PTR Mac Capture

BRK » 21 July 2007 » In Patch »

We Mac users get a “movie capture” feature with the next iteration of WoW. Since the character-copy wasn’t working, we just rolled a little mage to try out the video capturing. This is basically just for us to play with, the movie is nothing special at all.

We haven’t uploaded stuff to youtube before, so if you have recommendations for better quality, we’d love to hear them.

Patch | July 21, 2007

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10 Responses to “PTR Mac Capture”

  1. thrstn on July 21st, 2007 8:26 pm

    I like the changes that are being made to the client. Built in movie capture and voip.

    Now all that is missing is the feature that the Guild Wars players are getting in next expansion. The ability to load up the official Guild Wars Wiki in game!

    That’l be sweet, to be able to load up wowhead with my ingame broswer.

    Nice quality by the way, alot better than most youtube’s I’ve seen.

  2. Michael in OH on July 21st, 2007 9:05 pm

    That’s some pretty good quality schtuff…

    Can’t wait to try it out on my Macbook Pro

  3. Airwave on July 21st, 2007 9:25 pm

    I’m really loving Blizzard’s dedication to the Mac platform. Not only do they support Macs, but with features like this every Mac user with love them.

    thrstn: You may want to try the addon “LightHeaded”, which gives you in-game Wowhead.

  4. thrstn on July 22nd, 2007 1:18 am

    @airwave:

    Well thats just a snapshot of wowhead. Me wants a ingame browser ;)

  5. Lance on July 22nd, 2007 1:26 am

    @airwave: lightheaded will not work for me.

  6. Byron on July 22nd, 2007 5:06 am

    Might also try uploading to http://stage6.divx.com/, using the Divx codec. I really like the video quality there better than Youtube or Google, seems to retain it’s quality much better when enlarged or fullscreen. Many times it’s difficult to see what’s going on in the tiny Youtube vids, and enlarging them makes everything too fuzzy. No problems like that on Divx.

  7. BRK on July 22nd, 2007 1:16 pm

    The Mac WoW client does the compression using the H.264 codec and provides a .mov file as the final prodect. I’m happy with this but am looking to see which combination of screen size and frame rate works best.

    Until Blizz allows the user to use alternative codecs, we think we’re locking into our current production path and divx isn’t an option.

  8. Anonymous on July 22nd, 2007 6:16 pm

    i watch movies on tv links all the time and i cant run anything from stage6..i have tried downloading Divx plug in and still no luck….

    we have 2 computers, the one i use runs windows XP the other one runs windows vista(the only thing that makes me want to check out apple) and the one with vista can run stage6 movies

    Adrus

    p.s. i have nothing against apple my second computer was an apple 2E but for a long time there was 10 rolls on PC games and on the back wall there was 1 roll of apple games/programs =P

  9. Ontherocks on July 23rd, 2007 12:31 pm

    What I was really impressed with on the PTR was how well the compression worked in the background, while still playing. I’m on a MacBook Pro, and I figured the compression would hog the CPU, but I saw only a marginal dip in my FPS.

    Love Blizzard and their Mac devs.

    -Chris

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