Capturing video in a packaged game

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I’m wanting to record video and export it in a packaged game, has anyone managed to do this without using third party software?

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Do you mean you want to record yourself playing a game, or that you want to package a video in a game?

While playing the game press Windows-G, it starts the screen recorder.

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Hi, thanks for getting back to me, I want to record video to an mp3 also not able to use any third-party applications.

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Sorry meant MP4

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i also want this feature.

so far i found out that most (at least all i was looking at, like ffmpg) video encoders have a license conflict with unreal engine. this means you should not put it into your application, while calling an external executable (of ffmpeg for instance) is allowed. for that reason i simply recorded an image sequence and then call ffmpeg to convert to mp4. the path to the executable then nneds to be stored in the game’s options or something.

i think this can still be convenient for users but creating images first is an overhead i guess.

on android it should be possible to call the screen capture or the internal android video codec but i havent succeeded in doing so yet.

hope that helps to find a solution

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Thanks for the reply managed to get it working with a built-in plugin: “Avid DNxMXF Media Plugin”

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I recently published a blog post on how to record videos in the packaged game (or at runtime) in Unreal Engine 5:

I solve “licensing” issues by using proper tools (not ffmpeg)

Plugin: https://www.fab.com/listings/b51f5253-d2c0-4281-bacf-5d84292dd1ee

You can record Camera / Render Target / Viewport. Audio is supported as well.

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