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Railick Stonemane

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Convert .CMV to something windows can view?
« on: May 23, 2010, 04:05:33 pm »
Hey guys, for my end of class project is on Dwarf Fortress and I'm trying to find a way to record dwarf fortress play so that I can play it in a power point presentation. Are there any known converters out there that will change a cmv to something like a .avi or .wmv so that it can be played in PPP. I know there is a flash player but that doesn't do me a whole lot of good since I am limited to a 10 slide power point only :P If I can't find anything I guess I'll have to use something like fraps to capture the entire screen but that seems like a lot more trouble. Thanks for any info you guys can give me!
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Re: Convert .CMV to something windows can view?
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2010, 04:54:02 pm »
What's wrong with Print Screen -> Saving it in MSpaint?
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Re: Convert .CMV to something windows can view?
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2010, 06:26:47 pm »
He wants a movie, not a screenshot.
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Re: Convert .CMV to something windows can view?
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2010, 07:04:23 pm »
He's doing a 10 slide powerpoint though?  Can you even embed video into powerpoints?
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Re: Convert .CMV to something windows can view?
« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2010, 07:51:31 pm »
You can embed video into powerpoint. However, he might have to consider whether the computer he uses to actually present it on is able to play it back. As for the rest, sorry OP, fraps might be your best bet.
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Re: Convert .CMV to something windows can view?
« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2010, 09:22:47 pm »
Yah like said above you can put videos into a slide, I have done a lot of screen shots but I'd like to have a video of a combat scene in the arena just to show what the game looks like in play.
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Re: Convert .CMV to something windows can view?
« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2010, 12:34:15 am »
Use fraps or something like that to record video?

You could also just nick some exsiting videos, feel free to get one from balthazars arena ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAHxDKL6Wis&feature=related
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Re: Convert .CMV to something windows can view?
« Reply #7 on: May 26, 2010, 02:44:28 pm »
I may just have to do that I'm afraid. FRAPS isn't working out to well, the videos that it records are very slow. I suspect this is do to the nature of dwarf fortress. I'm trying to record the intro scene and when I play it back it takes like 5 minutes to play out :P Mostly due to my crappy computer I'm guessing. I will have to just nick youtube videos and dump them in lol. At least this one has good music, my class will like that.

I wonder how all the people on Youtube are recording their videos ? Are not youtube videos .flv files? I can convert .flv to .wmv. How are they converting them to .flv files from .cma files :P Does the flash video tool actually convert the .cma to .flv or just it just play .cmv files in a flash window? I'm super confused now.
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Re: Convert .CMV to something windows can view?
« Reply #8 on: May 26, 2010, 10:25:31 pm »
Why not stop the powerpoint, switch to the DF window, and show some real-time DF? Either way (video/DF) you'll need to test beforehand on the projector computer.
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Re: Convert .CMV to something windows can view?
« Reply #9 on: May 27, 2010, 03:47:46 am »
Quote from: Railick Stonemane on May 26, 2010, 02:44:28 pm
I may just have to do that I'm afraid. FRAPS isn't working out to well, the videos that it records are very slow. I suspect this is do to the nature of dwarf fortress. I'm trying to record the intro scene and when I play it back it takes like 5 minutes to play out :P Mostly due to my crappy computer I'm guessing. I will have to just nick youtube videos and dump them in lol. At least this one has good music, my class will like that.

I wonder how all the people on Youtube are recording their videos ? Are not youtube videos .flv files? I can convert .flv to .wmv. How are they converting them to .flv files from .cma files :P Does the flash video tool actually convert the .cma to .flv or just it just play .cmv files in a flash window? I'm super confused now.

This is what I do:

* Record video in fraps
* Open it in Virtual dub, cut out some pointless parts (i.e when i target creature in v menu)
* Change codec to something sane (xvid, h2something), add soundtrack and save it.

Now I have decent quality video that takes about 8mb per minute, which I upload to youtube.

No cmv usage at all.
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Re: Convert .CMV to something windows can view?
« Reply #10 on: May 27, 2010, 04:39:06 am »
Quote from: Quatch on May 26, 2010, 10:25:31 pm
Why not stop the powerpoint, switch to the DF window, and show some real-time DF? Either way (video/DF) you'll need to test beforehand on the projector computer.

The problem with that is if the OP is using school computer and is not allowed to download anything to it.
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Re: Convert .CMV to something windows can view?
« Reply #11 on: May 27, 2010, 08:21:31 am »
Quote from: Kipi on May 27, 2010, 04:39:06 am
Quote from: Quatch on May 26, 2010, 10:25:31 pm
Why not stop the powerpoint, switch to the DF window, and show some real-time DF? Either way (video/DF) you'll need to test beforehand on the projector computer.

The problem with that is if the OP is using school computer and is not allowed to download anything to it.

In which case, DF runs just peachy (if slow during loads and saves) from a USB thumb drive...  :)
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