Video Capture

[al il professore]

halo!
igot a problem. i uninstalled vmware, the soft with which i made stunts movies... (perhaps i am the only one to love that? or to be motivated enough to do it?) because it slowed down my internet connexion (launching it took 2 minutes after a reboot)

do you know another program like that, to make stunts run in a window? the principle is to capture this window with a screen capture program.

so i need a program to open dos games, or emulate a system in a window under windows xp. thanks.

[Shoegazing Leo]

I don't know... maybe Alan Rotoi can know it (if you find, tell me where...)

[Mingva]

so i need a program to open dos games, or emulate a system in a window under windows xp. thanks.

That's a big problem WinXP isn't suitable for DOS. I even couldn't capture DOS screen (SnagIt captured only black screen).

[satanziege]

Do you make the movies picture by picture or is there some more comfortable way?

thanks satanziege

[zaqrack]

so i need a program to open dos games, or emulate a system in a window under windows xp. thanks.

That's a big problem WinXP isn't suitable for DOS. I even couldn't capture DOS screen (SnagIt captured only black screen).

thats true, altough XP is better for racing than w2000, snagiut simply cant capture it's DOS window.
I use a DOS capture program called screenthief, its a TSR. Unfortunately it cant capture video, but I'll do a little search, maybe I find that too.

[alanrotoi]

The animated gif I did was with "print screen" + paint + a gif animator.

I had a lot of free time those times...

[al il professore]

well lots of you have simply no idea of how i did that.

its easy:

open stunts in a window.

capture this window, even with snagit if you want, i use hypercam.

compress the 100mo avi file into a 5mo divx.

the step that i cannot use anymore is opening stunts in a window. vmware emulates the dos system in a window, and in this window i type a:\stunts_k.exe to launch the game.

i navigate in the games menu to launch the replay and i capture everything. the entire process takes only ten minutes.

targets: dosbox that i cant use properly because it doesnt have a 'gui' (correction, it have a gui but it launches not the game properly on my computer, i will do tries) a cleaner vmware, or smtg else.

[JTK]

Alain, I never had problems with vmware and internet. The slowness must have had other reasons. Vmware runs best on > WinNT. Oh - let me guess: Your host OS is Linux or what?

[al il professore]

yes you got no slowness in connection, but when you start computer and want to launch a connection, try this: open computer, with vmware installed, and click on start, connexion the menu it will be two minutes to appear.

i uninstalled vmware (under xp pro) and no delay again.

[Krys TOFF]

I tried with cam studio on my Win Me without success...
About avi file, why not zip it instead of convert it ?
Size would be around the same I think, but better image quality and time saver for you Alain because DivX compression is quite slow. :wink:

[al il professore]

divx is the compression, you can compress a video,music or picture file within a zip file. for pics its jpeg for music its mp3 for video its divx. compression in a zip result in the same size for the file, compress it with a divx and the sizze will shrink to one tenth.

and all those compression methods i enumerated are fighting with tenth of compression methods, for several results. In our case, a big firm codec named MPG4 was hacked to make the divx.

divx 5 is the fastest and easiest compression method i saw.

dosbox with the gui dosboxfro opens the loading stunts... window. and freeze. they said stunts it works on dosbox compatibility page. at home itsn ot true

lets find another thing.