Video Capture
 

I love it! no stupid logos and it captures a perfect picture, 5 stars =D but there is one problem, I wish there was like a window that showed me what I'm recording, because I might accidentally miss things since I can't see where it is :(

You can adjust the settings to record full screen.

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yeah but I don't want the whole screen =[

You mean like a rectangle that shows what you are recording (if you select focus on player) ?

Yeah a small screen (that doesn't show up on the recording) that shows what exactly you are capturing =o

For some reason I tried to record using 20 frames and it screwed up creating a file that windows media player wouldn't open.

I tried 20 frames several times. It works fine, it just creates damn huge files..

Hmmm well it was lagging badly for me. Could be the reason.

Yeah, Stefan you need to make the filesize for the videos smaller, and make it overall less laggy, if possible. ^^ As well as adding sound ;o

I tried to interview people about v5, there should be an option that lets you turn on the chat box, because my keyboard screws up a lot and I need to see what I'm typing ):

I actually like it over Camstudio/Fraps though

Nah, that was just an additional comment. I want every single piece of quality for those videos I can get.

Well I was wondering it there was a way to make it less laggy without dulling the quality.

Takes so much memory :(
I have lots to spare, but like saving.

can someone help me with video capture?
How do u compress the files
ive never done it before and im making tutorials on certain playerworlds

Graal could compress the video, but then it would even be laggier, so uncompressed video is the best choice in my opinion.

Converting the videos: I know of very good free tools for video conversion, they are command-line based though (mplayer, vlc). Searching for such tools on google gives a lot of advertising for expensive tools, so can someone help with a link to easy-to-use video converters ?

I suggest to use VirtualDub. I use it for converting videos since I convert analog records into bits and bytes ^^
http://www.virtualdub.org/

Can't you just compress the videos after you end the recording?

Also: Would be great if you could allow avi uploads of a reasonable size ^_^ (On forums)

Use the Gallery on the homepage and implement the gallerypost to your forumspost.

Well I tried to compress with windows movie maker and it looked like crap could anyone make some good suggestions as to what i could use to compress and still have it look clear.

Did you try to compress a video made by Graal? VirtualDub cannot handle it. I tried some other nice tools, it seems that Graal's videos are not really .avi, if you get what I mean.

It actually works. You just need to set correct compression options.

I cannot compress it with XviD, I tried almost everything. And thats what I want to do.

Download and analyse the file. It is XviD compressed by VirtualDub.
http://graal.logic-games.net/xvid-compressed.avi

Maybe I should make some tutorial or so :\

Yes would be good :D

yeah please do because virtualdub doesn't compress at all. I got my windows movie maker to compress the avi file.

Dude, I'm no newb when it comes to compressing. Fact is that it always gives me several errors when I'm trying to compress a video made with Graal. All other .avi files I got (captured with several other programs) are working fine..

What kind of error do you get? Graal produces an uncompressed RGB avi, and it displayed fine on several OS where I tried it (Mediaplayers on Windows2000, Vista, 98, Mac OSX, Linux MPlayer & VLC). The only reason why its not displaying for you is may be that the simple codecs got deleted on your computer, not sure how that can happen.

Ignore the design of the page. It's just a temp because it will be included to the new GK lib page I'm working on.

Before I forget. You need a flash player to view the tutorial.
http://graal.logic-games.net/tutorials/index.html

Perfect, it works now. I'm not sure why, but I always used "Save as segmented AVI" which caused VirtualDub to crash.
Stefan, I didnt have any problems with playing it, but the fact that VirtualDub was crashing when I was trying to compress it like I did with all the other videos I have was a bit irritating ;D

Lags To much,:[

I am using ffmpeg now to compress, its really easy to use on command line:

ffmpeg -b 800 -i myvideo.avi output.avi

The "-b 800" means video quality. You can also use other formats to export.

Uploaded a video for testing on youtube:

I have recorded it with the new Graal version which is also recording sounds

Seems to be a delay between the sound and the video. I'm hoping that's just youtube's fault. Otherwise it's lookin' pretty sweet.

Yes a small delay, will try to fix that.

Those 3 horses are cute.

:D
Ok fixed the timing problems of the new video+audio capture so it should be fine with most lag situations.

I see you found this. was gonna recommend this program. You can actually integrate this progam into graal if the scripting is compatible. IF you don't have the manual here is the complete documentation on ffmpeg
http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg-doc.html

For users who just want to convert the video/audio files... this can even convert to mpeg 2 without a liscense because it is command line driven. =D here is a link where you can download a compiled version and a guide on how to use it.
http://worldtv.com/blog/guides_tutor..._converter.php

Hmm. Would be nice if we could record videos by script. Probably would be insecure though.

you can even use 2 pass encoding with this program.
ffmpeg -i s18e01.flv -b 700k -r 29.97 -s 740x480 -aspect 4:3 -pass 1 s18e01.mpg
for my second pass I used.
ffmpeg -i s18e01.flv -b 700k -r 29.97 -s 740x480 -aspect 4:3 -pass 2 s18e01.mpg

there is a good bit of audio options I havn't messed with. The default audio encoding is not that great so you have to tinker around with it from the manaul if you want good audio.

isrecordingvideo
startRecordVideo()
stopRecordVideo()

Only works if the user has allowed scripts to record video, in the Graal options.

Ahh. Thanks :)