Videos of SPww2

Rosollia · #1 July 21st, 2012, 10:06 AM

I did a little bit of testing using Camstudio program to record the video of WinSPWW2 game. I set the game to run at windowed 640x480 resolution and used the Camstudio to record the window.

The first video is captured using the Microsoft Video 1 codec. Because of the 23 MB size limit for attachements it is a short clip. However it shows that the game can be recorded in good quality using Camstudio.

EDIT: Or I could just ZIP to a 5.26 MB size...

Rosollia · #2 July 21st, 2012, 10:13 AM

In this second video I have compressed the video using Microsoft Movie Maker. The format used is .WMV (Windows Media Video). This reduces the size of the video file from 21 MB to just 3.6 MB however the image quality suffers alot.

This is the problem with recording of WinSPWW2. There is alot of small fine detail in the graphics and any sort of compression really messes them up.

I have seen HD videos in Youtube that look amazing, but I have no idea how they manage to upload the videos without dramatic image quality loss.

Some links:
Camstudio is available here: http://camstudio.org/

Some useful tips on configuring camstudio on 64 bit OS and Windows Vista/7:
http://camstudio.org/forum/discussio...-showing-up/p1
http://camstudio.org/forum/discussio...trol-failed/p1