Fraps Movies

[Oday Forster]

CanFRAPS record movies outside of games? Their web site only talks about recording movies in games, so I'm not sure if it can record movies in other programs such as browsers. I installed it and pressed F9 while playing a video in a browser, and nothing happened. But I saw a few forum posts from people who claimed that they did get it to record their desktop.

Yes. Fraps can record movies outside of games. By default, fraps can record everything that is DirectX or OpenGL powered. Media Players can be set to play the movies through OpenGL or DirectX and when done, you can use Fraps native abilities to record the movie.

You cannot change the recording area from the DWM device. If you need that, there are other tools specifically for doing that. For instance, I bought Camtasia studio for this sole reason, and Fraps for game recordings.

I have an SSD and I frequently record movies with Fraps. Unfortunately, my SSD is not that big and my secondary harddrive is not fast enough for Fraps to record movies to. I decided to write a script that will start Fraps for me, and then checks if Fraps is done recording, moves the file to my second harddisk and notifies me of this event.

This works great. The problem is that I want to exit the script when I close Fraps. The only way VBScript seems to be able to do it (at least, that's what everyone recommends doing) is by querying the processlist to see if the program is active. Because Fraps is a heavy program, and I run many programs at the same time, just querying this list creates a lag spike in my recording. It only happens if I have too many programs open, but the programs themselves are not the problem, just the amount.

I've programmed a lot in Visual Basic, even though it was a many many years ago, and later using VBA, and in there you can basically start a program, retreive the handle of it, and by that handle alone, check if the application still runs. Does something like that exist in VBScript?

If VBScript won't do it, is there another simple macro scripting program that can check for filesize, execute a program and determine if that program is still running or not at a later point in the script?

I just wanted to see if the above thrown in an error and work with an error catcher to do it, but I was very surprised when just this code made my script work! It starts fraps for me, and the script continues to run until I close fraps. I use sapi.speak to notify me when the script starts and ends, and I can keep fraps open for a long time and I don't hear that the script ends. I then close fraps, and moments later the script tells me that it ends.

Fraps is a popular recording software used by LP'ers because it can record movies as well as take screenshots, which are saved to a folder of the users' choice. It displays a small yellow FPS counter in a corner of the game, which turns red when Fraps is recording. These numbers do not show up in the actual movie. However, Fraps is not free and it requires the user to pay for it via PayPal. Despite this requirement, it is one of the most popular softwares in the gaming community (most likely because it has been designed for gamers making game walkthroughs)

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