0);", $timeAdvance);
  }
  
  function movieGrabScreen(%movieName, %frameNumber)
  {
     if(%frameNumber < 10)
        %frameNumber = "0" @ %frameNumber;
     if(%frameNumber < 100)
        %frameNumber = "0" @ %frameNumber;
     if(%frameNumber < 1000)
        %frameNumber = "0" @ %frameNumber;
     if(%frameNumber < 10000)
        %frameNumber = "0" @ %frameNumber;
     screenshot(%movieName @ %frameNumber @ ".png");
     $screenGrabThread = schedule("movieGrabScreen(" @ %movieName @ "," @ %frameNumber + 1 @ ");", $timeAdvance);
  }
  
  function stopMovie()
  {
     cancel($screenGrabThread);
  }
  
• BBlakhart

  December 2009

  gee how efficient is that?
• kamishizuka

  December 2009

  Blakhart December 2009

  gee how efficient is that?

  Who doesn't want a metric ton of PNGs when trying to convert a nonce format into something else? Stitching them back together is the most fun thing in the world!
  
  Phantom's method doesn't output audio anyway.
• Phantom139

  December 2009

  Not my method, that's the console_end.cs method.
• EEolk

  December 2009 edited December 2009

  Just want to point out that games today still provide a method similar if not exactly the same to that for in-game recording of demos. You're supposed to use a program like VirtualDub to string the screenshots + audio together. It works very well.