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64 lines
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Video Capturing with FTE
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Overview:
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FTE supports screen capture, outputting to either a series of screenshots or (on windows) AVI output. See the description of capturecodec for how output is chosen.
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Capturing will work anywhere, in game, in menus, at the console, etc, with one exception. If a demo is currently being played, both the capturing and demo playback will pause whenever the game is not shown fullscreen - that is, if the console is shown, the menu is loaded, etc.
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This allows you to visit the console and issue commands without breaks and pauses.
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Also, when a demo is playing, the demo will be slowed to keep exactly in sync with the capturing. This is important with slow codecs, cpus, framerates, or hard disks.
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To capture part of a demo, issue the command:
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capture demo.mvd;demo_jump 30:30;capturepause
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This will begin capturing demo.mvd at a specific point, and will be paused.
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You can then change the spectator to the correct point
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Relevent commands:
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capture [outfilename]
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This command tells FTE to begin capturing.
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capturedemo
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This command tells FTE to begin capturing, and to play a demo at the same time.
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This has only one advantage over capture and playdemo in that the result is fully synced to the demo. No loading screens and no stuff on the end.
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This has limited use to making frag videos.
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capturestop
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Terminates capturing immediatly.
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capturepause
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Pauses capturing. Video displayed during this time will not be in the result.
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demo_jump [+][mins:]seconds
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If the + is present, will jump relative to the current position.
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Does not truly support rewinding, but will restart and jump the demo if you try.
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Relevent cvars:
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cl_demospeed
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Can be used to slow down or accelerate a demo for one reason or annother. Set to 0 to freeze, and 1 for normal speed.
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capturemessage
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Specifies a message to be placed on the screen, visible only in the output.
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This can be changed at any point during capturing.
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capturesound
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Specifies weather sound should be captured. This is only supported for AVI output.
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Audio will be captured at the current snd_khz speed. Use snd_restart while not capturing to apply a new snd_khz setting.
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Changes will not take effect until capturing is restarted.
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capturerate
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Specifies the video frames per second to capture
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Changes will not take effect until capturing is restarted.
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capturecodec
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Specifies the type of output you want.
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If left empty, the output will be uncompressed AVI.
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If one of tga, jpg, png, or pcx are specified, output will be a series of screenshots, one image per file.
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If it's a four-character-code, then it specifies what sort of video compression to use. Some codecs force splashscreens, so it might be a good idea to try new ones when running windowed.
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Common four-character-codes are:
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divx
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xvid |