Hi there.. i've always edited my qwz/qwd demos with qizmo in order to get the piece i wanted with the exatcly shot/trick/fun stuff/whatever i wanted to show up to my mates.. but i've just quited using autorecord command.. and now i just get the mvd from the sv.. but there's that little problem.. i no longer know how to edit the mvd.. and extract only the piece i want .. i used to run the qwd/qwz with qizmo and then record the piece i wanted during the demoplay.. we all know that qizmo just does not support MVD.. so i would like to know if there's any way of doing it .. or i'll just have do stick to demo-capture commands and make avi's out of the mvd demos.. ( wich is bad.. becouse even with compression file gets way bigger than a simple qwz/mvd )

Thanks...

I don't think you can cut out stuff from a mvd atleast not using ezQuake, i might be wrong, but atleast last time i looked into it, it wasnt possible.

Maybe you can do it in other clients. You can however save the demo time and use demo_jump when you want to showoff cool frags

That happens to be a cool feature of the Q3 hack called Q3sdc. It basically was a wrapper for quake3.exe and when used as the server recorded MVDs. Clients could record but with the usual caveats about the recording client not knowing everything that was going on unless it was right in his vicinity. When playing the demos you could use your regular record script in the demo replay and record snippets of the demo.

I certainly wish the russian guy that made that mod would update it using the since-released q3 source. When he did release it it was considered contraband iirc because he used some "purloined" quake3 code.

One option is to use FTEQTV to play the MVD demo and connect to the proxy with QW protocol and record client-side QWD demo from the moment you want (I guess you have to wait until the playback gets to that moment though - as I don't know any demo_jump command in there)

Another option is to wait for Cokeman to finish his mvdparser, he promised this function on this forum once IIRC.

Supposedly, just connect to qtv via qizmo, and get the qtv to play the mvd to your qizmo client to convert it to qwd/qwz.
Additionally, there's a demospeed stream setting which can be used to change the stream playback, which can be used to fast forward to the bits you want (although not a specific jump, and it requires rcon).
If you're hardcore, you can record demos from the qtv in mvd format instead, which would be lossless (mvd->qwd is lossy due to resampling - qwd needs to use a higher framerate). But doing so requires excelent timing due to the buffering in qtv's mvd handling.

Qqshka added support for mvd extraction today to the ezquake client.


You should be able to try it in the nightly release that's compiled later today. It's only available in trunk so consider it highly experimental for now =)

Wow, good news, thanks!

latest ezquake 2.0 alpha can record extracts from Mvd demos.

Why would you want qwd?

Because if a student of mine (hehe) wants me to go over a demo with him, we need to use qizmo which only plays .qwd and .qwz. The problem with QTV is that it's much more of a trouble to setup For some reason, they forget to match_save the games in question a lot :[

A student of yours? Do you run a qw school?

QTV shouldnt be that hard to set up, maybe someone who knows something about it should do a zip with a qtv setup

ffs

Yeah i think Spike already explained how to do that

Yep, apparently I must have missed that post when I posted. I still need to learn how to setup qtv though ;[ Oh well, about time I did that I guess

Closer examination reveals that it has been done a long time ago, even if the project space has been updated regularly ever since.

It's extremely easy to setup a QTV. Either click Renzo's links, or if you choose FTEQTV there is a stable build here.

For example my config looks like this: http://www.pastebin.ca/974802