Sins of a Solar Empire Video Capture Failure
Okay I said that I would put up another post today, I was hoping for something slightly more interesting than an ‘I failed’ post but whatever. I was hopefully going to have a video of Sins Of A Solar Empire Entrenchment up tonight but unfortunately the menus were flickering like crazy on the captured video. The rest of the game was fine but the flickering basically made the video unwatchable, but I figured that I would post how my free fraps alternative works instead.
http://www.hmelyoff.com/index.php?section=8
http://protectedsoft.com/download.php
The first link is to VH Screen Capture Driver which basically turns your desktop into a vitrual capture device, which then using some sort of video program (not really) which can read from that driver. The second link is to ProtectedSoft downloads page, the one that you want is Video DVD Maker Free. I actually hate that program but when I was playing about a while ago it was one of the only programs that I tested that worked. VLC had huge problems reading both the video and the audio, usually to the point that you may get no video at all and the audio would almost always stutter. VirtualDub read the video fine and I actually like that program, but the stuttering audio was still a problem and I couldn’t really be that bothered to cut the audio in together with the video.
The reason that I used Video DVD Maker is that it allows you to record to uncompressed avi which is something that a lot of things don’t seem to do for some reason, if you’re not that bothered by wasted CPU cycles on compression you have much better options available to you. For me at least it seems to capture both the video and audio fine. If you find something that works better let me know and I’ll test it out, but for now this is Andrew signing off.