Author Topic: Feature: Video Export (Read 11021 times)

FlaMe · « **on:** January 05, 2008, 09:12:09 PM »

I'm pretty sure people would agree it would be beneficial for the demos to be recorded as .avi or .mp4,

something you can toy with in other video editing programs without losing quality during a conversion

any comments?

Edited subject to reflect request

Zorchenhimer · « **Reply #1 on:** January 05, 2008, 09:13:42 PM »

That would require way too much processing power and memory. Something better would be an easy way to convert demos to a video file.

FlaMe · « **Reply #2 on:** January 05, 2008, 09:14:51 PM »

well theres dm2avi isnt there?

I guess you're right though, but yeah a program which would do it well for most resolutions without losing quality would be pretty cool.

Zorchenhimer · « **Reply #3 on:** January 05, 2008, 09:16:45 PM »

I know that it is possible, think ViciouZ made a program/script to do it. But a built in feature would be nice.

Eiii · « **Reply #4 on:** January 05, 2008, 09:27:03 PM »

A built in feature would be nice, but is entirely unnecessary imo. There are serveral free programs you could use to do this.

Cobo · « **Reply #5 on:** January 05, 2008, 09:31:30 PM »

Demos are files that contain information about what happens in the server, so when you play a demo you are basicly creating a server and doing everything the file tells it to do.
What Viciouz app did was that it opened dp, called the dumpframes(?) command, and run the demo. The dumpframes command makes dp save an image of what its viewing every frame. So then Viciouz app would just gather the images and create an avi file.

I think making the built in feature would be nice, as long as it doesnt remove the old demo support.

jitspoe · « **Reply #6 on:** January 05, 2008, 10:13:49 PM »

What you're asking for is a video export feature. I edited the subject to reflect that. Demos just record all of the network data.

http://dplogin.com/dplogin/featurevote/feature.php?id=10023

webhead · « **Reply #7 on:** January 05, 2008, 11:28:48 PM »

[link to ViciouZ's program]

if we can already make AVIs, then why burden jits with another feature to implement?

FlaMe · « **Reply #8 on:** January 05, 2008, 11:31:34 PM »

demos aren't "movies" theyre more like streamed data

sk89q · « **Reply #9 on:** January 06, 2008, 01:07:30 AM »

ViciouZ's program is really hacky, feature-limited, and is not particularly coded well, as I had to work with it when we were developing the dpdemo2avi web processor.

Garrett · « **Reply #10 on:** January 06, 2008, 01:35:09 AM »

If a demo exporter was implemented, it would be even easier to post demos of cheaters and more quick for Jitspoe and other members to watch through the video.

ViciouZ · « **Reply #11 on:** January 06, 2008, 07:59:52 AM »

I could get that working perfectlly, with a gui and all, if i could figure out some kind of sound-dump feature. If jitspoe could do a .wav or .ogg sound exporter without windows getting in the way, I could make a complete solution without too much trouble.

FlaMe · « **Reply #12 on:** January 06, 2008, 10:03:25 AM »

Yes Garrett, It would because you would have to go move it into your demo folder to watch it nor would you have to use the standalone to open it...

double clicking it into say iTunes or WMP would be a lot more convenient

ViciouZ · « **Reply #13 on:** January 06, 2008, 10:05:55 AM »

But the video files would be massively larger and longer to upload, plus if it is of a potetial wallhacker, you can't watch it with wallhacks to check.

FlaMe · « **Reply #14 on:** January 06, 2008, 10:08:34 AM »

Well yeah but you wouldnt "have" to convert them to avis or mp4s or whatever.

If you wanted to make a video for whatever useless reason cough darkness cant jump cough that would probably work.

I wasn't implying an automatic dm2 to avi conversion

Cobo · « **Reply #15 on:** January 06, 2008, 04:36:35 PM »

Quote from: ViciouZ on January 06, 2008, 07:59:52 AM

I could get that working perfectlly, with a gui and all, if i could figure out some kind of sound-dump feature. If jitspoe could do a .wav or .ogg sound exporter without windows getting in the way, I could make a complete solution without too much trouble.

Yeah, but as sk89q pointed out, it'd still be pretty hacky.

Garrett · « **Reply #16 on:** January 06, 2008, 04:39:21 PM »

If this feature goes through though, it won't be hacky.

Cobo · « **Reply #17 on:** January 06, 2008, 04:42:37 PM »

Quote from: Garrett on January 06, 2008, 04:39:21 PM

If this feature goes through thou, it won't be hacky.

I meant viciouz app is.

ViciouZ · « **Reply #18 on:** January 06, 2008, 04:43:31 PM »

How would it be that hacky? It would just start paintball with 2 parameters then encode the results into a video file.

Cobo · « **Reply #19 on:** January 06, 2008, 04:46:10 PM »

Oh, well I suppose that wouldnt be hacky, but if the feature is implemented there really wouldnt be any reason to use your app.
Unless it does something like allowing you to double click demos and convert them I guess.