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| Author | Rinnegatamante |
| Type | Plugins |
| Version | 0.1.1 |
| License | GPL-3.0 |
| Last Updated | 2021/04/22 |
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Vita Recorder is a plugin that allows to record video clips during your play sessions.
The code is based off VITA2PC at which has been applied improvements and the streaming feature has been replaced with file recording.
Features
- Allows to record clips of unlimited duration (given enough free storage is available).
- Records clips in RAW mjpeg (can be opened on Windows Media Player and other popular video players as well as can be easily converted to more common formats on PC).
- Allows to downscale on CPU the output to 480x272 allowing for faster transcoding.
- Performs hw encoding in MJPEG thanks to sceJpegEncoder when possible. When resources are not enough, libjpeg-turbo is used instead, as fallback, for software encoding.
- Allows to perform both asynchronous and synchronous recording (The first won't affect game performances but you may end up having some artifacts or some missing frames, the latter will lower game performances but will produce frame perfect clips).
- Allows to apply frameskip on synchronous recording.
Installation
Put VitaRecorder.suprx in your tai folder (ux0 or ur0).
Add the plugin under a section for the game you want to use it for (eg *GTAVCECTY) in your config.txt file. (Alternatively you can place it under *ALL in a section where main is disabled (check down for an example) but some apps may crash with this due to the resources requirements).
If you want to use this plugin on commercial games, you'll need to install ioPlus as well by adding it in your *KERNEL section in your config.txt.
Here's an example of a config.txt with the plugin installed in *ALL section
*KERNEL ux0:tai/PSVshell.skprx ux0:tai/AnalogsEnhancer.skprx ux0:tai/fd_fix.skprx ux0:tai/kubridge.skprx #ux0:tai/gxmdbg.skprx ux0:tai/ioplus.skprx *ALL ux0:tai/WDNR.suprx *main ux0:tai/pngshot.suprx ur0:tai/henkaku.suprx *!main *ALL ux0:tai/VitaRecorder.suprx *NPXS10015 ur0:tai/henkaku.suprx *NPXS10016 ur0:tai/henkaku.suprx
User guide
The output videos can be found in ux0:data named as vid_TITLEID_DATE_TIME.mjpg.
These files are raw mjpeg data and can be played with several video players such as ffplay or WMP.
You can also use ffmpeg to convert them in more popular MP4 videos with a command like this (Note: This creates videos with fixed 25 fps):
ffmpeg -i vid_GTAVCECTY-17_04_2021-21_02_33.mjpg -pix_fmt yuv420p -b:v 4000k -c:v libx264 vid_GTAVCECTY-17_04_2021-21_02_33.mp4
Controls
L+Select - Open the Config Menu
L+Start - Start/Stop Recording (shortcut)
Triangle - Close Config Menu (when in Config Menu)
Screenshots
Media
Vita Recorder v.0.1.1 - PCSC00044 - Flowery (kood k)
Known issues
- Using Best or High video quality may result in empty videos being created (That's cause not enough resources are available for the encoder).
- Games with variable resolution may acy weirdly since there's no internal fixed rescaling and mjpeg doesn't support variable resolution between frames. (eg: Everybody's Golf).
- System apps and Livearea are not supported (plan for those is to handle them directly with the future kernel version of the plugin instead of messing with SceSharedFb in user space).
Changelog
v0.1.1
- Added a check to disable the plugin on system apps.
v0.1
- First Release.
Credits
Special thanks to the distinguished patroners for their awesome support:
- @Sarkies_Proxy
- Badmanwazzy37
- Colin VanBuren
- drd7of14
- Freddy Parra
- Max
- Tain Sueiras
- The Vita3K Project
- Titi Clash
External links
- KyûHEN Homebrew Contest - https://kyuhen.customprotocol.com/en/submissions/vita_recorder/
- GitHub - https://github.com/Rinnegatamante/Vita-Recorder
- VitaDB - https://vitadb.rinnegatamante.it/#/info/660
- Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/vitahacks/comments/mvinib/release_vita_recorder_record_video_clips_while/