Spring RTS Engine

I used the hotkey ctrl+shift+f10, and selected a codec from the popup and pressed record, but here's the thing: it almost always writes a 0kb movie file and then pops up the codec screen again, asking me to record another. Even when I hit cancel, this happens, so I fill my spring folder with 0kb files. Now once in a while, after I ask it like 16 times, it starts recording, but by this time I get impatient and keep clicking "record" without choosing a codec, so it chooses the laggy one that I don't want, which records like 8 MB per second of footage.

So what's going on? I know the individual codecs are not an issue, I recorded a video with almost all of them, but just half the time it just doesn't record - or rather records a 0kb video and asks me to record again. Any ideas/alternative methods to record?

fraps

Lua it!

Aether_0001 wrote:it almost always writes a 0kb movie file and then pops up the codec screen again, asking me to record another.

Learn how to select the correct codec and how to configure it.
You obviously selected a multipass one ...

fraps.

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Under Linux i can recommend a tool called glc to capture your videos (and audio). It is kinda intimidating, everything is done from command line and you need to manually set all the flags correctly. On top of that, you need to render the captured stream into a movie format and a audio format before you can touch it with any editing software.

The flipside is, you get 1:1 video with what you saw on screen. Depending on your resolution and settings you should reserve 2-20 Gigabytes of HDD space per minute of video recorded.