Battle Recorder

[imported_Skillz]

What it is? I think it's something done server side? How do you play back bf files? Most importantly, how do you convert them to something that Windows can open?

Figured I'd through the questions out, THEN go search to see what I find. I do stuff a** backwards. :love:

Oh that's cool as heck. Is there a way to record every game/time you play without having to type in any commands?

Ok where can I find the battlelauncher file? Every link I find requires a login or it's a 404.

[kaheiyeh]

Re: Battle Recorder

BattleRecorder (BR) is a recording of the game done server-side. The server then will save this file to a certain place on the internet and a link to this file will be placed in the Community tab within Battlefield 2.

Simply click on the match you want to download and click on Download. When the download it done, select the newly downloaded file and press Play.

A note that some servers require you to be a member/customer or something to access their files.

[imported_Skillz]

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Ohhh ok. So it's not something I can do locally to record my own games then?

[signa]

Re: Battle Recorder

To record your own games you need to use a program like fraps (or xfire which has medium quality in-game recording). fraps will put a performance hit on your computer but works great. It saves in raw .avi format so one round of bf2 is going to be about 7gb, which you can then convert smaller using windows movie maker or virtualdub.

If thats too much work, play on servers with battlerecorder and download the file (in community tab). then you can play them back.

[imported_Skillz]

Re: Battle Recorder

To record your own games you need to use a program like fraps (or xfire which has medium quality in-game recording). fraps will put a performance hit on your computer but works great. It saves in raw .avi format so one round of bf2 is going to be about 7gb, which you can then convert smaller using windows movie maker or virtualdub.

If thats too much work, play on servers with battlerecorder and download the file (in community tab). then you can play them back.

That's what I figured. I knew about fraps/xfire recording which I doubt it'll hurt my performance much. I might have to drop the settings from high to med and maybe drop my resolution from 1600x1200 to something a bit lower. My lappy can only handle so much.

7gb is a lot though. :shock:

[Skaggy]

Re: Battle Recorder

I recorded 30 minutes of gameplay yesterday using xFire, it took up over 30GB.

And that was without sound...

[imported_Skillz]

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what resolution?

[Skaggy]

Re: Battle Recorder

1280 X 1024 Full-size

All high settings in BF2.

[imported_Skillz]

Re: Battle Recorder

Anyone know what the average size of a BR file with ~40 players, standard time, SF, warlord would be?

Are they really big files or what?

[kaheiyeh]

Re: Battle Recorder

BR files themselves aren't really big. That's because all the BR file contains are times and points where everything is. The game replays the map based on these times and points and basically moves everything according to it, hence showing you a "replay" of the match.

The actual recording you do, however, depends on what settings you use such as resolution, quality and file format.

[imported_Skillz]

Re: Battle Recorder

BR files themselves aren't really big. That's because all the BR file contains are times and points where everything is. The game replays the map based on these times and points and basically moves everything according to it, hence showing you a "replay" of the match.

The actual recording you do, however, depends on what settings you use such as resolution, quality and file format.

That's what I was figured. Though I'd still like to know the average size of the files. I'd guess probably around 30 - 40MB maybe?

[=)BiT(= Evant3k]

Re: Battle Recorder

1 - 10 MB is the battlerecorder average size I have yet to see one go over 20mb on a unmoded server.

[Skaggy]

Re: Battle Recorder

That's what I was figured. Though I'd still like to know the average size of the files. I'd guess probably around 30 - 40MB maybe?

I've got a few on my PC.
Highest is 20 MB, lowest is 5.5 MB. Average is about 10 MB...

I think it completely depends on how many players are in the server and how long the round lasts.

[imported_Skillz]

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Oh dang, so my calculations were way off. I was going by a clans server/site where I first learned of the BR. All those files were up in the 30s low 40s. Not sure what server it was for, they have a few and I always played on the IO Karkand server.

So if they are about 3 times smaller than I thought, that's even better.

Now I have read that there are about 10 different quality settings you can adjust with it. 1 being the lowest, 10 being the highest.

If the BR just records the positions/locations of players and other items in the game, what difference should the quality of the recorded file make? Shouldn't it be the system that's playing the file back? Unless by quality, then it determines how often a object in the game is logged/marked.

So if you're running in a straight line and the quality is set at 10, your position would be logged every .1 second (for example) and if it's at 1, then it'll be logged every 1 second. I could then see how it would effect the quality quiet a lot. Is that what's going on with it? (I don't mean its those exact times, just an example)

I also got xfire setup for recording video and you guys wasn't kidding. I believe an 8 second clip ate up about 65MB of disk space. I do want to know how to record the sound from the GAME not what I am saying through my MIC. Might have to ask that on the xFire forums or RTFM.