UO Second Age

I have a lot of RPVs. I would like to make some of them in to short movies playable without Razor. Does anyone know of a way to convert RPVs in a different format? I imagine it is difficult given the special nature of RPV files.

And recording an AVI while playing back the RPV gets me nothing but an usuable AVI. Of course, I've never been able to record AVIs even in game. So maybe that is my problem.

I've a few video converters on my comp at home. I've never tried to convert and rpv but I'll see if any works later today.

It won't work.

RPV's tell your client which graphic resources to grab off your hard drive and in what order to display them to duplicate what happened during the initial recording.

This is a completely different process than AVI recording.

It would be like asking if you could turn a 600kb, 50 minute long Warcraft 3 replay file into an AVI with a converter. Have you ever seen even a 50 second AVI video that was only 600kb in size? Certainly not a 50 minute one. This should tell you that the processes are very different, and that a simple conversion will not work.

play the movie in uo.
take a video camera and hold it to your computer screen.
case closed.

I realize that the RPVs are not actually video files of any sort. What this means, I think, is my only hope of getting them into something else is being able to record videos of them as they are played back through Razor. The Razor-AVI recording function never works for me. So my question is really just is there a way to make it work, and if not, is there another way to record things happening in game (RPV playbacks)?

A camera would be too low quality.

chumbucket wrote:I realize that the RPVs are not actually video files of any sort. What this means, I think, is my only hope of getting them into something else is being able to record videos of them as they are played back through Razor. The Razor-AVI recording function never works for me. So my question is really just is there a way to make it work, and if not, is there another way to record things happening in game (RPV playbacks)?

A camera would be too low quality.

Camtasia your UO window while you play back your RPV file.

Slade wrote:It won't work.

RPV's tell your client which graphic resources to grab off your hard drive and in what order to display them to duplicate what happened during the initial recording.

This is a completely different process than AVI recording.

It would be like asking if you could turn a 600kb, 50 minute long Warcraft 3 replay file into an AVI with a converter. Have you ever seen even a 50 second AVI video that was only 600kb in size? Certainly not a 50 minute one. This should tell you that the processes are very different, and that a simple conversion will not work.

Didn't know that. Thanks for the explanation

Camtasia appears to be exactly what I need. Thanks Slade.

FRAPs is a great application to use

RoadKill wrote:FRAPs is a great application to use

Fraps is fine too, but you'll need other software for final compression. May I suggest Virtual Dub.

A 3 minute raw fraps video is like 2 gig.