Capturing Euphoric Video
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 12:56 am
Wouldn't it be great to video your demos, game exploits or a guide through your utilities?
Well DOSBOX has the facility (Version 0.65 and beyond) to record sessions in DOS, and this includes recording audio and video under Euphoric.
DOSBOX will in the near future be shipped as part of Dbugs OSDK package. DOSBOX can also be downloaded here...
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/download.php?main=1
I tried the capture myself and it worked very well.
To capture a video, press CTRL ALT F5 and the same again to stop capturing.
The video is generated in the file euphoric_000.avi where 000 is the sequence number.
To play back the Video you will need the ZMBV movie codec. This Codec can be downloaded on XP and Windows2000 machines directly from the video folder under the DOsbox folder in your start menu.
After the codec is installed, you can view the AVI in most video players such as Windows Media player or Win DVD or alternatively you can find an AVI2MPEG utility to convert the somewhat obscure ZMBV codec AVI file to MPEG format.
Please remember that for something like the Odelighte demo (which is only about 5 minutes long) consumes a whopping 150Megs.
Have fun and let me know if anyone can find me a free AVI2MPEG utility thats not limited by either a flashing message on the converted file, a video length limit or a No-save limit (aaarrgghh!)
Well DOSBOX has the facility (Version 0.65 and beyond) to record sessions in DOS, and this includes recording audio and video under Euphoric.
DOSBOX will in the near future be shipped as part of Dbugs OSDK package. DOSBOX can also be downloaded here...
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/download.php?main=1
I tried the capture myself and it worked very well.
To capture a video, press CTRL ALT F5 and the same again to stop capturing.
The video is generated in the file euphoric_000.avi where 000 is the sequence number.
To play back the Video you will need the ZMBV movie codec. This Codec can be downloaded on XP and Windows2000 machines directly from the video folder under the DOsbox folder in your start menu.
After the codec is installed, you can view the AVI in most video players such as Windows Media player or Win DVD or alternatively you can find an AVI2MPEG utility to convert the somewhat obscure ZMBV codec AVI file to MPEG format.
Please remember that for something like the Odelighte demo (which is only about 5 minutes long) consumes a whopping 150Megs.
Have fun and let me know if anyone can find me a free AVI2MPEG utility thats not limited by either a flashing message on the converted file, a video length limit or a No-save limit (aaarrgghh!)