How do i use the video recorder?

I see on the front page about the video recording >video start xRes yRes fps quality

I'm not that bright when it comes to codes and stuff so i tried to Google and got nothing but the same thing as above.

so if someone could tell me how i fill out the info into the res, fps and quality that be a big help

Edited by Iryoku, 07 October 2013 - 09:59 PM.
Fixed formatting

idk what i did to make my first post look like that above, i tried to edit it and nothing works. im looking for help filling in the on the res,fps and quality. i have no experience with codes. and i assume that i have to fill them out to start recording.

Edited by Iryoku, 07 October 2013 - 09:59 PM.
Fixed formatting

I fixed the formatting for you, I'm not sure what happened there.

Hi!

Thank you for adding:

• video start <xRes> <yRes> <fps> <quality> - Starts a video using specified parameters
• video stop - Stop recording

I believe xRes and yRes need to be positive multiples of 8 because of limitations in MPEG-4 but are otherwise unrestricted; set these lower if you can't record at full resolution. FPS is the frame rate for the capture. The game's frame rate cap is 30 unless you are using a patch to unlock it. Setting FPS higher than that wastes CPU cycles. Quality is a number from 1-100, with 100 being the best quality. Using a high quality setting will use a lot of CPU.

You will have to play with all of the values to figure out what works best on your system.

Also I should point out that we don't record audio at all, you will either have to record that separately and sync it later in your video editor or use a different capture tool. This feature is not really intended to be used for high-quality video work.

Depending what your goal is, you should pick the appropriate x/yRes (make sure your monitor and background resolution are set properly for it for optimal results). Here are some links:
https://support.goog...r/1722171?hl=en
http://en.wikipedia....ideo#Video_data

fps can be as low as 20 without much difference in FFXI videos, I've seen. I regularly use 25, which is the PAL standard.

quality is a number between 1 and 100. I can't honestly tell the difference between 10 and 100. Something like 5 is probably fine for the vast majority of recordings.

I can't really give you any guidelines on video size. Depending on your constraints you can go from about 1MB/min to 10 MB/min. There is some limit on the container size, I think, and it's possible that a 2TB video is the largest you can take or something. I forget the specifics. I remember topping out around 30 minutes when I tried to record a my runs, but my settings were hardly optimized for it.

I can record videos but Windows Media Player and all editors crash when i tri to open the .AVI. The only thing that seems to be able to open it is youtube.com but I wanted to edit it before I upload to YouTube... Anyone have any suggestions?

Might be missing codecs? I'm not sure, honestly they shouldn't be crashing. You can either try installing the required codec manually, or get a codec pack (probably better if you don't really know what you're doing, can just google one, like CCCP), or install the VLC player and view it with that.

Windower 4 encodes videos to MPEG-4 Part 2/H.263. It's very unusual to not have the necessary codec, it should come preinstalled on Windows.

Yea I tried exactly what the instructions say, then stop the video and then there are no files in my video folder under windower 4. Beats me. Guess it just was not for me lol.

You need to provide the resolution (although one can argue it could be inferred by default). See the posts above on how to do it.

It saves files to Windower/videos/