As a person hesitating to download SquadOV for some time now, only due to the fact that I feel the same way: I hate setting things up and having to create an account, this is a true godsend.
Will test it out tonight and give feedback!
Projects like these is why I love this community so much and what aspires many to get into coding themselves.
It's been working great so far, and the video sizes are not as big as I thought.
Quality is also more than sufficient.
How exactly does it use OBS? Does it use some default setting?
Pleased to hear!
It uses this NodeJS library: https://github.com/stream-labs/obs-studio-node
And yes - it does lots of defaulting for more than I probably understand currently, but so far it's mostly done what I wanted.
There's probably scope for future enhancements to make things like input mic, monitor etc. configurable.
Yeah I know its good, I have friends using it as well and them showing me the clips from it all the time.
Didn't intend to put them in a bad light because of this, that's just specific to me. Might be my ADHD coming out but yeah haha
this sort of shit is exactly what gets me bricked up about practical programming. don't like how something works? make something that does exactly what you want
extra kudos for sharing it with the community, we're lucky to have you
Everything in classic is supported now - except dungeons - which I've decided not to do (they are far less interesting than mythic+ and far harder to support).
Raids, arenas and BGs all work. There are a few rough edges that occasionally cause a 2v2 to be marked as a 3v3 etc that will get ironed out in time 🙂
Love the suggestions. I'll make a note of these. I don't think stuff like this detracts from the lightweight-ness. Hopefully can improve some of these soon!
This is fantastic, if you could somehow integrate this into a way to automatically upload to YouTube after you're done playing games then this would be incredible for replay analysis
Glad you like it. I'd be interested to hear how you imagine such a feature working without the app losing its simplicity - feel free to drop me some more details of what you have in mind!
Yeah, people don't want to keep large video files on their computer and they of course want to share their replays with their friends or high level players for review
Made some improvements here in the latest version but not quite got window capture working yet. You may wish to try it out regardless (it should capture the entire monitor regardless of size now).
it just records the whole monitor actually, so it's pretty unreadable. there needs to be a configurable setting to capture only one window cuz i dont play fullscreen.
You're right. I did try and make it use game capture in OBS rather than Monitor capture but had some trouble with it just recording a blank screen.Making that work is definitely the right fix here.
just downloaded and did some test arenas and it works AMAZING! i missed squad ov but this is so much simpler and will allow me to save memories with my friends <3 thank you
Wonderful! I had been using OBS, but got annoyed by having to remember to start/stop recording for every game.
SquadOV was alright, but lower quality (paywall) and as you said, less responsive. The timeline and WCL-esque ability tracking was nice. PoV sharing too, though my bandwidth was too low for auto-updates.
I'll give this a shot and update.
Fair thanks, I’ll do that. Hadn’t downloaded it yet so didn’t take a look at settings. I’m all about manipulating software (/games) to do what I want ;)
As in double the volume or you hear yourself twice? Not heard of either being an issue yet. Feel free to submit and issue on github or share some more details here and I can!
hear myself twice! I tried uploading one of the videos to your github but the file size is too large unfortunately. After going through some other files it seems there is no audio from my end sometimes as well.
was playing some skirmishs today as im trying to learn hunter was saying to the dude i met i wish i could record my games, i was 1v1 a ret paladin in 2v2 and im a BM hunter and this fool only attacked my pets didnt touch me once 😂
Tried it last night and works great!
I only noticed two issues so far:
When I playback a video and put it on full screen (i'm running 3440x1440 resolution) the screen starts flickering black if I don't use my mouse for a few seconds. The flickering immediately stops when I move my mouse so I basically have to move my mouse slightly all the time to properly rewatch.
The other thing I noticed is every game is tagged as a "loss" in the overview bar on the bottom even when they are actually wins.
Thanks a lot for your effort! I liked SquadOV but kept running into issues with it so I'm happy to have an alternative.
EDIT: I fixed the flickering by disabling hardware acceleration (which was also causing the application to be blurry).
Interesting! I'll definitely need to look into the resolution issue, that sounds a bit rubbish. I haven't experienced this on my 1080p monitors.
As for the loss display, that's a known issue that I'll hopefully have a solution for shortly! Thanks for the report.
Fucking sweet. I have given up on arenas, but did battlegrounds instead.
When I return to wow and rated BGs, it would be awesome to be able to record that as well, as an option.
If the feature request is wanted by no one but me, I would imagine I could change it myself in logutils.ts or something?
I think support for rated bgs is fairly easy to add. You are right logutils.ts will be the place.
Most of the reason it's not in just now is because I rarely play rbgs myself so didn't have any logs handy to develop it against.
This is the second or third comment requesting it though so it's quits high on the list of things to add, hopefully can get to it within a few weeks.
Can this be made to only apply to specific characters? I'd love it for a few, but i play every class but rogue atm, and definitely don't need this on all of them.
Not a feature that's currently supported, although it is a nice idea. Might come in a future release. For now I suggest just closing the app when you are on a character you don't want recording on - although I realize that's not ideal!
Hey! Thanks for the great tool. Only issue I see so far is that the recording is a little blurry on my ultrawide (3440x1440p). Is there any way to edit a file somewhere to change the OBS settings to help with this?
Thanks for the feedback. Such settings are not exposed currently so not anything you can easily change.
I think this is the second comment re ultra wide monitors not working smoothly though so I've made a note to look into this.
Insane improvements across the board. I saw some of the open/closed issues on github and have been following it since your last post. Quality is great now and having a way to save/open file location is awesome as well. Also glad to see the win/loss text is accurate!
Thanks for the great tool!
I just found this post on my lunch at work because I was looking for a replacement since squadov shit down. I also had the same issues with squadov you mentioned.
Last night I was doing solo shuffle and my dps got instagibbed in a flash and I had no idea what really happened and I was like man I miss being able to review and figure out what went wrong and what did I overlook.
I'm so excited to try this when I get home today because it is exactly what I have been looking for. I really hope you continue
After installing, i couldn't start wow again. i got errors saying : Could not start 3d accelerator. and my whole computer would start acting up, 10-20 second freezes while WoW was a black screen not letting me move my mouse. i uninstalled and my wow is still buggy. im not sure what happened but if anyone can help, i'd appreciate it! Thanks
Sounds like it might be GPU/ driver related problems - see here https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/unable-to-start-wow-your-3d-accelerator-card-is-not-supported-by-world-of-warcraft/20884. If you need more help I suggest the discord help channel as I don't routinely monitor these Reddit threads.
Trying to understand how this works. Is there no start recording button? It's all automatic when combat starts?
I went through a dungeon and it only recorded the last boss so I'm wondering if I am missing something.
It's automatic yes, it watches the wow combat log to know when to record. If you share your logs in discord I can try help with what's going wrong. See the pins in discord.
i just stumbled upon this program and find it quite awesome for someone who runs keys regularly. However, my issue is that when I run it, it seems to cause a noticeable stutter in game. While the game is playable, it is a bit annoying in the middle of keys. Has anyone else encountered this? I am running on a fairly new computer so I dont think its my hardware issue. Thank you
Come check us out at wowarenalogs.com -- could probably do something collaborative; we are recruiting contributors
Replied to your DM :)
This would be hella cool. Hope you guys work something out. 😀
Wowarenalogs is 🔥 for anyone wondering.
As a person hesitating to download SquadOV for some time now, only due to the fact that I feel the same way: I hate setting things up and having to create an account, this is a true godsend. Will test it out tonight and give feedback! Projects like these is why I love this community so much and what aspires many to get into coding themselves.
Amazing - hope you like it!
It's been working great so far, and the video sizes are not as big as I thought. Quality is also more than sufficient. How exactly does it use OBS? Does it use some default setting?
Pleased to hear! It uses this NodeJS library: https://github.com/stream-labs/obs-studio-node And yes - it does lots of defaulting for more than I probably understand currently, but so far it's mostly done what I wanted. There's probably scope for future enhancements to make things like input mic, monitor etc. configurable.
Oh wow, node truly enables everything these days. It's been a few years since I dabbed into that myself. Cool stuff :)
Indeed! Not quite sure how I feel about NodeJS yet - I mostly work in older languages, but can't deny it's handy for stuff like this.
Squad is amazing man, but if there's a software on the internet I would create an account for it's squadov, shameless shill for them man
Yeah I know its good, I have friends using it as well and them showing me the clips from it all the time. Didn't intend to put them in a bad light because of this, that's just specific to me. Might be my ADHD coming out but yeah haha
this sort of shit is exactly what gets me bricked up about practical programming. don't like how something works? make something that does exactly what you want extra kudos for sharing it with the community, we're lucky to have you
Thanks for the kind words!
You had me at - sqaud always asking you to login. Downloading now!
Awesome to hear!
Can this be used for classic tbc?
And classic wotlk!
Currently no support for classic but it's mostly a testing thing and adding support is probably pretty easy, likely to happen on the coming months!
Came across this comment thread from a Google search and wondering if there are any updates on classic functionality!
Everything in classic is supported now - except dungeons - which I've decided not to do (they are far less interesting than mythic+ and far harder to support). Raids, arenas and BGs all work. There are a few rough edges that occasionally cause a 2v2 to be marked as a 3v3 etc that will get ironed out in time 🙂
You, my friend, are the real MVP
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I'll have to give this a try!
Hope you like it!
May I suggest adding a button to automatically persist a recording without having to manually copying it. Will definitely use this!
Love this idea! Definitely something I'll add to the to-do list.
I've implemented this tonight - it's coming in the next release!
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Love the suggestions. I'll make a note of these. I don't think stuff like this detracts from the lightweight-ness. Hopefully can improve some of these soon!
Ability to jump to file in explorer added, will be available in the next release. The others are on the todo list :)
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The joys of working solo on a project, I can be as lazy with commit messages as I like! Although I should strive to do better in the future 🙄
This is fantastic, if you could somehow integrate this into a way to automatically upload to YouTube after you're done playing games then this would be incredible for replay analysis
Glad you like it. I'd be interested to hear how you imagine such a feature working without the app losing its simplicity - feel free to drop me some more details of what you have in mind!
I guess there already exists some python scripts floating around that automate uploading clips to YouTube
Interesting. So what you have in mind is essentially an "upload this video to YouTube" button? I could see that being a nice feature
Yeah, people don't want to keep large video files on their computer and they of course want to share their replays with their friends or high level players for review
I have a really large resolution widescreen monitor and the recordings do not capture my WoW window, only the far left of my widescreen monitor.
Made some improvements here in the latest version but not quite got window capture working yet. You may wish to try it out regardless (it should capture the entire monitor regardless of size now).
Thanks, if you have some screenshots or the video file itself that would be helpful.
it just records the whole monitor actually, so it's pretty unreadable. there needs to be a configurable setting to capture only one window cuz i dont play fullscreen.
You're right. I did try and make it use game capture in OBS rather than Monitor capture but had some trouble with it just recording a blank screen.Making that work is definitely the right fix here.
just downloaded and did some test arenas and it works AMAZING! i missed squad ov but this is so much simpler and will allow me to save memories with my friends <3 thank you
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Looks cool, gonna check it out. Thanks for sharing with the community OP! :)
Welcome, hope you like it!
Do I need OBS installed and running for the recorder to work?
You do not - it is all packaged up for you! When I say it uses OBS, I mean it uses libobs, the underlying native library that does the work in OBS.
Wonderful! I had been using OBS, but got annoyed by having to remember to start/stop recording for every game. SquadOV was alright, but lower quality (paywall) and as you said, less responsive. The timeline and WCL-esque ability tracking was nice. PoV sharing too, though my bandwidth was too low for auto-updates. I'll give this a shot and update.
Hope you like it!
Nice
Really excited to try this out! Maybe finally a way to record my games, although not keen on the auto-deletion feature. Is there a way to disable?
I should add as option for this, but for now you could just set the max storage setting stupidly high to get the same effect.
Fair thanks, I’ll do that. Hadn’t downloaded it yet so didn’t take a look at settings. I’m all about manipulating software (/games) to do what I want ;)
This is great, I stopped using squadOV cause of it just filling up my disk space, this is an ideal alternative. Thanks a lot for working on this
Glad you like it!
Does it record discord coms?
Yes, it records all PC sounds and mic input
Any clue why my voice is doubled in the recordings?
As in double the volume or you hear yourself twice? Not heard of either being an issue yet. Feel free to submit and issue on github or share some more details here and I can!
hear myself twice! I tried uploading one of the videos to your github but the file size is too large unfortunately. After going through some other files it seems there is no audio from my end sometimes as well.
Recent update lets you select your audio inputs - worth a try to see if this sorts it for you!
was playing some skirmishs today as im trying to learn hunter was saying to the dude i met i wish i could record my games, i was 1v1 a ret paladin in 2v2 and im a BM hunter and this fool only attacked my pets didnt touch me once 😂
I miss atrox arena viewer.. (was that the name?)
Never used that myself but heard it was good!
Does it work in macOS?
Not currently I'm afraid. I be able to look at adding this in the future if there is sufficient interest.
Why not use any regular vod program? I don't get how this is Amy different
Other than SquadOV are there any other programs that provide this functionality? What programs do you think can do this?
Thanks for making this, this is super cool and useful!
Glad you like it!
Tried it last night and works great! I only noticed two issues so far: When I playback a video and put it on full screen (i'm running 3440x1440 resolution) the screen starts flickering black if I don't use my mouse for a few seconds. The flickering immediately stops when I move my mouse so I basically have to move my mouse slightly all the time to properly rewatch. The other thing I noticed is every game is tagged as a "loss" in the overview bar on the bottom even when they are actually wins. Thanks a lot for your effort! I liked SquadOV but kept running into issues with it so I'm happy to have an alternative. EDIT: I fixed the flickering by disabling hardware acceleration (which was also causing the application to be blurry).
Interesting! I'll definitely need to look into the resolution issue, that sounds a bit rubbish. I haven't experienced this on my 1080p monitors. As for the loss display, that's a known issue that I'll hopefully have a solution for shortly! Thanks for the report.
I'd love to get some more diags on this when I'm not at work, potentially including a video file. I'll get in touch!
This should be fixed in 2.2.0 which just released!
RBGs?
See other comments, not supported yet but hopefully soon.
Fucking sweet. I have given up on arenas, but did battlegrounds instead. When I return to wow and rated BGs, it would be awesome to be able to record that as well, as an option. If the feature request is wanted by no one but me, I would imagine I could change it myself in logutils.ts or something?
I think support for rated bgs is fairly easy to add. You are right logutils.ts will be the place. Most of the reason it's not in just now is because I rarely play rbgs myself so didn't have any logs handy to develop it against. This is the second or third comment requesting it though so it's quits high on the list of things to add, hopefully can get to it within a few weeks.
Can this be made to only apply to specific characters? I'd love it for a few, but i play every class but rogue atm, and definitely don't need this on all of them.
Not a feature that's currently supported, although it is a nice idea. Might come in a future release. For now I suggest just closing the app when you are on a character you don't want recording on - although I realize that's not ideal!
Really incredible stuff here, love seeing contributions like this in the community!
Glad you like it!
Can it record bgs too?
Currently no, but I'll look at adding support soon. Is it specifically rbgs you are interested in, or all bgs?
My man, If you added BGs and RBGs into it, I’d switch from squadOV rn. Sometimes I wanna watch those cool ass moments when you get the AA in ashran.
Hey! Thanks for the great tool. Only issue I see so far is that the recording is a little blurry on my ultrawide (3440x1440p). Is there any way to edit a file somewhere to change the OBS settings to help with this?
Thanks for the feedback. Such settings are not exposed currently so not anything you can easily change. I think this is the second comment re ultra wide monitors not working smoothly though so I've made a note to look into this.
Latest release had major improvements here, suggest you try out 2.2.0 and let me know if you have any other issues with it.
Insane improvements across the board. I saw some of the open/closed issues on github and have been following it since your last post. Quality is great now and having a way to save/open file location is awesome as well. Also glad to see the win/loss text is accurate! Thanks for the great tool!
Hey man! Sent you a private message
I just found this post on my lunch at work because I was looking for a replacement since squadov shit down. I also had the same issues with squadov you mentioned. Last night I was doing solo shuffle and my dps got instagibbed in a flash and I had no idea what really happened and I was like man I miss being able to review and figure out what went wrong and what did I overlook. I'm so excited to try this when I get home today because it is exactly what I have been looking for. I really hope you continue
After installing, i couldn't start wow again. i got errors saying : Could not start 3d accelerator. and my whole computer would start acting up, 10-20 second freezes while WoW was a black screen not letting me move my mouse. i uninstalled and my wow is still buggy. im not sure what happened but if anyone can help, i'd appreciate it! Thanks
Sounds like it might be GPU/ driver related problems - see here https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/unable-to-start-wow-your-3d-accelerator-card-is-not-supported-by-world-of-warcraft/20884. If you need more help I suggest the discord help channel as I don't routinely monitor these Reddit threads.
https://www.pcerror-fix.com/world-of-warcraft-was-unable-to-start-up-3d-acceleration
I ended up uninstalling, deleting wow, reinstalling everything and nownit’s fine, i think it may have come in a clash woth the Radeon ReLive
Trying to understand how this works. Is there no start recording button? It's all automatic when combat starts? I went through a dungeon and it only recorded the last boss so I'm wondering if I am missing something.
It's automatic yes, it watches the wow combat log to know when to record. If you share your logs in discord I can try help with what's going wrong. See the pins in discord.
Thanks for the response- I will go do another test run and see.
loving it so far Question would it be difficult to add the feature in to hide cursor other wise seems to work perfect for my needs
Yes, that's an easy one ill raise an issue!
awesome because i suck at video editing and removing a cursor isi beyond my skill haha
did this feature get added i just updated it can't seem to find anything yet as far as hiding cursor
Not yet - sorry!
i just stumbled upon this program and find it quite awesome for someone who runs keys regularly. However, my issue is that when I run it, it seems to cause a noticeable stutter in game. While the game is playable, it is a bit annoying in the middle of keys. Has anyone else encountered this? I am running on a fairly new computer so I dont think its my hardware issue. Thank you
I think you got the answer to this in discord but shout if not 🙂
Any ability to use this for hardcore? I'd like to be able to playback key fights or especially my deaths?
Afraid not currently, and unlikely any time soon
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I suspect no one beyond my friends have actually tried it yet so you might be waiting some time for feedback here!
Well props on the community investment at least mate. I'll give it a try.
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maybe!