Open klotztech opened 9 years ago
Why the hell are you using .tgas and not an actual video container?
I myself don't want to create a video at all, i just want to use it to grab voice chat audio from recorded demos of my server, without creating unnecessary tga files or a whole video file, that needs converting later.
Aren't there programs you can use to record another program's audio stream? Just do that.
I'm sure there is, but that would require me to play the demo in realtime, which is not the case when using the startmovie
command with a low host_framerate
setting and it would be even faster if it didn't output any frames at all.
Don't use startmovie and it will run the demo in realtime.
Sorry, I think you misunderstood.
I don't want to play the demo in realtime because it takes longer (in realtime) than if it was to directly only write the audio to a wave file. That would be benefitial, because like that I don't have to wait too long until my demo finishes playing.
The startmovie
command renders tga files at a constant framerate defined by the convar host_framerate
and the total "exporting" only takes as long as it needs to render the frames. If now I could completely turn of the image output, it would only need as long as it takes to write the audio to the wave file.
So I need some kind of way to turn off .tga-file image output with some kind of convar.
Oh ok. Well I doubt that is possible. Will have to wait and see.
You could always set the framerate to something stupid like 0.00001
anything below 1 is interpreted as 0, so it only goes down to 1 fps :(
It would be really nice to have the option to completely turn off tga image file output (via a console variable) when using the
startmovie
command to render out a demo file. Sometimes you only want to have the audio being output to the wave file and you dont need tons of uncompressed tga files being written to disk. I think it would help movie makers to speed up their process of getting demo recordings, especially slow motion shots, out to their final video format.Best regards