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First post, by justinstrack

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I can't seem to record a video of my DOS game. I can record sound and take screenshots, but no video, what is wrong?

I get no error messages.

Reply 1 of 6, by lightmaster

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did you install the codec that comes with 0.72 ?

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Reply 2 of 6, by wd

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You don't need the codec to record videos.

I get no error messages.

Do you get any non-error messages?
Try to remap the record key combination using the mapper, maybe some other
application/tool steals the current one.

Reply 3 of 6, by lone lee

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justinstrack wrote:

I can't seem to record a video of my DOS game. I can record sound and take screenshots, but no video, what is wrong?

I get no error messages.

If you're on Windows Vista, and you used the DOSBox regular installer, you can't record videos right off the bat. As far as I know, Vista won't let applications create and alter files under \Program Files\.

Open dosbox.conf and alter the video capture path to something like c:\videos.

Reply 4 of 6, by wd

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He said he can capture images, so write permissions should be fine.

Reply 5 of 6, by lone lee

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wd wrote:

He said he can capture images, so write permissions should be fine.

He could have changed the image capture path before, no?

Actually he could have changed a number of settings in dosbox.conf that might have spoiled the video capture of course. I suggest you open dosbox.conf and take a look, it usually helps.

Reply 6 of 6, by wd

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He could have changed the image capture path before, no?

Yes and we have a separate directory for those and forcefully switching between those for fun.