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Löve to Video file

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Is there a way löve can record a user session (like a game play) to a video file -- Basically a record mode -- like how screen cast software does?

I'm currently looking into how to do a screen cap of a löve sessin with mplayer or ffmpeg, but just thought you might have a better idea.

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Not really, no.
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LOVE Framework don't have even movie playback capability. You can create however some timed function for take screenshots. I never tested this to check what potential or how fast this method can be.
https://love2d.org/wiki/love.graphics.newScreenshot.

You can and should use without problem third-party apps for recording your videogame plays of course.
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You want to record "love sessions"? Sounds a bit saucy to me.

You could save a screenshot every x ticks, but that's not a good idea.
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Just realised I can execute linux commands through love. I'm seeing if I can take that snapshot you suggested and pipe it to ffmpeg -- since ffmpeg can create a video from images.
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Given that you are going to use external tools anyway, why don't you use a regular screen capturing program, like those used for creating screencasts?
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kikito wrote:Given that you are going to use external tools anyway, why don't you use a regular screen capturing software, like those used for creating screencasts?
...because I want to know how it works :) ...but also because looking at the apps in Linux, it may be tricky to just capture the window area and I think I would still manually have to add sound. It would be nice to automate the whole process ;)

Anyway, here's the ffmpeg code that will grab a stream of images from the disk with a little automation...

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	f = io.popen("ffmpeg -r 10 -b 1800 -i /home/asdf/dev/projects/love-dev/os-call/%03d.jpg /home/asdf/Desktop/love-test-1800.mp4")
	f:close()
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1u4 wrote: also because looking at the apps in Linux, it may be tricky to just capture the window area and I think I would still manually have to add sound. It would be nice to automate the whole process ;)
Just use Kazam. It allows you to record a portion of your screen, and it can also record any pulseaudio stream.
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nevon wrote:
1u4 wrote: also because looking at the apps in Linux, it may be tricky to just capture the window area and I think I would still manually have to add sound. It would be nice to automate the whole process ;)
Just use Kazam. It allows you to record a portion of your screen, and it can also record any pulseaudio stream.
Thanks for introducing me to Kazam. I'll be using that quite a lot.
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