Fraps, scriptable encoding, multi-angle DVDs
I came up for a non-porn use for the multi-angle feature of DVD. Unfortunately, the lack of adoption of this feature by the major DVD community means that documentation on this is rather sparse. Plus I ran into some other issues that I also found no answers to. Figured I'd post them here, see what comes of it.
Fraps captures w/ anti-aliasing
I'm running P4 3Ghz, nvidia 6600GT and that produces about 92fps for LiveForSpeed. Drops maybe 10 frames if i turn on anti-aliasing. If i use Fraps to capture w/o anti-aliasing it records at the requested FPS, but the moment I turn on any anti-aliasing, the fps drops to about 10-15fps. Is it my card, LFS, fraps? Anything I can do?
Automating encoding from Fraps to DVD
Once captured, I have an avi in the FPS1 codec. I can transcode it with VirtualDub or TsunamMPEG, but both of those tools are GUI and can't be scripted. I tried using ffmpeg, but that doesn't seem to support the current Fraps codec. I was unable to find any scriptable transcoders that can use the codec DLL provided by Fraps.
Automating multi-angle DVD burning
Best tool for automating DVD burning I found was dvdauthor. However it does not support multi-angle burning. Only tools I found that do, are high end DVD authoring packages, all of which are GUI applications.
And even if i found one, i can't even find out what the requirements are for multi-angle. I saw some comments that made it sound like that all angles have to share a single audio track. Is that correct? How about getting the video synced? Got the impresssion that there was some nasty timecode stuff, beyond just getting a couple of video tracks of the same frame count.
Ah, more questions than answers..