Solve : Capture video to disk?

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Answer» Hi all. Looking for a quality, free or low cost program to record video, specifically from a game, to disk. I know of FRAPS, but the free version is limited to BMP screenshots and 30 seconds of video max. Is there a free program that will record for longer, as long as necessary? I have a lot of disk SPACE so space isn't an issue. Also, on a related note, recording the video to disk will reduce PERFORMANCE. This would be cancelled out by using an external disk to record onto, correct? But, would an external HDD be fast enough? Thanks in advance for replies on both queries. Calum.It's not exactly cancelled out because you use an external harddrive, because it takes alot of memory to record video, but it would be faster. What do you mean by record the video exactly? Are you trying to rip movie clips off your game? Or are you trying to record the screen as you are playing the game? :-?I want somthing like that so I can make softcore porn with my sims 2 game that has all the xxx add ons 8-) JK, lol Quote It's not exactly cancelled out because you use an external harddrive, because it takes alot of memory to record video, but it would be faster. What do you mean by record the video exactly? Are you trying to rip movie clips off your game? Or are you trying to record the screen as you are playing the game? :-? I know it wouldn't be completely cancelled, but the performance impact would be reduced somewhat, right? What I mean by record the video, is to record it like FRAPS will, eg record the actual gameplay from my point of view, almost as if I was pointing a video recorder at the screen. Not rip movie clips from the game. I do hope that MAKES sense.Calum, what game is it? Because i know with the Counter Strike series you can type something into the consel to record it as you are describing. Im sure most other steam games would as well. ChrisThe main games will be the BF series. Maybe also Quake 4 and Doom3, possibly also Halo, C&C, and many others. Mainly BF series though. Don't have any Steam games whatsoever lol. It doesn't matter now anyway, I searched for ages and nothing came up so I just bought FRAPS. Thanks to everyone anyway.I do have another question now. I bought FRAPS and used it to record a test recording. I tried it to record a video from the intro of BF2142, which normally goes at 100FPS, according to FRAPS' FPS counter. After FRAPS started recording, it went down to about 20fps. This seems like a massive drop - is there something I can do to reduce this impact? I'm thinking about the drop in games, when I;m at about 50fps - it'll be massive, and make the game unplayable too. I had the recording OPTIONS set to HALF resolution, 25fps. Thanks in advance.

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Hi all.
Looking for a quality, free or low cost program to record video, specifically from a game, to disk.
I know of FRAPS, but the free version is limited to BMP screenshots and 30 seconds of video max.
Is there a free program that will record for longer, as long as necessary?
I have a lot of disk SPACE so space isn't an issue.
Also, on a related note, recording the video to disk will reduce PERFORMANCE.
This would be cancelled out by using an external disk to record onto, correct?
But, would an external HDD be fast enough?
Thanks in advance for replies on both queries.
Calum.It's not exactly cancelled out because you use an external harddrive, because it takes alot of memory to record video, but it would be faster. What do you mean by record the video exactly? Are you trying to rip movie clips off your game? Or are you trying to record the screen as you are playing the game? :-?I want somthing like that so I can make softcore porn with my sims 2 game that has all the xxx add ons 8-)

JK, lol Quote

It's not exactly cancelled out because you use an external harddrive, because it takes alot of memory to record video, but it would be faster. What do you mean by record the video exactly? Are you trying to rip movie clips off your game? Or are you trying to record the screen as you are playing the game? :-?

I know it wouldn't be completely cancelled, but the performance impact would be reduced somewhat, right?
What I mean by record the video, is to record it like FRAPS will, eg record the actual gameplay from my point of view, almost as if I was pointing a video recorder at the screen.
Not rip movie clips from the game.
I do hope that MAKES sense.Calum, what game is it? Because i know with the Counter Strike series you can type something into the consel to record it as you are describing. Im sure most other steam games would as well.

ChrisThe main games will be the BF series.
Maybe also Quake 4 and Doom3, possibly also Halo, C&C, and many others.
Mainly BF series though.
Don't have any Steam games whatsoever lol.
It doesn't matter now anyway, I searched for ages and nothing came up so I just bought FRAPS.
Thanks to everyone anyway.I do have another question now.
I bought FRAPS and used it to record a test recording.
I tried it to record a video from the intro of BF2142, which normally goes at 100FPS, according to FRAPS' FPS counter.
After FRAPS started recording, it went down to about 20fps.
This seems like a massive drop - is there something I can do to reduce this impact?
I'm thinking about the drop in games, when I;m at about 50fps - it'll be massive, and make the game unplayable too.
I had the recording OPTIONS set to HALF resolution, 25fps.
Thanks in advance.

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