Movie To Disk Functionality in Second Life... Gone.
I probably missed this being scribbled on a bathroom wall somewhere in <insert someone with Linden Lab hookups>'s house, but... I just went nuts looking for the 'send movie to disk' option. I searched high and low, since I actually wanted to catch something on video - machinima - and it wasn't there.
After about 15 minutes, I ended up at JIRA VWR-2096, more descriptively titled Movie to disk causes crash. Why did I get there? Because of what is written here:
...We've decided (see VWR-2096[c] for details) to remove the built-in movie recorder in favor of numerous, better 3rd-party tools...
Argh. So, I guess I'll be using Taksi.
But guess what? Now the viewer is crashing for me when it never did with the Second Life viewer. And I'm not sure which codecs give the best compression.
*sigh*
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FRAPS
I could never get the viewer one to do anything other than jack up a video. So in search of an answer, I contacted Moo Money, she said, to use FRAPS, she was right! Its easy to use, and works like a top! http://www.fraps.com/
Arthur Fermi
Fermi Sandbox & University
www.fermidesigns.com
Yeah, FRAPs, Yeah.
I immediately didn't use it because it wasn't open source. I'll look at the trial version, but I think we're too far along the software usage curve to have to pay for screen capture software.
I'm not a machinima sort of person, myself - on rare occasions I may capture video to do something. Still, it is good to have a solution available for the very rare occasions where machinima is useful.
Any idiot who wants to watch an avatar lip synch talking...
Second Life Consultant
O hai.
(Oh, that last comment was mine. First FAIL of the week. I attribute it to the fact that my first cup of coffee is not yet empty.)
That feature never worked
That feature never worked for me. I felt like I was missing out on being one of the cool kids.