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Potential for the DOSBox Video Capture - Movies!

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First post, by Roxor

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Hey guys! I've just realised a potential use of the video capure feature of DOSBox (assuming you can get playback to work properly). Some CD-based DOS games (Under A Killing Moon comes to mind here) have a LOT of full-motion video in them and are almost a movie in themselves.

What about using the DOSBox video capture feature to capture all the video and some pieces of ingame footage to create an actual movie that you can just sit back and watch?

Such a project is probably too big for one person to do, but a few people working on different sections of the final movie could certainly do it.

Any volunteers for such a project?

Reply 1 of 1, by vasyl

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Under A Killing Moon (and Pandora Directive) were marketed as "interactive movies" so the task should not be that difficult 😉 Just keep in mind that providing such movies for download may still count as copyright violation. It's not hopeless though, depending on how you do it you may actually get to "fair use" land.
BTW, a very similar thing was done commercially on consoles: Shenmue II for XBox came with DVD movie of Shenmue I which appeared to be just a cleaned up video recording of the first game in the series.

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