Saving Blitzmax Video Output

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TLM (Posted 2009) [#1]

I have a strange request. How would someone record the display of a blitzmax game? For may be a trailer or something? I want to export some of my blitzmax stuff to video, but not sure how to. What's the best way this can/should be done? Appreciate it! ---Alex

Bremer (Posted 2009) [#2]

The easiest way is probably to use something like http://www.fraps.com/ , or similar recording software. To do it from inside the blitzmax game itself, I hope someone else has suggestions.

ImaginaryHuman (Posted 2009) [#3]

For in-game, one thing I did was simply a combination of GrabPixmap and SavePixmapPNG, EVERY FRAME. Sure, lots of file's and drive space, but then later I processed the images into a movie file using some other external utility.

slenkar (Posted 2009) [#4]

windows media encoder is free from microsoft and camstudio

kfprimm (Posted 2009) [#5]

You could convert this BlitzMax. (Assuming you are on Windows.) With threading, this could actually be a practical solution.