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avirecorder wont record any frames

Open jacktheepic opened this issue 8 years ago • 6 comments

for some reason i press f9 to record, it just slightly slow down the video, and in the avirecorder window, the "current movie" and "last frame processed" box is empy and not doing anything. help plz

jacktheepic avatar Nov 18 '17 15:11 jacktheepic

Post two screenshots of the game's console:

  1. After you press F9, and
  2. after the demo has finished and you've pressed F9 again.

freiz000 avatar Nov 18 '17 19:11 freiz000

I'm also getting the same issue, but the demo speeds up instead of slowing down and I get this in console when I press F9:

"StartMovie: invalid path: D:\Videos\frag\tga\rec_"

This is the path where I normally record my tga files, but it hasn't worked ever since the recent update. I also get this in console when I press F9 again to finish:

"No movie started."

Can someone please tell me what's going on?

suikaMUSIC avatar Nov 23 '17 00:11 suikaMUSIC

also the newer posts in this thread may be of some help: https://github.com/quanticc/lawena-recording-tool/issues/82

apparently the recent update caused absolute paths to not work with the startmovie anymore or something?

suikaMUSIC avatar Nov 23 '17 00:11 suikaMUSIC

Try putting the AviRec exe in the folder where startmovie normally (without the use of AviRec) creates the images/audio. And then in the AviRec settings, instead of having the TGA/AVI paths to "C:\etc\etc..." just manually type "tga" and "avi". Be sure to have created those folders first.

freiz000 avatar Nov 23 '17 01:11 freiz000

Bless you, it worked.

suikaMUSIC avatar Nov 23 '17 01:11 suikaMUSIC

Yep the update just doesn't like custom file paths in the startmovie command here's some detailed steps on how to fix it using the default path: In AviRecorder set the TGA folder to your tf2 root tf folder (for me it's C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf). Avi folder can still be whatever you want obviously. When when avirecorder launches go into the tf/cfg folder and edit avi_recorder_start.cfg On the second line it should say something like this: startmovie "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf" Change it to this: startmovie rec_ you could save this change by making your own avirecorder config

Optivex avatar Nov 23 '17 23:11 Optivex