MAMEWorld Forums - Programming

Hey all,

One of the things I added in the MAMEHub fork of MAME was WebM video recording. WebM is of similar quality as mpeg-4 but completely open source and patent-free.

The WebM encoder runs in a separate pool of threads and throttles quality so that it can complete a frame before the next frame is requested. If you have a single-core machine, you will suffer a pretty major performance hit, but anyone with dual core or higher should be able to record mid-quality videos. People with a quad-core or better can record high-quality, compressed videos without sacrificing performance.

Here's an example of a webm video that was recording while playing with no loss in framerate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHtkvSZwUO4

IMHO This feature should go into the core MAME build. Feel free to merge upstream from https://github.com/MisterTea/MAMEHub or let me know and I can do it myself.

Check out MAMEHub here: http://www.mamehub.info/

Edited by Digitalghost (06/24/13 05:27 PM)