Nexuiz Demo Recorder release v0.3 NEW

[GreEn`mArine]

Hi.

After a few more weeks here is the new version, v0.3 of the Nexuiz Demo Recorder.

First, download version 0.2 here (if you haven't already done so).

Then download the update from 0.2 to 0.3 here!

Changelog v0.2 -> 0.3
Compatibility changes:
None. Job and template queues are completely compatible between v0.2 and v0.3
Features:

• New feature: loading and saving of the template list to file is now possible
• Open dialogs for jobs or templates allow you to select whether to overwrite the current list/queue or not (if not, the loaded items will be added to the current list/queue)
• New feature: Applying properties of a template selectively to one or more selected jobs

Changelog v0.1 -> 0.2
Compatibility changes:

• Table preferences, job queues and template lists are not compatible between v0.1 and 0.2! Make sure you install v0.2 in a new direcory!
• NDR v0.2 requires Java SE 6 now (instead of Java SE 5 which was required for v0.1)

Features:

• Plugin architecture that allows other Java developers to include their own plug-ins that can encode the recorded job to another format (e.g. H.264)
• Ships with encoder plug-in for VirtualDub (MS Windows, http://www.virtualdub.org)
• Duplicates can now be created with more than one job selected, duplicating all selected ones at once
• Templates can now be duplicated
• Fixed bug with deleting selected rows in the tables causing a weird exception
• Jobs can be given individual names (don't have to be "Job 1", "Job 2", ... anymore)

Feel free to report bug reports in this thread. However, as also stated in the help system of the program, I am not devoting myself to support this tool at all. It can now do most of the stuff I need it to do and I have now much less icentive to continue working on it :O

Make sure that you read the help shipped with the program. Questions that you ask here and that would have been answered by reading the help documents, well, will not be answered (by me) in this thread .

HAVE FUN!

[C.Brutail]

Thank you for your hard work!

[Urmel]

I'd really appreciate having a tutorial video, uploaded on Youtube

*duck*

[GreEn`mArine]

there is one, the demo video I posted about a week ago. That's kind of a tutorial

[Urmel]

/me kneels down to kiss the god of perfection's feet

Hell, Youre really awesome

[FruitieX]

Good job green marine!
Should make capturing the demos much easier.

[GreEn`mArine]

Thanks for the kudos.... but somehow I just see people writing something, no1 actually using it and reporting bugs

Meanwhile I've been thinking about a encoder-plugin-architecture to be added to the tool. The thing is that after the file was moved to the final destination after being rendered by DP, you might want it to be encoded. For example to a H264 stream inside a mp4 container (mencoder), or to another lossless format such as Huffyuv or Lagarith (e.g. using VirtualDub). The problem of course is that all these tools and codecs are kind-of platform-dependent. A virtual dub execution is only possible on windows, as there is no linux version of it. And so far I have not found a single platform-independent encoder that supports all formats I want (no, mencoder doesn't either, simply because there are lossless codecs such as Lagarith that are developed to only work on Windows anyway).

I could add a plugin infrastructure to so that users can add plugins (jar file) which basically won't do much more than:
- execute a shell command (e.g. execute virtual dub, handbrake, whatever you think makes sense) once or several times per job
- offer possibilities to configure the execution (e.g. path to the binary of the encoder, preset scripts to use for encoding, prefix for encoded file, ...)

Let me know what you think!

The goal would be to allow other programmers to easily create their own plugins (for their own choice of platform+encoder), they'd just have to implement very few functions (one class, actually) and each plugin doesn't have to do more than parsing the config for the plugin and building the shell string to be executed...

[Fisume!]

That's looking great. Hope Francotirador can finish his movie faster now

[GreEn`mArine]

Some visual progress ... plug-in support, with VDub plugin. Java coders will be easily able to create their own plug-ins that use encoders that are accessible via command line interface.

See here

I hope I can release it by the end of this week.

[BizzyBeaver]

Well, after my first trys I realized that the showgametime command doesnt work xD
Have I smth else to do to get that notice?

It's an awesome program! I like it <3