Noob alert - How to I record straight from Dolphin (frame dump, TAS, etc..)

[hookonsonic2]

The title is pretty self-explanatory. I have yet to find a way to efficiently record stuff with dolphin. I can play Sonic and the Black Knight at 15-25 FPS, which is plenty good enough for me. When I use FRAPS, the video gets accelerated to 60 FPS, but the sound goes wack. When I use Camtasia, it records correctly, but of course, it records the game at 15-25 FPS. Editing the video to get it all to be 30 FPS would be a hassle. I just want to know if/how dolphin can record stuff right out of the emulator, and at the full 30 FPS.

I'm using r6964

Specs:
AMD Phenom II X4 @ 2.6Ghz
ATI Radeon HD 4200
8GB DDR3 RAM
Windows 7 Home Premium x64

[hookonsonic2]

bumping, still need help on this issue

[admin89]

If you can't run that game at 30 FPS how could you record it at 30 FPS . Avoid getting slowdown :
_Get an External HDD or SSD for the best recording
_Overclock your CPU . Dolphin don't like Quad Core nor hyper threading but like higher clock speed ,large cache.....
P.S: Your ATi 4200 is onboard type ,not a real graphic card .You should consider buy one ,ATi 5770 or Nvidia GTX460 will do

[skid]

In the graphics options, under advanced, there is an option labelled "Dump frames". Try it out, it does not record audio though...

[hookonsonic2]

I see the option. Where do the frames go? What folder do they go too?

Sorry for being so nooby, I just never got the hang of this stuff. I like seeing TAS videos and stuff, but I never EVER understood how to do them.

[skid]

Last time I tried it, Dolphin gave me a pop up box with a list of codecs to choose from and then asked me for a filename. I don't know what it does in recent revisions.

[hookonsonic2]

Hmm, I guess I'll have to keep looking around....or wait for a help file to be included with Dolphin.

[Toad King]

Dumped files should turn up in User/Dump/Frames. If you're on Linux, it might be it dumps raw frames into a file instead of encoding them, so make sure you set up a piped file to where it dumps the frames and pipe it into something like mencoder.

Also, with the latest versions of Dolphin, audio is now dumped as well in Users/Dump/Audio, but you have to put it in the video yourself with a video editing program.

[hookonsonic2]

Hmm, I don't see the "Frames" folder, even though I've had the frame dump option enabled and i've played many games with recording enabled and disabled. Maybe I should update from 6964 to the newest version...