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Published on April 12, 2024 12:00:00 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcak260gdgc

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Duration: 13:53

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Edited by: Lupin

The concept of video recording (at least in the context of recording your game) is surprisingly simple now a days. Just get OBS and watch a 10 minute tutorial and boom done. However... I love to work for hours and over complicate everything just to make my life slightly better in the long run. This honestly might end up being a whole video on its own but for now it remains a nerd essay in the description of a mostly unrelated video.

Years ago, back when I had a different name, I had a really crappy laptop and so recording was legitimately difficult for me with any system that had existed at the time. My solution to this problem ended up being that I would record a tf2 demo at .5 speed and then double the speed in my editor so it would end up looking ABOUT right? I wasn't ever able to get it perfect but it was close enough that I don't think anyone actually noticed at the time. Obviously, this wasn't really a good system.

I had tried Lawena but before AVI recorder, it was super time consuming to go from Lawena to Footage... Not to mention how incredibly big the files ended up being, making the whole system pretty prohibitive in general even though it did have the massive benefit of quality and the FPS being locked. AVI recorder does exist now and makes the whole process a lot better though definitely not perfect and the problem of file size never went away.

Now let's get to the bits where I over-complicate everything in order to make my life easier.

I had learned about the tf2 command "startmovie" along with the ability to use Quicktime as an encoder. Quicktime, notably, sucks... BUT this system had the benefit of file size and overall ease. Quicktime encoded it at any FPS (similar to Lawena) and directly into a already compressed .mp4 (unlike Lawenas massive lossless files). The big issue was the visual quality being much worse in comparison to Lawena but once it was uploaded to and compressed by Youtube, that didn't matter a ton to me.

Okay cool, I have a recording solution that fits my needs well... What more is there to do?

Well... I noticed that even with the recording taking awhile, a large amount of my time recording was just... finding what I wanted to record... Even with bookmarks from prec/the built in demo system, I still spent a large amount of time skipping to it, making sure I wanted to record it, rewinding, hitting record, waiting..... sitting stop, and then doing it again 10000 more times. Annoying, didn't want to do it.

Eventually I learned about VDMs (a file that allows you to automate actions in demos.) and that saved a lot of time but I still had to manually make every VDM by hand...

I talked to a good friend of mine at the time, the only spy main who isn't a bad person, and we worked together on designing and coding the first ever version of Ryukbot. (The name was originally a joke about how he liked to go into my pubs and tell everyone that I was the best hacker in the world while he would ramp his sens up.) The program took the bookmarks from the bookmarks file that gets saved and converts those into VDMs, effectively automating the whole process.

He ended up leaving the world of tf2 and computers in general to become a vegetable farmer in the middle of nowhere... So I remade the whole thing from scratch but this time in Python. The remake eventually ended up getting released to a wider audience and became somewhat known depending on who you asked. I maintained Ryukbot and updated and added features and so on for years but it never really felt complete. Also it was made in python... so like... I can do better...

Now we reach what is effectively the modern era, the space age of this whole history; Méliès.

Méliès has everything Ryukbot has but also a GUI, it can scan demos and find clips to record for you, it can load logs and download the demos from them, it also supports a lot of great stuff like Source Video Recorder (i don't have enough space in the character limit to explain this in depth but I love SVR). It's also how I record all of the clips for all of these videos now, and also why I haven't needed to ask people to send in clips in a long time. I can just download the stv demos from the logs, and then scan the demo, and get all of my clips from the matches themselves easily. I'm really REALLY proud of it... but its not done yet... I'll keep adding functionality to it until its perfect...

Until then though, ig enjoy your day or whatever idk

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0:00 Start
00:37 Clip #1
02:49 Clip #2
06:16 Clip #3
08:12 Clip #4
11:25 Clip #5
12:56 Outro

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