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2006-11-13 05:10:14
=LuxWraith=
Member
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Hi.

Maybe I'm in the wrong section, but as it concerns also media, well ...

I want to record gameplay with fraps (trial/free version) , but I only get a black screen during playback of the movie file.

My system specs are following:
- Win XP SP2
- 7900 GTX 512 MB GPU
- X2 4800+ CPU
- 2GB RAM

Normal screen resolution is 1600x1200 and everything on high. BF2 is running smoothly normally and only a slight lag is there when fraps is recording in background. What could be the problem with the recording/playback? This annoys me a lot, because the server(s) I usually play on with some mates doesn't use battlerecorder as far as I know and that I haven't tried yet either.

SEARCHED FOR FRAP PROBLEMS IN BF2S, but didn't find anything on the black screen playback.

thx for any help

Last edited by =LuxWraith= (2006-11-13 05:23:45)

2006-11-13 05:14:40
slicknic
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this may be completely off but have you tried using different players to view it... like windows media player / winamp?

i know sometimes i have problems w/ winamp trying to run those uncompressed files
2006-11-13 05:27:47
Flaming_Maniac
prince of insufficient light
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I'm pretty sure this happens when you still have the game running while you are  trying to play it back, but I'm not sure.
2006-11-13 05:36:43
=LuxWraith=
Member
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Flaming_Maniac wrote:

I'm pretty sure this happens when you still have the game running while you are  trying to play it back, but I'm not sure.
well bf2 was not running anymore when i tried to view the recordings so i can rule out this claim.


slicknic wrote:

this may be completely off but have you tried using different players to view it... like windows media player / winamp?
i know sometimes i have problems w/ winamp trying to run those uncompressed files
only tried with wmp for the moment and uncompressed, maybe will try to compress files first and then see what happens ...
2006-11-13 11:31:51
turkeybacon
Member
+50|6673|Dragon Valley
fraps recordings run in windows media player for me, but not in vlc media player. weird...

try downloading the xvid codec and VirtualDub (google), install the codec, then open your movie files in VirtualDub (one at a time). Your movie should open. Then in VirtualDub, go Video->Compression, scroll down, choose xvid codec, configure your settings, click OK. Then go File->Save as AVI and it will compress your video, and you should be able to play it in any player on your computer.
2006-11-13 14:22:41
slicknic
Member
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=LuxWraith= wrote:

only tried with wmp for the moment and uncompressed, maybe will try to compress files first and then see what happens ...
try running it w/ windows media player.. uncompressed
2006-11-13 19:01:31
Jenkinsbball
Banned
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might be your cpu. a friend of mine tried it with a duel core and fraps wouldn't even turn on.
2006-11-14 00:10:12
=LuxWraith=
Member
+3|6726
thx for all your remarks

finally got it to work after compressing the files first from about 450 mb (that's huge for a 30 seconds video) to a 4 mb file. after that no problem to run the movie in wmp ...

now i only have to start recording at the right moments and i'm pretty sure i will press the record button too late everytime

again thx for your comments
2006-11-16 02:46:24
SuperRoach
Member
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Just a tip:
Fraps records semi uncompressed - it does it in its own codec which is more like YUV rather than true RGB. You lose some colour detail, but otherwise its pretty schmick.
1600 x 1200 is very hard to do with the harddrives out there - a 1minute video will be 2gig plus, to give you an idea of the bitrate. So the bottleneck becomes the harddrive in that case...

I recommend that you capture at 1280 x 960, or 1024 x 768. This gives you crystal clear name tags and information. Even better, make the video 640 x 480 for the web, to save grief from people downloading it.

 

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