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  • Spirit
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    If you want good video quality then H264 is the only thing to go currently. Sadly the free and non-patented Ogg Theora is nowhere near.

    XviD is vastly inferior to H264.

    If you are going to reencode I highly suggest you grab lossless first. Otherwise your transcoded video will be bigger than needed and also of much less quality than possible.

    Avidemux is a good frontend for video cutting and encoding. And x264 is the best free H264 encoder out there. Don't forget to compress the audio or you will waste space.

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  • dfsp_spirit
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    Lamers with decent hardware who use Windoze from time to time can also use Fraps, convert the huge avi files to tiny wmv files with Windows Movie Maker and upload those to youtube.

    That's how I made my videos so far, this one for example:

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE4Klhs2NQk"]NQ video[/ame]

    Fraps ain't free though (unless you can accept a watermark the demo version adds to the videos).

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  • golden_boy
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    Darkplaces seems to use Ogg Theora as the default codec for making its avis (because it is open source?) which has good quality but big filesize.

    When you run it through an encoder and convert the audio to mp3, and the video to divX, the avi gets a lot smaller.

    Xvid has a lot better quality but the file size is also huge.

    I use mencoder (the encoder part of "MPlayer") to do this under Linux.

    I have to say though that on the upside, video recording with Darkplaces is very convenient and you can use all those eyecandy features (while recording the video, not while making the demo of course).

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  • metchsteekle
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    yeah xvid is like the bestist codec ever maked

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  • meatwad
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    I think I've got it figured out. I had to disable divx and used xvid instead.
    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z0LWETznvk"]DM4 Crazyness[/ame]
    Last edited by meatwad; 08-02-2009, 08:11 PM.

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  • Baker
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    If you are double eager to at least get something to work, load up DarkPlaces and bind "toggle cl_togglecapture" to a key. DarkPlaces video capture does not require any external applications but the avi it makes are supergiant (scary big filesizes and it happens very quickly).

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  • meatwad
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    I seem to can't to get this to work. Got a Message in joequake "cannot record video stream"

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  • Baker
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    Originally posted by Baker View Post
    2. Make sure you have either the DIVX or XVID codec, otherwise your videos will be huge (gigabytes!) http://www.divxmovies.com/codec/
    The DivX codec pack installer also installs an Xvid encoder/decoder.

    If using XVID as the codec, make sure you do this otherwise the XVID encoder status window will steal focus and cover part of the Quake window.

    1. Click start, click run and type (or paste):

    C:\WINDOWS\system32\rundll32.exe xvidvfw.dll,Configure

    2. Click "advanced options" and then the last folder tab and unclick the "Display Encoding Status" check box.

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  • Vitaliy
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    Anyone know the location of a precompiled Xvid codec?

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  • Rampage
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    we need more videos for CA players

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  • Baker
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    Yes.

    You just do capture_codec "<name>"

    I think all codecs have some sort of 4 character shorthand code.

    /You have to have the encoder installed for whatever you want to use.

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  • Vitaliy
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    Can you use codecs besides Xvid and DivX?

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  • Flames
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    Hmm likes nice if you make another fid i wana be in it lol!

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  • megalodon
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    Originally posted by Baker View Post
    Yeah, I'd like to see more players make Quake movies.
    I made vids for quakeworld with ezquake. Here's an example of a good player playing ffa on xs4all server:

    quakeworld deathmatch pkeg1 [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9P4PWKm79k"]YouTube - quakeworld deathmatch pkeg1[/ame]

    DoubleClick the youtube logo to visit the youtube page to choose the higher quality option (or to make the vid play....since this embedded stuff doesn't always work for some reason).


    Anyway, good to know there's an avi capture option in netquake as well. Thanks. However, you forgot to mention that in virtualdub, you actually have to select what compressor you want to use (divx or xvid, etc) in the video compression settings.
    Last edited by megalodon; 10-31-2008, 04:54 AM.

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  • R00k
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    Originally posted by DooMerQuakE View Post
    The Binds you typed up don't exist because it dosen't exist on my Quake 1
    Read this thread again and you'll see Baker has explained from the 1st post...
    I believe these instructions work perfectly for Qrack and JoeQuake 0.14 and JoeQuake 0.15, but I used JoeQuake 0.14 because that is what I have always used for AVI demo capture.
    This tutoirial is for JoeQuake, though works for Qrack also. So, unless you use one of those engines, the commands are not included in your "quake" client.

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