Just purchased too.

I second the previous post - if technically possible it would be great to let the user choose the buffer, or potentially have no maximum buffer at all. The "sit and watch your own flight as a passenger" is always pretty cool.

Thanks mate!

4 hours ago, TheJAG said:

Just purchased too.

I second the previous post - if technically possible it would be great to let the user choose the buffer, or potentially have no maximum buffer at all. The "sit and watch your own flight as a passenger" is always pretty cool.

Thanks mate!

OK, I may add the possibility for the user to choose the buffer size. This is what I did first and I removed it because I wanted to keep it as easy as possible. I thought the default buffer size was enough for everyone. Now having no maximum at all is a high risk. It can be done from a technical point of view, but as the buffer is in memory, it keeps growing as long as you fly. Even if our machines have huge amount of RAM today, it is a real risk of high memory consumption that may have a high impact on performance and possibly cause crashes. So I don't think I will do this.

6 hours ago, peyote said:

Hello Eric, the recorder functionality is definitely a must have in the sim and I want to tank you for that and for your immense contribution to our hobby.

I've bee recording my flights for the last 15+ years because sometimes I want to just be a passenger in my own flights. I would start the sim, choose a plane and location, play a previously recorded flight and just enjoy the flight as a passenger. I really loved Matthias Neusinger's FSRecorder as it did an amazing job for that, and what I liked the most was the fact that the user was able to choose  which variables to be recorder as well as the recording interval, thus being able to control the recorder file size for the longer flights. I am wondering if you would consider adding a similar functionality to your recorder.

Thank you,

Chip

I remember FSRecorder, it was amazing and I still wonder how Mathias did this. I want to keep my software simple and easy to use, which is why I don't want to give the choice of the variables to be recorded, I just record the minimal ones that are necessary for replay, also to keep performance good. But I may give you the ability to change the recording buffer size.

Just completed another recorded flight. So simple but it just works 😀

And we don't even have to turn off the AI aircraft. 👍

 

Just noticed on replay of the recording, if I load anything other than Clear Skies then my aircraft gets the jitters.

Anyone else noticed this? Is there a fix??

2 hours ago, Beagle12 said:

Just noticed on replay of the recording, if I load anything other than Clear Skies then my aircraft gets the jitters.

Anyone else noticed this? Is there a fix??

If you see the YouTube video I recorded, the first part in Toncontin is recorded with clear skies, the second part in Paris is with grey skies and a lot of clouds. They both show MSFS Recorder playbacks and there is no jitter.

I suspect the problem you see may be because you replay with different conditions than when recorded, with different weather conditions that cause very different frame rates. As the recording is synchronized with the frame rate, it may be the explanation.

I have just finished the development of version of 1.2 with the following improvements:

• The recording buffer size has been increased. My latest test flight showed it could record approximately 32 minutes of flight.
• All the aircraft lights are now part of the recording: taxi, nav, landing, strobe, panel, ...
• No more jitters, if there were any
• Some little bug in load and save feature were fixed
• For information, the size of the full recording buffer saved on file is 15 MB.

It will be online shortly. Existing customers will receive a link to donwload version 1.2 or can contact me here: [email protected]

 

14 hours ago, Rocky said:

I have just finished the development of version of 1.2 with the following improvements:

• The recording buffer size has been increased. My latest test flight showed it could record approximately 32 minutes of flight.
• All the aircraft lights are now part of the recording: taxi, nav, landing, strobe, panel, ...
• No more jitters, if there were any
• Some little bug in load and save feature were fixed
• For information, the size of the full recording buffer saved on file is 15 MB.

It will be online shortly. Existing customers will receive a link to donwload version 1.2 or can contact me here: [email protected]

 

Hi Eric,

thanks for this. My ideal buffer size would be an hour of flight, but I suspect (given my relatively low frame rate) that this might do it.

I said I'd been thinking about how a recorder needs to work with the sim, and given all the stuff about replay location vs sim location I was wondering if the following would work (or even be possible). The idea is to get as close a possible to how X-Plane deals with saved flights and replays. It seems to me that the best way to do this would be to create a saved flight to represent the starting location of the flight you plan to record. Once the recording is finished, if you then save the recording with a similar name to the saved flight name, then if you want to replay it at some future point you have everything you need ready to go.

None of the steps below actually require any change of functionality in your program, but it would be handy if it were possible for the recorder itself to grab the initial saved file name and automatically use it when the "save recording" function is invoked (step 7 in the picture). I have absolutely no idea if this is feasible, but wondered if the filename would be something simconnect would be able to grab, in which case it would be fairly easy to implement (not that I'm trying to tell you how to write your program - I just thought it would be a neat feature)

For me, as long as I can get into the habit of saving any setup I plan to record, that will work fine, but I thought I'd suggest this in case you like a challenge!

As far as I remember, SimConnect can read the name of the saved flight. In that case, the recorder should be able to automatically propose you the same name to save the msr file, I will look into this. It should be a minor change. 

Hello Rocky,

Is the updated version available on your website ?

When you save your recording, what does it Save As?

10 hours ago, knmanyffw said:

Hello Rocky,

Is the updated version available on your website ?

Of course, the version available on my website is always the latest. 

50 minutes ago, Tailwinds said:

When you save your recording, what does it Save As?

It saves the recording as a msr file, which is my proprietary format. For information, when the recording buffer is full, the file size is about 15 MB. 

2 hours ago, Rocky said:

It saves the recording as a msr file, which is my proprietary format. For information, when the recording buffer is full, the file size is about 15 MB. 

So the recording can only be played back through MSFS being open? It cannot be played back using any other third party video playback app?

36 minutes ago, Tailwinds said:

So the recording can only be played back through MSFS being open? It cannot be played back using any other third party video playback app?

That's correct. 

If you want to make a video, I suggest you use MSFS Recorder for playback and use Windows Game Bar to record a video during the playback, using the view you want. This is exactly what I did for my YouTube video. 

If you don't know Windows game bar, just remember you can start/stop video recording using Win-Alt-R key.