Come on you've all asked your selves this before .
Well basically I'm wanting to do make (or see if any of you lot already have made) a program that will basically take a sceen shot every say 30ms and put this together into a video file. My first thought is that AVI might not be a too good idea becuase the if the resolution is at even 1024x768 then the file size/memory usage is going to get big quick.
So if I use something like mpeg then I have the trouble of working out how to use the thing. And then wether I can constantly compress each frame as it come in and basically stream record the mpeg. The major problem with this might be speed considering I would like to be able to use this while playing a game say to record a few seconds worth of gameplay.
It would be amazing if someonehas already doe this and doesn't mind sharing but otherwise I'd love to hear anyones input on how I could pull this off.
As for getting the individual screen shots I was thinking maybe using the send Keys function to invoke the Ctrl+PrintScreen method. But I was also thinking about I might be able to use the DesktopDC to Blt from, does anyone know if that works even in games?
Thanx for any help .
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If it's a DX game you're gonna have problems.
I think a program called hypersnap (or something) does that, but you need to pay for the full version though.
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Well I've been fine by just using Ctrl+PrintScreen in my Dx games to take screen shots So I would have guessed it should be ok if I use the Send Keys thingy. I know some games do stop you but I think those disable the PrintScreen key possibley.
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Automatically save each of your captures to a file. You can even set the application to trigger new captures over a user-defined period, and HyperSnap-DX 4 will increment the file names for you during the process.
Multiple Image Formats
Save your image as a BMP, GIF or JPEG file.
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Originally posted by Electroman Well I've been fine by just using Ctrl+PrintScreen in my Dx games to take screen shots So I would have guessed it should be ok if I use the Send Keys thingy. I know some games do stop you but I think those disable the PrintScreen key possibley.
When i've tried it doesn't usually work, possibely they've changed it in DX9 or something, or it works in some games.
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Yeah I know some games don't let you but I think it just depends on the Game not Dx (could be wrong) just because I seem to remember that from older games that it worked too, Like Starcraft, I think it worked on that too. .
Do you know if using the SendKeys is exactly the same as actually pressing the keys cos that may cause me a problem too.
Thanx for the link I'll check it out now .
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The site seems to say it will charge you once your satisfied .
Mind either way it gave me an idea, I could just churn out the individual frames as files then once its finished it can clean up and turn them into a video once its got the proxessing time .
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I have my GF over the sholder...and she talks all the time, so I can't read all the posts...but if you want to take many screen captures then use the buildt in function in PSP. That way all the screen caps goes to PSP and you can take as many as you want...
If it is video...then I have asked this before...search the forum for one of my threads...:
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It's only got a 15 day trial.
Unless i read it wrong.
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Unfortunatley PSP has a lowest limit of 1 second and that wouldn't make very nice gameplay videos . Also the link on that thread seems to have changed becuase it now says that its a 15 day trial then you gotta pay. Plus I recon it would be nice to have made my own .
There isn't any apps that I have found (jumped out at me ) . You gotta read some more because I said I would be happy if someone else has already done it .
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Right, lets put it this way then, I would like to be able to see the source for it too because then I can make it do anything I want. Also will give me somethign to do instead of revision . Well actually I'll probably get round to doing this after I finished those essays I have to do too .
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Why do you sooo badly want to do this your self...this app can do everything you want it too. And it is probably much better then what you can pull off..:..don't take that the bad way..:
K, I'm downloading CamStudio 2.1 to see what its like. Would be good to do my own, could even add sound (if I could magane to sync it right).
I wouldn't be able to pull off a perofessional looking app but at least I would be able to mix it with other projects of mine, maybe .
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Teah I'm definitly going to need to use mpeg for this, the CamStudio only let me save it as avi and the quality wasn't that good . Nice program though i will probably use it round the desktop if I need to .
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I've made a program that captures the screen using the desctop dc, but it's kind of bad because I save it as a bitmap and then load it again to merge it into an avi file. You could put it in the avi file directly, but when I made that program I didn't know how.
Humm, when I increase the quality it starts to get very jumpy, plus there is no option that lets my record the screen at a lower resolution than I record it . Saving each frame to a file first might be better (possibley), because then I could do all the tieing together when I have as much time as I need and could even decrease the size of the end window .
That Fraps thing is also shareware until you need to buy it . Thanx anyway though.
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