Source recorder not working?

[dirty_ape]

I keep doing what all the tutorials I can find say to do.

startmovie x avi
playdemo y
endmovie

It will play the demo without sound but not really slow like its supposed to while it actually makes the video and after there's nothing in my tf2 folder to show for it besides the dem files. Is there another way to make the movie? Is there another format I can use?

[bohb]

Source recorder actually working? Unpossible.

Source recorder usually stores the AVI output files one level up from the game folder. But as for the audio and video not being in sync, you have to limit the frame rate to 24 fps before you start recording.

So basically do something like this:

fps_max 24
host_framerate 24
startmovie x avi
playdemo y
endmovie

I hope it is allowing you to select an encoder like XVID to compress the video, or you're going to have a gigantic AVI file (think several gigabytes). Since you already made a movie once, you probably have a few huge AVIs if you tried a few times.

[Awesomedude2142]

Use FRAPS or WeGame or something else, Source recording always gave me a headache :v:

[MaxOfS2D]

THE SOURCE RECORDER IS COMPLETELY UNRELATED TO DEMOS. DEMOS ARE THE SPAWN OF SATAN AND SHOULD BE USED AS SCARCELY AS POSSIBLE ( especially in Gmod).

There. With that out of the way...

host_framerate can pretty much deal with any framerate which isn't obscenely high (I went as high as 400 once, it still worked perfectly).

AVI can be used but Source does not support OpenDML, which means AVI files will corrupt once they’re past 2 gigabytes. VirtualDub can recover them perfectly most of the time, albeit without sound (but I personally never use any sounds from the engine itself and re-create everything in post-production, so it doesn’t really matter for me). Because the alternative is much more stressful on the I/O side, outputting to AVI is still pretty darn cool so you might want to not select “Uncompressed frames” in the codec selection window, and rather install the UT Video Codec Suite, which is a free, yet efficient lossless RGB/YUV vfw codec (it makes Sony Vegas crash sometimes, but very rarely). On the other hand, using a lossy one such as H.264/VP6 would be an extremely poor decision.

TGA can be used to output each frame as a targa image. Since they’re uncompressed and you’ve got one file per frame, a fast, vast and RAID-enabled hard drive will pretty much be a requirement.

JPG is the last possibility but you shouldn’t be using it since it’s lossy.

The AVI export is however currently broken so you'll need to use TGAs.

[Lordgeorge16]

[QUOTE=Dirty_Ape;31519532]I keep doing what all the tutorials I can find say to do.

startmovie x avi
playdemo y
endmovie

It will play the demo without sound but not really slow like its supposed to while it actually makes the video and after there's nothing in my tf2 folder to show for it besides the dem files. Is there another way to make the movie? Is there another format I can use?[/QUOTE]I think you forgot to put in sv_cheats 1 and host_framerate 30.