| Recording Battles |
Wed, 27 July 2011 10:23  |
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 BeeKeeper |
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Registered: December 2007
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From time to time I have seen people ask how battles can be recorded. I recently tried VLC Media Player which can record the desktop (Win7) but I found it kept crashing on me. A post from 2003 suggested Bulent's Screen Recorder - which is still available in a freeware version if you search a bit and avoid the usual registry editors and other rubbish. It took a little while to get it to work but I was able to record a battle in good definition by setting the application to capture an area of the screen which covered the Stars window. It is also possible to select a window as the source but I found this unreliable. The short video was 200Mb so the problem then was how to share it. YouTube was no good as it converted the video into a tiny flash movie from which any sort of detail was impossible to see.
I then uploaded the video to Flickr, which allows you to upload 2 videos for free. This also converts the video to flash but the quality seems better. There is an option to watch the video in HD by clicking on the button on the bottom right before starting the video - but the improvement is hard to see.
My system is Windows 64 with Stars running in the Virtual Machine. The video capture software runs outside the virtual machine but can capture the images on the virtual machine window.
The results are still not good enough as you can see from the link below but at least Bulent's Recorder does capture the battle - and the full .avi video is of almost the same quality as the original - the problem now seems to be how to distribute the video at a reasonably small size but acceptable quality. Unless anyone knows how to share a 200Mb video without loss of quality?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16794733@N08/5981326280/
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