Video output-ppm-stream on Windows too big

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Using Gource with SVN on Windows platform.
2. Would like to output the video to a file using the commands below.
gource.exe --log-format custom my_project_gource.log --output-ppm-stream
my-project.mp4

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Output file exists. However, few seconds of gource rendering cost me few
hundred megabytes of *.mp4 file. After I stop rendering, the output file
cannot be viewed. What is the default file output format on Windows?

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Gource v0.23
Windows XP

Please provide any additional information below.
I'm new to gource, so I might misunderstand something on gource video
rendering on Windows.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by shee...@gmail.com on 13 Jan 2010 at 9:14

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Hi,

The way I recommend to make videos on Windows is using Fraps (http://fraps.com/)
which captures the output of any OpenGL program.

Yep the file is pretty big.

Gource actually outputs 'ppm' format (which is uncompressed so it uses a lot of 
disk)
which can then be converted to a video using a program like ffmpeg (you can get 
it
for windows here: http://ffmpeg.arrozcru.org/).

Then you do something like this:

gource --stop-at-end --output-ppm-stream ppm.out
ffmpeg -y -b 3000K -r 60 -f image2pipe -vcodec ppm -i ppm.out -vcodec libx264
gource.x264.avi

Original comment by acaudw...@gmail.com on 13 Jan 2010 at 10:52

• Changed state: Done

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Thanks, acaudwell! Seems like quite tricky to get video output for gource with
reasonable size on Windows platform.

Original comment by shee...@gmail.com on 18 Jan 2010 at 8:41

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Thanks. I reduced a 1gig ppm.out to 30 mb.

Original comment by sixocloc...@gmail.com on 26 Oct 2011 at 8:50