Joined: 10/11/2008
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Location: Kajaani, Finland
Does it always lag, or is it possible to encode mupen64 movies in real time (i mean that the game plays in 100%+ speed)? Mine always lags... :( Someone plez answer!
I need this feature because I want to post videos on Youtube and not those laggy-recorded craps, which look like tool-assisted. And realtime playing is alot more confortable.
Joined: 1/16/2008
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Location: The Netherlands
the idea behind AVI recording (to my knowledge) is that of 'converting' a recorded input file to a AVI file...
so what you can do, is play and record the input. Then when you are finished, replay the recorded input and record it as an AVI.
this way you can play realtime and record to AVI (yet with a delay)
Does it always lag, or is it possible to encode mupen64 movies in real time (i mean that the game plays in 100%+ speed)? Mine always lags... :(
It depends on the display card speed. AVI recording in mupen64 must be done by reading the rendered screen. In general, reads from the rendered screen are slow ― very slow ― on display card hardware. The larger your screen, the slower it is.
The codec speed is another limiting factor (and the harddrive speed), but the display card is usually the bottleneck.
It has nothing to do with Mupen64 as such.
When we make AVIs of Mupen64 videos, those are done by first recording the playing session into a .m64 file, which records the input actions, and then playing-back the m64 file in AVI recording mode; that recording does not need to happen in real time. In fact, it can even be slower than 1 fps, and yet, the resulting AVI plays fluently at full speed. It just takes very long to record the AVI for even a short movie.
Tuppenfall wrote:
Someone plez answer!
That kind of comment is unnecessary. It does not influence people, and it distracts from the content.
Joined: 11/11/2006
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Location: United Kingdom
I'm pretty much re-iterating what Bisqwit said, but...
If you're trying to record a realtime video and your PC isn't fast enough to capture it, just record an m64 of you doing random things, and then when you're done play the m64 back and use mupen64's internal capture option.
Note if your pc is really slow and you try something like fraps or camtasia, your recording will likely be choppy and a bad framerate/not realtime. Also make sure you have mupen64-rerecording.
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Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 64
Location: Kajaani, Finland
I DO have Mupen64-rerecord v8, but oh well, may be that just my PC is slow enough for Mupen to lag when avi recording. Thanks for the support anyways :)
