# ezQuake Manual: Video stream capture

Note that to capture encoded audio/video streams you have to have proper codecs installed.

Most of the demo_caputure_* commands are self-explainable. You may wish to check Multiview options and Graphics eyecandy settings for some nice scene setup.

### Capture an avi file

`demo_capture start 10 video.avi`
This will start capture a video file video.avi and the capture will take 10 seconds at most.
If you omit the last parameter (name of an AVI file) then set of .tga screenshots will be taken.
`demo_capture stop`
This will end the capture.

### Settings

demo_capture_codec
  Determines which codec will be used as a video codec. E.g. "xvid" or "divx" should give good results.
  Note that to capture encoded audio/video streams you have to have proper codecs installed.
demo_capture_mp3
  When set to 1 then mp3 codec is used for sound track.
demo_capture_mp3_kbps
  Determines quality of sound track when mp3 codec is used. Default is 128.
demo_capture_steadycam
  Changes behaviour of keyboard and mouse input during video capture. Default OFF.
demo_capture_dir
  Sets target dir for your captured files.
demo_capture_fps
  Amount of frames captured per second. Default is 30.

### Video settings

We recommend using following command-line options: `-particles 4096 -detailtrails +exec cfg/gfx_gl_movies.cfg`

Last update: 03.05.2006 06:11 PDT, made by JohnNy_cz | ezQDocs