Question about movie record.....

[PeRfEcTdArKboY]

Is there any way at all to record your own movies on PJ 64 like you can on SNES9X?? if so what do i need to do? thanks for the help!:happy:

 

[Nin_10_Dough]

Unfortunetly no, that would be a really cool feature. You could give mupen a try, as far as I know it is the only n64 emulator to currently have the capability to create an avi file.

 

[Miretank]

Or try using Camtasia Studio or SnagIt (the one I use).

 

[Branz_mf]

A very simple way to capture your actions is using Easy Video Capture!!! Software of my choise, though it's not the best but the most simple to use!!!

 

[Nin_10_Dough]

Those type of applications would be writing to the hard drive as you try to play, occasionaly causing slow downs on even higher end machines because it is either compressing the avi, or writing a massive file to the disk. Using an emulator and creating a movie file, then going and creating an avi from it usually weilds far better results because you are guaranteed to have a nice smooth avi when you are done, but we have use what is available to us...........mupen or screen capture apps

 

[Allnatural]

Those type of applications would be writing to the hard drive as you try to play, occasionaly causing slow downs on even higher end machines because it is either compressing the avi, or writing a massive file to the disk. Using an emulator and creating a movie file, then going and creating an avi from it usually weilds far better results because you are guaranteed to have a nice smooth avi when you are done, but we have use what is available to us...........mupen or screen capture apps

In the end it's all the same. The movie files that mupen (and Nemu?) creates are little more than recordings of player input. When played back you are emulating the game, so creating an avi within mupen means emulating while encoding and/or writing.

Creating an input movie first isn't a bad idea though, given that you won't have to deal with any slowdown while you're actually trying to play.

 

[Nin_10_Dough]

Creating an input movie first isn't a bad idea though, given that you won't have to deal with any slowdown while you're actually trying to play.

That is exactly the advantage I was talking about. While playing back the input movie and creating an avi who cares if it slows down, you don't have to play it and your output avi is still full speed. Screen Capture apps will record every skip and slowdown that they caused in the first place :yucky:.

But you are right, either way in the end you have a avi file. One way is just more preferable to the other in my opinion