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Anyone know how to convert or export NASCAR 2002 replays to AVI or MPG format

David Hear

Anyone know how to convert or export NASCAR 2002 replays to AVI or MPG format

by David Hear » Tue, 26 Feb 2002 02:05:03

I want to be able to show some of my replays to friends that don't have any
of the NASCAR programs. How can I capture/convert/export N2K2 replays to AVI
or MPG format?

Thanks!

Biz

Anyone know how to convert or export NASCAR 2002 replays to AVI or MPG format

by Biz » Tue, 26 Feb 2002 07:03:21

Haven't tried it with 2002 yet, but gpl2avi works fine, although it takes forever as it converts at
about 1/15 real-time.
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Biz

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> I want to be able to show some of my replays to friends that don't have any
> of the NASCAR programs. How can I capture/convert/export N2K2 replays to AVI
> or MPG format?

> Thanks!

floyd-

Anyone know how to convert or export NASCAR 2002 replays to AVI or MPG format

by floyd- » Tue, 26 Feb 2002 12:05:57

Someone at the Team Lightspeed forum did it by using a screen capture
utililty to capture the replay at 2 fps, then speeding up the playback of
the captured screens.  It came out looking ok.


CarGu

Anyone know how to convert or export NASCAR 2002 replays to AVI or MPG format

by CarGu » Thu, 28 Feb 2002 02:02:52


Don't know if gpl2avi will work with the new version since the new version
has more data in the replay file (gas and brake positioning), but the most
accepted way is long and tedious and will produce HUGE files until you can
compress them into MPEG or similar format when complete. This method is
basically screen capture and output, then converting to the compressed file.
I really wish someone at Papy could have pushed for this, but I understand
that the RPY file that the game outputs is data only, it has to have the
game in order to display the tracks and the cars...they aren't 'in' the
replay, only which car files were used and their time and position on a
given track at any given point in time. I have toyed with the idea of
outputting a full screen replay to mv TV out on my video card to a VCR, then
capturing the VCR playback to HD. Seems backward kinda, but I think it would
preserve the quality of a larger screen size since about the best screen

think it would also allow for more intuitive non linear editing.

ssra

Anyone know how to convert or export NASCAR 2002 replays to AVI or MPG format

by ssra » Fri, 01 Mar 2002 08:22:29





>> I want to be able to show some of my replays to friends that don't have
>any
>> of the NASCAR programs. How can I capture/convert/export N2K2 replays to
>AVI
>> or MPG format?

>> Thanks!

>Don't know if gpl2avi will work with the new version since the new version
>has more data in the replay file (gas and brake positioning), but the most
>accepted way is long and tedious and will produce HUGE files until you can
>compress them into MPEG or similar format when complete. This method is
>basically screen capture and output, then converting to the compressed file.
>I really wish someone at Papy could have pushed for this, but I understand
>that the RPY file that the game outputs is data only, it has to have the
>game in order to display the tracks and the cars...they aren't 'in' the
>replay, only which car files were used and their time and position on a
>given track at any given point in time. I have toyed with the idea of
>outputting a full screen replay to mv TV out on my video card to a VCR, then
>capturing the VCR playback to HD. Seems backward kinda, but I think it would
>preserve the quality of a larger screen size since about the best screen

>think it would also allow for more intuitive non linear editing.

 If someone could get an AVI converter going then compressing it with
DiVX is not out of the question.
 Then depending on the compression you could get the whole race down
to 500mb (a 2min clip could be >500k)

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