Help: Trying to watch my replay on PC

[smalldave]

I've put the replay file onto my USB, but don't know how to get it into a position where I can watch/upload it.

Can anybody help please?

 

[SlyckTires]

I can help in the sense that I can prevent you wasting any more time on this by advising you it doesn't work like that. If you notice when you play replays on your PS3, it loads the track up. That's because it's replaying game data thru the GT5 graphic engine, rather than simply playing back a video. Hence the PC can't make sense of this data.

If you want to create PC viewwable content, you'll have to play the clips back on your PS3 whilst videoing your tv.

Unless anyone knows different, that is...

 

[Milldrum]

I don't know how to do it either. Can you run PS3 through a recorder of any sort?

 

[Famine]

Yep.

One thing you can't do, as far as I'm aware and without spending a billionty pounds, is record in full HD through HDMI (due to HDCP). But the Happauge will do you for 720p and 1080i through component.

Here's a race recorded by daan through just that piece of kit, from our LAN last weekend:

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[smalldave]

Tahnks anyway guys, I've just discovered plenty of threads telling me the same thing ah well.

 

[Gix7Fifty]

Roxio Game Capture $99

 

[NLxAROSA]

The good thing about the Hauppauge is that it also has a direct (so doesn't go through the encoding bits) component-out that you can hook back up to your TV, so you can play lag-free and record at the same time.

 

[Tyger]

Another option is if you have a DVD recorder, connect your PS3 to it via SCART and record onto a DVD (rewritable makes the most sense), then use any number of apps available your PC to rip the DVD to an AVI file or whatever format you want.

Again not HD quality but will look good enough.

I guess you can do something similar with a hard disc TV recorder too though not sure how easy those are to hook up to a PC?

 

[IceMan PJN]

Tahnks anyway guys, I've just discovered plenty of threads telling me the same thing ah well.

Yeah, a common misconception amongst the community is that Polyphony have the capability of figuring out how to make actual video files from our races. Sure, Turn 10 has not only figured out how to allow us to share replays with the entire community, but also how to convert them to videos in-game and upload those as video files directly to the Internet..., but that's a developer that can completely overhaul a graphics engine, create new tracks and completely update old tracks, and provide over 400 new or heavily-updated car models ("Premium") in just two years. Give Kaz another decade and maybe his team will figure out replay videos. By then they might also figure out how to add fast forward and rewind functionality for in-game replays.