Video Capture Enhancements

[Baker]

[Spike]

<devil's advocate> What about audio compression? </devil's advocate>

there are other viable video compression codecs however.
if you're chucking out 60 frames per second for 30 mins (30 mins of gametime, probably fast-forwarded as recording), then that's a lot of data getting chucked at the disk, also many (cheap) drives can't cope with the transfer rates which can result in slower recording etc. a little RLE or other fast lossless compression can reduce the data sizes quite a lot.

tbh, for defaults I'd use whatever youtube recommends (and is installed).
glReadPixels before drawing the console works fine. Just make sure you're not forcibly tripple buffered.

[qbism]

As a happy user of the JoeQuake vid tutorial, I look forward to checking this out. This in conjunction w/ 'record demo any time' should speed up video making.

[Baker]

[revelator]

h.264 is actually opensource while divx is not. as for codecs one could use ffmpeg libraries (includes allmost all formats in one).

[Baker]

[revelator]

might be another codec but vlc manages its own version of h.264 capable which is opensource

just noticed an opensource version of divx is actually there but is called dr divx.

[revelator]

http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html

this one

And dr divx was just a frontend for divx 6 which is not opensource ah well :/

[Baker]

[revelator]

there are binaries but vlc uses it internally (no codecs needed they are all plugins) just search for x264 codec for windows there are several versions.

[revelator]

32 and 64 bit codecs here

and some explanation here.

[revelator]

reason its legal is that the x264 codec was written from scratch to support most of what the h.264 codec could do in time it got even better than the standard though

[Baker]

[taniwha]

Written from scratch makes no difference when it comes to patents (which is the problem with video codecs).

[revelator]

So i guess they should have been taken to court allready since this codec has existed since 2004 xD
i bet the reason they have not is that they dont use patented algorithms (which is fubar anyway imho).
The codec uses xvid algorithms internally instead.