SRec 2.x on github

@salass00

Now i tried with MUIMPlayer, same result, i don't get any playback.

Can someone post a working SREC line so i have a t least something to start with?

Thanks

@Raziel
I have been testing SRec from the GUI but I just tested from a shell commandline like this:

SRec FILENAME ram:video.mkv

and the video plays in MUIMPlayer.

The command line operation seems to default to MKV and there is no command line option to use AVI instead.

@salass00
I noticed a couple of issues with SRec:
1. Saving the settings in SRec does not set them permanently. The prefs are saved to ENV: but not to ENVARC: but maybe that's intentional.
2. There is no SRec commandline argument to use an AVI container. Maybe you should add a CONTAINER text argument or an AVI switch argument.

@xenic

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Works just fine here.

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I will add such an option but using AVI format for output is not recommended. AVI is a legacy format and has a lot of baggage associated with it.

MKV is a more modern format and the libmkv code is lighter weight and cleaner than the avilib code which is also why MKV is the default in SRec 2.1.

@Raziel

What pixel format are you using?

So far I have only added support for what I assume to be the most common ones:
ARGB32, BGRA32, RGB16, RGB16PC, RGB15 and RGB15PC.

Unsupported formats are for instance:
RGBA32, ABGR32, RGB24, BGR24, BGR16PC and BGR15PC.

While the alternative 32-bit formats should be easy enough to support the others are less so and I would like to avoid adding code for them if possible.

@Raziel

Also do you get any debug messages if you run sashimi at the same time as recording with SRec?

@salass00

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Ah right, however is better than nothing no ?

Aniway here the update catalog for SRec 2.2

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=67916282135025793986

@salass00
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You're right. I was looking in ENVARC: but I changed where application.library saves prefs and didn't realize SRec is apparently using application.library.

@salass00

No debug output on sashimi

I'm using ARG32 2560x1440 on my Workbench

I managed to make it play back the test video.
Text is not readable due to my resolution i get black bars on top and bottom.

When i start ScummVM, the launcher (ScummVM's first own screen) works fine, but when i start a game from within the launcher the whole system freezes.

If you want i can try and catch a log from the serial port?

@Raziel

If you use too high recording resolution and frame rate then there might not be any resources left for other programs (SRec has to periodically lock intuition in order to grab frames).

I suggest experimenting with the settings and using a lower frame rate if you want to record high resolution and lower resolution if you want higher FPS.

@salass00

Yes, that did it, recording works now, switching to ScummVM and running an intro works as well.

CPU doesn't go beyond 25% on my X1000 (Workbench mode - ScummVM depends on the game's resources) and that is with CANDI running and eating away approx. 8% up front

Wow, what an update

Keep enhancing the GUI, mate, this is one app i really like

SRec 2.2 is now up on github:

https://github.com/salass00/srec/releases

Pixel formats that give best performance with the ZMBV encoder are BGRA32, RGB16PC and RGB15PC because these do not need to be converted.

The only major pixel formats that are now unsupported are RGB24, BGR24 and CLUT.

CLUT support is possible to do with s/w scaling code as in older SRec and is on my to do list. As for packed 24-bit formats I really hope that no-one uses those any more.

Thanks. I tried 2.1 and 2.2 with the default settings. A file in RAM is created, but nothing is recorded. Have I missed something?

@salass00

Update catalog for 2.3 WIP

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=69103924528434315335

@salass00
D/L Srec2.2 and tested with default settings. It's working for me.

@ddni

Which driver version are you using? The lite version of the Radeon HD driver on the Final Edition CD does not support compositing so it won't work for SRec.

@ddni
I'm using 1280x1024 screen resolution with the default SRec settings and it works for me.

Hi all,

The version prior to 2.1 that I tried on 10th October worked.

I have the Full RadeonHD drivers.
I have tried different settings.

ZMBV gives an unknown filetype output file. i don't think ZMBV was in the pre 2.1 version?

AVI gives an AVI that when play has no data in it.
Whilst apparently recording, CPU usage is not increased.

Am I missing a datatype? Which ones are required.

@ddni

Opening a shell and running sashimi before starting recording might give useful information why it's failing.

It's unlikely that I will add support for other video codecs than ZMBV in the near future for reasons that I've mentioned before in this thread.

The DefIcons system of AmigaOS doesn't recognise or have a default icon for Matroska Video files (.mkv) but that is nothing to worry about. I recommend using MKV over AVI for output. If you need another format for a video player you can use ffmpeg to convert the file to a different container format or even encode it to a different video codec if necessary.

Hi, too difficult (aka too much code) to add a check for ALTIVEC so if cpu doesn't support it, just ghost/disable such option in GUI?

And maybe just BOLD version string in about window


IUtility->SNPrintf(body_text, sizeof(body_text),
"\033b%s %s %lu.%lu (%s)\033n\n\n"
"%s (C) 2016 Fredrik Wikstrom <fredrik@a500.org>\n\n"
...


TIA