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First post, by Sanitars

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I am sorry if it has been asked before, but.

I am capturing a lot of movies with the great feature that new DOSBox has. BUT I am wondering how can I reduce the frame rate the videos are being captured in? As I can see it, it is 70FPS by default, which is quite HUGE. Let's say, I want to reduce it to 30FPS as a default value. Is it possible?

I am asking this because 70FPS is simply a huge waste of video size. And I wasn't able to reduce the FPS of a ready .avi without having the video playback really slow or it being desynched with audio.

Thanks in advance.

Reply 1 of 4, by Qbix

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70 fps is the original frequency of the dos video modes.
you can recode it on lower setting with any video program
I think if you set frameskip=1 it will capture at 35 fps

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Reply 2 of 4, by Sanitars

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Could you explain how to change that parameter in DOSBox?
I already explained what I get if I try to change the FPS in a program, like VirtualDub.

Reply 3 of 4, by Qbix

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just type frameskip 1 on the shell of DOSBox
or press ctrl-f8
or open the configfile and look up the frameskip=0 line and change that.

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Reply 4 of 4, by Sanitars

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Excellent! It works a lot better now. Thanks for quick respond!