Thread: HELP! - Bulk converting Demos?

This is somewhat of a technical question.

Do any of you know of a way to batch a list of demos to be converted to AVI?.
I know how to record, save, playback and convert individual demos but because the time it takes to playback a single one (with playdemo) is excruciatingly long (due to the low FPS), I want to have something read a list of demos (perhaps from a directory) and convert them all in a sequence.

I tried doing writing something like:

Code:

startmovie <demo name>; playdemo <demo name>; endmovie; startmovie <next demo>; ....

But that just aborted the frame capture right on the first demo when it finished loading.

So, does such a method exist via a script of some kind or by other means?
Greatly appreciate any helpful feedback on this matter.

I'm not sure there's an easy way to do this. You could try the wait command between the "playdemo [name]; endmovie" commands. It would go something like this:

playdemo [name]; wait #; endmovie

Where # is the length of the demo. Again, it's not easy to choose what value to use. You could try the number of ticks in the demo, but I don't know if that'll work. From what I've seen, 80 ~ 1 second (as in, "wait 80" lasts about a second).

startmovie <demo name> avi
playdemo <demo name>
endmovie

Will convert to an AVI format and let you select CODEC. I wonder though, if I do what you are suggesting if that will just make one really big replay file or not..