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Geek Culture / Uh...dunno what to call it, Info about Avi and Swf question I guess...

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RUCCUS
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Posted: 8th Mar 2006 19:30
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Im getting tired of trying to find a decent free game caputurer...video thingy, like fraps. So I was wondering if anyone knew how, if there is at all, a way to "create" an .avi file or a .swf file from a series of pictures. The idea being that I could throw together a program that constantly captures screenies of the game, saves their information to a text file, and somehow created an avi or swf. I could always make a video viewer for the files but I'd rather use a wide-spread format like avi's.

So, rephrasinh kind of, does anyone know a way to take say 3 pictures, and turn them into an avi or swf file that playes the pictures in consecutive order?

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Hawkeye
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Posted: 8th Mar 2006 19:48 Edited at: 8th Mar 2006 19:49
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Presuming you've got a way to capture all those frames, it's fairly easy to stick 'em together in flash... I think


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UFO
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Posted: 8th Mar 2006 20:57
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You could make an animated gif...There are lots of simple gif makers out there. (There is one attached)

Although i'm sure you already know how to make a gif...

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Chris Franklin
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Posted: 8th Mar 2006 21:17
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOO not another thing to add to my install directorys

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http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=71731&b=8
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Benjamin
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Posted: 8th Mar 2006 21:36 Edited at: 8th Mar 2006 21:37
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Quote: " You could make an animated gif...There are lots of simple gif makers out there. (There is one attached)"

You do realise that the resulting files would be absolutely massive?

RUCCUS, try google, I remember using something a while a back that allowed you to put images in and it would make an AVI from them.

[Edit]: Try this: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Other-VIDEO-Tools/AVI-Creator.shtml

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Posted: 8th Mar 2006 21:58
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What about using the BLITZAVI.DLL? - There is a good example of it in the code snippets I think.

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RUCCUS
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Posted: 8th Mar 2006 22:21 Edited at: 8th Mar 2006 22:22
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No no I wasnt looking for a program to make the movies, I was trying to figure out how the avi file code structure works so I could write a program that created an avi using the source code from each bitmap captured. So then you'd just turn a function on, and it would begin recording your game, saving the image "codes" into a text file, and then when you were finished recording it would take these "codes" and convert them into an avi file. In order to do that I need to figure out how avi files... work

Notepad cant open them, it just crashes which is understandable. So im turning here, I tried googling but not too extensiveley Ill do some more searches for a breakdown of how avi files work but I doubt Ill find one.

Sorry for the confusion.

<EDIT> Ill look into that avi creator as well I might be able to figure out how they achieved creating avis.

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Posted: 8th Mar 2006 22:39
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I blame Hawkeye for misleading me.

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Posted: 8th Mar 2006 22:56
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I was talking about .swf, you were the one who brought up gifz. J'accuse, kitty.


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