FRAPS issue

[looqas]

personally I use VirtualDub. It's free and pretty handy in compressing and editing (cutting) the videos. I bet you have seen the vids I've made and posted.

the codec I use to encode the Fraps produced raw avis is FourCC mpg43 codec. It gives a pretty good quality and compresses it nicely.

The windows moviemaker is ok too. What I don't like about it is that all the good quality option are under the DVD selections which will force the fps to 25. For me it's a no-go because of that. I record the vids with 50 fps, so using Windows MovieMaker would make me lose half the frames. But if you do your recording at 25fps then Moviemaker is a good choice, althought lacking in choosing a codec department.

Fraps (as well as every screen capture software) will place a high stress on the system when recording. The reason why FRAPS produces such huge files is that it does not compress the videos in anyway, thus trying to minimize the slowing of the computer. But it places a huge burden on the HDD, since it needs to store huge amounts of data. The video card (and the whole computer in general) has to show to the player the picture as well as capture it, so I think you can figure out why running any video capturing program makes your fps take a serious hit.

Personally I'd like FRAPS to introduce a simple encoding to reduce the mammoth file sizes. Most people have dual cores to do take on the extra load it would generate.

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