First post, by TomJeffersonJones
Hm, using Dosbox 0.73 which I downloaded from dosbox.com some time ago, I've recorded a bit of the Xwing Collector's CD for a friend - the results can be seen here
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU2v1CFOn3M
And I have question about the best way to get general MIDI music into dosbox recordings, using free tools. Here's how I made the youtube video linked above.
1. CTRL-ALT-F5 in-game to start Dosbox .AVI capture, for game footage and digital sound effects.
2. CTRL-F8 in-game to capture raw MIDI commands.
After recording the segment -
3. open captured .AVI in VirtualDub - save video clip's audio track as a .WAV
4. open captured MIDI commands in Winamp with output plugin enabled, thus recording MIDI playback into a .WAV
5. open both .WAV's in Audacity and combine and save them into a single .WAV
6. open the original .AVI in VirtualDub and select the new combined .WAV as the audio file.
7. save the final .AVI
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Ok so its convoluted and also the new compressed .AVI that VirtualDub produces looks significantly worse than Dosbox's .AVI and is more than 4-times as big! This is using the Cinepak Radius compression codex in V-Dub.
So..
Am I making things too hard on myself as far as getting general MIDI soundtracks into Dosbox recordings?