sumoscouse Posted December 6, 2005 Posted December 6, 2005 New to Fraps - recorded myself avin a bit of a joyride in SU-25T - stoped recording after 'bout 5 mins When into Fraps Folder where recorded movie is saved 2.5Gig !!! Need to resolve this issue quickly b4 I run out of HD space Help Needed ASAP Cheers SumoScouse Out :cool:
Guest ruggbutt Posted December 6, 2005 Posted December 6, 2005 Recording with Fraps ends in big files. You can adjust the framerate down, or record in a lower resolution.
zorlac Posted December 6, 2005 Posted December 6, 2005 welcome to HUGE files with fraps... its just the way it is. For fraps to record higher frame rates, it needs to spend less time doing compression and more time writing the file to disk. If you wanted the fraps files to be smaller, the frame rate it could record would drop badly because it would spend all its time trying to compress the images into the AVI. Just do the maths on it: bytes-per-second = ((width x height x depth) / 8 ) x recording-fps 800x600 24-bit @ 15fps is 21,600,00 bytes per second 1024x768 24-bit @ 15fps is is 35,389,440 bytes per second 1280x1024 24-bit @ 15fps is is 58,982,400 bytes per second. So, fraps has to grab that much data from the gfx buffer, do any resizing on it, then save it to disk. Not sure it has any spare horsepower to do any on-the-fly compression too :) - High Frame Rate - Good quality AVIs - Small file sizes pick two....
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