HOWTO: spring video+ audio capture
Posted: 31 Jan 2009, 16:41
Howto capture a video of spring with sound using glc
Prerequisites:
Install glc according to their tutorial.
Step 2:
Start spring with, pressing shift+F8 ingame starts capturing, pressing it again stopps it. This will create a file "captured" in your current directory. Some usefull parameters are:
Extract the sound with
Step 4:
Extract the video in YUV4MPEG form
Step 4.1:
The video editing program I use, avidemux cannot handle YUV4MPEG, so transcode it into uncompressed video in avi container:
Step 5:
Edit, transcode, cut or publish with your favorite video editing programs (this should involve muxing video and audio back together):
Prerequisites:
- decent hardware, depending on the quality you want to achieve
- lots of free disk space (about 500 mb per minute for low quality vids)
Install glc according to their tutorial.
Step 2:
Start spring with
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glc-capture -o captured spring- "-f #" - capture # frames per seconds (reduce this if you experience stuttering while recording or in the video, it decreases the load alot), 30 is default
- "-r #" - scale the video, 1.0 is default. This will actually slow things down if you set it to anythng except 1.0 or 0.5. In other cases, its much better to resize the window or use another resolution
Extract the sound with
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glc-play captured -a 1 -o audio.wavExtract the video in YUV4MPEG form
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glc-play captured -y 1 -o video.y4mThe video editing program I use, avidemux cannot handle YUV4MPEG, so transcode it into uncompressed video in avi container:
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mencoder -of avi -ovc raw video.y4m -o video.aviEdit, transcode, cut or publish with your favorite video editing programs (this should involve muxing video and audio back together):