Re: [hatari-devel] OS X menu items and shortcuts

On Jun 8, 2014, at 4:02 PM, Nicolas Pomarède <npomarede@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Not sure why your file got so big though, could you
maybe have a look at your hatari.cfg file to see which value is set in
the AviRecordVcodec variable?

Thomas,

The value in my cfg file is 0 for AviRecordVcodec. However, when I look through the OS X interface, it was set to BMP. I assumed Hatari would default to PNG when it detected the PNG library on my system. That was not the case. When I set the option to PNG, the file size went down from 20GB to about 13GB. However, it was still much larger than M4V and the index was still seen as corrupt.

As for the 20 GB filesize, I think it was recorded in BMP format and with x2 zooming. In all cases, it is not recommended to use x2 zooming when recording video : it wastes cpu and disk space.
Without zooming, you will save some CPU and this might be enough to use png recording instead of bmp and save a lot of disk space.

Nicolas,

You are correct that it was recorded in BMP format with zooming. My screen is set to 832x576. How do I remove zooming? Do I simply set the resolution to 320x200 instead of 832x576? Normally, I have the screen zoomed because 320x200 is far too small when my Mac’s resolution is 1920x1080.

Now that I understand why the indices were seen as corrupt, I would end up converting any recording to M4V format since it is much smaller.

Bob C