I'm also curious to your approach for watching the replays (my apologies if you mentioned it already).  Are you just watching the replays 1 time through and then providing your commentary on the fly?  I assume that's what you are doing. 

Yeah - I agree some, but if you know what's going to happen in advance, its much easier to slow down the action and give a quick blow by blow.  I think what I have in mind would take too much time to produce very often.  I'd say, do it live, but then have a breakdown that follows immediately after the replay that offers some analysis of key plays and so on.  Frankly though, if we are just going to do a bunch of these for the tourney, the faster it is to put them together, the better. 

I couldn't agree more, we should con him into it !

hrmm maybe i should do a quick 15 second intro animation with after effects that could be used for all of the replays. 

Ill talk to peter about doing some commentary. On some of the games in the tourney, I am sure he would bring his unique out look on life into his comments.

While we play a game, replay data is stored somewhere.

• If it's on the hard drive, it won't be hard to create a program allowing to live-stream the replay while it's being built.
• If it's stored in RAM before getting transfered to hard drive (in LastGame.DGReplay), I dunno how to catch it but it must be possible.

Live replay have the advantage of being almost real-time, letting people watch wherever they want during the game, and a comentator can create a channel on vent/teamspeak/mumble to provide real-time commentaries. People have been doing this for a french competition on Supreme Commander and it worked great. If someone can say me where the replay data is stored during the game, i think i can develop the software.

About video encoding, the best quality/size ratio is obtained by using x264 (http://x264.nl/). It has to be run on command-line, but it's not complicated, gives great quality for small size, and uses all the cores of the CPU.

For file hosting FileFront is good, but youtube too as long as videos are uploaded in HD.

For video capture, imo FRAPS is the best. If you record at 30 fps, in a reasonable resolution, you'll have no problem recording a full 40min game with 100 Go of free space on your drive.

PS: I can provide a registered FRAPS v3 <.<

ffs, i'm an idiot, dunno why i thought the file was overwritten at the end of the game.

so i'll start working on it

(more precisely, 40 min / 30 fps / 1440x900 = ~90 GB)

OK - pt1 is has been uploaded, but still processing... should be available here soon:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpDW_Q5fU5k&feature=youtube_gdata

ok pt1 is available now.  The quality is... bad... I used windows movie maker to upload it.  I'm guessing it recompressed it to poop city.  I'm uploading pt2 now and looking into another way to upload without the files going to hell.

So much time wasted...

The 1 that is up now is too bad of quality imo.  I'm uploading a larger file now that should be an improvement. 

Ok - here is a new part 1 that is viewable in HD.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SPVpwR11rA.  I've compiled pt 2 and 3 and will upload them late tonight. 

part 2 is up in HD now - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV7jbmXQlE4

Part 3 is up in HD now - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gh-euXoAns

either that or you guys need to talk to peter about doing it! I got him interested in doing  a commentary!

whew.. finally all done with this weekend.  Srsly.. started out on the range @ 8 a.m. friday, finished 10 p.m. friday.. started saturday @ 5:30 a.m. and finished 8 p.m. , sunday did physical fitness test @ 7 a.m. and finished 4 p.m. .. Then I crashed for 15 hours of sleep lol.

Anyway.. I should have another replay up soon.. I'll look whether I want to do the one you asked about or the one mcshane requested.  Also, just about to watch ur commentary

Crazy weekend, I played Demigod and slept is about it lol.  Get a team together man, some great practice games going on lately.  I wouldn't recommend it if I didn't you think you could win and Jona_'s going to be upset, but I think you, hedgie, and Omicron should team up.  Hedgie sounded like he wanted to play before thunder ditched him and since it seems Kalel isn't interested, Omicron is the best remaining option.